Wdr Sinfonieorchester - Messiaen, Mozart, Beethoven, Braunfels & Schubert: Sacred Works - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

New Orleans Gospel is not only an example of profane religious North American cross-breeding but, of greater importance, it is a deliberately anachronistic encounter between the New Orleans repertory and contemporary gospel singing. InchNew Orleans GospelInch boasts such natural energy that, amazingly enough, we discover a new musical genre. - TRACK LISTING Tell Me What Kind of Man Jesus Is What a Friend We Have in Jesus Nobody's Fault But Mine Down By the Riverside Just a Closer Walk with Thee Lord Lord Lord You Sure Been Good to Me Bye And Bye My Life Will Be Sweeter Someday Give Me That Old Time Religion We Shall Walk Through the Streets He Touched Me Will the Circle Be Unbroken I Know I've Been Changed.

Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-1970) was one of the most distinctive composers in the musical avant-garde after the Second World War. While Karlheinz Stockhausen served as a kind of 'generator' in Cologne during the 1950s and 60s, inventing completely new sounds and techniques, Zimmermann was in many ways his opposite, a 'transformer' who redefined previously existing material by placing it in new contexts and collage-like structures, anticipating the ideas of the Postmodernists. Zimmermann created these new contexts on many levels. Especially in his younger years, he arranged and orchestrated songs and piano pieces using brash and daring instrumental colors. These arrangements then found their way into his works that are now recognized as modern masterpieces InchAlagoanaInch, InchKonzertInch, InchSinfonie in einem SatzInch, InchStille und UmkehrInch, etc. His self-composed works employing numerous quotations as well as his arrangements 'recomposing' previously existing music are juxtaposed in the excellent recordings presented by WERGO in this collection. It contains more than three hours of music as well as an extensive booklet with a wealth of information and an interview with Heinz Holliger, the guiding spirit behind this production. Holliger conducted all of the recordings and has worked for years to ensure that Zimmermann's long-forgotten arrangements were rescued, published, performed, and recorded. The performances and recordings took place as part of the celebrations organized by the WDR in Cologne in honor of Zimmermann's 100th birthday. This new from WERGO presents a fresh perspective on the composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann, whose tragic suicide shortly after the completion of InchStille und UmkehrInch shocked the musical world. His fascinating instrumental effects and his embrace of popular and traditional music make his works feel much more at home in our

Unlike Johann Sebastian Bach, one of the supreme composers of the high Baroque, Handel was not by profession a church composer. He did write a number of anthems and smaller sacred works and invented the English oratorio, a hybrid of sacred and secular elements that assures his renown in sacred music, particularly through a single work of that genre, Messiah. Messiah bookends this ten-album set, with a which begins with the original, and ends with Mozart's arrangement of the work. Also included are Saul, Alexander's Feast, Belshazzar, and Dettinger te Deum. These reference recordings are presented by the biggest names of baroque music scene Karl Richter, Helmuth Rilling, Ulrich Stötzel.