War & Exile

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Muzyka Hannsa Eislera to nie tylko akompaniament do teksów Bertolda Brechta, jego rolę można porównać tylko do roli Kurta Weila w pracy autora Opery Za Trzy Grosze, jego muzyka jest swoistym suplementem to tych wyjątkowych tekstów dając w efekcie nową muzyczną jakość. Wokalistka Marianne Pousseur i pianistka Kaat De Windt wielką błyskotliwością i wyczuciem poruszają się po tym wcale nie łatwym gruncie. Wysmakowana propozycja nie mająca nic wspólnego z nachalnymi produkcjami dyskontującymi popularność Brechta.

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Hanns Eisler: music
A great composer who stopped his dodecaphonic work in order to write more effectively for the people - every individual can be moved when artistic problems are embraced and submerged in political problems. This emotion must shake people to their foundations.

Bertolt Brecht: texts
Here are texts and poems written in exile (in Scandinavia, then in USA). Written at the very moment when the ignominious beast was devouring the world. These texts contain fear, a modicum hope, but also something chilling. Events were unfolding even as these thoughts were being expressed...

Marianne Pousseur: voice
Well versed in the music of Scelsi, Kurtag and above all Schoenberg, Marianne, the founder of Helix ensemble vocal quartet (Giacinto Scelsi ref SR51 & SR63) presents here an extraordinary rendition of these lieder - never has such pure emotion been captured in an Eisler-Brecht recording.

Kaat De Windt: piano
We join company once again with Le Bureau des Pianistes (Morton Feldman SR41) whose performance embraces every possible nuance from simple accompaniment to multi-layered colloquy. Recorded by Michael Huon, which lets us quit the studio locations whose characteristics give the release a quality unlike any other.