Friedrich Cerha Komponistenportrait

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 1997

Label: Col Legno

World Premiere Recording
℗ col legno 1989 / 1996
© col legno 1997

Recording dates and locations:
"Spiegel" August 8, 1996 Felsenreitschule Salzburg
"Monumentum Für Karl Prantl" August 12, 1989 Felsenreitschule Salzburg
"Für K" August 14, 1996 Mozarteum Salzburg

CD1: 62:14
CD2: 60:49

32-page booklet contains tracklist, Cerha's notes on the recorded works, brief composer biography, overview of his music and history of orchestra. Photographs of Cerha and Karl Prantl / Prantl's sculpture "Fünf Anrufungen".

Bottom right corner of front cover: "Live!" printed above "Salzburger Festspiele" logo and "Festspieldokumente" word marks, in same font as last-named. This arrangement is paralleled in other col legno releases - Luciano Berio, Wiener Philharmoniker, Lorin Maazel - Un Re In Ascolto, Luigi Nono - Das Atmende Klarsein / Sofferte Onde Serene / Con Luigi Dallapiccola, Gerhard E. Winkler, Morton Feldman, Edgard Varèse - Emergent / The Rothko Chapel / Intégrales, Octandre, and György Kurtág - Portraitkonzert Salzburg 10.8.1993. It also appears on one issue from Wulf Weinmann's Neos label (10708 - not in database), featuring music by György Kurtág and Jörg Widmann. These releases have in common col legno's association with the Salzburger Festspiele in "the field of New Music" (see Gottfried Kraus, booklet, p.3), carried forward by Neos.

The present release is also one of several composer portraits in the Festspieldokumente. See Salzburger Festspieldokumente Gesamtverzeichnis 2021 (https://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/cms/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/festspieldokumente_gesamtverzeichnis_2021_abz11.pdf), 89, 203-207.