Instrumentation
Dorothee Oberlinger recorders
Anna Friederike Potengowski stone-age flutes
Georg Wieland Wagner percussion
Werner Ehrhardt violin and artistic direction
l'arte del mondo (8-13 strings, harpsichord, lute)
Anna Friederike Potengowski, Photo: peuserdesign.de
Program
Hildegard von Bingen / O Ecclesia
Dorothee Hahne / “commentari III” for Recorder and Electronics, for Dorothee Oberlinger
Giorgio Mainerio / Schiarazula Marazula and La Lavandara Gagliarda from Il primo libro de balli accomodati per cantar et sonar d’ogni sorte de instromenti
Dario Castello / Sonata XVI per stromenti d’arco from the “Sonate concertate In stile Moderno per Sonar nel Organo overo Clavicembalo con diversi Instrumenti”
Willy Merz / Spiralia for Stone-age Flutes, Recorder, Strings and B.C. (2020)
Interlude: “Wisdom”
Anna Friederike Potengowski / Aare / Bird Improvisation
Antonio Vivaldi / Concerto for Recorder, Strings and B. C. in D-Major, RV 428, “Il Gardellino”
Georg Wieland Wagner / Wadawishung Pade / Mayuman – A Song from the World of Unmeasured Time (new setting for l’arte del mondo)
John Cage / Dream
Antonio Vivaldi / Concerto for Recorder, Strings and B. C. in g-minor, RV 439, “La Notte”
Epilogue: “Wisdom”
Rheinische Post // September 25, 2020 on the premiere in Leverkusen
“Anyone who expected a chronologically sorted sequence of compositions along a clear timeline knows ensemble leader and violinist Werner Ehrhardt poorly. Everything has to do with everything. He has already conveyed this basic insight in many concert programs, not didactically and moderated at length, but rather practically.
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That exuberant, electrifying joy of playing on the one hand and on the other hand, the highest sensitivity in the understated passages united the ensemble l’arte del mondo and the three excellent guest musicians.”
We realize a bridge between the oldest pieces of evidence of human musicality and the present. The common thread here are ... flutes – flutes made of animal bones up to 40,000 years old.
Inspired by her studies in new music with Walter van Hauwe in Amsterdam and medieval music with Pedro Memelsdorff in Milan, the vivacious recorder virtuoso Dorothee Oberlinger released a CD in 1998 with works representing the cornerstones of music history – including modern works dedicated to her – that demonstrate the variety of meanings that flute music has held at key points in music history.
In “Eternal Breath – A Breath Through Time” Dorothee Oberlinger collaborates with the specialist in prehistoric bone flutes Anna Friederike Potengowski and percussionist Georg Wieland Wagner, who caused a sensation with their mystical duo album “The Edge of Times”. Together with l’arte del mondo, these artists have developed a breathtaking kaleidoscope of sounds representing human history. In the process, the story of the flute is also told in connection with the human breath being molded into music. Popular “hits” are, of course, not forgotten...
Eternal Breath - A Breath Through Time
Dorothee Oberlinger, Photo: peuserdesign.de
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