Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Singer Pur & Peter Rundel – Klaus Ospald: Más raíz, menos criatura & Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Singer Pur & Peter Rundel – Klaus Ospald: Más raíz, menos criatura & Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern (2023)
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Born in Münster / Westphalia in 1956, Klaus Ospald is one of the most renowned German composers of contemporary music. He studied composition in Detmold and Würzburg, and also as a master student with Helmut Lachenmann. His works are performed by internationally renowned performers and orchestras. Important organizers and festivals of contemporary music arrange premieres of his works. Klaus Ospald has received numerous awards, most recently the International Hanns Eisler Scholarship of the City of Leipzig 2022. – The BR-KLASSIK CD presents Ospald’s “Más raíz, menos criatura” in a live recording of a performance on November 22, 2019 in a musica viva concert in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residence and his “Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern” recorded on May 25, 2019 in the Laboratory for Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machines of Coburg University.

The ten-part composition “Más raíz, menos criatura” (German roughly: “More root than man”) (“Entlegene Felder III”) for orchestra, piano and eight-part chamber choir based on the poem “El niño yuntero” (German: “The child as draft animal”) by Miguel Hernández was written in 2014 / 15 and revised in 2017. Ospald created it as a commission from SWR for the 2017 ECLAT Festival, and it received its world premiere at the ECLAT Festival on February 5, 2017 at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart, with Yukiko Sugawara (piano), the SWR Vokalensemble and the SWR Sinfonieorchester conducted by Peter Rundel. The composition is part of a triad of works Ospald wrote between 2012 and 2016 and grouped together under the title “Remote Fields.” The bundling of works of different physiognomy is a basic trait in Ospald’s oeuvre: More important to him than performance practice standards or genre conventions are musical contents. They determine the form and structure of the works. They reflect the consciousness of a critical contemporary who, as an artist and human being, has preserved his independence and uncompromisingly defends the rights of the individual.

The eight-part “Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern” for string trio, clarinet, piano, and live electronics was commissioned by the SWR Experimental Studio in 2012 / 13 and revised in 2014. It had its world premiere (without live electronics) on May 31, 2014 at the SWR Studio Freiburg, Schlossbergsaal with the Ensemble Experimental and its world premiere with live electronics on October 3, 2015 at the same venue by the same ensemble, with live electronic realization by the SWR Experimentalstudio. It was important to Ospald that extended sounds become an integral part of the composition and get their space. That kind of live electronics requires a sound director at the performance, who – like the musicians – “plays” these live electronics according to the score.

Tracklist:
01. Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Singer Pur & Peter Rundel – Klaus Ospald – Ospald: Mas raiz, menos criatura: Part 1 (06:54)
02. Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Singer Pur & Peter Rundel – Klaus Ospald – Ospald: Mas raiz, menos criatura: Strophe 1 (02:40)
03. Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Singer Pur & Peter Rundel – Klaus Ospald – Ospald: Mas raiz, menos criatura: Strophe 2 (06:45)
04. Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Singer Pur & Peter Rundel – Klaus Ospald – Ospald: Mas raiz, menos criatura: Ritornell 1 (04:37)
05. Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Singer Pur & Peter Rundel – Klaus Ospald – Ospald: Mas raiz, menos criatura: Episode 1 (08:32)
06. Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Singer Pur & Peter Rundel – Klaus Ospald – Ospald: Mas raiz, menos criatura: Episode 2 (02:34)
07. Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Singer Pur & Peter Rundel – Klaus Ospald – Ospald: Mas raiz, menos criatura: Canto 2 (04:56)
08. Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Singer Pur & Peter Rundel – Klaus Ospald – Ospald: Mas raiz, menos criatura: Ritornell 2 (04:24)
09. Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Singer Pur & Peter Rundel – Klaus Ospald – Ospald: Mas raiz, menos criatura: Ritornell 3 (03:37)
10. Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Singer Pur & Peter Rundel – Klaus Ospald – Ospald: Mas raiz, menos criatura: Canto 3 (06:00)
11. Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Singer Pur & Peter Rundel – Klaus Ospald – Tilling: Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern: Episode I und Part I (09:38)
12. Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Singer Pur & Peter Rundel – Klaus Ospald – Ospald: Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern: Part II (05:10)
13. Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Singer Pur & Peter Rundel – Klaus Ospald – Ospald: Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern: Episode II (02:59)
14. Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Singer Pur & Peter Rundel – Klaus Ospald – Ospald: Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern: Part III (02:40)
15. Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Singer Pur & Peter Rundel – Klaus Ospald – Ospald: Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern: Episode III (02:41)
16. Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Singer Pur & Peter Rundel – Klaus Ospald – Ospald: Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern: Episode IV (03:16)
17. Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Singer Pur & Peter Rundel – Klaus Ospald – Ospald: Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern: Episode V (05:13)

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