Der blinde Spiegel

Die späte Welt

Lost and Found

for Ensemble 

- Vertigo
- Uncle Neil
- Early
- My Old Shoes
- Fake News
- Late

played by the Sepia Ensemble (2019 and 2024)

Lost and Found

wie ist die welt so stille

Composition based on a text out of Marcel Proust's "A la recherche du temps perdu" focussing slowness, looseness and silence.
For Soprano, Violin, Double Bass, Accordeon, 2 Alto Saxophones and Trombone. 

... ohnmächtige Trauer...

Ein Individuum am Rande - untrennbar mit der Gesellschaft verbunden und doch abseits, verunsichert und einsam, Schritt für Schritt immer weiter in Verzweiflung und Wahnsinn stolpernd...

Mit Textfragmenten aus der Erzählung "Lenz" von Georg Büchner

Stimme: Ludwig Klossek
Produktion: Reinhard Karger


An outsider individual - entangled irreversibly with society and yet far off, insecure and lonely, stumbling step by step towards desperation and madness...

With text fragments from the novel "Lenz" by Georg Büchner

Voice: Ludwig Klossek
Production: Reinhard Karger

abseits

"Die späte Welt" (movement two)

for mixed choir (Cantiamo Kassel), soprano solo (Traudl Schmaderer), mandoline (Gertrud Weyhofen) and double bass (Kerstin Matern)


Schönster Ort

"Die späte Welt" (movement three)

for mixed choir (Cantiamo Kassel), soprano solo (Traudl Schmaderer), mandoline (Gertrud Weyhofen) and double bass (Kerstin Matern)


Die Späte Welt

"Die späte Welt" (movement four)

for mixed choir (Cantiamo Kassel), soprano solo (Traudl Schmaderer), mandoline (Gertrud Weyhofen) and double bass (Kerstin Matern)


Dort Oben

"Die späte Welt" (movement five)

for mixed choir (Cantiamo Kassel), soprano solo (Traudl Schmaderer), mandoline (Gertrud Weyhofen) and double bass (Kerstin Matern)


Meine Seele

"Die späte Welt" (movement one)

for mixed choir (Cantiamo Kassel), soprano solo (Traudl Schmaderer), mandoline (Gertrud Weyhofen) and double bass (Kerstin Matern)


Die Opffer

A fifteen part cycle of piano solo pieces inspired by the "penrose patterns", a unique geometrical structure invented by the british mathematician Sir Roger Penrose.

Performed by Hellmuth Vivell

the penrose piano book of pentatonic secrets - track 1

For eight-voice mixed choir, inspired by the choral of Johann Sebastian Bach

Performed by Vocalensemble Kassel,
conductor Hans Darmstadt

Komm, O Tod, Du Schlafes Bruder

Fourteen violins defining a multidimensional landscape.

Landschaft 2024 (Version Von "Alphabet 87 - for Morton Feldman")

Early (lost And Found, Poznan 26.5.24) Kopie

Fake News (lost and found, Poznan 26.5.24) Kopie

Barfuß auf dem Eise -eine Winterreise

Franz Schubert / Sparbier Band

Joachim Berger, voice
Reinhard Karger, Kexboard
Jürgen Wehner, guitar
Tilman Scheer, marimba

Recording by WDR Köln, 11/27/1994 in Münster

15 Audiospur

14 Audiospur

13 Audiospur

12 Audiospur

11 Audiospur

10 Audiospur

1 Audiospur

Pretty Bad Tones 1988 (Gerd Koch - Gitarre + Stimme, Hugo Scholz - Bluesharp, Didi Wilhelm - Bass, Reinhard Karger - Keyboards, Michael Rappold - Drums)

Help Me / Pretty Bad Tones

Frozen Hamburger / Pretty Bad Tones (Ausschnitt)

chamber music piece for clarinet, vibraphone and piano (2009)
after a text from "Johannistag" by Charles Lewinswky

Sie saß in der Nachmittagssonne und rauchte  (2009)

Alphabet 87, a piece of mine for 11 virtual violins, written for Morton Feldman after his death in 1987.
Usually, it is performed in a complex spacial situation with many speakers, but I also imagine it to be a nice soundtrack for video or film, so if you have an idea, go ahead!

May 2012 Reinhard Karger 

Alphabet 87 (for Morton Feldman)

Der blinde Spiegel 
(Satz 1)

Streichquartett (für Joseph Roth)

von Reinhard Karger 2011

Es spielt das Pacific Quartet Vienna

Der blinde Spiegel Satz 1

Der blinde Spiegel
(Satz 2+3)

Streichquartett (für Joseph Roth)

von Reinhard Karger 2011

Es spielt das Pacific Quartet Vienna

Der blinde Spiegel Satz 2+3

Der blinde Spiegel
(Satz 4)

Streichquartett (für Joseph Roth)

von Reinhard Karger 2011

Es spielt das Pacific Quartet Vienna

Der blinde Spiegel Satz 4

Composition for 11 Instruments played by the Sepia Ensemble Poznan on April 4 2019

Lost and Found - Vertigo

Composition performed by the Sepia Ensemble Poznan on April 4 2019

Lost and Found - Uncle Neil

Lost and Found - My Old Shoes

For Soprano solo and female choir

Text from "Der Mond ist aufgegangen" by Matthias Claudius and "Vollmond" by Else Lasker-Schüler

Performed by Traudl Schmaderer and vocEterna

leise schwimmt der mond durch mein blut

der weiße nebel wunderbar

ich kann deine lippen nicht finden

Hörstück von Reinhard Karger

Stimmen: Yuchun Huang und Reinhard Karger

Keiner weiß was

Reinhard Karger, composer and director

born 5-3-1953 in Tübingen (Germany)

Studies in composition, electronic music and theatre with
Erhard Karkoschka (Musikhochschule Stuttgart), 
Gottfried Michael Koenig(Instituut voor Sonologie Utrecht),
Morton Subotnick (California Institute of the Arts Los Angeles)
and Brian Ferneyhough (Musikhochschule Freiburg)

Main fields of activity: 
Compositions for chamber ensembles and all kinds of vocal settings,
multimedia concert and theatre projects in the field of language - voice - scenical display.


From 2005 to 2008 professor for contemporary music and music theatre at the University in Kassel (Germany),
since 2008 professor for composition with emphasis on new media at the
University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, from 2011 to 2013 head of the 
Institute of Composition and Electroacoustics. 


Reinhard Karger

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