AUDIO
COMPOSER
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA + VOICES
SCHÖN!trauerwunschkonzert 2
(live, Musikverein Wien)
from: SCHÖN!trauerwunschkonzert
(commissioned by the Musikverein, Vienna)
excerpt: balcony scene
Collage from Romeo and Juliet in the German translation by Schlegel
Linda Watson, mezzo-soprano
Peter Weber, baritone
Ensemble Kontrapunkte
Peter Keuschnig, conductor
Live recording of the première at the Musikverein Vienna
(recording: Musikverein)
[…]
JULIET: And with a silk thread plucks it back again, […]
ROMEO: I would I were thy bird.
JULIET: Sweet, so would I:
Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
from: nirgendwohin (nowhere)
after poems by Peter Turrini
for 2 pianos, voice, speaker
(commissioned by the festival Carinthischer Sommer)
Nr. 5 „Die Eichenbretter in der Sonne“
Bartolo Musil, baritone
Katrin Schurich, speaker
Hsin-Huei Huang und Till Alexander Körber, pianos
Live recording from the Great Hall of the ORF
(recording: ORF)
The oak boards in the sun.
A friend’s call from the yard.
The trial alarm of the fire siren on a Saturday.
The humming of a bee at the fly screen.
A bread with chives.
A worker’s whistling in the workshop.
The freshly cut grass behind the house.
Beauty
is a broken jar
is scattered shards.
When I find a piece
somewhere today
for an instant I am
very happy.
(original poem in Peter Turrini: Ein paar Schritte zurück, Suhrkamp 2002)
LANGUAGE AS MUSICAL MATERIAL II
Dedica 2
(live, ORF)
SHATTERED LANGUAGE
A financial meltdown opera
(Crucifixus)
Crucifixus – the Lehman disaster (short score version, excerpt)
from: Erschießt sie! Eine Finanzkrisenoper
(“Shoot them! A financial meltdown opera”)
Libretto: Katrin Schurich, Sandra Schüddekopf
Ensemble (singers and composers)
Huw Rhys James and Hsin-Huei Huang, pianos
Live recording of a workshop presentation
(recording: University of Vienna)
Text: Interviews with bankers in 2008
MUSIC-LANGUAGE-VOCALS I
nirgendwohin/nowhere (Turrini) 1
(live, ORF)
from: nirgendwohin
after poems by Peter Turrini
for 2 pianos, voice, speaker
(commissioned by the festival Carinthischer Sommer)
Nr. 1 „Die Kindheit ist ein schreckliches Reich“
Bartolo Musil, baritone
Katrin Schurich, speaker
Hsin-Huei Huang und Till Alexander Körber, pianos
Live recording from the Great Hall of the ORF
(recording: ORF)
Childhood is a terrible realm.
The very hands that caress you beat you.
The mouth that comforts you yells at you.
The arms hat lift you smother you.
The ears listening to you misunderstand everything.
The blanket warming you is your elder brother‘s.
The wall on which you leave a coloured sign is painted over once a year.
The sentence you say at last is childish.
If you want to go elsewhere with your sentences and signs
they say: That’s none of strange people’s business.
Where am I supposed to go when my own kin is so strange to me?
I go nowhere.
(original poem in Peter Turrini: Ein paar Schritte zurück, Suhrkamp 2002)
LANGUAGE AS MUSICAL MATERIAL I
meada (Axel Karner)
CD, ORF
meada (murderer)
on a poem by Axel Karner in the Austrian dialect of Carinthia
(commissioned by the ORF)
Ensemble SchnittpunktVokal
CD kärnten.lieder (studio recording ORF)
[provisional translation from the Carinthian dialect]
a knife I’d need
a knife
to cut
another
to stab
a knife
for the fear
a knife
for me
for your silence
HUMOUR
Identitär (Fian)
(live, Carinthischer Sommer)
Identitär
Dramolett by Antonio Fian
Music by Bartolo Musil (commission from the festival Carinthischer Sommer)
Ulla Pilz, soprano
Bartolo Musil, voice
piano: Joseph Breinl
Live recording of the première at the festival Carinthischer Sommer
recording: Carinthischer Sommer
‚Synopsis‘:
A woman in her thirties and her 8-year-old son on a park bench.
The boy sets his mother’s nerves on egde by mispronouncing the word “identitär” (the “identitäre Bewegung” is a right-wing movement in Austria and Germany promoting white supremacy and ethnic purity) as well as quoting an acquaintance who called the followers of that movement “indiots”.
The woman gets all worked up in an improbably tirade about the movement’s virtues.
Occasionally she corrects the boy, repeating the sentence “all Identitäre are idiots” which a young guy on the neighbouring bench mistakes for her opinion.
The guy then threatens and bad-mouths her abusively under his breath.
Curtain.
MUSIC-LANGUAGE-VOCALS III
Da bi zapolnil (Hafner)
(live, ORF)
Da bi zapolnil
for guitar and voice
after a poem by Fabjan Hafner
(commission by Trivium 2020)
Bartolo Musil, baritone
Janez Gregorič, guitar
Live recording of the première
recording: ORF and Solvenian radio and TV