Tempora

‘Th e phenomenon of tone arises from “primal sound”’, according to composer Klaus Huber. With his violin concerto, Tempora, he starts at the very beginning of music. Genesis, the fi rst movement, initially portrays silence. Huber develops a complex acoustic space through the addition of noises, notes and sounds, whose boundaries open into indeterminateness in the second movement, which serves as a kind of interior view of the human soul. In the process, the composer consciously uses, according to universal characteristics, the entire tonal range of each instrument, including quarter tones and such notes as result, for example, when overblowing a fl ute. Th e violin has, according to Huber, a ‘symbiotic relationship’ with the orchestra. We would like to recommend Tempora to you on the 100th birthday of Klaus Huber, whom the musical world celebrates on 30 November 2024.