Serge Zimmermann - Handel, Bach, Mozart & C.P.E. Bach - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Inbar Solomon is a Recorder player, performing both early music and Israeli/ international contemporary music in several ensembles. She collaborates with composers from Israel, USA, Japan, England and Argentina, and in the past years she premiered over 20 new solo & chamber music Recorder pieces dedicated to her. New pieces performed and recorded by her were published in many albums, and had their creators win important prizes, such as the Prime Minister Prize for Composers and ACUM Award. For her newest she is joined by Ophira Zakai, Amit Tiefenbrunn, and Yizhar Karshon for a unique program of early and contemporary Folias.

Voces is a collection of rare recordings documenting many of Walter Zimmermann's compositions for voices from 1979-2016. The words set to music range from Meister Eckhart and Hadewijch to Michail Lermontov, Ossip Mandelstam, Edmond Jabès, Tomas Tranströmer, Felix Philipp Ingold and Robert Creeley (with Creely's voice accompanying the musicians). Performers include Claudia Barainsky, Tehila Nini Goldstein, Sheva Tehoval / Magda Lapaj, Peter Schöne / Jan Philip Schulze, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, KNM Ensemble, Walter Zimmermann and Band and the musicians of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company with David Tudor, Takehisha Kosugi, D'Arcy Gray, John D. S. Adams. A rare recording from 1982 was recently discovered InchFreunde/FriendsInch sung and played by Walter Zimmermann and his rock/pop/new music band during their U.S. Tour in Los Angeles, showing a very different musical side of Walter Zimmermann. This deluxe 3-album set comes with a 74-page booklet containing the complete song texts (with translations) and essays by Albert Breier and Christopher Fox. Lavishly illustrated with photos and art by Nanne Meyer. Packaged in a slipcase.

Walter Zimmermann is a German composer associated with the Cologne School. He studied with Werner Heider and Mauricio Kagel, and computer music at Colgate University in New York. His works are infused by a personal adaptation of minimal technique. One of his best known and iconic works is the group of pieces known as Lokale Musik, these frequently begin with melodic material derived from his native Franconian folk songs, rearranged and transformed in novel ways. Lokale Musik was originally released as a 3-LP set by Theater am Turm Edition in 1982. Mode's reissues the complete original set, remastered from the analog master tapes, on two albums. The tracks have been reordered to fit the composer's current thoughts on the cycle. This also includes a third album of more recently recorded supplemental material and performances, and revised versions of works, issued for the first time.