Klaus Ospald: Más raíz, menos criatura & Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Singer Pur & Peter Rundel - Klaus Ospald

• Klaus Ospald (b. 1956): Mas raiz, menos criatura:
• 1 Ospald: Mas raiz, menos criatura: Part 1 06:54
• 2 Ospald: Mas raiz, menos criatura: Strophe 1 02:40
• 3 Ospald: Mas raiz, menos criatura: Strophe 2 06:45
• 4 Ospald: Mas raiz, menos criatura: Ritornell 1 04:37
• 5 Ospald: Mas raiz, menos criatura: Episode 1 08:32
• 6 Ospald: Mas raiz, menos criatura: Episode 2 02:34
• 7 Ospald: Mas raiz, menos criatura: Canto 2 04:56
• 8 Ospald: Mas raiz, menos criatura: Ritornell 2 04:24
• 9 Ospald: Mas raiz, menos criatura: Ritornell 3 03:37
• 10 Ospald: Mas raiz, menos criatura: Canto 3 06:00
• Peter Tilling (b. 1975): Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern:
• 11 Tilling: Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern: Episode I und Part I 09:38
• Klaus Ospald: Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern:
• 12 Ospald: Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern: Part II 05:10
• 13 Ospald: Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern: Episode II 02:59
• 14 Ospald: Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern: Part III 02:40
• 15 Ospald: Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern: Episode III 02:41
• 16 Ospald: Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern: Episode IV 03:16
• 17 Ospald: Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern: Episode V 05:13
• Total Runtime 01:22:36

Info for Klaus Ospald: Más raíz, menos criatura & Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern

Born in Münster, Westphalia in 1956, Klaus Ospald is one of the most renowned German composers of contemporary music. He studied composition in Detmold and Würzburg, and also as a master student with Helmut Lachenmann. His works are performed by internationally renowned performers and orchestras. Important promoters and festivals of contemporary music arrange premieres of his works. Klaus Ospald has received numerous awards, most recently the International Hanns Eisler Scholarship of the City of Leipzig 2022. - The BR-KLASSIK album presents Ospald's "Más raíz, menos criatura" in a live recording of a performance on 22 November 2019 in a musica viva concert in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residence and his "Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern", recorded on 25 May 2019 in the Laboratory for Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machines at Coburg University of Applied Sciences.

The ten-part composition "Más raíz, menos criatura" (German roughly: "More root than man") ("Entlegene Felder III") for orchestra, piano and eight-part chamber choir based on the poem "El niño yuntero" (German: "The child as draught animal") by Miguel Hernández was written in 2014 / 15 and revised in 2017. Ospald created it as a commission from the SWR for the ECLAT Festival 2017. It received its world premiere at the ECLAT Festival on 5 February 2017 at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart, with Yukiko Sugawara (piano), the SWR Vokalensemble and the SWR Sinfonieorchester conducted by Peter Rundel. The composition is part of a triad of works that Ospald wrote between 2012 and 2016 and brought together under the title "Remote Fields". The bundling of works of different physiognomy is a basic trait in Ospald's oeuvre: Musical content is more important to him than performance standards or genre conventions. They determine the form and structure of the works. They reflect the consciousness of a critical contemporary who has preserved his independence as an artist and human being and uncompromisingly defends the rights of the individual.

The eight-part "Quintet from the Remote Fields" for string trio, clarinet, piano and live electronics was commissioned by the SWR Experimental Studio in 2012 / 13 and revised in 2014. It had its world premiere (without live electronics) on 31 May 2014 at the SWR Studio Freiburg, Schlossbergsaal with the Ensemble Experimental and its world premiere with live electronics on 3 October 2015 at the same venue by the same ensemble, with live electronic realisation by the SWR Experimentalstudio. It was important to Ospald that extended sounds become an integral part of the composition and are given their space. That kind of live electronics requires a sound director in the performance who - like the musicians - "plays" these live electronics according to the score.

Markus Bellheim, piano
Singer Pur:
Claudia Reinhard, soprano
Anna-Lena Elbert, soprano
Mayumi Takagi, alto
Christian Meister, tenor
Markus Zapp, tenor
Manuel Warwitz, tenor
Reiner Schneider-Waterberg, baritone
Jan Kuhar, bass
Ensemble Experimental
Experimental Studio of the SWR
Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio
Peter Rundel, conductor

Peter Rundel
is one of the most sought-after partners for leading European orchestras, owing to the depth of his approach to complex music of various styles and epochs as well as to his interpretive creativity.

He is regularly invited to conduct the Bavarian Radio Orchestra and the NDR, WDR, and SWR Radio Symphony Orchestras. Recent international guest appearances have included the Helsinki Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera Roma, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, as well as the Tokyo Metropolitan and Taipei Symphony Ochestras.

Following his recent successes at Zurich Opera with Stefan Wirth’s Girl with a Pearl Earring and at Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden with Massenet’s Werther, this season sees Peter Rundel leading music theatre productions at the Ruhrtriennale, the Opéra National de Lyon and at Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele (world premiere of Isabel Mundry’s Im Dickicht). He has conducted the world premieres of opera productions at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bavarian State Opera, Wiener Festwochen, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Opera Vlaanderen, Teatro Argentino La Plata, Ruhrtriennale, and Bregenz Festival, while also collaborating with respected stage directors such as Peter Konwitschny, Calixto Bieito, Philippe Arlaud, Peter Mussbach, Heiner Goebbels, Carlus Padrissa (La Fura dels Baus), and Willy Decker. His work in opera includes traditional repertoire (Die Zauberflöte at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and König Kandaules, Hansel and Gretel and The Marriage of Figaro at the Volksoper Vienna), as well as ground-breaking contemporary music theatre productions such as Stockhausen’s Donnerstag from LICHT, Massacre by Wolfgang Mitterer, the world premieres of Georg Friedrich Haas‘ Nacht and Bluthaus, Isabel Mundry’s Ein Atemzug – die Odyssee, and Emmanuel Nunes’ Das Märchen and La Douce. The spectacular production of Prometheus, which he led at the Ruhrtriennale, was awarded the Carl-Orff-Preis in 2013.

Born in Friedrichshafen, Germany, Peter Rundel studied violin with Igor Ozim and Ramy Shevelov, as well as conducting with Michael Gielen and Peter Eötvös. From 1984 until 1996 he was a violinist in Ensemble Modern, to which he has enjoyed long associations also as a conductor. He also maintains regular guest appearances with Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Collegium Novum Zürich, Ensemble intercontemporain, and the Asko|Schönberg Ensemble. Peter Rundel has been artistic director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders and was the founding artistic director of the Kammerakademie Potsdam. In January 2005, he was appointed artistic director of the Remix Ensemble Casa da Música in Porto and has since enjoyed great success with the contemporary music ensemble at important festivals throughout Europe.

Peter Rundel is also deeply committed to the education and development of young musical talent. In Porto, he founded the Remix Academy for ensemble musicians and conductors. As musical director of the Taschenopernfestival (since 2019), he also installed an academy in Salzburg to promote young conductors in the field of contemporary music theatre. In addition, he regularly teaches at international ensemble academies including the London Sinfonietta, the Ulysseus Ensemble at Manifeste Academy in Paris, the Lucerne Festival Acadamy and at Teatro alla Scala Milan.

Peter Rundel has been awarded many prizes for his recordings of 20th-century music, including the prestigious Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (Nono, Prometeo; Kyburz, Ensemble- und Orchesterwerke; Reich, City Life; Furrer, Piano Concerto; Bertrand, Vertigo), the Grand Prix du Disque (Barraqué, complete work), the Echo Klassik (Sprechgesänge with the Ensemble Musikfabrik) and a Grammy Award nomination (Heiner Goebbels, Surrogate Cities).

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