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H¶Î  Åfiôç÷‹Q Vfh~ 557813 bk Kilar EU 5/12/06 2:26 PM Page 8 Phrase der tiefen Streicher markiert den Beginn des erneuter Ruhe wieder ein; eine Anzahl diskreter, aber Corale, in dem der Solist sogleich ein feierliches effektvoller Modulationen verleiht der Vokallinie Choralthema einführt, das die Streicher inbrünstig in Ausdruckstiefe. Es folgt eine kurze unbegleitete Ge- KILAR rhythmischem Unisono übernehmen. Solist und sangspassage, und das Stück endet mit einem Streicher arbeiten dieses Thema wechselseitig aus, kadenzierten Streicherakkord, der die Spannungen des wobei sich die Stimmung zu einem nachdrücklichen Anfangs löst. Piano Concerto Mittelabschnitt verdichtet, in dem Solostreicher Ko´scielec 1909 (1976) ist eine weitere der lebhaft- effektvoll zusammen mit dem Klavier erklingen. anschaulichen Tondichtungen Kilars. Der Titel bezieht Bogurodzica • Grey Mist • Ko´scielec Letzteres hat nun eine Kadenz, die Aspekte des Chorals sich auf einen Gipfel in der Hohen Tatra im Süden aufgreift und bis zu einem kurzen Höhepunkt führt, Polens, an dem der Komponist Mieczyslaw Karlowicz \ bevor die Streicher in feierlicher Polyphonie beim Skilaufen in einer Lawine 32-jährig den Tod fand. Waldemar Malicki, Piano • Wieslaw Ochman, Baritone zurückkehren und ein emotionales Crescendo Kilar schildert nicht mit tonmalerischen Mitteln die herbeiführen. Am Punkt höchster Intensität stellt sich Tragödie, verkörpert sie vielmehr in Musik, die als Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra der Pianist mit einer treibenden Akkordpassage Erinnerung an das Leben dient und eine Apotheose der gleichsam in den Weg und markiert den Beginn der Kunst von Karlowicz darstellt, der zum Zeitpunkt Antoni Wit abschließenden Toccata. Bläser und Streicher fügen seines Todes bereits der markanteste polnische kraftvoll wiederholte Gesten hinzu, dann tritt erstmals Komponist seiner Generation war. Am Beginn schaffen in diesem Werk das Schlagzeug in Aktion, als die geteilte tiefe Streicher eine Atmosphäre von Gra- Musik unaufhaltsam an Geschwindigkeit gewinnt. Nun besdüsternis, aus der schließlich ein Motiv erwächst, führen die Streicher eine akkordische Idee aus – die mit dem durch Fagotte klarere Kontur verliehen wird. Es dem Choral des vorhergehenden Satzes verwandt ist –, weitet sich auf Celli und Bässe aus, Klarinetten und bevor dem Klavier eine hektische Solopassage dann Oboen fügen eine Erwiderung hinzu; dieser übertragen ist, über der die Bläser bedrohlich das Prozess wiederholt sich, wenn das Motiv allmählich Streicherthema intonieren, und das Werk seinem Streicher bzw. Holzbläser durchläuft, wobei letztere mit abrupten Ende entgegenrast. jedem Einsatz dissonanter werden. Auf halber Strecke Siwa Mgla\ (Grauer Nebel, 1979) für Bariton und des Stücks gewinnen Bläser und Schlagwerk plötzlich Orchester könnte als vokale Tondichtung beschrieben grimmig-triumphale Pracht, bevor sie verschwinden, werden; die Texte entstammen volkstümlichen Quellen. um Pauken und Bässe in einem unerwarteten Vakuum Sanft dissonante Streicher werden allmählich in ihrer zurück zu lassen. Heftige, paukenartige Ausbrüche von harmonischen und strukturellen Komplexität aufge- Trompeten und kleiner Trommel fahren dazwischen, fächert, so dass eine Atmosphäre klaustrophobischer dann versetzt sich die Musik in kraftvolle Bewegung Intensität entsteht. Schließlich beginnt der Bariton einen und führt eine stark ausgeweitete Version des Motivs leidenschaftlichen Monolog, dessen melodische vom Anfang einem Höhepunkt entgegen – dieser Phrasen Violine und Viola in ekstatischem Einklang erinnert an die extemporierenden Verfahren Pen- wiederholen. Bläser und Pauken fallen kraftvoll ein, dereckis –, der die vorherrschende Stimmung in bevor der Bariton fortfährt; sodann verändert eine über schmerzliche Erhabenheit wandelt. Diese bricht ab, und die Streicher hinweggehende Bewegung die die Streicher fallen zurück in die Tiefe, in der sie vorherrschende Stimmung in wilde Entschlossenheit. begannen. Daraus erwächst ein kurzes Crescendo, Hörner, dann Trompeten führen die Musik zu einer welches das Werk in einem Ton heftigen Trotzes Klimax energisch wiederholter Akkorde, bevor die beendet. Solostreicher ihre ekstatische Polyphonie fortsetzen, als Richard Whitehouse sei nichts passiert. Der Bariton setzt in einer Stimmung Deutsche Fassung: Thomas Theise 8.557813 8 557813 bk Kilar EU 5/12/06 2:26 PM Page 2 Wojciech Kilar (geb.1932) Wojciech Kilar (b.1932) Vokal- und Orchestermusik Vocal and Orchestral Music Wojciech Kilar wurde am 17. Juli 1932 in der damals denszeiten gesungen wurde und im Westen durch seine Wojciech Kilar was born in the then Polish city of taps on side-drum gradually move closer then recede, polnischen Stadt Lwów (Lemberg, heute L’viv in der Verwendung in Andrzej Panufniks Sinfonia Sacra am Lwów (now L’viv in Ukraine) on 17th July, 1932. He the second crescendo underpinned by a timpani roll. Ukraine) geboren. Er studierte von 1950 bis 1955 bekanntesten ist. Ferne Trommelschläge kommen studied piano and composition at the Katowice Halting peremptorily, the chorus fervently intones the Klavier und Komposition an der Akademie in Katowice allmählich näher, um dann wieder zu verschwinden; das Academy from 1950 to 1955, then the State Higher opening lines of the text, solemnly underpinned by (Kattowitz), dann bis 1958 an der Staatlichen zweite Crescendo ist mit einem Grollen der Pauken Music School in Kraków until 1958. In 1957 he had strings and percussion. Forceful reiteration and Musikhochschule in Kraków (Krakau). Im Jahr 1957 unterlegt. Dem Einhalt gebietend, intoniert der Chor attended the Darmstadt Summer School in (West) dissonant outbursts only add to the intensity of the besuchte er die Darmstädter Sommerkurse, seinerzeit inbrünstig die Eingangszeilen des Textes, feierlich Germany, then a centre for the emerging European setting, which unfolds as a series of repeated phrases in ein Zentrum der musikalischen Avantgarde Europas; unterlegt von Streichern und Schlagwerk. Kraftvolle musical avant-garde, and during 1959-60 was a pupil of rhythmic unison, col legno strings and percussion to the 1959/60 war Kilar Schüler von Nadia Boulanger in Wiederholung und dissonante Ausbrüche verstärken die Nadia Boulanger in Paris. In 1960 his Oda Béla Bartók fore. At length a suspended passage for strings and harp Paris. 1960 erhielt er für seine Oda Béla Bartók in Intensität der Vertonung, die sich als eine Folge in memoriam received the Lili Boulanger Foundation introduces a calm, even remote atmosphere, with the memoriam den Preis der Lili Boulanger-Stiftung, dem wiederholter Phrasen in rhythmischem Unisono mit col Award, with numerous national and international prizes chorus intoning the final lines of the text in suitably zahlreiche weitere nationale und internationale Preise legno-Streichern und Schlagwerk im Vordergrund to follow in its wake. hieratic fashion. This resolves first onto a fifth, then folgten. entfaltet. Schließlich führt eine Passage für Streicher After a period of experimentation in the 1960s, onto a perfect cadence, and the piece appears to be Nach einer Phase des Experimentierens in den 60er und Harfe eine ruhige, distanzierte Atmosphäre herbei, Kilar arrived at an idiom notable for its directness of heading for a blissful conclusion, but a defiant final Jahren gelangte Kilar zu einem Idiom, das durch in welcher der Chor die letzten Zeilen des Textes in expression and immediacy of impact: an approach gesture, and the sound of side-drum once more receding Direktheit des Ausdrucks und Unmittelbarkeit der entsprechend hieratischer Haltung intoniert. Diese typified by the 1974 orchestral piece Krzesany [Naxos into silence, leaves one in no doubt as to the music’s Wirkung gekennzeichnet ist. Diesen Ansatz verkörpert Atmosphäre beschließt zunächst eine Quinte, dann eine 8.554788]. Polish traditional sources, both sacred and underlying emotional fervour and ominous import. das Orchesterstück Krzesany (Bergsteiger) von 1974 vollkommene Kadenz, und es hat den Anschein, als secular, are often prominent, through an idiom that, in The Piano Concerto (1997) is among the most [Naxos 8.554788]. Traditionelle polnische Quellen – würde das Stück auf einen glückseligen Abschluss the words of the writer Adrian Thomas, has “... been recent of Kilar’s concert works and draws on sources as geistliche wir weltliche – sind häufig prominent in zulaufen, doch eine herausfordernde Schlussgeste und variously regarded as spuriously kitsch, naively distinct as the Catholic liturgy and the piano concertos einem Idiom, das nach den Worten des Schriftstellers der Klang der kleinen Trommel verlieren sich devotional or intuitively post-modern”. It may be just of Beethoven. Although cast in the traditional three Adrian Thomas „mal als kitschig, mal als naiv- wiederum in der Stille und überlassen einen der these qualities - or the perception of them - that led to movements, the opening Andante con moto is unusually erbaulich oder intuitiv-postmodern bezeichnet wurde“. Leidenschaft und der bedrohlichen Bedeutung der Kilar’s success as a film composer, with over a hundred subdued in its pacing and expression. It begins with the Es mögen gerade diese Qualitäten sein – oder ihre Musik. scores for Polish films before that for Francis Ford soloist repeating a gentle pattern over a static string Wahrnehmung –, die Kilars Erfolg als Filmkomponist Das Klavierkonzert (1997) gehört zu Kilars Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula won him the ASCAP background, with violins adding occasional melodic ermöglichten. Bevor er 1992 den ASCAP Award
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