Steffen Schleiermacher: "The fingernose lacks the skull cap"

Steffen Schleiermacher (*1960) Der Fingernase fehlt die Schädeldecke (The fingernose Lacks the Skull Cap) for twelve voices
Based on texts by Barbara Suckfüll, August Klett, and others (Prinzhorn Collection, Heidelberg University Hospital)

Composition commissioned by KlangForum Heidelberg e.V. 2005, premiere Heidelberg 2005

First recording 2006

SCHOLA HEIDELBERG

Carola Keil, soprano 1
Katharina Hagopian, soprano 2
Uta Krause, soprano 3
Truike van der Poel, alto 1
Julie Comparini, alto 2
Barbara Ostertag, alto 3
Ansgar Eimann, tenor 1
Jörg Deutschewitz, tenor 2
Sebastian Hübner, tenor 3
Erik Sohn, bass 1
Frank Schaab, bass 2
Martin Backhaus, bass 3

Conductor Walter Nußbaum

“Walter Nußbaum brought the art of the Prinzhorn Collection in Heidelberg to my attention years ago.” (Steffen Schleiermacher)