Burkhard - Burkhard : Lieder - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Born in 1962 in Berlin, studied composition, general music education and classical saxophone in Berlin, Lübeck and Stuttgart. He was a fellow of the Heinrich Strobel Foundation of the SWR, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the City of Hamburg. His music theater works and multimedia concert installations InchLancelot's SpiegelInch, InchImitation of LifeInch, InchGalaxy HotelInch, and InchCittà UtopicaInch found at festivals in Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna and Bregenz much attention, his musical theater Inchno significant changeInch celebrated in April 2011 in the Opera stable the Hamburg State Opera Premiere. Together with the experimental pop musician Felix Kubin, he realized the surround sound project InchEcho HouseInch and published by the tag 'Dekorder'. Burkhard Friedrich has been honored for his compositions and interpretations of contemporary music international awards, concerts and performances of his works have taken him throughout Europe, Asia and the USA. Many composers have been inspired by Burkhard Friedrich exceptional style of interpretation to create new works. By Burkhard Friedrich CDs with WERGO, 'Maple Fields', 'Dekorder' and the Net-tag 'plakatif. Net', as well as a CD of his chamber opera InchLancelot's SpiegelInch (sound debuts KUG) appeared. He founded together with violinist Barbara Lüneburg 1993, the internationally renowned ensemble Integrales. Burkhard Friedrich is the artistic director of the project InchKlangradar 3000 - New music, electronics and composition at general schoolsInch and holds workshops and seminars on the subject of Inchcomposing / music education in general education schoolsInch in international music universities.

Trio for Soprano, Alto and Piano was written the same year as InchKvartoniInch, one of Hvoslef's early masterpieces. Not surprisingly, then, the two works are based on similar melodic material. Both compositions fit comfortably within Hvoslef's early production. The choice of ensemble (two female voices and piano) is very telling in regard to Hvoslef's musical ideals. We have two innocent and playful voices set against one of the largest and potentially most overpowering instruments. Hvoslef's love of contrast is, thus, readily served from the outset. What on earth, you may ask, might trombones and string instruments have in common? They do share one property they are unchallenged among musical instruments in their ability to produce continuous glissandos. String instruments, however, can cover a much larger range than trombones can. In InchString Quartet no. IIIInch, large glissandos occur, collectively (the ensemble indeed functioning as a unified group) four times. In the third of these the gliss. Changes direction at the end, presaging the end of the piece an upward glissando preceded by a quagmire of small simultaneous slides at different speeds and in different directions. Whereas the third string quartet appears to be music of the city, the InchSextet for Flute and PercussionInch seems to take place in the jungle. As was the case in InchTrio for Soprano, Alto and PianoInch, the instrumental forces here are ostensibly right out of balance a vulnerable flute against five potentially fierce and merciless percussionists. The latter do, in the end, beat the flute into submission, rendering it InchvoicelessInch when the percussion finally recedes, we are left with the rhythmical sound of the flute's keys.

Road to Udaipur is pianist Edsel Gómez's eagerly awaited follow-up to 2006's Grammy®-nominated Cubist Music, featuring 13 stunningly original compositions in trio through sextet formats.