Friedrich Cerha: Percussion Concerto & Impulse
Martin Grubinger (percussion)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Peter Eötvös, Pierre Boulez
splendid live accounts. Cerha had the electrifying soloist Martin Grubinger in mind: he makes the perhaps odd idea of putting percussion in a concerto role seem violently necessary...Impulse...
Friedrich Cerha: Percussion Concerto & Impulse
Martin Grubinger (percussion)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Peter Eötvös, Pierre Boulez
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splendid live accounts. Cerha had the electrifying soloist Martin Grubinger in mind: he makes the perhaps odd idea of putting percussion in a concerto role seem violently necessary...Impulse...
About
Performed by the Vienna Philharmonic and conducted by Pierre Boulez and Eötvös, this CD presents two major works by Friedrich Cerha.
The percussion has all been ‘tuned’ to specific pitches, making this a true masterpiece in music making.
Contents and tracklist
- Martin Grubinger
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Peter Eötvös
- Martin Grubinger
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Pierre Boulez
Awards and reviews
3rd June 2012
splendid live accounts. Cerha had the electrifying soloist Martin Grubinger in mind: he makes the perhaps odd idea of putting percussion in a concerto role seem violently necessary...Impulse is complex, variegated, “polynomial” (to use Cerha’s word), post-Bergianly turbulent in the main, and gripping.
