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Klaus Huber

...Inwendig Voller Figur... / Tempora (LP)

Label: Wergo

Format: LP

Genre: Compositional

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1971's apocalyptic oratorio for chorus, speaker, tape and grand orchestra backed with 1970's concerto for violin and orchestra, released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in 1973. With insert.

condition (record/cover): NM / NM Insert included. |  ...Inwendig Voller Figur... / Tempora features two major compositions by Swiss composer Klaus Huber. ...inwendig voller Figur... is an oratorio for chorus, orchestra, loudspeaker, and tape, composed between 1970 and 1971. It is based on texts from the Apocalypse of John and a drawing by Albrecht Dürer, which depicted a landscape being destroyed by massive falling water, a vision Dürer had in his sleep. The music conveys a humanistic message against human misery and the horrors of war. Tempora is a concerto for violin and small orchestra, composed in 1970. Huber experimented with the use of quarter-tones and quarter-tone polyphony. According to experts at Good-Music-Guide.com, the piece is based on a "mystic principle of sound," where it "gradually extended into long notes and into Gregorian chant at the end".

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Cat. number: WER 60 069
Year: 1973
Notes:
"... inwendig voller figur ..." "Recorded on the occasion of the world premiere in Nürnberg on 19 March 1971," in association with Bayerischer Rundfunk. Tempora Concerto for Violin and Orchestra recorded in association with the Nederlandse Omroep Stichting, Hilversum. Cover design by Günther Stiller, Taunusstein Ts., after Dürer-collages from the score of ... inwendig voller figur ... 16-page booklet contains notes in German and English, along with the text of "Wo is Zukunft" ("Where is Future"), a speech given by Huber to accompany a broadcast of ... inwending voller figur ... in December 1971, and the sung fragments of German and Latin text heard in the work. From work's page on Schott website: https://en.schott-music.com/shop/inwendig-voller-figur-no192929.html "...inwendig voller Figur..." für Chorstimmen, Lautsprecher, Tonband und großes Orchester auf Texte der Johannes-Apokalypse und von Albrecht Dürer [for choir voices, loudspeakers, tape and large orchestra on texts from St John's Apocalypse and Albrecht Dürer] "The apocalyptic oratorio „… inwendig voller Figur...“ was written in 1971 to mark the 500th birthday of Albrecht Dürer. To Klaus Huber, Dürer’s extraordinary work Dream Vision (1525), a watercolour sketch of a landscape that is destroyed by falling masses of water, seemed to be a formal premonition of the mushroom cloud of the atomic explosion 420 years later and, thus, of one of the pressing apocalyptic threats of our time. Huber also included in his work a short orchestral improvisation on a collage of Dürer’s woodcuts on the Apocalypse, which are illustrated in the score."

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