Heiner Goebbels
Heiner Goebbels is a German composer, born in 1952 in Neustadt an der Weinstraße. He started out in Frankfurt in the 1970s, played in the art rock group Cassiber, and went on to write concert works, radio plays and music theatre. Goebbels studied sociology and music in Frankfurt, worked in a duo with saxophonist Alfred Harth from 1975 to 1988 and co-founded the Sogenanntes Linksradikales Blasorchester in 1976. Cassiber (1982-1992) brought him together with Harth, Chris Cutler and Christoph Anders.
Goebbels/Glass/Radigue
*2024 stock* Erwan Keravec's 4th opus devoted to contemporary music, Goebbels/Glass/Radigue features a trio of contemporary music maestros. Evocative, minimal or sensitive, 3 very different ways of imagining music. Heiner Goebbels places the bagpipes…
Hommage/Vier Fauste fur Hanns Eisler + Vom Sprengen des Gartens
This long and extraordinarily fruitful partnership started here - continuing though the Sogennantes Linksradikales Blasorchester - where they picked up Christoph Anders with whom they went on to co-found Cassiber with your humble reviewer. These a…
Goebbels Heart
Goebbels Heart is a kind of compilation disc, pulling together portions of early-'80s recordings by this duo originally released on the small German label Riskant. At this point in his career, Goebbels (who would later release more atmospheric and ex…
A House of Call - My Imaginary Notebook
Heiner Goebbels's cycle for large orchestra and archival voice recordings, in four parts and fifteen movements, played by the Ensemble Modern Orchestra under Vimbayi Kaziboni. Recorded September 2021 at the Prinzregententheater, Munich.
Walden
Heiner Goebbels' Walden (1998) for expanded orchestra and speaker, after Thoreau. Ensemble Modern Orchestra conducted by Peter Eötvös, with Bob Rutman as speaker, singer and on steel cello and bow chimes. Recorded live in November 1998 in Cologne and…
Stifters Dinge
Audio edition of Heiner Goebbels' music-theatre installation for five mechanised pianos, archival voices and texts after Adalbert Stifter, recorded 20-21 October 2007 at the Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg.
Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten
Heiner Goebbels's opera Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten, with texts by Stein, Bruno, Michaux, Eliot, Leonardo and Poussin, performed by Georg Nigl, David Bennent, Ensemble Modern and Deutscher Kammerchor under Franck Ollu, recorded live in Octob…
Surrogate Cities
Heiner Goebbels's Surrogate Cities for orchestra, sampler and voices, with Jocelyn B. Smith, David Moss and the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie under Peter Rundel; orchestra recorded 1996 at Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich, vocals 1999 in Frankfurt.
Der Mann im Fahrstuhl
Heiner Goebbels' setting of a monologue from Heiner Müller's play Der Auftrag, with Arto Lindsay, Don Cherry, Fred Frith, George Lewis and actor Ernst Stötzner, recorded in March 1988 in New York and Berlin and released by ECM in 1988.