Maulbronn Monastery Edition - Electric Seraphim - Singer Pur - Go Guitars

<BODY> Singer Pur & Go Guitars - ELECTRIC SERAPHIM - New soundscapes for voices and electric guitars - A world premier with works from Perotinus (ca. 1200), Guillaume Dufay (ca. 1400-1474), Matthäus Pipelare (ca. 1450-1515), Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (ca. 1562-1613), John Cage (1912-1992), Arvo Pärt (*1935), Michael Hirsch (*1958), Fredrik Zeller (*1965), Bernhard Weidner (*1965). As one of the Maulbronn Monastery Edition, the K&K publishing house presents a live recording of a monastery concert from 18 June 2003 - 1 CD, DDD, 63 min., KuK 98, ISBN 3-930643-98-7, EAN 42 6000591 030 8, © by K&K Verlagsanstalt anno 2005. Program: Five electric guitarists meet an a cappella formation of classical bias. With "Electric Seraphim", this unique musical constellation launches the listener into totally new soundscapes. The program of vocal and vocal/guitar pieces is an experiment that forms a symbiosis; the old masters encounter contemporary compositions created exclusively for this project, compelling their essence into the modern world. The result is arresting and surprisingly homogeneous. The basically intellectually abstract fusion of disparate musical composition and sound forms lying several centuries apart, reveal new perspectives relating to the development of so-called "serious music", these lying not in the niches of the abstract but rather in the synthesis of voice and instrument. This becomes apparent in, for example, the composition by Fredrik Zeller from the year 2003, Pero Pop - Sederunt, whose atmospheric content reflects that of the Sederunt principes of Perotinus from the 12th Century. Artists: "Singer Pur" was formed in 1991 and now counts as one of the leading German vocal groups. In 1994, the sextet, comprising five former Regensburg choir boys and a female soprano, was awarded the first prize in the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb in Bonn and, in 1995, the Grand Prix for vocal music at the international Tampere Music Festival in Finland. There followed tours in USA, Canada, Africa and central Asia. Singer Pur's love of experimentation is seen not only in their joint projects with the Hilliard Ensemble but also in other unusual performances, such as their interpretation of the Triduum Sacrum performed during Holy Week 2001 in the Roman basilica, founded in the year 560, dei SS. XII Apostoli. The electric guitar quintet "Go Guitars" [go (jap.): five] was founded by New York composer Lois V Vierck in 1997 to perform her similarly named work. There followed premiers of works specially written for Go Guitars: compositions from M. Hettmer, B. Weidner, J.F.W. Schneider, M. Hirsch, J.A. Riedl, Z. Babel, P. M. Hamel, F. Zeller, Iris ter Schiphorst, M. Sell. Concerts have taken place at the international Bodensee-Festival, Atlantischen Festival, A*Devantgarde-Festival, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Festival Klangaktionen/Neue Musik in Munich, Musica Viva (BR). In December 2001 Go Guitars received the City of Munich's music scolarship. Singer Pur: Claudia Reinhard - soprano, Klaus Wenk, Markus Zapp, Andreas Hirtreiter · tenor, Guido Heidloff · baritone, Marcus Schmidl · bass Go Guitars · Electric Guitar Music: Christian Bergmann, Gunnar Geisse, Gregor Holzapfel, Harald Lillmeyer, Adrian Pereyra Singer Pur · Go Guitars ELECTRIC SERAPHIM New soundscapes for voices and electric guitars 1. Perotinus (um 1200) Sederunt principes 2. Fredrik Zeller (geb. 1965) PeroPop Sederunt (2003) 3. Bernhard Weidner (geb. 1965) Schwebende Lerchen (2003) Rilkefragment für 6-stimmiges Vokalensemble und 5 E-Gitarren 4. Matthäus Pipelare (ca. 1450 - 1515) Memorare Mater Christi 5. John Cage (1912 - 1992) Five / song books 6. Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (ca. 1562 - 1613) Languisce al fin 7. Michael Hirsch (geb. 1958) anlaufen aufschwingen abstürzen (2000/2003) Monolog für 5 elektrische Gitarren und 6 Sänger 8. Arvo Pärt (geb. 1935) Summa (1980) 9. Guillaume Dufay (ca. 1400-1474) Ecclesiae militantis / Sanctorum arbitrio / Bella canunt gentes (1431) About the Maulbronn Monastery Edition Publishing culture in its authentic form entails for us capturing and recording for posterity outstanding performances and concerts. The performers, audience, opus and room enter into an intimate dialogue that in its form and expression, its atmosphere, is unique and unrepeatable. It is our aim, the philosophy of our house, to enable the listener to acutely experience every facet of this symbiosis, the intensity of the performance. The results are unparalleled interpretations of musical and literary works, simply - audiophile snapshots of permanent value. The concerts in Maulbronn monastery, which we document with this edition, supply, in many ways, the ideal conditions for our aspirations. It is, above all, the atmosphere of the romantic, candle-lit arches, the magic of the monastery in its unadulterated sublime presence and tranquillity that impresses itself upon the performers and audience of these concerts. Renowned soloists and ensembles from the international arena repeatedly welcome the opportunity to appear here - enjoying the unparalleled acoustic and architectural beauty of this World Heritage Site (monastery church, cloister gardens, lay refectory, etc.), providing exquisite performances of secular and sacred music. Under the patronage of the Evangelical Seminar, the Maulbronn Monastery Cloister Concerts were instigated in 1968 with an abundance of musical enthusiasm and voluntary leadership. Within the hallowed walls of the classical grammar and boarding school, existent for more than 450 years, some of society's great thinkers, poets and humanists, such as Kepler, Hölderlin, Herwegh and Hesse received their first impressions. The youthful elan, the constructive participation of the pupils, continuing the tradition of their great predecessors, constructs an enlightened climate in which artistic ambitions can especially thrive. Twenty-five concerts take place between May and September. Their success can be largely attributed to the many voluntary helpers from near and far. There is a break for winter (the monastery is not heated!). Flourishing culture in a living monument, created for the delight of the live audience and, last but not least, you the listener, are the ideals we document with this series. Andreas Otto Grimminger & Josef-Stefan Kindler </BODY>