HAMEL: VOM KLANG DES LEBENS / OF THE SOUND OF LIFE
Roger Woodward
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Release Date: 20-06-2007
Label: Celestial Harmonies
Catalog Number: 13256-2
Barcode: 13711325621
Musical Style: Classical
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Departure/Abreise: In memoriam John Cage [02:49] | 7 | In memoriam Pandit Patekar [08:42] |
| 2 | In memoriam Alfred A. Tomatis [01:41] | 8 | In memoriam Olivier Messiaen [05:31] |
| 3 | Milestone for Miles Davis [08:08] | 9 | In memoriam Giacinto Scelsi [08:44] |
| 4 | In memoriam Morton Feldman [06:17] | 10 | In memoriam Iannis Xenakis [02:51] |
| 5 | In memoriam Walter Bachauer [03:11] | 11 | For Johann David Antonin *21.10.1992 [03:28] |
| 6 | In memoriam Dane Rudhyar [04:31] | 12 | Arrival/Ankunft: In memoriom John Cage [03:05] |
Description:
Of Primal Trust
Long before he discerns the light of the world, still in the womb, nascent man begins to sense the sounds of life. Long before his spirit attempts to differentiate experiences, develop ideas or make his mark on the path of history, he begins to hear the force that creation determined for us. The French doctor Alfred A. Tomatis was able to demonstrate that the sense of hearing is already fully developed in the fifth month of pregnancy - and all that is soul and has arrived now becomes reality by absorbing first acoustic impressions of the way of life. The sound of his mother's voice, the music that accompanies her and the notes that could harmonize with his own personal sounds, all are experienced by the ear while still bathing in the Amniotic fluid.
The inspiring German title of Tomatis' book 'The Sound of Life' found its way, in modified form, into the works of composer Peter Michael Hamel. Passionately devoted to all that sound has ever meant to man, the already multiple father accompanied the latest pregnancy of his wife in the early 90s in more than one sense
Hamel, an excellent improviser and interpreter at the keyboard, played the piano. He had always delighted in creating metrically complex pulsating rhythms, as if this gift were given to him from the start. In this manner he journeyed into his subconscious, demonstrating, to the joy of the mother and the growing empathy of the yet unborn child, the music of our world. Hamel extemporized and began to write down short passages: private notes, day by day, month by month new tonal discoveries, revealing the experiences and ambitions of his own life story. Some of these ideas - a melody, a turn of phrase - found themselves represented in several pieces. The final embodiment of the music was to be a group of twelve meaningfully arranged studies for piano. Composed over a period of fourteen years, between 1992 and 2006, the cycle can be understood as an idealised diary, embodying central motifs from Hamel's understanding of himself as a person and on artist.
Biography:
Currently resident in San Francisco, Roger Woodward performs with the Leipzig Gewandhaus, New York, Los Angeles and Israel Philharmonics, Orchestre de Paris, the Cleveland Orchestra, London orchestras and European Community Gustav Mahler Jugend-orchester, with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Paavo Berglund, Pierre Boulez, Charles Dutoit, Eliahu Inbal, James Judd, Eric Leinsdorf, Lorin Maazel, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Roger Norrington, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Witold Rowicki, Walter Susskind, Georg Tintner, Edo de Waart, and Hans Zender.
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