FRANZ HUMMEL 2-LP COL LEGNO AVANT-GARDE-LACHENMANN-NONO

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FRANZ HUMMEL

 BLAUBART 2-LP

Col Legno / Theater Am Turm

Limited Edition: 49/500 copies

signed by the composer

w/10-page libretto 

Limited edition original issue from the 80's, avant-garde work from german composer Franz Hummel.

Some info on the release:  Very rare original issue, released in Germany sometime in the 80's on the Col Legno label (Helmut Lachenmann, Stefan Wolpe, Isang Yun, Bruno Maderna, Iannis Xenakis, Morton Feldman, John Cage, Luigi Nono, Giacinto Scelsi, etc.), co-produced with Theater Am Turm Produktion. Premiere world performance 13 October 1984, Theater Am Turm, Frankfurt. Recorded in the BAVARIA-Musikstudios, Munchen, Germany. A coproduction of Col Legno & Theater Am Turm Edition. The actors are members of the Laokoon Group. This edition was produced in a limited edition of copies. Each album individually numbered and signed from the composer. Gatefold book-like cover with 10-page booklet.

Franz Hummel (born 2 January 1939) is a German composer and pianist. From his youth, Hummel was interested in music and, in particular, the works of Richard Strauss, Eugen Papst and Hans Knappertsbusch. In Munich and Salzburg he studied both composition and piano. He became a virtuoso pianist and travelled across Europe performing, and making 60 recordings of, much of the standard repertoire of classical, romantic and contemporary piano music before. In the 1970s he ceased to publicly perform as a pianist choosing, instead, to concentrate on composition. Since then his operas, symphonies, ballets, concerti and chamber works have been performed, many times, in even the most renowned concert halls and opera houses of Europe. His musical "Ludwig II. - Sehnsucht nach dem Paradies" (Ludwig II. - Longing for Paradise) was premiered at the Festspielhaus Neuschwanstein in Füssen, and released on CD in 2000. Then, in 2001, he began to perform again as a pianist and gave a concert with the Russian violinist Liane Issakadse and the world-famous clarinetist Giora Feidman at Carnegie Hall in New York. After this he began work on a follow-up piece to "Ludwig II." about Richard Wagner, this is planned to be premiered in 2009 in Dresden. He has also written a third musical, more popular in style, first performed in spring of 2008.

At present he is working, together with his wife Sandra, on a work about Anton Bruckner,on A new opera, titled "Der Richter und sein Henker" (The Judge and His Hangman) and based on the novel of the same name, is also planned to be completed in November 2008. This work will be premiered at the opera house in Erfurt. To promote Linz as the European European capital of culture for 2009 he has been commissioned to write an opera about Joseph Fouché who was exiled in Linz.

Condition: Vinyls lie in excellent condition, look crystal clear, but play with light occasional crackle, while cover lies in very good shape, unfortunately water damaged at the bottom right corner and showing some moderate age wear (see picture).

Tracklist

Credits

• Artwork By – Cornelius Richter
• Artwork By [Gestaltung] – Bettina Wagner
• Baritone Vocals [Sigmund] – Rolf Kühne
• Cello – Gustav Rivinius
• Composed By – Franz Hummel
• Directed By [Musikalische Leitung] – Bernhard Lang
• Double Bass – Toru Takahashi
• Libretto By – Susan Oswell
• Liner Notes – Stefan Schädler
• Lyrics By [Text] – Georg Trakl, Sigmund Freud
• Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Emmi] – Monika Moldenhauer
• Other [Actor/dora] – Susan Oswell
• Other [Actor/elisabeth] – Lee Voosen
• Other [Actor/emmi] – Sylvia Rothe
• Other [Actor/herr K.] – Fernando Trevino Castillo
• Other [Actor/sigmund] – Ian Owen
• Other [Actor/vater] – Bernd Bender
• Other [Beleuchtungsmeister] – Albert Brehl
• Other [Bühnenbildassistenz] – Tina Hummel
• Other [Dramaturgie] – Bettina Wagner, Dieter Lange
• Other [Inspizient] – Richard Wagner
• Other [Inszenierung, Bühne, Kostume] – Rosamund Gilmore
• Other [Produktionsassistenz] – Manfred Wenninger
• Other [Technische Leitung] – Dietmar Behnke
• Other [Technische Realisation] – Thomas Wagner
• Recording Supervisor [Aufnahmeleitung], Mastered By [Digitalschnitt] – Bernhard Mahne
• Soprano Vocals [Dora] – Eva Csapo
• Tenor Vocals [Vater/herr K.] – Werner Brenner
• Viola – Karin Kutzke
• Violin [1. Violine] – Siegfried Rivinius
• Violin [2. Violine] – Kirsten Voss

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