1. Miroslav Pudlak: Sextet 10:27
2. Hanus Barton: Tempestuous River, River of Oblivion 9:15
3. Peter Graham: Quintet 9:00
4. Martin Marek: 37 Views of Rip Mountain 11:06
5. Zbynek Mateju: Capriccio 11:58
The composers associated with the Mondschein ensemble are united by a post-modern global vision of music and also by a lack of faith in the syncretic and unilaterally radical approach to contemporary music. Their aesthetics, incorporating something of the disintegrative atmosphere of the end of the century, also manifest an attempt to revive the aspect of significance in music. The composers (although differing greatly from one another) are joined in their efforts to innovate, purely musical means (instead of escaping to the superficial union of music with other forms of art, or to the physiological impact of sound), they take an interest in expanding the dimension of musical expression and meaning (as opposed to formal construction) with new virtuosity of performance in order to serve the needs of expression. The aim is to present art as a perfectly free voice, liberated from the habits of tradition and the dictates of fashion. Their common trademark is the endeavour to create a comprehensible musical gesture as if standing outside time, outside the chaos of the disintegrating musical languages of the end of the 20th century.
GRAHAM P. (b.1952) DER ERSTE / Ensemble Mondschein...
PUDLAK M. (b.1961) AM FLYING, THE LAST WORD, A WINGED CREATURE, K...