DARK ALLEGORY: Vladimír Hirsch - Symphony No.4 "Descent From The Cross" (2008)

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Vladimír Hirsch - Symphony No.4 "Descent From The Cross" (2008)

Symphony for integrated orchestra and choir, composed between 2001-2005, with the subtitle "Descent From The Cross". Thematic opus, inspired originally by Dostoevski’s interpretation of Hans Holbein's painting of same name. The atmosphere is a deeply immersive and sharply painful, with a tragic mpact at the beginning, yet intimate inclination to hope in the end of the work. The album combines expressive means ranging from symphonic to noise, but attains unity and a fully homogenous structure. performed by Czech Integrated Ensemble & Choir, Vladimír Hirsch and soloists Martina Sanollová and Dominika Karčovská.

The album was released separately, but also as a part of the box-set collection of Vladimír Hirsch's solo works "The Assent To Paradoxon".

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Vladimír Hirsch is a Czech composer, instrumentalist and sound experimenter, integrating modern classical, industrial and dark ambient music with a genre overlap conception. Besides creating solo works, he is the leading personality of bands and projects Skrol, Aghiatrias, Zygote (CZ), Luminar Ax, Subpop Squeeze, and Tiria. He was a member (keyboard player and vocalist) of experimental post-punk group Der Marabu (1986-95). His style is characterized by polymodal architectonics and the usage of digital technique to enhance sonic means of expression, where modern classical elements fuse within a dark experimental soundscape.

Skrol is a martial industrial-neoclassical band, formed in 1995. It consists of composer and keyboard player Vladimír Hirsch, singer Martina Sanollová and a non performing members, Tom Saivon, who provides noise structures and lyrics. The music is based on integration of neoclassical compositional principles into industrial structures, with heavy rhythms, symphonic arrangement of electronics, classical organ, strings and brasses. Ecstatic and igneous expression of the singer crowns intense atmosphere and original musical language of the band.