Kukelka: Aufruf zur hochsten Schau (Selected vocal & chamber music works)

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Label
Gramola Records
Release Date
May 31, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Alexander Kukelka
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Trio Frizzante
    • PERFORMER
      Gunter Haumer, Andreea Chira, Moritz Weiss, Kaori Nishii, Wolfgang Kornberger, Koehn
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 31, 2024
    • UPC
      9003643993259
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      GRAM99325
    • LABEL
      Gramola Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Arioso con Variazioni

      Composer: Alexander Kukelka

      Performer: Andreea Chira, Peter Uhler, Monika Uhler, Marta Potulska, Manuel Schager, Michael Pistelok

      Conductor: Alexander Kukelka

    2. II. Burlesca

      Composer: Alexander Kukelka

      Performer: Andreea Chira, Peter Uhler, Monika Uhler, Marta Potulska, Manuel Schager, Michael Pistelok

      Conductor: Alexander Kukelka

    3. III. Lamento

      Composer: Alexander Kukelka

      Performer: Andreea Chira, Peter Uhler, Monika Uhler, Marta Potulska, Manuel Schager, Michael Pistelok

      Conductor: Alexander Kukelka

    4. IV. Epilogo

      Composer: Alexander Kukelka

      Performer: Andreea Chira, Peter Uhler, Monika Uhler, Marta Potulska, Manuel Schager, Michael Pistelok

      Conductor: Alexander Kukelka

    5. No. 1. Worte zu einer inneren Musik

      Composer: Alexander Kukelka

      Performer: Gün­ter Haumer, Wolfgang Kornberger, Kaori Nishii

    6. No. 2. Die Wolken

      Composer: Alexander Kukelka

      Performer: Gün­ter Haumer, Wolfgang Kornberger, Kaori Nishii

    7. No. 3. Trau noch dem Frühling nich

      Composer: Alexander Kukelka

      Performer: Gün­ter Haumer, Wolfgang Kornberger, Kaori Nishii

    8. No. 4. Ich gehe durch meine Tage

      Composer: Alexander Kukelka

      Performer: Gün­ter Haumer, Wolfgang Kornberger, Kaori Nishii

    9. Meditation No. 1

      Composer: Alexander Kukelka

      Performer: Moritz Weiss, Sophie Stocker, Yu-Hsuan Lin

    10. Meditation No. 3

      Composer: Alexander Kukelka

      Performer: Moritz Weiss, Sophie Stocker, Yu-Hsuan Lin

    11. Meditation No. 6

      Composer: Alexander Kukelka

      Performer: Moritz Weiss, Sophie Stocker, Yu-Hsuan Lin

    12. Aufruf zur höchsten Schau

      Composer: Alexander Kukelka

      Performer: Gün­ter Haumer, Wolfgang Kornberger, Anne Harvey-Nagl, Joanna Lewis, Melissa Coleman, Kaori Nishii, Piotr Motyka

      Conductor: Alexander Kukelka

    13. String Quintet

      Composer: Alexander Kukelka

      Performer: Joanna Lewis, Anne Harvey-Nagl, Marta Potulska, Melissa Coleman, Asja Valcic

    14. Ständchen

      Composer: Alexander Kukelka

      Performer: Peter Uhler, Marta Potulska, Manuel Schager

    15. No. 1. Scherzino

      Composer: Alexander Kukelka

      Performer: Kaori Nishii

    16. No. 2. Bagatelle

      Composer: Alexander Kukelka

      Performer: Kaori Nishii

    17. No. 3. Nostalgia

      Composer: Alexander Kukelka

      Performer: Kaori Nishii

    18. No. 4. Epilog

      Composer: Alexander Kukelka

      Performer: Kaori Nishii

    19. Von einem Marsch, der auszog, das Tanzen zu lernen

      Composer: Alexander Kukelka

      Performer: Wolfgang Kornberger, Josef Bednarik, Marion Janda, Thomas Steinwender

    20. Toi-Toi-Toi!

      Composer: Alexander Kukelka

      Performer: Marlies Gaugl, Wolfgang Kornberger, Marion Janda

    21. If You Make a Noise, Make It Quietly!

      Composer: Alexander Kukelka

      Performer: Marlies Gaugl, Wolfgang Kornberger, Marion Janda

    22. I. Funeral March

      Composer: Alexander Kukelka

      Performer: Marlies Gaugl, Marta Kordykiewicz, Doris Kitzmantel

    23. II. Necrology

      Composer: Alexander Kukelka

      Performer: Marlies Gaugl, Marta Kordykiewicz, Doris Kitzmantel

    24. III. Resurrection

      Composer: Alexander Kukelka

      Performer: Marlies Gaugl, Marta Kordykiewicz, Doris Kitzmantel


Since 2004, the lost world of the former “Buchenland” (Beech Country) with its Jewish-Christian culture, which was expelled and destroyed by Naziism, has played a special role in Alexander Kukelka’s oeuvre – his ancestors came from Czernowitz (Chernivtsi) and the former Bukovina. The album “Call to the Highest Vision” is a follow-up to the production “Czernowitzer Skizzen” released in 2008, and stands as a further attempt to pay compositional tribute to this historically unique “multi-ethnic mosaic” on the edge of the Carpathians with its capital Czernowitz, also known as “Little Vienna” or “Jerusalem on the Pruth”. The selected works combine most diverse styles of composing, with works ranging from the concerto for nai (pan flute) and string quintet, songs for bass baritone, bass clarinet and piano, Meditations for solo clarinet and Klezmore Orchestra, works with ironic titles such as “About a March That Set Out to Learn How to Dance – Humoresque for Wind Quartet” or “Requiem for a Dead End – Farce for Flute, Cello and Piano”. However, no “historical distance” or compositional employment can relativize or explain the irretrievable loss of this unique linguistic and cultural landscape, in which half a dozen ethnic groups dreamed of a better world in peaceful coexistence on the eve of the Shoah.