Killmayer/ Mauser - Trois Etudes / Douze Etudes

For Wilhelm Killmayer 70th birthday WERGO presents a selection of piano works of the composer on CD. Stylistically typical works of the 90s as the Etudes collections and the "round songs and morning songs" is a cycle of scattered pieces from different time, which has subsequently ordered cyclically the composer juxtaposed. Noticeable here is the stylistic spectrum, has emerged despite the different quantitative weighting in this selection. The "Canto melismatico" shows Killmayer a master varied Ostinatokomposition. The "Album Leaf" represents the uneventful, pause rich and tonkargen 60s style, which can be seen as a kind of subjectively fully coated rebellion against the pitch and wear the structural mechanics processing of serial music perfectly. The "Spring Song" has already advance to consistently diatonic pieces 90s, who have found in the short cycle of "Etudes blanches" their most radical formation. The "Etudes transcendental" follow, the art of listening with this unusual music is to develop a new sensitivity to the unusualness on the edge of the familiar.