Dieter Schoenbach, "Canticum Psalmi ad Laudes"
-- Liner Notes --
Dorothy Dorow, Soprano
Sinfonieorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Andrzej Markowski
Dieter Schonbach was born on 18 January 1931 in the town of Stolp in Pomerania. From 1949 to 1959 he attended the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold, studying composition with Gunter Bialas and choral conducting with G. H. Kurt Thomas, and the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, where he was a composition pupil of Wolfgang Fortner. In 1959 he became director of stage music in Bochum, moving in the same capacity to Munster (Westphalia) in 1968 - a position he still holds today - and to the Basle City Theatre in 1973. He wrote his first multi-media opera "Die Geschichte von einem Feuer" in 1968, and attracted attention with his multi-media show "Hymnus 2", which he wrote and staged for the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Since 1980 he has been working with a new theatrical medium - the audio-visual Raumklangtheater (Theatre of Space and Sound).
Canticum Psalmi ad Laudes
The composer has described his work as follows: " 'Canticum Psalmi ad Laudes', fur soprano and instruments, was written in 1965 during a phase of my compositional development in which, for the first time, I attempted rigourously to incorporate a key element in my work - the 'Klangkurve' (sound curve) - into the system of geometric rays. The artist and avant-garde sculptor Gunter Weseler made a one-metre graphic sketch for my piece, creating arc segments from plan and punctiform figures until they became abstracted from the other material and formed a web of ascending, descending and interlocking curves.
When translating this graphic design into music I was able, with the aid of parabolas and hyperbolas, to arrange these curves into a fixed hierarchical system, giving my composition (in keeping with the Vulgata text) an almost glass-like rigidity occasionally lightened in the jubilant outbursts of the soprano." The text derives from Psalm 144 (verses 1-7), "Exaltabo te deus meus rex", which is found in the Vespers for Saturday. As the psalm belongs strictly speaking to the laudatory hymns, Schoenbach's setting bears the title "Canticum Psalmi ad Lauds". -- Clytus Gottwald (Translation: J. Bradford Robinson)
Dorothy Dorow, Soprano
Sinfonieorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Andrzej Markowski
Dieter Schonbach was born on 18 January 1931 in the town of Stolp in Pomerania. From 1949 to 1959 he attended the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold, studying composition with Gunter Bialas and choral conducting with G. H. Kurt Thomas, and the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, where he was a composition pupil of Wolfgang Fortner. In 1959 he became director of stage music in Bochum, moving in the same capacity to Munster (Westphalia) in 1968 - a position he still holds today - and to the Basle City Theatre in 1973. He wrote his first multi-media opera "Die Geschichte von einem Feuer" in 1968, and attracted attention with his multi-media show "Hymnus 2", which he wrote and staged for the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Since 1980 he has been working with a new theatrical medium - the audio-visual Raumklangtheater (Theatre of Space and Sound).
Canticum Psalmi ad Laudes
The composer has described his work as follows: " 'Canticum Psalmi ad Laudes', fur soprano and instruments, was written in 1965 during a phase of my compositional development in which, for the first time, I attempted rigourously to incorporate a key element in my work - the 'Klangkurve' (sound curve) - into the system of geometric rays. The artist and avant-garde sculptor Gunter Weseler made a one-metre graphic sketch for my piece, creating arc segments from plan and punctiform figures until they became abstracted from the other material and formed a web of ascending, descending and interlocking curves.
When translating this graphic design into music I was able, with the aid of parabolas and hyperbolas, to arrange these curves into a fixed hierarchical system, giving my composition (in keeping with the Vulgata text) an almost glass-like rigidity occasionally lightened in the jubilant outbursts of the soprano." The text derives from Psalm 144 (verses 1-7), "Exaltabo te deus meus rex", which is found in the Vespers for Saturday. As the psalm belongs strictly speaking to the laudatory hymns, Schoenbach's setting bears the title "Canticum Psalmi ad Lauds". -- Clytus Gottwald (Translation: J. Bradford Robinson)
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