Goebbels: Landscape with Distant Relatives
David Bennent (speaker) & Georg Nigl (baritone)
German Chamber Choir & Ensemble Modern, Franck Ollu
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Premiere Recording of the Year
That music is a stylistic patchwork… with reference to Bollywood film scores and country and western punctuated by snatches of jazzy improvisation… and medieval pastiche. It shouldn't work...
Goebbels: Landscape with Distant Relatives
David Bennent (speaker) & Georg Nigl (baritone)
German Chamber Choir & Ensemble Modern, Franck Ollu
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Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Premiere Recording of the Year
That music is a stylistic patchwork… with reference to Bollywood film scores and country and western punctuated by snatches of jazzy improvisation… and medieval pastiche. It shouldn't work...
About
Premiere recording of Heiner Goebbels’ opera, Landscape with Distant Relatives, this “viscerally and intellectually exciting” work featuring actor-speaker David Bennent, baritone Georg Nigl, 16 further singers and Ensemble Modern is the German composer’s 8th for ECM. The “consistently gripping score” ranges in style from early/Renaissance to “teeth-baring aggression”, and incorporates pounding drums, a Hindi chant by A R Rahman, a temple flautist and 'about 10%' improvisation.
Contents and tracklist
- Georg Nigl (baritone), David Bennent (vocalist)
- Ensemble Modern, Deutscher Kammerchor
- Franck Ollu
- Recorded: 2004-10-12
- Recording Venue: Théâtre des Amandiers, Nanterre
- Georg Nigl (baritone), David Bennent (vocalist)
- Ensemble Modern, Deutscher Kammerchor
- Franck Ollu
- Recorded: 2004-10-12
- Recording Venue: Théâtre des Amandiers, Nanterre
Awards and reviews
April 2008
That music is a stylistic patchwork… with reference to Bollywood film scores and country and western punctuated by snatches of jazzy improvisation… and medieval pastiche. It shouldn't work at all, yet Goebbels's alchemy makes it all hang together in a totally convincing and haunting way. It's a tour de force for Ensemble Modern too.
25th January 2008
It's a seductive, sometimes shocking and viscerally exciting musical experience...This is a recording taken from live performances in France in October 2004. The photos in the notes give an idea of the impact Goebbel's opera has on stage, but the images seem to sear the mind, even off CD. A stunning achievement, and a haunting experience.
a thought-provoking, hauntingly tender work for troubled times
