Christian Jost: Pieces of A Dream Simon Höfele, Frank Dupree, Christoph Sietzen

• Christian Jost (b. 1963): Is It Safe (Pt. 1):
• 1 Jost: Is It Safe (Pt. 1) 02:32
• Is It Safe (Pt. 2):
• 2 Jost: Is It Safe (Pt. 2) 02:19
• Is It Safe (Pt. 3):
• 3 Jost: Is It Safe (Pt. 3) 02:48
• Is It Safe (Pt. 4):
• 4 Jost: Is It Safe (Pt. 4) 01:58
• Come to Me (Pt. 1):
• 5 Jost: Come to Me (Pt. 1) 02:57
• Come to Me (Pt. 2):
• 6 Jost: Come to Me (Pt. 2) 02:42
• Come to Me (Pt. 3):
• 7 Jost: Come to Me (Pt. 3) 03:13
• Come to Me (Pt. 4):
• 8 Jost: Come to Me (Pt. 4) 03:18
• Driven by a Strange Desire (Pt. 1):
• 9 Jost: Driven by a Strange Desire (Pt. 1) 02:43
• Driven by a Strange Desire (Pt. 2).
• 10 Jost: Driven by a Strange Desire (Pt. 2) 03:38
• Driven by a Strange Desire (Pt. 3):
• 11 Jost: Driven by a Strange Desire (Pt. 3) 04:43
• Driven by a Strange Desire (Pt. 4):
• 12 Jost: Driven by a Strange Desire (Pt. 4) 03:12
• In My Dreams It's All Alive (Pt. 1):
• 13 Jost: In My Dreams It's All Alive (Pt. 1) 03:48
• In My Dreams It's All Alive (Pt. 2):
• 14 Jost: In My Dreams It's All Alive (Pt. 2) 03:58
• In My Dreams It's All Alive (Pt. 3):
• 15 Jost: In My Dreams It's All Alive (Pt. 3) 03:19
• In My Dreams It's All Alive (Pt. 4):
• 16 Jost: In My Dreams It's All Alive (Pt. 4) 02:11
• Total Runtime 49:19

Info for Christian Jost: Pieces of A Dream

An emotional journey: The suite in four pieces, each in four parts, conveys different moods of great emotional depth in its complex compositions, which complement each other from movement to movement. "Is It Safe", which seems to float, is gently harmonious, "Come To Me", which nevertheless ends gently, is increasingly urgent, "Driven By A Strange Desire" is highly dramatic in passages and "In My Dreams It's All Alive" closes the circle as if in a glass sphere.

"Christian Jost tells his own story and takes the listener on an emotional journey full of intensity and beauty," says the press release, and that's exactly how you feel during the 50 captivating, enveloping, intimate minutes. A wonderful experience.

Simon Höfele, flugelhorn, trumpet
Frank Dupree, piano
Christoph Sietzen, vibraphone, percussion
Christian Jost, composer

Christian Jost
The composer and conductor Christian Jost has played a decisive role in shaping contemporary music over the last 20 years. Awarded the Siemens Promotion Prize in 2003, his ten full-length operas and a large number of large symphonic works have been premiered by such important opera houses and orchestras as the Zurich Opera, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Grafenegg Festival, the Theater an der Wien, the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, the Flemish Opera Antwerp/Ghent, the Komische Oper Berlin and the Grand Theatre de Geneva, the Taiwan Philharmonic and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and are now part of the repertoire of European stages and international orchestras.

His music follows the idea of ​​structural improvisation, which develops as a process from musical germ cells. An organic structure that is referred to in jazz as the third way - Modern Creative. Christian Jost's works are always about organic flow and living breathing.

The transformation of the freedom and groove of jazz and the strict structure of classical or new music into an independent form.

Always on the lookout for modern and exciting narrative levels, Jost has developed new, innovative works for musical theater, which he creates in a magical dramaturgy that dissolves time and space. Examples of this include the operas EGMONT, RED LATERN, THE ARABIAN NIGHT, HAMLET and REISE DER HOFFNUNG-VOYAGE VERS L'ESPOIR, as well as DICHTERLIEBE, newly composed after Robert Schumann, and the NOCTURNAL PROJECT with the German jazz pianist Michael Wollny.

Since the 2015/16 season, Christian Jost has been the curator and moderator for the concert series "2xhören" at the Konzerthaus Berlin. His works are published exclusively by SCHOTT-Music and have been released on CD by Deutsche Grammophon, BerlinClassics and Capricio.

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