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Product no.: 31165
HODOS en pente – “In five steps” or "movement in fives" … symbolic of the course of life … of the cyclical nature of existence … of the momentum of the moment – musically expressed in the five dynamic sections of the piece, in a 5-beat time signature and in pentatonic series floating between atonality and tonality.
Wilhelm Kaiser-Lindemann's last work premiered on September 12, 2009, two months before his death. In a sense, a summary of his life, which was shaped by early childhood traumas from the war years. The images and horrors of that time, in his own words, “never let go of him and pursued him relentlessly” and music was the only viable path to inner healing for him. His great admiration for Bach's music is expressed in this work in the quotation of the (here transposed) tone sequence B-A-C-H, which is heard at various points and which finally fits in as a tritone in the empty C sharp fifth, the "vibration of Mother Earth". According to Kaiser-Lindemann, the tritone at this point symbolizes the no longer earthly as "the interval furthest removed from all the others".
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Product no.: 31441

A musical-philosophical poem

This piece of music is about the psy-chogram of a modern person who is affect-ed by the feeling of always experiencing the eternal return of the same thing in a hamster wheel. Despite narrowness and repetition, it also has its good points: relia-bility and predictability, safety and happy moments, but also the strength to stay  in the hamster wheel . In return you receive reward for possession and power. Musical-ly, this is expressed with irregularly ac-cented but energetic eighth notes as a drive. The four-bar periodic appears symmetrical, but is broken asymmetrically in its 3-1 con-stellation, which later changes into a three-bar periodic.
But people always want more and thus feel a convergence of a developing becoming and being. However, the tasks of life – pre-sented in the form of additional and con-stantly changing topic and rhythm com-plexes – result in an overload. This causes stress, which increases to the point of col-lapse. The hamster wheel becomes unbal-anced, an impending heart attack is ignored, and it quickly bursts. The result: chaos, floating between life and death, extreme pain. Soon, however, recovery slowly sets in and with it hope for new harmony. A subsequent chorale and prayer express grat-itude. A  Zwiefacher1 shows, not without irony, the futile and ultimately pointless attempt to achieve a new simplicity. Inevi-tably it goes back to the apparently mean-ingful element of life, the hamster wheel, which now spins even faster and seals fate.

* a southern German folk dance with a quick tempo and changing beat pattern

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Product no.: 31459

Wilhelm Kaiser-Lindemann's 5th Symphony was premiered on 15 January in Kiel Castle by the Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of the composer.

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