Jörg Widmann: Arche (2018)

Commissioned to write a work for the opening of Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie concert hall in 2017, German composer Jörg Widmann (by some reckonings the world's third-most-performed composer in 2018, behind Arvo Pärt and John Williams) was struck by what he saw as the building's resemblance to a ship, and by extension to an ark (in German, Arche). Widmann decided to swing for the fences, and this is in itself notable in a musical world that tends toward tightly controlled little slices of the musical universe. His Ark makes its ... Read More

Commissioned to write a work for the opening of Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie concert hall in 2017, German composer Jörg Widmann (by some reckonings the world's third-most-performed composer in 2018, behind Arvo Pärt and John Williams) was struck by what he saw as the building's resemblance to a ship, and by extension to an ark (in German, Arche). Widmann decided to swing for the fences, and this is in itself notable in a musical world that tends toward tightly controlled little slices of the musical universe. His Ark makes its way through human and musical history, exploring as it goes forms of the relationship between humans and God. Looking over the graphics, you may notice the sequence of text authors; Claudius, Klabund, Heine, Sloterdijk, Andersen, Brentano, Schiller, Francis of Assisi, Nietzsche, Schimmelpfennig, Thomas von Celano, and Michelangelo, along with texts from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, the Bible, and the Mass. The music is just about that diverse. Widmann was a student of, among others, Henze... Read Less

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2018, ECM UPC: 028948170074 CD See All