Description

This CD brings together song cycles by five composers who live in Berlin. The works, which are very varied stylistically, have been brought together by the soprano Andrea Chudak who is both the initiatrix of the project and the interpreter. Togehter with her accompanist Barbara Kler on the piano these unusual moments of contemporary Berlin Song Composition were performed live and in a stimulating exchange with their composers. The composers themselves were born between 1941 and 1971 and the musical styles ambrace a wide spectrum, from essentially expreimental approaches to clear tonal accounts. Each of the composers in this collection seems to have trodden a very individualistic musical path, far from convention. For Andrea Chudak the role of the singer also played a role in her choice – the works selected are, with all their manifold differences, well suited to the capabilities of the human voice and have provided a challenge to her as the interpreter.

Tracklisting:

Max Doehlemann: “Poèmes de Paul Valéry”
1. La Ceinture
2. Intérier
3. Les Grénades

Bo Wiget: “Faltenwürfe”
4. da kehrt er kräftig der fön
5. und nebel steht wie eine herde…
6. aus stechendem weiß entsteht der see…
7. erste eingebildete insekten…
8. knistern wie feinstes chitin…
9. vor der musik heben naturgegebene…
10. bis zum ausatmen köpfe schüttelnd…
11. sonne jenes herbstes ist der see…
12. spiegel vom see…

Armin Thalheim: “Mignon-Lieder op. 4”
13. Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blüh’n?
14. Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt
15. Heiß mich nicht reden
16. So lasst mich scheinen

Gerhard Scherer “Drei strenge Lieder”
17. Unterwegs ohne Freiheit
18. D-Cis
19. Wer kennt Moby Dick?

Hannes Zerbe “Vier Lieder nach Gedichten von Bertholt Brecht”
20. Die Ziege
21. Das Schwein
22. Die Kellerassel
23. Das Pferd