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| <strong>MARCH</strong> <strong>2013</strong> | <strong>CODAEX</strong> <strong>UK</strong> | <strong>RELEASE</strong> <strong>DATE</strong> 11.03.<strong>2013</strong><br />
Heinrich Ernst Erwin Walther (1920–1995) must not only be considered one of the pioneers of graphic scores, as the phenomenon was<br />
far more than a passing fad in his case. Correlations between visual art and music had been a central aspect of his work from the start. He<br />
had made his first attempts at graphic notation as early as 1938, while still a student of conducting at the Würzburg Conservatory. In 1949,<br />
after the war and captivity, he made his debut as a pianist in Nuremberg with improvisations on drawings by Franz Xaver Fuhr. From the<br />
mid-1950s on – continuing until his death – Walther produced what he termed “audiograms”. More than 300 of this graphic scores have<br />
survived – and, as can be heard on the present CD, they are among the most inspiring examples of the genre. That they have remained<br />
virtually unknown is due not least to the character of a composer who scarcely seemed interested in any more than regional renown; one<br />
could almost say that he stubbornly obstructed the dissemination of his own works.<br />
These two CDs show the music’s stylistic breadth that Walther was a composer who was acutely aware of contemporary idioms, but also<br />
that he found, with a certain quirkiness and sense for hidden meanings, a path of his own which did not follow any one aesthetic tendency.<br />
ERWIN WALTHER<br />
Chamber Music<br />
Ib Hausmann/Peter Bruns/Frank Gutschmidt<br />
CAT NO.<br />
FORMAT<br />
PPD<br />
LABEL<br />
BARCODE<br />
GENRE<br />
ERWIN WALTHER<br />
Vocal Music<br />
Y.Friedli/J.Vogt/W.Tessmer/F. Gutschmidt<br />
CAT NO.<br />
FORMAT<br />
PPD<br />
LABEL<br />
BARCODE<br />
GENRE<br />
NEOS 11210<br />
1CD<br />
£ 8.98<br />
Neos Music<br />
4260063112102<br />
Vocal<br />
ELIASSON<br />
John-Edward Kelly plays Anders Eliasson<br />
J-E.Kelly/B.Versteegh/Arcos Orch./Finnish Radio SO<br />
CAT NO.<br />
FORMAT<br />
PPD<br />
LABEL<br />
BARCODE<br />
GENRE<br />
NEOS 11209<br />
1CD<br />
£ 8.98<br />
Neos Music<br />
4260063112096<br />
Chamber<br />
NEOS 11301<br />
1CD<br />
£ 8.98<br />
Neos Music<br />
4260063113017<br />
Symphony<br />
John-Edward Kelly said of this recording: “Anders Eliasson shines as a brilliant light among the hundreds<br />
of composers I have worked with. There is no composer whose music I have performed more frequently,<br />
nor whose music has touched me more deeply.”<br />
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