ECLAT 11

SWR2 JetztMusik in ECLAT

Michael Pelzel: Hagzusa and Galsterei on a text by Dominik Riedo
for 24-part choir (2015, rev. 2018) ^WP
Commissioned by SWR
ca. 22′

Bernhard Gander: Eleven Evil Elves
for saxophone quartet (2018) ^WP
commissioned by SWR
ca. 11′

Christian Wolff: Voices–Stimmen
for two choirs (2016) ^WP
commissioned by SWR
ca. 18′

SWR Vocal Ensemble
Badischer Jugendchor (rehearsal M. Böhringer)
conductor Rupert Huber
Raschèr Saxophone Quartet

A project of SWR
Broadcast 29. March 2019/SWR2 Evening Concert/8:03 p.m.

Witches, Elves, Humans
Enigma and lucidity, magic and reality can sometimes be close together. Michael Pelzel’s choral work »Hagzusa und Galsterei« is based on medieval magic spells and raises the voices out of the acoustic fog of complex patterns to powerful incantations against evil.
The elves Bernhard Gander imagines sound in mysterious 11/8 beat. They know–not natural for elves–the dark colours of Death and Black Metal and are embodied by the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet: in 2019 the quartet celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, playing for the first time in ECLAT.
The »voices« of American composer and Cage student Christian Wolff are often both poetic and political. In the work of the same title on texts by Trakl, Rilke, Bachmann, and Brecht a youth choir meets the SWR Vokalensemble: an iridescent, polyphonic memory of »unsolved, but not unsolvable questions of humanity«.