Biessonnitza Insomnia Maacha Deubner & KAPmodern-Ensemble

• Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931): Letter to the Poetess Rimma Dalo:
• 1 Gubaidulina: Letter to the Poetess Rimma Dalo: No. 1, — 01:45
• 2 Gubaidulina: Letter to the Poetess Rimma Dalo: No. 2, — 02:45
• Elena Firsova (b. 1950):
• 3 Firsova: Sorrows, Op. 145 08:41
• 4 Firsova: Starry Flute, Op. 56 06:13
• Elena Firsova: Towards the Starlight, Op. 173:
• 5 Firsova: Towards the Starlight, Op. 173: No 1, Hate the Starlight’s 03:13
• 6 Firsova: Towards the Starlight, Op. 173: No. 2, How Slow the Horses Go 03:04
• 7 Firsova: Towards the Starlight, Op. 173: No. 3, To Read Only Children’s Books 07:44
• Elena Firsova:
• 8 Firsova: For Slava, Op. 120a 04:29
• Edison Denisov (1929 - 1996): At the Turning Point:
• 9 Denisov: At the Turning Point: No. 1, Night 00:47
• 10 Denisov: At the Turning Point: No. 2, The Name of God 01:15
• 11 Denisov: At the Turning Point: No. 3, Winterly Journey 02:45
• 12 Denisov: At the Turning Point: No. 4, Silence 03:22
• 13 Silvestrov: Bessonnitsa 05:02
• Elena Firsova:
• 14 Firsova: On the Path to Winter, Op. 180 06:27
• Elena Firsova: From Voronezh Notebooks, Op. 121:
• 15 Firsova: From Voronezh Notebooks, Op. 121: No. 1, Prelude 02:50
• 16 Firsova: From Voronezh Notebooks, Op. 121: No. 2, Greens 03:51
• 17 Firsova: From Voronezh Notebooks, Op. 121: No. 3, A Cat 02:49
• 18 Firsova: From Voronezh Notebooks, Op. 121: No. 4, The Sky 04:20
• 19 Firsova: From Voronezh Notebooks, Op. 121: No. 5, Into the Sky 03:09
• 20 Firsova: From Voronezh Notebooks, Op. 121: No. 6, Madness 08:17
• Total Runtime 01:22:48

Info for Biessonnitza Insomnia

The musicians working with soprano Maacha Deubner take us to exotic worlds of sound on their new GENUIN album, which is exclusively comprised of world premiere recordings. These include works by the Russian composer Elena Firsova and fellow composers, set in dialogue with the oeuvre of the poet Ossip Mandelstam. In addition to Firsova's works, we make acquaintance with music by Sofia Gubaidulina, Edison Denisov, and Valentin Silvestrov. Maacha Deubner and her colleagues from the KAPmodern ensemble of the Kammerakademie Potsdam devote themselves to the invariably highly expressive music, performing it with great seriousness and mastery.

Maacha Deubner, Sopran
KAPmodern-Ensemble

Maacha Deubner
Born in Freiburg, Germany, soprano Maacha Deubner studied in Hamburg with Judith Beckmann and has established herself as an excellent interpreter of 20th and 21st-century repertoire, documented on numerous CDs and radio productions.

Maacha Deubner has performed extensively in Europe and the USA, including appearances at the Berliner Festwochen, Göttingen Handel Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival (Austria), Wien Modern, NYDD Festival in Tallinn (Estonia), West Cork Chamber Music Festival (Ireland) and Lucerne Festival. At Carnegie Hall in New York she sang in the world premiere of Giya Kancheli’s Lament for violin, soprano and orchestra together with Gidon Kremer.

She collaborated with conductors such as Vladimir Jurowski, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Michael Gielen, Valery Gergiev, Kurt Masur, Andres Mustonen, and with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and Staats kapelle Berlin, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, and many others.

The Silvestrov-CD Leggiero, pesante with the Rosamunde Quartet received a Grammy Award nomination in 2003, and in 2007 her recording of Ernst Krenek’s opera Sardakai (Capriccio) with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra was awarded the Echo Classical Award.

Booklet for Biessonnitza Insomnia