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Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontra-Punkte, Refrain, Zeitmasze & Schlagtrio - Ensemble Recherche, Rupert Huber (2009) {WERGO WER 6717 2}
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Classical / Contemporary / Avant-Garde / Experimental / 20th Century

The four works on this disc come from the first nine years of a compositional career that would span almost another half century. Yet today, one scarely hears them as 'early Stockhausen,' but rather as a series of essential cornerstones of the emerging post-war European avant-garde on which Stockhausen, as the youngest composer involved, exercised a crucial influence. What should strike one is not what these pieces have in common, but how different they are from one another. Each exemplifies a phase of Stockhausen's early development.

Georg Philipp Telemann schrieb insgesamt 46 Passionen, von denen die hier aufgenommene Matthäus-Passion in der Behandlung der Chöre und Arien eine der schönsten ist. Sie entstand im Jahre 1730 und zeigt eine besonders illustrierende Schreibweise des Komponisten. Die zweistimmige Anlage der Chöre erweist sie sich mit dem Orchestersatz zusammen als eine überaus gekonnte Komposition mit einfachen Mitteln. Die Choräle sind als Gemeindegesang gedacht. Das Passionsgeschehen wird in Telemanns Matthäus-Passion in eine frohe Darstellung des dramatischen Geschehens als Freude über die Erlösung gekehrt.

English-born New Yorker Rupert Holmes may be best known for his hit singles ‘Escape (The Pina Colada Song)’ (1979) and ‘Him’ (1980), but several years prior to this, Rupert broke onto the music scene with three meticulously crafted albums for the Epic label in the space of two years. These albums were full of perfectly told stories of love, life and loss, and paved the way for Rupert’s ascendancy to the big time.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach is the most famous of the sons of J.S. Bach. His magisterial oeuvre contains, notably, a large number of concertos for various instruments and keyboard pieces. But the composer also excelled at vocal music, thus continuing in the family tradition by composing, among other genres, sacred and secular cantatas and songs. His works respect the rules of Baroque style while also hinting at the dawn of the Classical style subsequently represented by Haydn and Mozart. Café Zimmermann has been including the music of C. P. E. Bach in its programmes for years, notably in a recording (ALPHA 107) that marked a turning point in the discography.