Pintscher / Ensemble Intercontemporain - Matthias Pintscher: Bereshit - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

From the wilds of Chattanooga, spring Bohannons, one of that town's finest rock bands of the past 20 years, a crackling, snarling beast of an outfit that lands somewhere between Ronnie Wood, Neil Young and a homemade flamethrower. Marty Bohannon's piercing vocals ride on waves of brother Matt Bohannon's ringing and whining guitars, driven by the whirling rush of drummer Mike Gault and bassist Billy C. Robinson's rhythms.

The Ensemble InterContemporain and it's musical director Pierre Bleuse continue their monographs on the great figures of contemporary musical composition. After the multi-award-winning Ligeti, it is the composer Unsuk Chin who is celebrated here. Of Korean origin, she moved to Germany in the 1980s. Her music shines with an immediate sensuality, and the inexhaustible transformations of her instrumental polyphony produce unprecedented sound constellations. This programme presents her piece Gougalon (2009/12), which evokes the memory of the travelling amateur theatres of her native country, with deliberately offbeat instrumentation in six episodes. She presents it as 'imaginary folk music that is stylised, fractured and only appears to be primitive.' Chin titled her 2013 piece for large ensemble Graffiti. All sound registers are exploited in a colourful, lively, and varied manner. 'The musical language of Graffiti oscillates between roughness and refinement, complexity and transparency,' says the composer. Her double concerto for piano and percussion completes this programme.

Clinio,Teodoro / Ensemble Triagonale - Johannes Heroldt Matthauspassion - Teodoro Clinio Passio Secundum [COMPACT DISCS] date 04/08/2016