Zimmermann: Beginner’s Mind (2CD)
Walter Zimmermann is a leading figure in German new music, a prolific composer and a tireless advocate of other artists’ work. Deserving to be much better known, his works, set in a deceptively simple way, are best heard in groups so as to emphasize his rich and coherent personal style. Performed by leading British interpreter of contemporary music, Ian Pace and recorded in the composer’s presence.
Track Listing
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Walter Zimmermann:
- Beginner's Mind: Five Moments in the Life of Franz Schubert - I. Rossini's Arrival in Vienna (4:07)
- Beginner's Mind: Five Moments in the Life of Franz Schubert - II. The Dangerous Friend (2:34)
- Beginner's Mind: Five Moments in the Life of Franz Schubert - III. THe Great Upper Austrian Journey (3:50)
- Beginner's Mind: Five Moments in the Life of Franz Schubert - IV. Renewed Outbreak of Disease (5:15)
- Beginner's Mind: Five Moments in the Life of Franz Schubert - V. No reply from Weimar (0:26)
- Beginner's Mind: Leave the Old - I. Gather everything (5:45)
- Beginner's Mind: Leave the Old - II. Follow the yardsticks (3:08)
- Beginner's Mind: Leave the Old - III. Go wrong (1:29)
- Beginner's Mind: Leave the Old - IV. Lose yourself (1:17)
- Beginner's Mind: Leave the Old - V. Destroy what’s around (1:59)
- Beginner's Mind: Leave the Old - VI. Forget what you've done (1:22)
- Beginner's Mind: Leave the Old - VII. Accept the past (1:08)
- Beginner's Mind: Leave the Old - VIII. Discover the now (1:07)
- Beginner's Mind: Leave the Old - IX. Become the spur of the moment (1:04)
- Beginner's Mind: Leave the Old - X. Be self-sufficient (1:08)
- Beginner's Mind: Clean the Mind - I. Let images come and go (1:39)
- Beginner's Mind: Clean the Mind - II. Find perfect existence through imperfect existence (1:05)
- Beginner's Mind: Clean the Mind - III. Change mindweeds into mental nourishment (1:48)
- Beginner's Mind: Clean the Mind - IV. Limit your activity (1:34)
- Beginner's Mind: Clean the Mind - V. Dissolve obstacles by obstinacy (1:22)
- Beginner's Mind: Clean the Mind - VI. Burn yourself completely (0:50)
- Beginner's Mind: Clean the Mind - VII. Create from emptiness (2:27)
- Beginner's Mind: Clean the Mind - VIII. Continue in calmness (1:18)
- Beginner's Mind: Clean the Mind - IX. Move the swinging door (0:45)
- Beginner's Mind: Clean the Mind - X. Repeat it over and over again (1:12)
- Beginner's Mind: Alter the Consciousness - I. Adapt yourself to stimuli (1:00)
- Beginner's Mind: Alter the Consciousness - II. Shake up your automatic responses (0:29)
- Beginner's Mind: Alter the Consciousness - III. Change your emotions into extremes (0:58)
- Beginner's Mind: Alter the Consciousness - IV. Contract and expand your time sense (0:58)
- Beginner's Mind: Alter the Consciousness - V. Suspend your time boundaries (0:57)
- Beginner's Mind: Alter the Consciousness - VI. Find stimuli you feel at one with (0:29)
- Beginner's Mind: Alter the Consciousness - VII. Grab the emerging ideas (0:34)
- Beginner's Mind: Alter the Consciousness - VIII. Use up the unity feeling (0:34)
- Beginner's Mind: Alter the Consciousness - IX. Merge it into overpowering emotion (0:30)
- Beginner's Mind: Alter the Consciousness - X. Let it release you (1:19)
- Beginner's Mind: Prepare the New - I. Recall the mental nourishment (1:18)
- Beginner's Mind: Prepare the New - II. Easy come easy go (0:40)
- Beginner's Mind: Prepare the New - III. Don’t hesitate (1:15)
- Beginner's Mind: Prepare the New - IV. Express everything straight on (0:33)
- Beginner's Mind: Prepare the New - V. Concentrate on your preferences (0:34)
- Beginner's Mind: Prepare the New - VI. Follow your inner voice (1:41)
- Beginner's Mind: Prepare the New - VII. Use empathy (0:32)
- Beginner's Mind: Prepare the New - VIII. Stimulate your mind wandering (0:33)
- Beginner's Mind: Prepare the New - IX. Keep your original mind (0:34)
- Wustenwanderung (18:49)
- Abgeschiedenheit (28:39)
- Wanda Landowskas verschwundene Instrumente - I. After Purcell Ground in C minor (2:15)
- Wanda Landowskas verschwundene Instrumente - II (untitled) (1:30)
- Wanda Landowskas verschwundene Instrumente - III. 16 Chaconnes (nos. 1-8 16) (2:23)
- Wanda Landowskas verschwundene Instrumente - IV. (untitled) (0:48)
- Wanda Landowskas verschwundene Instrumente - V. Ein Wenig Grazie (4:35)
- Wanda Landowskas verschwundene Instrumente - VI. 16 Chaconnes (nos. 9-16) (2:06)
- Wanda Landowskas verschwundene Instrumente - VII. Die verschwundenen Instrumente (2:49)
- Barn Snail Dance (1:41)
- When I'm 84 (3:04)
Reviews
BBC Radio 3, CD Review
“…complex ideas presented with endearing simplicity… fascinating, it’s one of those sound-worlds in which you just have to allow yourself to be absorbed and there’s much pleasure to be had.
” —Andrew McGregor
The Guardian
“It is all exquisite, highly poeticised music that deserves to be heard; Ian Pace’s performances are typically indefatigable
” —Andrew Clements
