Description

Musica Viva DVD 1

Work details and premiere

Dieter Schnebel (*1930)

Ecstasy

for soprano solo, narrator, 2 children’s voices, percussion solo, choir and large orchestra

Metropolis I – Conjuration – Trance – Metropolis II – Drunk/Dionysus – Secrets – Metropolis III – Unio mystica – Metropolis IV/ Cameval – Games – Fear(-lust) – Metropolis V/ Fanaticism – Fear II (death ecstasy) – Procession – Musical ecstasy (Metropolis VI) – Gratia

Text collage by the composer (including Balint, Brecht, Brodkey, Buber, Meister Eckhart, Hölderlin, Kafka, Kierkegaard, legends of saints, shaman, Zen and biblical texts)

Composed in 1996/97 and 2001/02

Commissioned by WDR Cologne and musica viva of Bayerischer Rundfunk

Published by Schott Musik International GmbH & Co. KG – Performance material available on loan www.schott-musik.de

Partial premiere on November 7, 1997 in Cologne, Philharmonie

Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester
Händelcollegium Köln (conductor: Dieter Gutknecht)
Kölner Rundfunkchor (conductor: Godfried Ritter)
Peter Eötvös, conductor
Isolde Siebert, soprano
Rainer Röhrner, percussion

World premiere of the complete version June 22, 2002 in Munich, Herkulessaal of the Residenz,
as part of the concert series “musica viva” with live broadcast on radio Bayern 4 Klassik

Bavarian Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra
Gustav Sjökvist, choir rehearsal
Maxim Heller, co-conductor

Isolde Siebert, soprano
Isao Nakamura, percussion
Michael Hirsch, narrator
Sidonie von Krosigk and Nils Keller, children’s voices
Henrike Paede, Tim Hennis and Katja Beer, choir soloists

Lothar Zagrosek, conductor

Performance duration of the complete version approx. 55 minutes