Ensemble Recherche: Libeslieder
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Composer or Director: Jörg Widmann, Enno Poppe, Cornelius Schwehr, Lucia Ronchetti, Caspar Johannes Walter, Fabio Nieder, Hans Zender, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Carola Bauckholt, Martin Smolka, Georg Kröll, André Richard, Chaya Czernowin, Sebastian Claren, Héctor Parra, Alla Zagaykevych, Johannes Maria Staud, Gerhard Winkler, Johannes Schöllhorn, Ramon Lazkano, Nicolaus Huber, Günter Steinke, Rolf Riehm, Georg Friedrich Haas, François Sarhan, Walter Zimmermann, Hans Abrahamsen, Mark André, Christopher Fox, Elena Mendoza
Genre:
Vocal
Label: Wergo
Magazine Review Date: 09/2014
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 145
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: WER6792-2
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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love song |
Hans Abrahamsen, Composer
Hans Abrahamsen, Composer Recherche Ensemble |
iv 9 |
Mark André, Composer
Mark André, Composer Recherche Ensemble |
MBRMMPP |
Sebastian Claren, Composer
Recherche Ensemble Sebastian Claren, Composer |
Love Song |
Chaya Czernowin, Composer
Chaya Czernowin, Composer Recherche Ensemble |
Lines of Desire |
Christopher Fox, Composer
Christopher Fox, Composer Recherche Ensemble |
3 Love Songs |
Georg Friedrich Haas, Composer
Georg Friedrich Haas, Composer Recherche Ensemble |
An die Musik. Poem - Love Etching |
Nicolaus Huber, Composer
Nicolaus Huber, Composer Recherche Ensemble |
... with heartfelt feeling |
Georg Kröll, Composer
Georg Kröll, Composer Recherche Ensemble |
Song without Words |
Ramon Lazkano, Composer
Ramon Lazkano, Composer Recherche Ensemble |
love song for recherche |
Elena Mendoza, Composer
Elena Mendoza, Composer Recherche Ensemble |
Adagio |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Recherche Ensemble Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer |
The SHOE on the Way to Saturnio |
Fabio Nieder, Composer
Fabio Nieder, Composer Recherche Ensemble |
Love to recherche |
Héctor Parra, Composer
Héctor Parra, Composer Recherche Ensemble |
Sweat |
Enno Poppe, Composer
Enno Poppe, Composer Recherche Ensemble |
Y al volver la vista atrás se ve ... |
André Richard, Composer
André Richard, Composer Recherche Ensemble |
Rosso Pompeiano. Scherzo for ensemble |
Lucia Ronchetti, Composer
Lucia Ronchetti, Composer Recherche Ensemble |
A Love Song |
Rolf Riehm, Composer
Recherche Ensemble Rolf Riehm, Composer |
scènes d'amour |
François Sarhan, Composer
François Sarhan, Composer Recherche Ensemble |
Chanson. A love song with Ernst Jandl |
Johannes Schöllhorn, Composer
Johannes Schöllhorn, Composer Recherche Ensemble |
Nocturne Amoroso |
Cornelius Schwehr, Composer
Cornelius Schwehr, Composer Recherche Ensemble |
AMarcORdOSO |
Martin Smolka, Composer
Martin Smolka, Composer Recherche Ensemble |
Chant d'amour |
Johannes Maria Staud, Composer
Johannes Maria Staud, Composer Recherche Ensemble |
for you |
Günter Steinke, Composer
Günter Steinke, Composer Recherche Ensemble |
Angelorum Psalat |
Caspar Johannes Walter, Composer
Caspar Johannes Walter, Composer Recherche Ensemble |
Song Without Words 1 |
Gerhard Winkler, Composer
Gerhard Winkler, Composer Recherche Ensemble |
Views of lovers |
Alla Zagaykevych, Composer
Alla Zagaykevych, Composer Recherche Ensemble |
alphabet (Kamasutra |
Hans Zender, Composer
Hans Zender, Composer Recherche Ensemble |
AFUGAPE |
Walter Zimmermann, Composer
Recherche Ensemble Walter Zimmermann, Composer |
Author: Philip Clark
The sniffy implication that rock and pop musicians have somehow done the love song a disservice is a pity – from the Proustian power of Ray Davies’s ‘Days’ to Janis Joplin’s raw ‘Piece of my heart’, pop music has nothing to be ashamed of. But, of course, the task of composing a love song without words, and possibly with failsafe conventional tonality jettisoned, is not an easy one: when we’re in love, cliché is never far away – how to write love music without pressing obvious expressive buttons sets an intriguing challenge.
Some composers miss the point altogether. Had Ensemble Recherche commissioned a set of songs about the Common Agricultural Policy, Mark André’s aridly pointillistic iv 9 for bass flute, cor anglais and bass clarinet would have been a triumph; similarly you might not want to date Chaya Czernowin, whose textbook new-music scrapings and subtone rustling-based Lovesong sounds like she’s set her income tax code.
But other composers deal with the issues at hand more resourcefully. Nicolaus A Huber’s An die Musik presents the musicians with written-in mistakes that they must erase to find the music’s pure heart; Christopher Fox’s Lines of desire showcases a keening viola line that artfully dodges the usual loved-out melodic intervals; Georg Friedrich Haas’s Drei Liebeslieder likewise compresses emotion as lines journey upwards and beyond – like champagne corks popping out of bottles.
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