Heiner Goebbels Black on White

A musical play with the Ensemble Modern by Heiner Goebbels who has a genius for creating truly theatrical musical events.

This recording was made under studio conditions and featured members of the internationally acclaimed Ensemble Modern, with whom he developed Black on White. They are both the players and performers in the highly original piece, a tribute to the playwright and director Heiner Müller, who died in 1995. At its heart is a recording of Müller reading Poe’s ‘parable of death’, Shadow. Around this, Goebbels creates a striking web of interlocking musical episodes.

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Cat. No.: 109391 (DVD)

Genre Music theatre
Recording location Theater am Turm in the Bockenheimer Depot, Frankfurt
Production year 1996
Duration 59 mins
Video format DVD / NTSC
Audio format PCM Stereo
Director Manfred Waffender, Heiner Goebbels
Composer Heiner Goebbels
Orchestra / Band Ensemble Modern
Soloist Dietmar Wiesner, Catherine Milliken, Roland Diry, Wolfgang Stryi, Noriko Shimada, Franck Ollu, William Forman, Uwe Dierksen, Rumi Ogawa-Helferich, Rainer Römer, Hermann Ketzschmar, Ueli Wiget, Jagdish Mistry, Peter Rundel, Freya Kirby, Lila Brown, Eva Böcker, Thomas Fichter