Heiner Goebbels

A House of Call is a cycle of invocations, prayers, poems and songs for large orchestra, which incorporates recordings of sounds and voices from all over the world collected by German composer Heiner Goebbels during his travels, research, and chance encounters.

The cycle is a response to the history of these recordings and to their complexity, rawness and radiance. In this secular "responsorium", the orchestra accompanies and supports the voices, answers and challenges them.

Release date: August 19th, 2022

with ENSEMBLE MODERN ORCHESTRA, conductor VIMBAYI KAZIBONI

Der in Berlin und Frankfurt am Main lebende Heiner Goebbels zählt zu den bedeutendsten zeitgenössischen Komponisten. Seit den 1970er Jahren gilt er als Erneuerer des Jazz, des Musiktheaters, der Klanginstallation, des Hörspiels sowie orchestraler wie szenischer Konzerte. Für sein Werk, das mit den Gattungsgrenzen innovativ und radikal spielt, wurde er vielfach ausgezeichnet. Eine SWR2-Hommage zu seinem 70. Geburtstag am 17. August blickt zurück auf einige seiner Werke – und Heiner Goebbels ist mit zwei Collagen teilweise unveröffentlichter Aufnahmen beteiligt.

The Ensemble Modern has started to publish podcasts, in which it's members speak with composers. Pianist Hermann Kretzschmar already made three talks with Heiner Goebbels. #2 can be found here, #3 - on the topic "Schwarz auf Weiss" will follow soon.

Apart from DIE LANGE RADIO NACHT - Hessischer Rundfunk (HR) will present "Kaisers Klänge - Musikalische Entdeckungsreisen" on Sunday August 14th, 1pm and "Doppelkopf", a talk between Stefan Fricke and Heiner Goebbels on Wednesday, August 17th at 12 noon.

musica festival strasbourg will present the legendary Ensemble Modern production Schwarz auf Weiss / Black on White (1996) again this coming September.

The new cycle for large orchestra A HOUSE OF CALL - my imaginary notebook, performed by Ensemble Modern Orchestra and conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni, received enthusiastic critical acclaim both from the media and the audience during the world premiere tour last fall. Next performances will be at Holland Festival , for the opening of Fratopia Festival at the Alte Oper Frankfurt and during Wien Modern Festival.
The London Philharmonics will perform it at Southbank Centre in March 2023.

The new music theatre work Liberté d'Action (2021) will next be performed at ROMA EUROPA FESTIVAl in Septembre at Auditorium Parco Della Musica "Ennio Morricone" / Sala Petrassi and during Festival d'Automne at Chatelet in Paris.

photo PROTI GESAMTKUNSTWERK Writings by Heiner Goebbels are now available also in Czech. PROTI GESAMTKUNSTWERK is out now - more than 300 pages on music, theatre and education for performing arts. Edited by Lukas Jiricka, translated by Jan Petříček and Tereza Semotamová.

After creating a new radio piece, new music theatre production, new cycle for large orchestra and publishing two books last year, now in 2022 there are more live performances to come like Liberté d'action, A House of Call, Schwarz auf Weiss (Black on White) and other concerts and plays.

Watch out for the Calender. And see new trailer of Liberté d'action.

Zu Jahresbeginn veröffentlicht das Musik-Magazin VAN ein längeres Interview mit Heiner Goebbels von Stefan Siegert, zum Begriff der Avantgarde, zu Dezentralität, A House of Call, Brecht/Eisler/Dessau, Grain de la Voix und Ausschlußverfahren bei der Arbeit.