IRDG009 - Intuitive Pieces

This album is from the mature period of the Group for Intuitive Music ;-)

01 Encounter (Ivan Vincze), Group for Intuitive Music - Ulfborg Church 1994.
From "5 texts for intuitive music" (edition-s.dk - also available in Danish, German, Hungarian, and Slovakian translations). This is a work closely reflecting the inspiration from Karlheinz Stockhausens' From the Seven Days, but in an original way, stressing a common poetic dimension. It says:

ENCOUNTER
for three players

Think of your favourite colour

it is here in this room
where you are

You already noticed it! But it is still sleeping

activate it with your tones

it comes closer to you because you love it

night approaches
it is going to sleep

let fewer and fewer tones aound
with longer pauses in between

say good-bye to it with your last and quietest tone

- see the whole collection 5 Texts for Intuitive Music by Ivan Vincze here.

02 Shaman Quartet (Jørgen Lekfeldt), Group for Intuitive Music - Ulfborg Church 1994 This is also a text-notated work. It suggests to musicians to take inspiration from deceased relatives' lives and to bring these recollections alive through play and interplay.

Musicians in this and the preceding recording: Ivan Vincze (vla) Jørgen Lekfeldt (keys) Lene Duus (voice) Carl Bergstroem-Nielsen (horn etc)

02a Memory Piece 6 (Carl Bergstroem-Nielsen), CBN - Concert Church, Copenhagen Open Form Festival 2011. Memory Pieces cultivate the discipline of constructing a musical form by recalling what was previously played and relating actively to that. Here in no.6, there is first a free improvised section - and the ensueing section is to select two characteristic properties from the preceeding one and make a 2-part counterpoint which is to last at least as long as the free section.

03 Awake (Karlheinz Stockhausen), Group for Intuitive Music - Nr.Jernløse Church 1983. A favourite piece with the GIM group from Stockhausen's collection For Times to Come. It is one of those kinds that describe a narrative, and through shifts generate a linear development of different formal sections. Lekfeldt plays the church organ here.

Musicians in this recording: Ivan Vincze (vla) Lene Maack (flute) Jørgen Lekfeldt (organ) Carl Bergstroem-Nielsen (horn etc)

04 Interval (Karlheinz Stockhausen), Jørgen Lekfeldt and Carl Bergstroem-Nielsen, piano four hands - Musica Art, Copenhagen, 2010. Interval from For Times to Come is a text-notated piece for piano four hands. Musicians play more and more tones, building up chords of increasing size every time there is a common attack. Then the procedure is reversed.

Interested in Stockhausens' text-notated pieces? Read an analysis here.