NewCoMer oF the Year - Allegro Music

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Quadrat:sch
Stubenmusic
Fabio NIEDER
Der Bilderfresser
release date: July 10, 2012
Jelena POPRŽAN & Rina KAÇINARI
Catch-Pop String-Strong
Jelena Popržan: viola, voice/Rina Kaçinari: cello, voice
13 selections of Balkan music with interpretations of Weill, J.S. Bach and others
The ability to build new forms from miscellaneous components, using wit and virtuosity as mortar,
is a remarkable skill—one that Jelena Popržan and Rina Kaçinari have honed to perfection. One is a
Serbian, the other a Kosovo Albanian, and together they play Bach, traditional music from the Balkans
and the Scottish highlands, pop songs, and their own compositions resounding with a multitude of
different influences. In their music, they combine stories and interpretations from different places,
eras, and angles. Equipped with a cello, a viola, and their voices, they build bridges across centuries and
musical traditions, and they do it all with a light-footedness and natural ease that is simply amazing.
Quadrat:sch/Barbara Romen: hammered dulcimer/Christof Dienz: zither/Gunter Schneider: guitar/
Alexandra Dienz: double bass/Zeena Perkins: harp/Herbert Pirker: percussion
21 selections, 9 composed by Christof Dienz
The “Stube” is the parlor in a farmhouse, usually paneled in wood, where people go to rest, to
celebrate, to mourn, and to make music. Alexandra Dienz, Christof Dienz, Barbara Romen, and
Gunter Schneider guide us into a friendly and sophisticated version of this multi-purpose meeting
place. The first CD comprises song-like pieces in various interpretations, while on the second CD the
focus is skillfully shifted from structures to sounds. The musicians delve deep into the nature of their
instruments, exploring their potential as sound-generating bodies, leading us from seemingly familiar
models to free musical moods. Deep-reaching roots are carefully unearthed, grafted, and propagated
with great intelligence and devotion, and the result is pure delight.
Marino Formenti: piano/Teodoro Anzellotti: accordion/Percussion Quartet, Cologne/WDR Radio
Choir, Cologne/WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne/Emilio Pomàrico: conductor
NIEDER: Der Bilderfresser [“The Devourer of Images”] (instrumental music from the opera)
When Stefan Winter first heard Fabio Nieder’s “The Devourer of Images,” he did not know the plot
of this opera, which will be premiered in Salzburg in 2015. He was also not aware that the music
is but one part of that opera. And Nieder was unknown to him, too. But he made the decision to
release the music on Winter & Winter, because Fabio Nieder creates dream sequences that give
wings to fantasy. The music, the story, and the sounds seem so thrilling—foreign and at the same
time familiar—perhaps because Nieder’s music talks in such an emphatic, beautiful way about
love, dreams, loss, death, and life.