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IBS Classical

Hyperklavier

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Details

Composer
Reinhard Febel, Leos Janacek
Artist
Zahir Ensemble, Oscar Martin
Format
CD
Label
IBS Classical
Released
Jun 20, 2025
Catalog #
IBS-22025
UPC
8436597700948

About

As Janacek can be considered the most important Czech operatic composers of his time, Febel represents without doubt one of the most influential contemporary opera composers in the German-speaking countries. The fil rouge of this CD reveals itself in the mere choice of the pieces: all of them are compositions for piano and ensemble which try to construct the literal Hyperklavier Febel mentions in his title, a sound conglomerate that extends the semantic possibilities of a solo piano through the employment of different instruments. Many more, however, are the common points that bind the contemporary Febel to the historic Janacek. A further, more interesting parallelism, however, has to do with stylistic coordinates: as Janacek can be considered the most important Czech operatic composers of his time (we will just remember the titles Jenufa, Kata Kabanova and Vec Makropulos), Febel represents without doubt one of the most influential contemporary opera composers in the German-speaking countries. With performances at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Oper Bonn, Landestheater Linz (among others), he has confronted himself with the most various themes and figures, so for example Euridice, Frida (Kahlo) and Benjamin Button. This interest in opera could be a subterrain reason for their similar rethinking of piano solo with instrumental ensemble: by avoiding the classical, dualistic "question-answer" rhetoric, they are able to carve an all-round figure - in other words a character - out of the piano. Through a particular employment of the ensemble, the keyboard gathers a new three-dimensional plasticity, like a singer immersed in a scenography and illuminated by multicoloured reflectors.

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 I. Moderato 05:43
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Moderato
    Duration
    05:43
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Oscar Martin
    Ensemble
    Zahir Ensemble
    Conductor
    Juan García Rodríguez
  2. 2 II. Più mosso 03:23
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Più mosso
    Duration
    03:23
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Oscar Martin
    Ensemble
    Zahir Ensemble
    Conductor
    Juan García Rodríguez
  3. 3 III. Con moto 03:24
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Con moto
    Duration
    03:24
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Oscar Martin
    Ensemble
    Zahir Ensemble
    Conductor
    Juan García Rodríguez
  4. 4 IV. Allegro 04:10
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Allegro
    Duration
    04:10
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Oscar Martin
    Ensemble
    Zahir Ensemble
    Conductor
    Juan García Rodríguez
  5. 5 I. Allegro 04:34
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    04:34
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Oscar Martin
    Ensemble
    Zahir Ensemble
    Conductor
    Juan García Rodríguez
  6. 6 II. Adagio 05:23
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    05:23
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Oscar Martin
    Ensemble
    Zahir Ensemble
    Conductor
    Juan García Rodríguez
  7. 7 III. Allegretto 03:40
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Allegretto
    Duration
    03:40
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Oscar Martin
    Ensemble
    Zahir Ensemble
    Conductor
    Juan García Rodríguez
  8. 8 IV. Andante 06:05
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Andante
    Duration
    06:05
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Oscar Martin
    Ensemble
    Zahir Ensemble
    Conductor
    Juan García Rodríguez
  9. 9 I. Tempo giusto, maestoso 08:44
    Track
    9
    Title
    I. Tempo giusto, maestoso
    Duration
    08:44
    Composer
    Reinhard Febel
    Performer
    Oscar Martin
    Ensemble
    Zahir Ensemble
    Conductor
    Juan García Rodríguez
  10. 10 II. So schnell wie möglich 08:00
    Track
    10
    Title
    II. So schnell wie möglich
    Duration
    08:00
    Composer
    Reinhard Febel
    Performer
    Oscar Martin
    Ensemble
    Zahir Ensemble
    Conductor
    Juan García Rodríguez
  11. 11 III. Langsam 10:00
    Track
    11
    Title
    III. Langsam
    Duration
    10:00
    Composer
    Reinhard Febel
    Performer
    Oscar Martin
    Ensemble
    Zahir Ensemble
    Conductor
    Juan García Rodríguez
  12. 12 IV. Schnell 03:35
    Track
    12
    Title
    IV. Schnell
    Duration
    03:35
    Composer
    Reinhard Febel
    Performer
    Oscar Martin
    Ensemble
    Zahir Ensemble
    Conductor
    Juan García Rodríguez
  13. 13 V. Presto, ma molto calmo 05:41
    Track
    13
    Title
    V. Presto, ma molto calmo
    Duration
    05:41
    Composer
    Reinhard Febel
    Performer
    Oscar Martin
    Ensemble
    Zahir Ensemble
    Conductor
    Juan García Rodríguez