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| Award Ceremony in Munich |
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In addition to receiving financial support the winners of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation’s Composers’ Prize will in future also be supported with the production of their own portrait CD. For the realization of the series it has been
possible to enlist the Viennese label col legno who will also be in charge of world-wide distribution.
The CDs of the 2011 and 2012 prize winners – Luke Bedford, Steven Daverson, Zeynep Gedizlioglu, Hèctor Parra and Hans Thomalla – have been presented to the public at the award ceremony in Munich’s Cuvilliés-Theater on 22 June 2012.
Steven Daverson Shadow Walker
Hèctor Parra Caressant l’Horizon
Hans Thomalla Fremd
Luke Bedford Wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale
Zeynep Gedizlioglu Kesik
Ulrich Alexander Kreppein’s CD will be released later this year.
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A sonic window to antiquity: Dimitri Terzakis, returning to the colorful world of ancient Greek literature, creates original and highly distinctive sound images.  |
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| “The succinctness of his work will first become fully apparent when it becomes possible to view the second half of the twentieth century from something more like a bird’s-eye view.” (Alessandro Solbiati) |
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| Even Hector Berlioz praised the sound of the, then newly invented, saxophone, likening it to the “mysterious vibrations of a bell, long a er it has been struck.” |
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| Pax Questuosa (1982) vividly tells “of the vicarious suffering for peace, which, while broken again and again, remains our only hope.” |
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| Hearing Schumann! That was the underlying intention for these recordings of the composer’s four symphonies. And the result is a wonderfully intense double album. |
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| The interwaving of early and new music creates a unique Marian Vespers that litterally celebrates birth and life. |
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