*06.12.1954, Schaffhausen
"Composing is circling around a center that one cannot quite reach. In the end, dissatisfaction remains – that then becomes the next work."
"Art is world experience, is knowledge, is emotional education. But for that one also needs the awareness that one simply hasn't understood some things yet. That's how it is for me too. And that doesn't just concern new music. Mozart too will never be fully understood."
Beat Furrer
(Quotes: Interview with Maria Scholl for APA, Source: www.oe1.orf.at)
Beat Furrer explores music in all its sound spaces and dimensions. Each work is created anew from an attitude of exploring unknown possibilities. The piano is again an important subject in his works, both solo and chamber music. Among his most important piano compositions are the Piano Concerto (2007), Phasma (2002) and the "Three Piano Pieces" (2003/2004).
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"We don't need to know, we must be open, we must discover a new world."
"There have never been so many composers as there are today, and of course there are many good composers. What one can complain about is music education in schools; above all, the language must be learned, and tradition must be understood."
Beat Furrer
Source: Prime Time Russia TV - youtube
Piano Concerto (2007)
Nicolas Hodges - piano; WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, dir. Peter Rundel.
Study for Piano (2011)
Nicolas Hodges - piano
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Voiceslessnes - The Snow Has No Voice (1986), 3 pianostücke (2004), Phasma (2002)
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Nicolas Hodges - piano
Kairos 2005
Recordings of Chamber Music and the Piano Concerto
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Künstler: Petra Hoffmann, Eva Furrer, Benjamin Kobler, Ekkehard Windrich, Ringela Riemke, Tora Augestad, Uli Fussenegger, Nicolas Hodges
Kairos 2008
"Spur" for Piano and String Quartet (1998)
Frank Gutschrmidt - piano, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin
Presto (1998) (from Nuun - 1996)
Eva Furrer - flute, Marino Formenti - piano
ARIA (2001)
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Petra Hoffmann (soprano), Lucas Fels (Cello), Christian Dierstein (Perkussion), Shizuyo Oka (clarinet), Barbara Maurer (Viola), Klaus Steffes-Holländer (piano) und Melise Melliger (violin)
An exciting insight into the thinking of the composer gives the Beat Furrer Master Class at IRCAM (2016) (2 hours of video)
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Many more pieces of information can be found on Beat Furrer's official website:
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Beat Furrer: Composer of the Week No. 30 / May 2019
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