| Details | | Playing Time: | 70 min. | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | DDD |
Album Notes This selection received a Grammy Award nomination for "Best Classical Contemporary Composition." Heiner Goebbels mixes elements of minimalism, rock, jazz, and classical modernism into a theatrical fusion with philosophical and literary underpinnings. His ten-movement 'Suite for Sampler and Orchestra' incorporates voices of Jewish cantors, bits of a Scarlatti Sonata, and a host of industrial sounds to forge "a vertical section of the city" underground and above, with past, present, and future all in synchronous coexistence. 'The Horatian' is a symphonic jazz ballad that tells, in the most emphatic and blunt way, a tale of murder with a moral dilemma. Even the seemingly abstract 'D & C' has a dialectic at work as those two pitches vie for supremacy in this "acoustic edifice" with allusions to Kafka's "The City Coat of Arms." There is a lot going on in SURROGATE CITIES, some of it complex, much of it simple, but all of it direct in its aspirations and solid as a city in its presence.
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