Richter - Lecons de Tenebres / Lamentations of Jeremiah - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Nicolaus Richter de Vroe, one of the strongest talents among the younger composer from Saxony, joined since the mid-eighties produced primarily with instrumental chamber music. And even in the West, he made a sudden talking point after he had won in 1985 at the Cologne Composition Competition InchYoung Generation in EuropeInch a price. Previously, Judge de Vroe had (with a major in violin) visited the Special School of Music in Dresden, the university and finally five years the famous Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. There was a lot of opportunity, more modern than in Dresden perceive. Even Cage came up, and began Richter de Vroe to penetrate into the mind of Zen Buddhism. All in all predominate in pieces Judge de Vroes subversive moments against ingrained conventions of composing, playing and listening. They range from the preferred exploring the regions of noise liable - on the individual, detailed game-action (against a collective feeling generated mass al fresco) - up to the incoherent, free child, labyrinthine design of musical progressions. There are, in spite of explosive force, a predominant gestures of violence, combined with a knack for subtle, fragile and aimlessly static, what time - at least in the music of the GDR - a completely new quality possessed, but beyond all probaten forms of aggressive ideological composing differed. Album Tracks 1. Durchlässige Zonen (I) I 12 03 2. Durchlässige Zonen (I) II 3 49 3. Isole Di Rumore (Durchlässige Zonen II) I 8 29 4. Isole Di Rumore (Durchlässige Zonen II) II 7 18 5. Isole Di Rumore (Durchlässige Zonen II) Aus Weißen 16 40 6. Tetra?? III - I 2 40 7. Tetra?? III - II 3 16 8. Tetra?? III - III 3 12 9. Tetra?? III - IV 6 24 10. Tetra?? III - Lum'q'uart'inance 12 32

Charles-Joseph Van Helmont played a leading role in music in Brussels during the Baroque period. In 1737 he followed in the footsteps of Joseph-Hector Fiocco and composed a cycle of nine Leçons de ténèbres for solo voice and continuo. Ornamentation in the French style blends here with Italian lyricism, and each lamentation of the prophet Jeremiah is granted it's own particular atmosphere. He revised one of his most beautiful Leçons of Holy Week in 1756 and added a solo cello part, also taking the opportunity to compose a completely new Leçon whose galant style surprises as much as it seduces the listener. For these works, recorded here for the first time, the Brussels-based ensemble Scherzi Musicali has here assembled three sopranos and several instrumentalists around a magnificent organ (1775) built by Guillaume Robustelly.

Album Tracks 1. Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 2. Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 3. Rondo in C Major Op. 51, No. 1 4. Rondo in G Major Op. 51, No. 2 5. 33 Variations on a Waltz By Diabelli, Op. 120 6. Piano Sonata No. 28 in a Major, Op. 101