Johannes Maria Staud (*1974) Jagende Wolken, blendendes Blau!
[wind quin] 2024/25 Duration: 12'
2trp.Wagner tuba(hn).tbne.tuba
World premiere: Hall in Tirol (Osterfestival Tirol), April 8, 2025
Commissioned by Osterfestival Tirol, Windkraft-Kapelle für Neue Musik and WDR Cologne for the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik for Ensemble Schwerpunkt
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The instrumentation of a brass quintet has the potential to powerfully articulate anger and rebellion. Where language fails, music can act – in a self-contained, never oversimplified form. After all, we are not populists.
And besides: What is the beautiful color blue supposed to do about being misused by politics?
The title is taken from the poem Abklingendes Aprilgewitter (Fading April Thunderstorm) in the second volume of Arno Holz’s magnificent Phantasus (1898/99).
(Johannes Maria Staud, January 16, 2025)