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Gruber, BBC Philharmonic - Schwertsik: Baumgesange; Herr K Entdeckt Amerika (2011)

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Gruber, BBC Philharmonic - Schwertsik: Baumgesange; Herr K Entdeckt Amerika (2011)

Gruber, BBC Philharmonic - Schwertsik: Baumgesange; Herr K Entdeckt Amerika (2011)
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Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | Catalog Number: 10687

The works by the Austrian composer Kurt Schwertsik are characterised by his own particular exploration of tonality, and his sense of musical irony and humour. A pupil of Joseph Marx and Karl Schiske at the Academy of Music in Vienna, he later studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne and Darmstadt. Here his works are performed by the BBC Philharmonic under HK Gruber, a close friend of Schwertsik’s and fellow founder of the MOB art & tone ART ensemble and the Third Viennese School.

Baumgesänge, Op. 65 (Songs of Trees) was composed in 1992 to a commission from the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) for the Wien Modern Festival that year. The work is inspired in part by the composer’s childhood memories. In Schwertsik’s own words: ‘Trees are friends. To climb a tree was a great joy to me and still is. In these six movements I have tried to give trees a voice… he who pushes aside his dreams has lost everything.’

In Baumgesänge, Schwertsik uses orchestral forces to evoke a sense of the majesty and height of the trees, the blaring wind, and the birdsong in the woods – even the blows of an axe are depicted through the use of tuba, double-bassoon, timpani, and piano.

Also on this disc is Herr K entdeckt Amerika, Op. 101, a work inspired by Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel Amerika. Despite the title (Mr K. Discovers America) there is not much specifically American about the music, although the rolling gait and touches of fanfare in the first movement, and the sense of large open spaces in the third movement, all contribute to the strong journeying character of the music.

Nachtmusiken, Op. 104 is Schwertsik’s most recent work, commissioned by the BBC and premiered in Manchester by the BBC Philharmonic under Gianandrea Noseda in 2010. In his ‘night thoughts’, Schwertsik presents a series of urban nocturnes, elegies, and memories in a seductive mix of passion, sorrow, and melancholy that cannot help but to grip and hold captive the listener from start to finish.

Composer: Kurt Schwertsik
Conductor: Heinz Karl "Nali" Gruber
Orchestra/Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Reviews: To read that, as a young man, Austrian composer Kurt Schwertsik attended the same classes as Stockhausen, Nono, Cage and Kagel, and was a close friend of Cornelius Cardew, might set alarm bells ringing in some people. These are hardly stayed by the fact that the conductor on this disc is H K Gruber, another colleague and good friend - to judge by the photos, the two could almost be brothers! Yet Schwertsik turned his back on the trendy avant-garde almost right away, and for most music-lovers, acquiring a taste for his music should be as straightforward as acquiring this CD.

The composition dates can be put aside as immaterial: this is a disc of elegantly orchestrated, witty, generally melodic, almost film-suite-style music, written for audience enjoyment rather than maven approbation. It is hard not to hear other composers in Schwertsik's writing. Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Copland, Arnold, Prokofiev and especially, and repeatedly, Mahler are all brought to mind here, where not directly paraphrased - and perhaps therein lies his certain appeal to a wider public. So much is obvious from the seductive Nachtmusiken op.104 that opens the programme, an atmospheric five-movement sequence "of urban nocturnes, elegies, memories and philosophisings under the cloak of darkness."

On the other hand, Schwertsik is probably not going to win many prizes for originality. Gruber writes that Schwertsik's music is "not for superficial listeners". Truthfully it lends itself well to a typically 21st century listening environment, in that its ideas combine to create a warm quilt of agreeable sounds, light drama, gentle irony and limpid structure requiring no concentrated effort to appreciate.

The Kafka-inspired Herr K Entdeckt Amerika, according to the notes, has little obviously programmatic or even overtly American content, despite the fact that movement headings - 'Crossing' - 'At the Hotel' - 'Travelling' - 'The Nature Theater of Oklahoma' - appear to indicate otherwise. As an off-the-peg four part suite-cum-ballet, subtitled a 'Sonatina for orchestra', it is just as easy to enjoy - an innocuous work, not a great one, but again with wide appeal. For a composer still massively under-recorded, it is a pity in a way that, following these two premiere recordings, Gruber and Chandos chose to add Baumgesänge, op.65, which appeared in 2004 on ABC Classics. On balance, it is probably a good thing for posterity to have two recordings of it, but this is already a shortish disc, and prospective purchasers are entitled to wonder why one of Schwertsik's several concertos, for example, was not recorded instead - or as well. At any rate, in Baumgesänge Schwertsik writes that he has "tried to give trees a voice" - a novel idea, to say the least. Whether or not said objective is achieved, this is another attractive, cinematographic work that builds to an exciting finale.

The BBC Philharmonic under their latest "Composer/Conductor" H K Gruber sound in typically fine form. Recording quality is very good. The trilingual booklet notes are written by Gruber and Calum MacDonald, intelligent and informative. It should be said, however, that Chandos do waste a shocking amount of paper with their absurdly compacted paragraphs - the 36 sides are only about a third of that in real money. Nor will their small faint font appeal to those whose eyesight is not what it once was. The track-listing spells the German 'aggressiv' wrong twice, and there are two track 15s.

Tracklisting:

Nachtmusiken, Op. 104 23:30
1 1 Janácek ist mir im Traum erschienen. Ruhig bewegt - 6:33
2 2 Wienerlied. Langsamer Walzer - Zeit lassen - Wieder im Zeitmaß - Zeit lassen - 3:50
3 3 …for David Drew. Ruhig bewegt und innig gesungen - Wieder etwas vorbreitern - 4:33
4 4 Geschwindmarsch. In rasender Wut - 2:59
5 5 Flucht. Ruhig gehend - Vorwärts streben - Zeit lassen - Schnell 5:22

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Herr K entdeckt Amerika, Op. 101 14:38
6 1 Überfahrt. Misurato, poco ritenente - Pesante 2:42
7 2 Im Hotel. Allegretto - Allegro - Poco meno 2:35
8 3 Unterwegs. Andantino tranquillo (espressivo, ma sempre poco ritenente) - Molto tranquillo 5:41
9 4 Das Naturtheater von Oklahoma. Andante con molto - Tranquillo (ma stesso tempo) 3:35

Baumgesange, Op. 65 21:26
10 1 Breit gesungen (Cantabile, ma pesante). 2:37
11 2 Lebhaft, Agressiv (Vivace). 0:41
12 3 Bleischwer (Molto pesante). 4:58
13 4 Sehr gedehnt (Allagare il Tempo). 4:56
14 5 Beweglich (Poco rubato). 3:08
15 6 Lebhaft, Agressiv (Vivace). 5:04


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