Utwory na płycie:

• Prolog: Oliver Twist
• Traumkinder
• Big City
• Dies Gefühl
• Lauf nicht davon
• Schatten und Licht
• Ich brauche mehr!
• Hier fühle ich mich frei
• In den Gassen der Stadt
• Allein, allein
• Epilog: Olivers Tagebuch

Prologue - Oliver Twist
Dreamkids
Big City
This feeling
Don't run away
Shadow and Light
I need more!
Here I feel free
In the streets of the city
Alone, alone
Epilogue - Oliver's diary

"The orchestral piece "Oliver Twist Now - Symphonic Pictures", which I composed between November 2020 and February 2021, is based on a musical for children's and youth choir, which I had already successfully performed several times in 2016 as a stage work with choir, soloists and a six-piece instrumental cast.

A great inspiration for my nearly one-hour orchestral composition were the works of Stephen Sondheim (musical), Danny Elfman (film music) as well as many classical models from Richard Strauss to Dimitri Shostakovich.

When working on the orchestral pieces, there were two main challenges for me: First, I didn't want to just create a blownup orchestral version from the small original, i.e., simply distribute the already existing notes among 40 instruments. Since I had decided on a large, romantic orchestra (expanded with electronic organ, piano and extensive percussion), it was important to me that the large orchestra interprets the musical numbers in a new way, elicits new facets from them and also makes use of compositional possibilities that one does not have with six solo instruments. The second challenge was that one should not have the feeling of missing something while listening.

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Recording: November 2021 - January 2022.