Near Death Experience: Bertelsmeier/Murail/Rihm/Tilling/Wagner/Wense

NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE is an extraordinary album that combines central works of contemporary music with fascinating musical references to the past and future. Peter Tilling's two-part work Fragment.Mirroring leads us into an intoxicating soundscape with expressively processed gestures of Renaissance music. The first movement, imbued with a multi-layered sound, evokes a kind of acoustic architecture - the second, more free and stylistically different, brings hope and movement into the piece. Another Tilling composition, Ein Schatten, schwebend, is exemplary of his exploration of Wagner's harmonic world. Inspired by Campana's poetry and the Elegy in A flat major, a sound sculpture between memory, condensation and dissolution is created. Tristan Murail's impressive work Near Death Experience reflects - between spectral analysis and emotional visual power - the experience of transition, inspired by Arnold Bocklin's 'Isle of the Dead'. A journey into the unknown, into the interior of perception. Wolfgang Rihm's IN FRAGE is a theatrical, often fractured work that ranges from expressive outbursts to enigmatic aloofness. Central motifs reappear like figures of memory and point to an open, questioning ending. Birke J. Bertelsmeier's Verwachsen creates a tonal organism from finely interwoven compositional techniques: individual voices merge into a colourful line - an aesthetically radical, yet touchingly poetic piece. Finally, we encounter Hans Jurgen von der Wense, an almost forgotten genius: Peter Tilling transforms his Musik fur Klavier I-V into a colourful version for chamber orchestra, Musik fur Ensemble I-V. The sound world is close to Schonberg, Scrjabin and the artist' association November Group - and reveals an uncompromising artistic universe. This CD is an impressive panorama of new music that explores the boundaries between life, memory and transcendence.

1: Fragment
2: Mirroring
3: I. Frei, Segr Heftig Akzentuiert - Langsam - In Ruhiger Bewegung
4: II. Viertel=40 - Schneller - A Tempo
5: III. Bewegt
6: IV. Langsam - Etwas Schneller - Wieder Langsam - Noch Etwas Schneller - Wieder Langsam - Unruhig Bewegt
7: V. Frei, Sehr Langsam
8: Verwachsen
9: Ia. Rasch, Aber Gemässigt
10: Ib. Rasch, Aber Gemässigt
11: II. Leicht, Sehr Langsam
12: III. Gelassen, Äusserst Gedehnt
13: IV. Bewegt, Doch Mässig
14: V. Sehr Angestrengt (Äusserst Gemässigt)
15: Schmachtend: Elegy in A-flat Major, WWV93
16: Ein Schatten, Schwebend
17: Near Death Experience

Composer: Hans Jürgen von der Wense, Tristan Murail, Birke J. Bertelsmeier, Richard Wagner, Wolfgang Rihm, Peter Tilling

Conductor: Peter Tilling

Number of Discs: 1

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