Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten
Landscape with distant relatives
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Awards
- EDISON AWARD - in the category "contemporaray music"
'Heiner Goebbels is both composer as well as director. Because of a brilliant way of combining these two talents, he creates with ‘Landschaft mit entfernten Verwanten’ musictheatre, that even though it is making use of a large diversity of musical forms and styles, forms a real unity. We hear the texts of for instance Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, Leonardo da Vinci and Henri Michaux sung, spoken, whispered and screamed out, and at the same time the music uses style-quotations of music from the Middel-Ages until Stravinsky, but also jazz, Turkish -and Indian music and other worldmusic-styles. The listener is totally taken away by the human history, a world full of war, in which a lot of personal stories ar told. ‘Landschaft mit entfernten Verwanten’ alarms, reflects and gives comfort, is raw and at the same time unbelievalbly beautiful. This is a live-recording, but the quality of both the performance as well as the recording is so high, that all the objections one could have with a live-recording are totally non-existing in this case. The fact that one can not visibly see this production on stage, is not a lack at all, it rather stimulates ones fantasy!'
- BBC MUSIC MAGAZIN AWARD 2009 - Premiere Recording
Reviews
- Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten (FR)
Le compositeur et metteur en scène allemand signe avec cet opéra une partition foissonante.
by Jean-Stephane Brosse
February 2008
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- Goebbels: Landscape with Distant Relatives (ECM) (EN)
by Andrew Clements
The Guardian (GB)
7 December 2007
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- Die Oper vom Krieg (DE)
Heiner Goebbels' fatalistische Landschafts-Collage
by Hans-Jürgen Linke
Frankfurter Rundschau
30 November 2007
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