Beat Furrer • Klangforum Wien • Trio Catch • Tora Augestad • Sébastien Brohier • Mikhail Dubov • Hélène Fauchère • Eva Furrer • Uli Fussenegger • Vladislav Pesin - Wüstenbuch • Ira-arca • Lied • Aer

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CD1
Wüstenbuch
1-1	Scene I	8:58
1-2	Scene II	5:19
1-3	Scene III	3:40
1-4	Scene IV	5:28
1-5	Scene V	7:09
1-6	Scene VII	3:09
1-7	Scene VIII	5:25
1-8	Scene IX	5:36
1-9	Scene X - Lotofagos	9:23
1-10	Scene XI	10:14
1-11	Scene XII	3:54
CD2
2-1	Ira-arca For Bass Flute And Double Bass Double Bass – Uli FusseneggerFlute [Bass] – Eva Furrer	12:34
2-2	Lied For Violin And Piano Piano – Mikhail Dubov*Violin – Vladislav Pesin*	8:59
2-3	Aer For Piano, Clarinet And Violoncello Cello – Eva BoeschClarinet – Boglárka PeczeEnsemble – Trio CatchPiano – Sun-Young Nam	7:05

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Kairos Music Production
• Copyright (c) – Kairos Music Production
• Recorded At – Schaubühne Berlin
• Recorded At – MaerzMusik Festival
• Recorded At – Kleiner Sendesaal, WDR Köln
• Recorded At – Studio Stolberger Strasse
• Published By – Bärenreiter-Verlag
• Published By – Universal Edition
• Printed By – Optimal Media GmbH

Credits

• Accordion – Krassimir Sterev (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Artwork – Jakob Gasteiger
• Baritone Vocals – Sébastien Brohier (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Bassoon – Lorelei Dowling (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Cello [Violoncello] – Benedikt Leitner (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Clarinet – Bernhard Zachhuber (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Olivier Vivarès (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Conductor – Beat Furrer (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Design – Gabi Hauser
• Double Bass – Uli Fussenegger (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Engineer [Recording] – Alexander Volkov (tracks: 2-2), Detlef Rebenstorf (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Ralf Willner (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Reiner Kühl (tracks: 2-1), Rolf Lingenberg (tracks: 2-3), Thomas Kupilas (tracks: 2-1)
• Ensemble – Klangforum Wien (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Ensemble [Vocal] – Solistes XXI* (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Flute – Eva Furrer (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Vera Fischer (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Horn – Christoph Walder (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Liner Notes – Marie Luise Maintz, Peter Oswald
• Lyrics By – Antonio Machado (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Händl Klaus (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Ingeborg Bachmann (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Lukrez* (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Mastered By [Final Mastering] – Christoph Amann
• Mastered By [Mastering/Cut] – Alexander Volkov (tracks: 2-2), Christoph Amann (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Eckhard Glauche (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Michael Peschko (tracks: 2-1)
• Musical Assistance – Giuliano Betta (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Musical Assistance [Rehearsing] – Solistes XXI* (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Rachid Safir (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Oboe – Markus Deuter (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Other [Actor] – Ueli Jäggi (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Other [Actress] – Bettina Stucky (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Carina Braunschmidt (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Catriona Guggenbühl (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Isabelle Menke (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Olivia Grigolli (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Other [Costumes] – Sarah Schittek (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Other [Dramaturgy] – Ute Vollmar (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Other [Light Design] – Ursula Degen (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Other [Stage Design] – Duri Bischoff (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Percussion – Björn Wilker (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Lukas Schiske (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Piano – Florian Müller (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Producer – Barbara Fränzen, Peter Oswald
• Realization [Staging] – Christoph Marthaler (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Recorded By – DeutschlandRadio (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME)* (tracks: 2-2), WDR* (tracks: 2-1, 2-3)
• Recording Supervisor – Christian Schmitt (tracks: 2-3), Harry Vogt (tracks: 2-3), Michael Jaeckel (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Michael Peschko (tracks: 2-1)
• Saxophone – Gerald Preinfalk (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Soprano Vocals – Hélène Fauchère (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Tora Augestad (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Translated By [Liner Notes] – Christopher Roth, Noah Zeldin
• Trombone – Andreas Eberle (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Trumpet – Anders Nyqvist (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Viola – Dimitrios Polisoidis (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
• Violin – Annette Bik (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Gunde Jäch-Micko (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Sophie Schafleitner (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)

Notes

The 2xCD album is accompanied with a 68-pp booklet, containing the full text of Wüstenbuch and three extensive articles on Beat Furrer and his works presented on the album (both in English in German): 'Encrypted Messages of Life. The composer Beat Furrer' by Peter Oswald; 'Voices of the Other: ira-arca, Aer, Lied' and 'The Voices of Nothingness. Beat Furrer's Wüstenbuch' by Marie Luise Maintz.

CD1 - TT: 68:17
Wüstenbuch
Music Theatre based on texts by Händl Klaus, Ingeborg Bachmann,
Antonio Machado, Lukrez and of Papyrus Berlin 3024
Berlin version • Cut by Beat Furrer

Recording: Deutschlandradio at Festival MaerzMusik
Recording venue and date: Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin, 26–28 March 2010
Publisher: Bärenreiter Verlag

Commissioned by: Theater Basel, MaerzMusik / Berliner Festspiele,
Wiener Festwochen and supported by Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung

© for the Text by Händl Klaus: Rowohlt Verlag GmbH Reinbek
© for the Text by Ingeborg Bachmann: Piper-Verlag/München
© Bärenreiter-Verlag Basel

CD2 - TT: 28:38
Recording venues and dates: WDR Sendesaal Köln, Germany 13 December 2012;
Recording Studio of the Russian Academy of Choir Art, 30 June 2013;
Studio Stolbergerstraße, Köln, Germany, 20 June 2013
Publishers: Bärenreiter Verlag; (2, 3) Universal Edition

1 Commissioned by: Erste Bank Kompositionsauftrag
2 Commissioned by: Kölner Philharmonie for Thomas Zehetmair and Siegfried Mauser

Special Thanks are extended to Hester Diamond and Theater Basel
for their cooperation and support in realizing this project.

Graphic design: Gabi Hauser, based on artwork by Jakob Gasteiger

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• Barcode: 9 120010 281914
• Label Code: LC 10488
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