Little Birdy

1941 vertonte Bernd Alois Zimmermann das Gedicht Es fiel ein Stern ins Meer nach einem Text von Harald Gloth. Nachdem er das Stück ursprünglich für Gesang und Klavier konzipiert hatte, erstellte er im...

Prisme for solo violin, arose out of ...prismes / incidences... (1998) for violin and orchestra, a woks which was also premiered by the soloist Hae-Sun Kang. It was written specially for this recordin...

Immer wieder ergeben sich Möglichkeiten, frühe, bisher unveröffentlichte Musik von B. A. Zimmermann ans Licht zu holen. So auch dieses 'Lied der Abelone' auf ein Gedicht von Rainer Maria Rilke, das Zi...

In contrast to the stage play, which is divided into 15 scenes framed by introductory songs, Michael Jarrell has constructed his opera as uninterrupted flow of 12 tableaux, in an effort to highlight t...

Back to painting, with Leonard de Vinci, in ...d'ombres lointaines.... 'You will portray landscapes beneath wind and water, at down and at dusk. You will portray wind over land and over water, you wil...

Composition works like an arborescent structure. At each ramification you choose a path, which depends on the whole dynamic of the whole piece. Doing this, you leave quite a lot of ideas and fragments...

Musik existiert eigentlich nur im Konzert. Ein Komponist, der so denkt, steht vermutlich auch dem Abschluss eines eigenen Werkes kritisch gegenüber. Tatsächlich reklamiert Michael Jarrell schon seit d...

Sillage (Wakes): 'the trace that a ship leaves behind it on the surface of waters,' says the dictionary. But also: 'Part of a fluid (liquid, air) left behind a body in motion - perturbations that occu...

The piano concerto Abschied was a commission of the Salzburg Festival and had its premiere there on the 8th of august 2001. The initial idea was that of a spiral developing almost infinitely. A chain...

The notion of prism applied to a whole instrumental ensemble, which Jarrell makes explicit in the title of his work, condenses and crystallises the hidden side of the solo violin. 'I frequently like t...

His Instantanés are thus his way of saying, like Augustine: 'Present time cries that it cannot last long'. Here, the same figures unravel, each claiming its Present: in the first piece, in the urgency...

The harmonic language of Michael Jarrell's works is marked by a subtle sounding out of intervallic relationships: chords derive their characteristics from the specific arrangement of their intervals....

The basic idea for the opening of the work was to start with a short and powerful 'primal explosion' that would reappear throughout the piece in different forms, more or less regularly. This 'art of p...

...Le ciel, tout à l'heure encore si limpide, soudain se trouble horriblement...(...The sky, recently so clear, suddenly becomes horribly murky...) On the nature... of musicality Michael Jarrell, born...