Oehring, Helmut: Das BLAUMEER (aus: Einkehrtag) (2003) 30'
for male soprano, solo trumpet, electric guitar, large orchestra and live electronics

Music Text  
Helmut Oehring, Georg Phillipp Schmidt von Lübeck

Scoring
2.picc.2.corA.2.2bcl.3.2dbn-4.2Wagnertub.4.Flügelhr.3.dbtrb.1-perc(3)-harp-pft(=cel)-strings(14.12.10.8.6)

World Premiere
7/11/2003
Herkulessaal der Residenz, München
Bill Forman, tpt, Jörg Wilkendorf, gtr, Arno Raunig, soprano / Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Martyn Brabbins


Press Quotes      Deutsch
"How exciting and comforting at the same time: in spite of all festival highlights and Star appearances, concerts like this still fill the concert houses. On a lucky evening, one can be part of truly astonishing musical experiences thanks to the Munich avant-garde series of Musica Viva with the Bavarian Radio Symphony. Such was the case with the season’s finale, with conductor Martyn Brabbins and sparkling musical surprises, including a first performance by Helmut Oehring...

"Das BLAUMEER was the title of the work commissioned from Oehring, and it seems to be among the German composer's most captivating pieces. A muted trumpet, often whispering in a jazzy manner, a flickering and subtly murmuring guitar, a vast orchestra, becoming an ocean of sounds above which a rude thunder of percussion can suddenly burst out, and from which, progressively winding its way, emerges a delicate male soprano voice (Arno Raunig), finally citing Schubert’s Wanderer. A fascinating kaleidoscope of memories and free associations, highly complex and sensual."
Abendzeitung München

"With the sound effects in this piece, Oehring offers a level of invention matched by few other composers. The work was rough, unprotected, painfully delivering itself into our hands..." Süddeutsche Zeitung

Recommended Recording
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Martyn Brabbins (FP, 2001)
musica viva – forum der gegenwartsmusik
B.O.A. Videofilmkunst München 2006 / Peider A. Defilla dir.
Wergo NZ 61 (DVD)