Enjott Schneider - Magic of Irreality (Various Artists)

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Composer: Enjott Schneider

• Isolde und Tristan (Double Concerto for erhu, cello and orchestra)
• Dreamdancers (Concerto for piccolo trumpet, flugelhorn and orchestra)

Jiemin Yan, erhu

Wen-Sinn Yang, cello

Otto Sauter, piccolo trumpet

Sergei Nakariakov, flugelhorn

Siberian State Symphony Orchestra

Vladimir Lande, conductor

Date: 2018

Label: Wergo

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Description

Visions and illusions, dreams and hallucinations were the inspiration for Enjott Schneider's surreal sound images: the current recording collects two double concertos by the Munich composer, both of which use unconventional combinations of solo instruments to make poetic contradictions audible. In "Isolde & Tristan" (2014), Erhu virtuoso Jiemin Yan as a fairy tale princess and cellist Wen-Sinn Yang as her hero and counterpart Richard Wagner interact in a far Eastern context. The fluid Asian timbre of the traditional Chinese instrument merges with the chromaticism of Late-Romantic Western music; original quotations from Wagner meet slow waltzes and Irish diatonic melodies. "Dreamdancers" (2016) explores the surreal worlds of the night. Sergei Nakariakov on Flugelhorn and Otto Sauter on Piccolo Trumpet play together in a collage-like manner characterized by leaps in time and superimposed tempos. They combine spectacular staccato technique with dizzying high notes to create a weightless dream full of feeling and beyond all reason.

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Enjott Schneider (born 1950 in Weil am Rhein) is a German composer, musicologist and educator. He studied music and humanities at Freiburg, earning a doctorate under Hans-Heinrich Eggebrecht. Schneider held academic posts in Freiburg and Munich, and later taught composition in Regensburg. He gained prominence in the 1980s as a leading film composer, scoring major German television series and films. His diverse output spans symphonies, operas, concertos and organ works, often blending styles from classical to rock. A prolific author and studio founder, he has received numerous prestigious awards for his music.

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