Large-scale symphony composed for the 155. Action of Hermann Nitsch’s Orgien-Mysterien-Theater
Performed and recorded 1. September 2018 at the Nitsch Museum, in Mistelbach, Austria.
Directed by Hermann Nitsch and Leonhard Kopp
Conducted by Andrea Cusumano
Performed by Klangvereinigung Wien, Stadtkapelle Mistelbach, and Chor con cor & Musik- und Gesangsverein Asparn a.d. Zaya.
Photography: Reinhard Ehn, Wolfgang Kober
Recording: Daniel Löwenbrück, Patrick Quick
Mastering: Giuseppe Ielasi
Reissue of Nitsch's very first release, originally published 48 years ago by Edition Galerie Klewan in a limited edition of 100 copies.
Produced and recorded at the WDR Radio in Cologne, Germany, the Akustisches Abreaktionsspiel (Aktion 38b) is "neither a radioplay nor a work of music. it merely portrays the acoustic part of an "abreaktionsspiel" (a play of abreaction). the special and specific usage of the acoustic possibilities are in the foreground, while the visual part of the play is communicated by a narrator." A prime example of the intense & noisy wildness of Nitsch's early actions employing scream-choirs, beating, whistles, chaotic austrian folklore juxtapositions, rough brass sections and dissonant strings. Edition of 400 copies on vinyl and 200 copies on CD.
Reissue of Nitsch's very first release, originally published 48 years ago by Edition Galerie Klewan in a limited edition of 100 copies.
Produced and recorded at the WDR Radio in Cologne, Germany, the Akustisches Abreaktionsspiel (Aktion 38b) is "neither a radioplay nor a work of music. it merely portrays the acoustic part of an "abreaktionsspiel" (a play of abreaction). the special and specific usage of the acoustic possibilities are in the foreground, while the visual part of the play is communicated by a narrator." A prime example of the intense & noisy wildness of Nitsch's early actions employing scream-choirs, beating, whistles, chaotic austrian folklore juxtapositions, rough brass sections and dissonant strings. Edition of 400 copies on vinyl and 200 copies on CD.
Hermann Nitsch’s String Quartet No.2 in six movements for 2 violins, viola, and violoncello, transcribed by Michael Mautner and performed by the Viennese Koehne Quartet. Recorded during the exhibition NITSCH. Spaces of Color at the ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna on the 29th May 2019.
The Koehne Quartet: Joanna Lewis – 1. Violine, Anne Harvey-Nagl – 2. Violine, Lena Fankhauser – Viola, Mara Achleitner – Violoncello.
Hermann Nitsch does not write his music in regular musical notation, but divides the individual movements into time segments of one minute duration and precisely defines sound events, durations, dynamics and actions with words or signs. His instructions are e.g.: deep sound, whole tone cluster, D minor, F major or noise.
Double LP. Edition of 300 copies in fullcolour gatefold sleeve. First recording of the grand scale "Traubenfleisch 2007-2017" symphony by Hermann Nitsch. Performed at the Nitsch Museum, Mistelbach, September 2, 2017, by Orchestra "Klangvereinigung Wien" and a new choir formed for the occasion. Directed by Andrea Cusumano.
Recorded in 2012, Musik der 135.Aktion Kuba captures the controversial performance from Herman Nitsch's Orgien Mysterien Theater (Orgies Mysteries Theatre) as part of the Havana Biennial art exhibition. For more than fifty years Nitsch has been an influential and striking figure of Austrian art - In his Orgien Mysterien Theater he uses actors, blood, animal bodies and entrails, fruits, symbolic crucifixion, music, processions and ritualistic gestures to enact a new form of Gesamtkunstwerk: pagan ceremonies that aim to a kind of collective catharsis. "Dionysos gegen den Gekreuzigten" (Dinoysus against Christ Crucified") was performed by 150 musicians and 30 actors, including the University's Symphony Orchestra ISA and the artist himself, celebrating Afro-Cuban rituals and ceremonies.
Double CD. Edition of 300 copies in six-panel digipak.
First recording of the grand scale “Traubenfleisch 2007-2017” symphony by Hermann Nitsch. Performed at the Nitsch Museum, Mistelbach, September 2, 2017, by Orchestra “Klangvereinigung Wien” and a new choir formed for the occasion. Directed by Andrea Cusumano.
Re-Performance of the 25. Action, March 1982 in the gallery Pakesch, Vienna (Premiere was in New York 1968). Hermann Nitsch, Austria, painter, performance-artist and composer, was a crucial founding artist of “Viennese Actionism”. Exhibitions and performances all over the world since the 60s.
The idea of the very sensual and archaic “Orgien Mysterien Theater” was developed in the late 50s and is performed in variations untill today.
Nitsch works out all settings of the rituals, the feast in great detail, precisely composes days of art, performance, food, wine and music – to celebrate the existence of mankind…
Hermann Nitsch playing the church organ in the Jesuit church of Vienna, 20.11.2013. 4 heavy drone pieces, mastered by Martin Siewert. Different cover-artwork on CD and vinyl.
Hermann Nitsch playing the church organ in the Jesuit church of Vienna, 20.11.2013. 4 heavy drone pieces, mastered by Martin Siewert. Different cover-artwork on CD and vinyl. CD comes with 8 page booklet with artworks and essay by Nitsch about music (in German).
Hermann Nitsch’s Sixth Symphony for large orchestra performed and recorded November 1, 1980 at Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna. Edition of 500 copies in big 2CD jewel-case with 12 page booklet with a text by Günter Brus (German only).