Walden - Heiner Goebbels | Ensemble Klang

Walden - Heiner Goebbels

by Ensemble Klang with Keir Neuringer

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Gianni Gebbia I know Heiner since long time ! This is Heiner's music at his best ! Marvelous ensemble and interpretation. Greetings

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1.	How I Lived And What I Lived For (Simplify, Simplify) 06:46	buy track
2.	The House 04:17	buy track
3.	The Ponds 09:33	buy track
4.	Reading 05:30	buy track
5.	The Ice List 03:14	buy track
6.	Spring 17:25	buy track
7.	Winter Visitors 03:35	buy track
8.	The Bean Field 04:06	buy track
9.	The White Pond 04:06	buy track
10.	The Fitchburg Railroad 05:36	buy track

about

Heiner Goebbels’ Walden sculpts a set of musical landscapes after the eponymous novel by 19th century naturalist Henry David Thoreau, a grandfather of both modern environmentalism and civil disobedience. Thoreau's experiment of living by Walden Pond — where civilization appeared only as the distant sound of a railroad — propagated a radical, solitary, spartan individualism promising a simple harmony with nature.

Conceived as a counterpoint to the metropolitan images of his earlier work Surrogate Cities, Heiner Goebbels originally composed Walden in 1998 for the Ensemble Modern Orchestra (the ensemble version on this disc dating to 2008). But Walden drifts away from a traditional orchestral soundworld, relying on a number of specially-built instruments to create vibrant and unreal sounds, principally the 'steel cello' and 'bow chimes' designed by American painter, sculptor and musician Bob Rutman, to whom the work is dedicated.

credits

released November 5, 2013

Keir Neuringer, narrator, saxophone
Michiel van Dijk, reeds
Erik-Jan de With, reeds
Anton van Houten, trombone
Joey Marijs, percussion
Pete Harden, guitars
Saskia Lankhoorn, piano, keyboard
Vera van der Bie, violin
Maximilian Haft, violin
Max Knigge, viola
Esther Torrenga, cello
Brice Soniano, double & electric bass

Recorded, mixed and produced by Tom Gelissen
Setting for Ensemble Klang by Pete Harden
Design by Duel – www.studioduel.nl

The music of Heiner Goebbels is published by G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH

Ensemble Klang Records Nr 06 (EKR06)