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Hotel Zauberberg

by AKI TAKASE - AYUMI PAUL

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Ankunft 01:12
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Der Schnee 03:47
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Analyse 03:00
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Hans 04:42
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Eulenspiegel 02:47
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Peerperkorn 02:07
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Veränderung 02:12
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Donnerschlag 06:20
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Vetter J. 02:16
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Zauberlied 02:18
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Finis Operis 01:26

about

Intakt CD 244

The project 'Hotel Zauberberg' arose out of Aki Takase's and Yumi Paul's shared admiration for the writer Thomas Mann. It mostly consists of notated compositions, with some improvised parts as well. Eleven of the eighteen pieces were penned by Aki Takase, another five are collaborations with Ayumi Paul. Additionally, there are adaptations of a Mozart Minuet and a Bach Partita.

Aki Takase reacts to the polyphony of the novel with a variety of stylistic elements. She has never been a purist anyway; she's never been shy of contact. She is an avant-gardist drawing on tradition. She's got both claws and finesse. And, most of all, she's got a sense of humour.

Aki Takase and Ayumi Paul's first collaboration stands out through its light-footed intelligence as well as a sense of the abysses of the 'Magic Mountain', which turns into a world-theatre of love, illness and death. Thomas Mann, whose work includes music as a subject in itself as well as a language, would have enjoyed it.

Reviews: www.intaktrec.ch/rev244-a.htm

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released February 4, 2015

Aki Takase: Piano
Ayumi Paul: Violin

Recorded, mixed and mastered January and May 2014 by Kulturradio vom Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg. Radio producer: Ulf Drechsel. Sound supervisor: Wolfgang Hoff. Recording engineer: Nikolaus Löwe. Digital cut and mastering: Ulrich Hieber. Liner notes: Manfred Papst. Photo: Mariko Saga, Vanessa Franklin. Cover art and graphic design: Jonas Schoder. Produced and published by Intakt Records, Patrik Landolt

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