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Florian Weber

Name: Florian Weber – Imaginary Cycle (Music For Piano, Brass Ensemble And Flute)
Brand: ECM Records
SKU: ECM 2782, 559 5098
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Imaginary Cycle (Music For Piano, Brass Ensemble And Flute)

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Idiosyncratic, large-scale and in its fundamental disposition one of a kind, Florian Weber’s Imaginary Cycle, conceived for the unique instrumentation of brass ensemble and piano, is a hybrid of multiple musical languages that seamlessly blends the harmonious with the oblique. Here Weber presents a cycle in four parts, plus an opening and an epilogue, in which the German pianist is joined by a group of four euphoniums, a trombone quartet as well as flautist Anna-Lena Schnabel and Michel Godard on the seldomly used “serpent” brass instrument, together performing a work that blurs the line where improvisation ends and composition begins.

As the ensemble elegantly journeys across Florian’s multiple-idioms-spanning oeuvre, symphonic passages mingle with intricate counterpoint, pastoral notions are contrasted with textures more contemporary and each voice in the ensemble plays an independent part, adding to a whole. A daring and spectacular endeavour, Imaginary Cycle follows Florian’s contributions to the albums by Matthieu Bordenave, Ralph Alessi and his own quartet recording Lucent Waters – though the musical intersections between those albums and this one are few and equivocal. The project, recorded at Sendesaal Bremen in July 2023, was developed in close collaboration with Manfred Eicher, who produced the album.

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File under: Contemporary Avant-Garde

Cat. number: ECM 2782, 559 5098

Year: 2024

Format

Heide Benser is credited with "Liner photos (4, left)", while there are actually no photos on page 4 of the booklet.

Recorded July 2022

at Sendesaal Bremen

Mixed March 2023

by [...] and [...],

[...] (engineer)

at Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich

An ECM Production

℗ 2024 ECM Records GmbH [on disc]

Printed in Germany

Release notes

Heide Benser is credited with "Liner photos (4, left)", while there are actually no photos on page 4 of the booklet. Recorded July 2022 at Sendesaal Bremen Mixed March 2023 by [...] and [...], [...] (engineer) at Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich An ECM Production ℗ © 2024 ECM Records GmbH, München [on O-card back; on tray card] ℗ © 2024 ECM Records GmbH [in booklet] ℗ 2024 ECM Records GmbH [on disc] Printed in Germany

Tracklist

1	Prelude	3:41
Opening
2	I	3:09
3	II	5:48
4	III	2:02
Word
5	I	2:47
6	II	3:45
7	III	3:32
8	IV	4:48
Sacrifice
9	I	5:40
10	II	6:01
11	III	3:09
12	IV	5:35
Blessing
13	I	1:58
14	II	3:21
15	III	3:20
16	IV	3:31
17	Epilogue	2:06

Credits

Maxine Troglauer: Bass Trombone
Thomas Herr: Coordinator [Project Coordinator]
Fotini Potamia: Cover [Cover Photo], Photography By [Cover Photo]
Sascha Kleis: Design
Markus Heiland: Engineer [Tonmeister]
Quatuor Opus 333: Ensemble
Corentin Morvan: Euphonium [Quatuor Opus 333]
Jean Daufresne: Euphonium [Quatuor Opus 333]
Patrick Wibart: Euphonium [Quatuor Opus 333]
Vianney Desplantes: Euphonium [Quatuor Opus 333]
Anna-Lena Schnabel: Flute
Friedrich Kunzmann: Liner Notes [English, German]
Florian Weber: Mixed By, Piano, Composed By [Composition]
Manfred Eicher: Mixed By, Producer [Produced By]
Michael Hinreiner: Mixed By [Mixed By (Engineer)], Engineer [Mixed By (Engineer)]
Heide Benser: Photography By [Liner Photos (4, Left)]
Stefan Groß: Photography By [Liner Photos]
Lisa Stick: Trombone
Sonja Beeh: Trombone
Victoria Rose Davey: Trombone
Michel Godard: Tuba, Serpent