Carolin Widmann, Simon Lepper - Phantasy of Spring (2009)
Carolin Widmann, Simon Lepper - Phantasy of Spring
EAC rip > FLAC | separate tracks | No Log, No CUE | cover scans | ~230 MB (2 files)
Genre: Classical, Contemporary | Label: ECM New Series (ecm2113) | Year: 2009
EAC rip > FLAC | separate tracks | No Log, No CUE | cover scans | ~230 MB (2 files)
Genre: Classical, Contemporary | Label: ECM New Series (ecm2113) | Year: 2009
Phantasy of Spring from violinist Carolin Widmann and pianist Simon Lepper perfectly captures the spirit of ECM. An uncompromising programme of Morton Feldman, Bernd Alois Zimmerman, Arnold Schönberg and Iannis Xenakis gets excellent notes by the composer Raiiner Peters and sleeve artwork which is flagrantly out of focus even by ECM's standards. Phantasy of Spring alone will give more musical nourishment than the entire autumn release schedules of some of the larger labels.
Source: overgrownpath.com
On Phantasy of Spring, Widmann & Lepper deftly demonstrate how different 20th-centuruy composers tried to negotiate the tricky territory where violin and piano coexist.
Schonberg circumnavigated the problem by making the piano an accompaniment to his Phantasy for Violin, while Bernd Alois Zimmermann employed all manner of distractions to make his Sonate fur VIoline und Klavier palatable. Decades later, Feldman and Xenakis were more succesful, the latter's spiky Dikhthas confronting the instruments' timbral antipathy, while Feldman's Spring of Chosroes separates the relationship out into sparse individual flecks of sound.
Source: The Independent, 9 October 2009
Track Listing:
1. Spring of Chosroes ( Morton Feldman, 1978) 14:24
Sonate für Violine und Klavier (Bernd Alois Zimmermann, 1950)
2. I Sonata 04:35
3. II Fantasia 05:40
4. III Rondo 04:44
5. Phantasy for Violin with Piano accompaniment, op. 47 (Arnold Schoenberg, 1949) 10:11
6. Dikhthas (Iannis Xenakis, 1979) 12:51
Personnel:
Carolin Widmann (violin)
Simon Lepper (piano)