Harry Partch: Delusion of the Fury / Ensemble Musikfabrik

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Label
Wergo
Release Date
July 22, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Harry Partch
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Ensemble Musikfabrik
    • PERFORMER
      Ensemble Musikfabrik
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 22, 2022
    • UPC
      4010228687125
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      WER68712
    • LABEL
      Wergo
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Exordium: The Beginning of a Web

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Ensemble Musikfabrik

    2. Act I: Treats with Death and with Life Despite Death: Chorus of Shadows

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Ensemble Musikfabrik

      Performer: Alban Wesly, Bruce Collings, Carl Rosman

    3. Act I: Treats with Death and with Life Despite Death: The Pilgrimage

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Ensemble Musikfabrik

      Performer: Alban Wesly, Bruce Collings, Carl Rosman

    4. Act I: Treats with Death and with Life Despite Death: Emergence of the Spirit

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Ensemble Musikfabrik

      Performer: Alban Wesly, Bruce Collings, Carl Rosman

    5. Act I: Treats with Death and with Life Despite Death: A Son in Search of his Father's Face

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Ensemble Musikfabrik

      Performer: Alban Wesly, Bruce Collings, Carl Rosman

    6. Act I: Treats with Death and with Life Despite Death: Cry from Another Darkness

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Ensemble Musikfabrik

      Performer: Alban Wesly, Bruce Collings, Carl Rosman

    7. Act I: Treats with Death and with Life Despite Death: Pray for Me

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Ensemble Musikfabrik

      Performer: Alban Wesly, Bruce Collings, Carl Rosman

    8. Act I: Sanctus: An Entra'cte

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Ensemble Musikfabrik

    9. Act II: Treats with Life and with Life Despite Life: The Quiet Hobo Meal

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Ensemble Musikfabrik

      Performer: Marco Blaauw, Christine Chapman, Axel Porath

    10. Act II: Treats with Life and with Life Despite Life: The Lost Kid

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Ensemble Musikfabrik

      Performer: Marco Blaauw, Christine Chapman, Axel Porath

    11. Act II: Treats with Life and with Life Despite Life: Time of Fun Together

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Ensemble Musikfabrik

      Performer: Marco Blaauw, Christine Chapman, Axel Porath

    12. Act II: Treats with Life and with Life Despite Life: The Misunderstanding

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Ensemble Musikfabrik

      Performer: Marco Blaauw, Christine Chapman, Axel Porath

    13. Act II: Treats with Life and with Life Despite Life: Arrest, Trial and Judgement (Joy in the Marketplace!)

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Ensemble Musikfabrik

      Performer: Marco Blaauw, Christine Chapman, Axel Porath

    14. Act II: Pray for Me Again - A Strange Fear!

      Composer: Harry Partch

      Ensemble: Ensemble Musikfabrik

      Performer: Marco Blaauw, Christine Chapman, Axel Porath


“It was only with Partch that a music began to take shape that could do equal justice to the physical desire for rhythmic pulse and a curiosity for new, unheard sounds; a music that enthralls us despite, or rather, precisely because of its unfamiliarity. A music for which we have no category, and which has no location, and yet in a strange way is grounded.” (Heiner Goebbels) The American composer Harry Partch (1901-1974) is considered a pioneer of the Just Intonation movement and was far ahead of his time when he began to explore microtonality. In the course of his life, he not only created a highly complex tonal system, but also designed and built an extensive set of instruments of sculptural beauty and great stage presence for its realisation, the only and original set of which is preserved in the USA.

On the occasion of the opening of the Ruhrtriennale 2013 with "Delusion of the Fury", staged by Heiner Goebbels, Harry Partch's entire set of microtonal instruments was reconstructed for the Ensemble Musikfabrik and learned by the musicians. It was only through this enormous reconstruction that performances of Partch's music outside his home country became possible at all. The dance and music theatre "Delusion of the Fury", whose recording by the Ensemble Musikfabrik sets new standards, is considered a key work and musical quintessence in Harry Partch's oeuvre. The extensive booklet documents the extraordinary music theatre production with numerous pictures as well as texts by Heiner Goebbels and Edu Haubensak.