Composer Peter Schindler on this separate edition from Perpetuum mobile:
Love is cruel, untamed and powerful! In the end, it is better to stay alone and join Phoenix. What a dramatic statement from a person who has been let down by love! Who or what is Phoenix (Phenice)? The Phoenix is a bird named after the color purple (colorem phoeniceum habet). It is unique in the whole world, and it is still a powerful symbol today, as in the Phoenix rising from the ashes. The bird appears in various medieval literary works, including poems, legends and religious tracts.
The movement “Amor durus est” on text no. 142 from the Codex Buranus is conceived in part as a fugue. The main statements of the piece are performed in repetitively chanted chromatic tone sequences. “Amor durus est” is a demanding piece which brings “Flamma amoris” (On Fire), the third act of Perpetuum mobile, to a sobering and virtuosic close.
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Peter Schindler
| 1960Composer, pianist and organist Peter Schindler writes and performs music for ballets and theatrical performances, films and dramatic recordings, instrumental and choral arrangements, chansons and sacred works. He is particularly passionate about his compositions for children and young adults, which has come to comprise hundreds of humourous children’s songs (Kinderhits mit Witz). His full-length musicals include Geisterstunde auf Schloss Eulenstein (Witching Hour at Eulenstein Castle), Max und die Käsebande (Max and the Cheese Gang), König Keks (Cookie King), Zirkus Furioso (Circus Allegro), and SCHOCKORANGE. These musicals are some of the most frequently played pieces of their kind by children’s and youth choirs in German-speaking theaters and schools. With his first English musical Circus Allegro, Peter’s hugely sucessful work for all kids under 100 is now also accessible to audiences around the world.
For further information visit: http://peter-schindler.de/
We asked the composer 6 questions, read them here in our blog: https://blog.carus-verlag.com/en/personalities/5-questions-for-peter-schindler/
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