Browse by Artist: ZIMMERMANN, WALTER

Artist:	ZIMMERMANN, WALTER
Title:	Schatten der Ideen
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 111CD

"The influence of two American composers -- John Cage and Morton Feldman -- has been decisive on Walter Zimmermann (b. 1949). With Cage, it was his music from the late forties -- works like the String Quartet, the Suite for Toy Piano and the Six Melodies -- that caught his attention: works underpinned by precise numerical construction, yet with an engaging directness of expression. Feldman has been an inspiration to Zimmermann's lyrical impetus, and Cage to his constructivist urges. Yet the two do not always co-exist comfortably, and it is partly the constant conflict and confrontation of the two which ensures that, far from being a 'displaced American', he is a quintessentially mid-European creator. The result is a totally individual sound; 'detached' in tone, yet often strangely touching. Its sparse, yet highly precise notation actually makes great demands on the performer, and the resulting 'introverted virtuosity', as Zimmermann calls it, remains a hallmark of his music."

Artist:	ZIMMERMANN, WALTER
Title:	The Echoing Green
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 150CD

... Chamber Works 1986-89. HCD Ensemble (Frankfurt), with Michael Bach, cello. "Like Morton Feldman, whose music he acknowledges as an influence, Zimmermann (b.1949) is fascinated by the relationship between painting and music, and how material of an apparently simple nature played by apparently 'normal' instruments is capable of almost infinite subtlety. Frankfurt's HCD Ensemble are also members of Germany's infamous Ensemble Modern. They are joined here by the superb cellist Michael Bach."

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