Label: Mode

オーケストラからコントラバスクラリネットのライブエレクトロニクスまでを網羅した超激ヤバな一枚!!1960年ドイツはニュルンベルク出身、地元の音楽院にてチェロ、ピアノ、指揮を学び、80年代後半には同国の重鎮Walter Zimmermannに師事したコンポーザーGerald Eckert。米実験老舗Modeからは3枚目のアルバムとなる本作は、2018〜2023年まで取り組んだオーケストラ作品及びライブエレクトロニクスによる7作品で構成した2CD。アコーディオン、エレクトロニクスのソロも含まれていますが、重く地を這う不安定なイメージを一貫して継続する非常にカッコイイ全編。







Gerald Eckert’s third release on Mode, night, falling, is a 2-CD set of mostly works for orchestra, often with electronics.

Eckert says: “I am fascinated by orchestral works containing the structures of chamber music. For me, the definition of orchestra is not characterized by its large scale, but genuinely through its individual voices.”His music explores the marginal edges of sound, fractures in tonal constructs, crystalline solidification and instabilities which (for him) always symbolize existential dimensions. Liner notes by Egbert Hiller. In English, German and French.

Gerald Eckert, (b. 1960), studied composition with Nicolaus A. Huber and electronic composition with Dirk Reith. He has received numerous prestigious prizes including the C. Gulbenkian Prize, Portugal 1993; the Kranichstein Prize,Darmstadt 1996; 1st prize in Bourges 2003, and 1st prize at the Stuttgart Composition Competition 2005. Top ensembles have performed his music including the NDR-Philharmonie, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Aventure, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble SurPlus, and Musikfabrik.