Every night, however dark, is followed by a morning: This joyful message from nature is the musical and visual theme of the concept album early music bird. early new music.
Following the multiple award-winning album favola in musica. early new music (including Ö1 Pasticcio Prize), Maria Weiss and the 1607. ensemble with Luca Pianca (lute) and Wolfgang Mitterer (electronics, 2 commissioned works) take us on their second solo album into the enchanting world of a sunny morning. With 7 world premiere recordings of old and new music, recorded in a mountain church at 1059m altitude with special acoustics and a 192-page booklet, this album will be released on 01 June - in a luxury edition as a hardcover in half-linen binding with gold relief, thread stitching, headband and a woven ribbon bookmark in separate German and English editions.
The booklet, designed as a fairy tale book, contains musicological texts for all musical works, accompanied by a photographic journey through southern Austria to enchanting places, biographical information about all participants, an exclusive interview with Luca Pianca and Wolfgang Mitterer, and, fitting with the morning and Bach's 'Coffee Aria': 1 coffee and 1 breakfast recipe. Music for all the senses.
Early 'New' Music: Never heard by modern ears.
New 'Early' Music: Contemporary works inspired by old masters.
Musically, the album is dedicated to the search for the old in the new and the new in the old. The year 1607 gives meaning and name to the ensemble and all its projects: The performance of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in 1607 in the Sala dei Fiumi of the Ducal Palace in Mantua entered music history. Like a key that unlocks a door, this work opened new musical worlds. Here the ancient prima pratica and modern seconda pratica are brought to perfection. Tradition and revolution unite in one of the pivotal moments of history.
As a special feature, Early Music Bird surprises with a musical and digital world premiere: a Digital Animated Booklet. With a haptic screen design, animated illustrations and videos instead of a few photos, this booklet looks like a kind of musical 'Harry Potter newspaper'.
The music can be heard directly in the booklet, and the texts of the works can be listened to as audio dramas with sound design by Headroom publishing.
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