ECLAT 16

SWR2 JetztMusik

Georges Aperghis: Merry go round
for accordion (2019/20) ^WP*/9′

Marina Khorkova: Not me
for choir (2019/20) ^WP*/15′

Anna Korsun: Hauchdünn
for accordion (2019/20) ^UA*/12′

Samir Odeh-Tamimi: TIMNA
for mixed choir and solo percussion, flute, viola, violoncello and double bass (2019) ^UA*/17′

*Compositions commissioned by SWR

Teodoro Anzellotti, accordion
SWR Vokalensemble (Studying: Paul Krämer)
Musicians of the SWR Symphony Orchestra: Anne Romeis, flute/
Rafael Sachs, viola/Panu Sundquist, violoncello/
Felix von Tippelskirch, double bass/Aaron Buß, percussion
Conductor Peter Rundel

Broadcast 13. March/SWR2 Evening Concert/20:03

Samir Odeh-Tamimi calls his composition »Timna« a »dense piece with archaic expression«, which adds a virtuoso percussion part, flute and a trio basso to the choir. But that’s not all: The singers, who first declaim individual syllables and then rhythmically intertwine more and more complexly, also play Chinese hand drums and pumpkin rattle. »Timna« was the name of an old capital city in Yemen that the caravans of the incense route passed by. But the Palestinian composer’s cultural search for roots gets something globally fundamental here. In Marina Khorkova’s new choral piece, on the other hand, the singers from the big world return to themselves, forming individual vowels or singing with their mouths closed. In between, the young Russian composer Anna Korsun and the solo performance composed by the old master Georges Aperghis: instrumental singing in a breathing instrument–accordion solo.