SKU: BR.EB-9074

ISBN 9790004179499. 9 x 12 inches.

World premieres:I version for flute: Wiesbaden, 1972II version for piano: Nyon, 1972III version for var. insts.: Cologne, May 29, 1976VI version for accordeon: Fribourg, June 25, 1987VIII version for violoncello Tokyo: October 14, 1989X version for organ: Stuttgart, March 28, 2018This work (A Breath of the Untimely) was first written for solo Flute and dedicated to Aurele Nicolet. Its bears the subtitle Lament on the Loss of Musical Thought - some Madrigals for Solo Flute or Flute with any other Instruments. This serves as a playing instruction but doubles at the same time as an outmoded programme: it refers back to the musical origin of the opening lamenting motif, a tradition which was once of its time but is not of our time - namely the Lamento genre which gave the title to the Chaconne in Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas. Almost simultaneously I wrote a second version for Piano (for Piano one-and-a-half hands), which already formulates possible approaches for the performer, in some detail, to the indicated, quasi-canonic version of the piece in the programme. The multiple version Ein Hauch von Unzeit III realizes a concrete version of a formal state which floats between strict canon and aleatoric principles: each of the musicians who are spread throughout the hall introduces their own idiomatic translation of the flute part. And so the music exists, omnipresent, not only spatially throughout the hall, but also formally in a sort of fluctuating simultaneity. For that reason, it was my express wish to any potential interpreter that they should construct entirely their own version of the piece. A healthy number of musicians have responded to my suggestion - versions of the piece have now been made for guitar (Cornelius Schwehr, Gunther Schneider), accordion (Hugo Noth), double bass (Fernando Grillo), violin (Hansheinz Schneeberger), viola, violoncello, and double bass (trio basso, Koln), violoncello (Michael Bach), trombone (Andrew Digby) and, created by myself, a sung version for voice (to words by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel und Max Bense), and for viola.The most important requirement for the whole piece is absolute stillness, which should as far as possible emanate from the performer. The pauses are occasionally in this respect the most important element. These may, if one can find the necessary stillness, become very long.Ein Hauch von Unzeit (A Breath of the Untimely) - time almost dissolves!(Klaus Huber, 1989/2014 - translation: David Alberman)CD:Jean-Luc Menet (Bass flute)CD Traversieres 120.270Jean-Luc Menet (fl)CD STR 37039Bibliography:Zimmerm ann, Heidy: Zeitgestaltung im Kompositionsprozess bei Klaus Huber - dargestellt anhand von Skizzen, in: Mnemosyne. Zeit und Gedachtnis in der europaischen Musik des ausgehenden 20. Jahrhunderts, hrsg. von Dorothea Redepenning und Joachim Steinheuer, Saarbrucken: Pfau 2006, S. 90-109

World premiere: VIII version for violoncello Tokyo: October 14, 1989.

SKU: BR.EB-9300

ISBN 9790004187647. 9 x 12 inches.

World premieres:I version for flute: Wiesbaden, 1972II version for piano: Nyon, 1972III version for var. insts.: Cologne, May 29, 1976VI version for accordeon: Fribourg, June 25, 1987VIII version for violoncello Tokyo: October 14, 1989X version for organ: Stuttgart, March 28, 2018This work (A Breath of the Untimely) was first written for solo Flute and dedicated to Aurele Nicolet. Its bears the subtitle Lament on the Loss of Musical Thought - some Madrigals for Solo Flute or Flute with any other Instruments. This serves as a playing instruction but doubles at the same time as an outmoded programme: it refers back to the musical origin of the opening lamenting motif, a tradition which was once of its time but is not of our time - namely the Lamento genre which gave the title to the Chaconne in Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas. Almost simultaneously I wrote a second version for Piano (for Piano one-and-a-half hands), which already formulates possible approaches for the performer, in some detail, to the indicated, quasi-canonic version of the piece in the programme. The multiple version Ein Hauch von Unzeit III realizes a concrete version of a formal state which floats between strict canon and aleatoric principles: each of the musicians who are spread throughout the hall introduces their own idiomatic translation of the flute part. And so the music exists, omnipresent, not only spatially throughout the hall, but also formally in a sort of fluctuating simultaneity. For that reason, it was my express wish to any potential interpreter that they should construct entirely their own version of the piece. A healthy number of musicians have responded to my suggestion - versions of the piece have now been made for guitar (Cornelius Schwehr, Gunther Schneider), accordion (Hugo Noth), double bass (Fernando Grillo), violin (Hansheinz Schneeberger), viola, violoncello, and double bass (trio basso, Koln), violoncello (Michael Bach), trombone (Andrew Digby) and, created by myself, a sung version for voice (to words by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel und Max Bense), and for viola.The most important requirement for the whole piece is absolute stillness, which should as far as possible emanate from the performer. The pauses are occasionally in this respect the most important element. These may, if one can find the necessary stillness, become very long.Ein Hauch von Unzeit (A Breath of the Untimely) - time almost dissolves!(Klaus Huber, 1989/2014 - translation: David Alberman)CD:Jean-Luc Menet (Bass flute)CD Traversieres 120.270Jean-Luc Menet (fl)CD STR 37039Bibliography:Zimmerm ann, Heidy: Zeitgestaltung im Kompositionsprozess bei Klaus Huber - dargestellt anhand von Skizzen, in: Mnemosyne. Zeit und Gedachtnis in der europaischen Musik des ausgehenden 20. Jahrhunderts, hrsg. von Dorothea Redepenning und Joachim Steinheuer, Saarbrucken: Pfau 2006, S. 90-109

World premiere: Stuttgart, Hospitalkirche, March 28, 2018.

SKU: BR.CHB-5243-02

ISBN 9790004411599. 9 x 12 inches. German.

TENEBRAENah sind wir, Herr,nahe und greifbar.Gegriffen schon, Herr,ineinander verkrallt, als warder Leib eines jeden von unsdein Leib, Herr.Bete, Herr,bete zu uns,wir sind nah.Windschief gingen wir hin,gingen wir hin, uns zu buckennach Mulde und Maar.Zur Tranke gingen wir, Herr.Es war Blut, es war,was du vergossen, Herr.Es glanzte.Es warf uns dein Bild in die Augen, Herr.Augen und Mund stehn so offen und leer, Herr.Wir haben getrunken, Herr.Das Blut und das Bild, das im Blut war, Herr.Bete, Herr.Wir sind nah.CHANSON EINER DAME IM SCHATTENWenn die Schweigsame kommt und die Tulpen kopft:Wer gewinnt?Wer verliert?Wer tritt an das Fenster?Wer nennt ihren Namen zuerst?Es ist einer, der tragt mein Haar.Er tragts wie man Tote tragt auf den Handen.Er tragts wie der Himmel mein Haar trug im Jahr, da ich liebte.Er tragt es aus Eitelkeit so.Der gewinnt.Der verliert nicht.Der tritt nicht ans Fenster.Der nennt ihren Namen nicht.Es ist einer, der hat meine Augen.Er hat sie, seit Tore sich schliessen.Er tragt sie am Finger wie Ringe.Er tragt sie wie Scherben von Lust und Saphir:er war schon mein Bruder im Herbst;er zahlt schon die Tage und Nachte.Der gewinnt.Der verliert nicht.Der tritt nicht ans Fenster.Der nennt ihren Namen zuletzt.Es ist einer, der hat, was ich sagte.Er tragts unterm Arm wie ein Bundel.Er tragts wie die Uhr ihre schlechteste Stunde.Er tragt es von Schwelle zu Schwelle, er wirft es nicht fort.Der gewinnt nicht.Der verliert.Der tritt an das Fenster.Der nennt ihren Namen zuerst.Der wird mit den Tulpen gekopft.Paul Celan ,,Mohn und Gedachtnis(c) 1952 Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt GmbH, StuttgartAlle Textrechte bei S. Fischer Verlag GmbH,6000 Frankfurt/Main.

SKU: HL.49019492

ISBN 9790001192699. 7.75x11.0x0.039 inches. German.

Heinrich Poos is not the first composer inspired by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock's poem 'Die Auferstehung', as even Gustav Mahler had already used these verses in the fifth movement of his Second Symphony 'Auferstehung'. Mahler was inspired to use a choral movement at the end of his symphony at the funeral of the conductor Hans von Bülow where a choir sang a chorale based on said text by Klopstock. Heinrich Poos wrote his deeply moving choral piece in remembrance of the organist Hubert Schoonbrodt.