Skrowaczewski / Staege / Deutsche Radio Phil - Music at Night - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Veit Erdmann-Abele writes of his new InchThe term I like to use is Klangbild, a picture in sound. It refers to the musical reaction we can have vis-à-vis paintings or texts. Take the Five Meditations on Stained-Glass Windows, for instance the original stained-glass windows featured scenes from the Old and New Testaments. My music is by no means an attempt to InchdescribeInch those stories; rather, it is the outgrowth of my very personal, individual thoughts and emotions. My approach is like that of a book illustrator. The music should not attempt to recount the story; rather, quite differently, it offers an independent commentary on the events. I apply the same approach in my Inchmusical commentariesInch on Dietmar Scholz's textual aphorisms. The music does not literally depict Inchthe lonely hair that becomes important by falling into the soupInch, but tries to grasp the meaning hidden behind the text. This becomes particularly apparent in the case of Scholz's aphorism InchIn a mirror, everything is similar and everything is the oppositeInch this textual content can be musically depicted as a form. In the same way, my musical setting of the Romanesque Frescoes is not a description, but a commentary.Inch

Leonard Bernstein conducted regularly in Munich from the 1980s onwards. It was then that he learned to appreciate and love the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in particular. In October 1976, Bernstein had appeared with an all-Beethoven programme, and in 1983 he began a series of annual concerts with the orchestra. This CD from BR-KLASSIK presents the live recording of the Beethoven concert on October 17, 1976, in which Bernstein conducted Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and the Leonore Overture No. 3.The programme of the Munich concert in October 1976 included Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, which can be seen as stroke of liberation in the sense of Inchper aspera ad astraInch (Inchthrough hardships to the starsInch or Inchthrough darkness to lightInch) and also a symphonic piece that he had written for his only opera InchFidelioInch the Third Leonore Overture, with it's lone trumpet signal announcing the arrival of the minister Don Fernando - and thus the rescue of Florestan from arbitrary violence and imprisonment. Joachim Kaiser, Munich's leading music critic at the time, said InchBernstein demonstrated to a spellbound Munich audience how much he is filled with Beethoven, the man is full of a freedom and fire that can be produced and reproduced. Even if Bernstein's leaps, crouches and crescendos may seem violent to anxious listeners, the inner rightness of the music - which sounds natural, powerful, wonderful and relaxed - is overwhelming.InchThe live recording was made on October 17, 1976 at the Deutsches Museum in Munich.

For Record Store Day 2015, Gothenburg, Sweden's Makthaverskan presents their most intense offering to date with the limited edition single Witness. From the first moments of the title track, the pounding kick drum and intense guitar riff start off a three minute exhibition in post-punk excellence.