Vom Willen und Tod Ideal Orchestra & Gellért Szabó

• 1 Geburt 02:34
• 2 Tod 11:18
• 3 Herr, lehre doch mich 02:18
• 4 Requiem für Gellért Szabó 02:42
• 5 Wille 18:50
• 6 Traurigkeit 02:42
• Total Runtime 40:24

Info for Vom Willen und Tod

Gellért Szabó’s Ideal Orchester has been nominated for the 2026 German Jazz Prize. The Leipzig Orchestra for Experimental Music and Improvisation presents its new album “Vom Willen und Tod” (On Will and Death), which will be released on May 15. A furious recording filled with massive soundscapes, radical improvisation, and explosive energy.

Gellért Szabó’s Ideal Orchestra is the opulent 23-piece improvisation orchestra from Leipzig in which large-scale compositions and spontaneously shaped collective processes interlock. Under the direction of composer and conductor Gellért Szabó, expansive soundscapes between jazz, contemporary music, and sacred drama arise in real time with the help of precise hand signals. Citizen Jazz describes Szabó’s music as shaped by a pathos of the Western art music tradition — mystical, archaic, and made for large spaces. Maxi Broecking in Jazzthing calls the current album “Live At Berghain” an impressive homage to his late father. Richard Allen recognizes in it a music of “Wagnerian magnitude,” at once “tragic and uplifting,” while Jacek Brun describes the work as a “continuous suite” in which every note carries meaning. The exceptionally high live energy makes concerts of the Ideal Orchestra an intense and gripping experience.

Gellért Szabó's Ideal Orchester
Gellért Szabó, musical director

Gellért Szabó
Composer, conductor and instrumentalist Gellért Szabó studied electric guitar in Franz Liszt Hochschule für Musik Weimar (2015-2020) under professor Frank Möbus. He is the founder and leader of Leipzig based orchestra for experimental music „Gellért Szabó’s Ideal Orchestra“ for which he conducts and composes. Szabó peforms his solo program „RADICAL RADIO SHOW“ for two channeled electric guitar and effects. Concert tours had led him to many European countries and China. Student of Frank Möbus, John Schröder, Ronny Graupe, Christian Kögel, composition studies with Ulrich Kreppein, Stefan Schultze.

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