ZIMMERMANN requiem fur einen jungen dichter LP 1980 electronic experimental rare

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Bernd Alois Zimmermann "Requiem fur einen jungen dichter" LP privately issued by the Kulturkreis im Bendesverband deer Deutschen Industrie (2891 182) in Germany, 1980. Gatefold sleeve including the complete score. ****** Rec:m- / Cov:ex / Score:m- ****** Absolute masterpiece offered here. If you don't know it, or never found a copy before, this it your chance to get one of the best record ever issued in Germany! Limited edition LP of the 1969 premiere, privately pressed by the Cultural Council of the Union of the German Industries in 1980. "Requiem für einen jungen dichter" (i.e. Requiem for a Young Poet) was Bernd Alois Zimmermann's definitive statement, a massive requiem scored for three choruses, soprano, and bass soloists with speaking parts assigned to actors and persons within the chorus, organ, electronic tapes, a jazz combo, and an orchestra of Straussian proportions. Working with a multiplicity of texts, Zimmermann originally had planned to limit the words used to those of young poets who had committed suicide, for example, the revolutionary Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. Zimmermann ultimately found himself opening up to all kinds of verbal sources in multiple languages; political speeches, passages from the Latin Vulgate, the voices of Chairman Mao, Hitler, and even a snatch of the Beatles' "Hey Jude". What Zimmermann constructed in the end was a powerful requiem not just addressed to the ill-fated poets, but to the twentieth century as a whole and its crisis of media overload in what is now called "data smog". The "Requiem für einen jungen dither" was instantly hailed as a masterwork upon its premiere in 1969, and is referred to in literature about contemporary music as a major achievement! One astounding aspect of "Requiem für einen jungen dither" is that it isn't in the least dated; it sounds like what an avant-garde composer might do in 2008 if he or she had access to such enormous resources and artistic ambition as Zimmermann. The surround sound is terrific in projecting the various voices in the tapes into all the directions Zimmermann intends; speaking voices from tape and live voices from the stage mesh together in a blend that is effective and terrifying in its dense web of controlled confusion. When the three choruses are all given to yelling at once, the very sound of it sends chills up one's spine. All of the spoken material is included in the booklet, reproducing Zimmermann's layout of paragraphs of multilingual text side by side and matched to time points in the performance, though this is rendered in print so tiny one may need a magnifying glass; several score pages are likewise reproduced, plus a diagram of the performance and numerous photographs. Cybele's effort on behalf of Zimmermann is truly comprehensive and impressive and restores to twenty-first-century listeners this great, gigantic work that served as Bernd Zimmermann's final testament. So much fuss is made of how Stockhausen does this in "Hymnen", but Zimmermann was doing this at the same time, with infinitely more human input and sophistication. Zimmerman's collages are carefully chosen to represent key sound images of the 20th century. Hitler, Pope John XXIII, Ezra Pound and Mao Zedong, Stalin and a jazz quintet and a snatch from the Beatles (this was 1968 after all, it was obligatory, though it sounds naif today). It's like a documentary in sound, historically well informed, structurally planned rather than haphazard porridge. Leagues sharper than Stockhausen! The nearest comparison is Luigi Nono's "Prometeo", written nearly 20 years later. This music is a painful scream by a very literate composer who cared about what was happening in the world around him (Vietnam, the Greek junta, Dubcek). Soon after, Zimmermann committed suicide in despair. This past is still relevant, if anything even more now that protest is neutralized! ****** Liner notes in German. ****** Some very minimal sleeve wear. ****** The record looks like it has never been played. Top conditions! ****** Please wait to receive my invoice before sending the payment after the auction ends. Attention! Real postage costs are not USD 4 as all the items are located in Doha, Qatar (which has a very safe and professional post system). Postage costs registered up to 1 Kilo (generally 3 LPs): to Europe and Japan is USD 16,50 / to America and Oceania is USD 22,50. Postage costs registered up to 2 Kilos:  to Europe and Japan is USD 28,00 / to America and Oceania is USD 34,00. ****** More ebay auctions of ultra rare LP and K7 editions in the coming weeks. Next auction: Sound Poetry and Mail Art, Henri Chopin, Bernard Heidsieck, OU, Fylkingen, VEC tapes, M.B., Haters, etc… ****** Thank you for your kind attention and good luck with your bids.