Format : Accompaniment CD
SKU: BR.EB-9387
ISBN 9790004188576. 0 x 0 inches.
Commissioned by the Kolner Philharmonie (KolnMusik) for the non bthvn projekt 2020 and the Cite de la musique / Philharmonie de Paris Dedicated to Arditti Quartet Each movement of this quartet explores a single state, its lights and its shadows. Each movement, you could say, is a moment . And these moments could last for more or less time without compromising their essential nature. The processes could be extended or compressed, repeated or reversed, but the core ideas - if they are ideas, but maybe they are simply experiences? - are what they are. Despite this, the precise sequence of movements matters a great deal. Heard together they do articulate some kind of linear narrative, maybe even a metaphorical journey (albeit a circular one where the arrival might, who knows, prove to be a new departure). One situation gives way to another and instrumental relationships within the quartet vary, but ultimately the imaginative impulse behind the piece preferences states of unity. Whether or not this unity is expressed texturally - sometimes literal unisons pervade, but not always - there is generally a sense that even seemingly diverse aspects relate to a fundamental condition of concord: a conscious limitation in the pitch structure to spectral emanations of the root notes E-flat and C. At the opening this is unambiguously audible in the perpetual alternation of these two notes in the low cello register. Later the two spectra are woven into a micro-tonal 'double-spectral-mode' (derived from the first 24 partials of the C and E-flat fundamentals), which defines the subtle melodic inflection of the second movement, and the never-quite-chromatic ascending scales of the third. For now this feels like a rich source of melodic possibility, so far only just glimpsed... And why the insistence on E-flat? Probably by way of historical anecdote. Apparently Karl Holz (a member of the Schuppanzigh Quartet) said to Beethoven: We performed your Quartet in E-flat Op. 127 in his [Weber's] honour; he found the Adagio too long; but I told him: Beethoven also has a longer feeling and a longer imagination than anyone standing or not standing today. - Since then, even Linke (another member of the quartet) can no longer stand him: we cannot forgive him for this. Listening again to Op. 127, in light of these comments, I was struck by the opening moment: the unfolding of an E-flat 7th chord over the course of a few bars. Every time I hear it I find myself wishing that Beethoven would have lingered longer there, without resolution or progression, just enjoying that sonority. And maybe - why not? - tune the 7th naturally. And what would it be to stretch that moment into an entire piece? What would Weber think of that?! In the end I was not so extreme in my self-limitation, and other concerns took over, but it was from these thoughts that the composition process began... Lastly, about the title: it comes from a book called 'The Clock of the Long Now' by Stewart Brand, published at the turn of the millennium. It's about the creation of a thousand-year clock to embody the aspiration to thinking in terms of longer time-spans than are presently habitual. If the music of Beethoven embodied a 'longer' feeling and imagination than some of his contemporaries were able to appreciate, what is our relation to time now? Longer or shorter? Maybe it depends who you ask... It's probably more extreme in both directions: attention spans might be diminishing in the digital world, but conversely there is an awareness of distant pasts and potential futures which would have been inconceivable at the time of Beethoven. In any case, the interesting thing is to ponder how societal conditions, assumptions and expectations might - whether consciously or unconsciously - influence the time of art, for listeners and creators alike. And what if time is running out? (Christian Mason)World premiere: Paris, Cite de la musique, January 14, 2020.
SKU: BR.EB-9414
ISBN 9790004188880. 10.5 x 14 inches.
Das Stuck stellt fur mich einen von verschiedenen Versuchen dar, aus einem streng punktuellen Musikdenken herauszufinden, mit dem ich mich seit meinem Studium bei Luigi Nono identifiziert hatte und dem ich auf meine eigene Weise treu zu bleiben entschlossen war, besonders in jener Zeit, als sich die sogenannte Avantgarde mehr und mehr auf surrealistische Kompromisse mit der burgerlichen Bequemlichkeit einzulassen schien. Die Besetzung - Klarinette, Bratsche und Schlagzeug (Marimbaphon mit Almglocken, Becken, Pauke und Bongos) - gewahrleistete eine homogene Ausgangsbasis der instrumentalen Mittel, von wo aus einerseits eine Art Klang-Gestik - das heisst enger oder weiter verzweigte Tonfigurationen - sich entwickeln liess, wahrend andererseits die Klangdifferenzierung nach innen weiter getrieben werden konnte bis hinein in die bewusstgemachte Anatomie des entstehenden (geblasenen, geschlagenen, geriebenen, gestrichenen, gezupften, getupften usw.) Tones. Zwischen diesen beiden Gegensatzen - Verflussigung des punktuell Gedachten hier und seiner Versteinerung beziehungsweise inneren Aufbrechung, Offnung dort - bewegt sich diese Musik: Gegensatze, die ich in spateren Werken bis in radikale Extreme weitergetrieben habe, wahrend hier das Ganze noch einem eher abstrakt-spielerischen Gesamtcharakter verpflichtet bleibt. (Helmut Lachenmann, 1989) Trio fluido , noch vor dem Schlagzeugsolostuck Interieur I, meinem Opus 1, entstanden, gehort einer Schaffensphase an, die noch streng strukturalistisch gepragt war, in der also ausschliesslich am akustischen Material orientierte Beziehungen und Entwicklungen kompositorisch gesteuert wurden. Was immer in diesem Stuck an Spielerischem einerseits, an Verfremdung und Klangzersetzung andererseits zu finden ist, ergab sich aus der Anwendung von solchen immanent orientierten Gesetzmassigkeiten, war also nirgends Gegenstand von expressiver Spekulation. Formal hat man es mit einer vielfach gebrochenen, aber insgesamt zugleich steigenden und fallenden Kurve zu tun: Auf dem Hintergrund scheinbar lose aufgereihter Abschnitte kehren sich mehr und mehr extreme Materialeigenschaften hervor, schliessen sich zusammen, bewirken insgesamt eine Zuspitzung, die umschlagt in den Kontrast eines statischen, durch innere Fluktuationen belebten Feldes. Dieses zerfasert sich seinerseits bis zum Schluss, wobei hinter den Tonfiguren die Gerauschkomponenten, hinter diesen die Erfahrung von der korperlichen Beschaffenheit des klingenden Stoffes und dahinter die auf solche Weise entleerte Zeit freigelegt, bewusstgemacht und in den musikalischen Zusammenhang eingegliedert wird. Strukturelles Musizieren: Das ist eine paradoxe Vorstellung. In Trio fluido entdeckt und nutzt die Musik selbst diesen Widerspruch. Mit der zunehmenden Auflosung (und zugleich der instrumentaltechnischen Ausuferung im Schlagzeug) schalen sich jene andere Materialwahrnehmung und daran gebundene Expressivitat heraus, die in meinen spateren Werken, zuerst in temA, Air und Klangschatten Ausgangshaltung bedeuteten, um die Reflexion der Bedingungen des Horens und Musizierens ins Horen selbst mit einzubeziehen. (Helmut Lachenmann, 1993) CD: Uwe Mockel, Barbara Maurer, Christian Dierstein CD Montaigne Auvidis MO 782023 Bibliography: Brunner , Eduard: krawall im saal. Eduard Brunner uber seine Erfahrungen mit der Musik von Helmut Lachenmann und die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Komponisten, in: Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik 167 (2006), Heft 1, p. 32f.World premiere: Munich, March 5, 1968.
SKU: BR.EB-9233
World premiere: Witten, April 25, 2015
ISBN 9790004185155. 0 x 0 inches.
The piece is about observing the most diverse anxiety states in extreme degrees of emotional intensity, from slight distress up to acute panic attacks. What interests me here is not merely the musical realization of these phenomena, but grasping the energetic nature of those psycho-physical processes, emotions, reflexes, and proceedings. To this end, I'm seeking, at the clarinet myself, for an intimate sound world where expanded styles of playing in a flexible and permanently moving context appear. A very intensive music of the nerves, with a broad palette of psycho-physical emotions that, found in myself and my surroundings, are made audible. The title Psychogramm II has (as always) a subtitle: rettegos (fearful). In the order of increasingly emotional anxiety words, this stands for the highest level and means very great, profound anxiety, though in a grammatical form not in fact devitalizing the serious idea, but mitigating it a bit, not entirely without humor and somewhat childishly. (Marton Illes, 2015)World premiere: Witten, April 25, 2015.
SKU: HL.14032192
ISBN 9788759858394. 12.0x16.5x0.78 inches. International (more than one language).
Symphony No. 6 for orchestra, 1997-99. Preface / Program Note:... with the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like a day(New Testament, 2 Peter 3:8)My SYMPHONY NO. 6 was commissioned by the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Gteborg Symphony Orchestra and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, to be premiered at the millenium 2000.The subtitle AT THE END OF THE DAY can be understood literally or it can mean when all is added up. However, in my opinion, nothing ever quite adds up, there is always something missing, any ending will be provisional ...This symphony appears to end only a few minutes into the first movement, the first passage, as the music fades away to almost-silence, after a start of flying colours. But then there is still something, a small motive (first heard in the initial sound-waves) which reappears, hesitant, but persistent, and this embryo is what leads on the musical progression. An agitated section of many instrumental voices comes next, until all the voices become obsessed with the same phrase, a see-saw motive based on thirds. This section evolves into almost martial ferocity, when broken off by a tutti descent into an extreme bass-world (a bass-world which actually permeates the whole symphony, emplyoing instruments that I have never used before: double-bass tuba, double-bass trombone, double-bass clarinet, and bass flute).The second movement, the second passage, apparently takes off where the first passage ended, but now the events are more ambiguous, and the same music may be perceived as fast-moving one moment and slow-moving the next. This section is a kind of passacaglia, the characteristic baroque bass-variation.Without a break follows the third and last passage, in a contrasting high register. The music is rhythmically knotty as well as freely flowing. As in the beginning of the symphony, a never-ending descent or fall breaks off the events, and at the very end a delta of new beginnings, of other worlds, is revealed ....The symphony is dedicated to Helle, my wife. - Per Norgard.
SKU: BR.EB-9065
World premiere: New York, October 2, 1989
ISBN 9790004179406. 9 x 12 inches.
Allen vier Stucken gemeinsam ist der Versuch, die expressiven Moglichkeiten des Akkordeons zu steigern durch konsequente Behandlung des Balg-Rhythmus als selbstandigen Parameter, unabhangig vom Tonhohen-/Tasten-Rhythmus. Dies kann im Extremfall bis zur Uberlagerung verschiedener divisiver Innengliederungen und damit zum Entstehen eines dritten, irrationalen Rhythmus fuhren. Die beiden ,,ausseren (I, IV) bzw. die beiden ,,inneren Stucke (II, III) sind jeweils gedanklich und auf der Materialebene eng miteinander verbunden. Dieser Anordnung entspricht die symmetrische Tondisposition der Stucke I und IV, die durch mehrfache Spiegelungen aus einem Allintervallakkord entwickelt ist. Die Stucke II und III versuchen, die Intervallstrukturen nach innen zu kehren und bis zum Cluster einzuebnen. Dementsprechend erstreckt sich die Vielfalt der Ausdrucksebenen vom herausgepressten fff-,,Schrei bis zum zart schwingenden, ins Innere gerichteten ppp-,,Gesang. Die Stucke (sie dauern zwischen einer und ungefahr funf Minuten) stellen so den Versuch dar, in kurzen Formen mit moglichst knappen Formulierungen die Extreme rigoroser Harte einerseits und einer fast anmutigen Leichtigkeit und Zartheit andererseits miteinander in Verbindung zu bringen. Die Schlechten furchten deine Klaue. Die Guten freuen sich deiner Grazie. Derlei Harte hatte ich gern von meinem Vers. (B. Brecht: Auf einen chinesischen Teewurzellowen) CD: Teodoro Anzellotti (accordeon) CD Cavalli Records CCD 247World premiere: New York, October 2, 1989.
SKU: BR.EB-9091
World premiere: Saarbrucken (Musik im 20. Jahrhundert), May 20, 1993
ISBN 9790004179635. 9 x 12 inches.
Ohne Hoelderlin was written for Saarbrucken's festival Musik im 20. Jahrhundert. The two instruments devote themselves to exploring the multi-faceted possibilities of mixing and blending their sounds until they reach a table-shoving coda, which closes the work with extreme vehemence. CD: ensemble reflexion K, cond. Gerald Eckert CD COV 91509World premiere: Saarbrucken (Musik im 20. Jahrhundert), May 20, 1993.
SKU: BR.PB-5411-07
World premiere: Graz (Steirischer Herbst), October 10, 1991
ISBN 9790004209837. 8.5 x 21.5 inches.
Getraumt wurde 1989/90 im Auftrag des Deutschen Musikrates komponiert und kann entweder von 36 Frauenstimmen oder 36 Mannerstimmen aufgefuhrt werden. Die Komposition verwendet isolierte Fragmente, die dem Gedicht ,,Nachtflug von Ingeborg Bachmann entnommen sind.Der Gedanke der kompositorischen Verwendung eines homogenen vokalen Klangapparats von vielen solistischen Stimmen, der ahnlich einem ,,Tausendfussler funktionieren sollte, d.h. trotz maximaler Individualisierung der einzelnen Glieder die Scharfe der zentralen Integration nicht verliert, war grundlegend fur dieses Werk. Nicht die Semantik, sondern die Klanglichkeit der Worter, deren Atomisierung, die assoziativen Verbindungen unterschiedlicher Partikel die Isolation und Hervorhebung einzelner Phoneme, standen bei der Komposition im Vordergrund. Die ,,ecriture der im Kreis um den Horer platzierten 36 Stimmen (in der Partitur auf 9 Gruppen zu je 4 Stimmen verteilt) versucht die auskomponierten Raume und die entsprechenden Klangwanderungen wie in einem ,,pulsierenden Ozean schwebender Klange maximal zu differenzieren. So gibt es z. B. in den Takten 50-53 der Partitur elf verschiedene Farbflachenarten, die sich verzahnen: 1) Farbmischung von: gesungen und geflustert auf ,,R 2) knarrende Stimme 3) Sprechgesang-Impulse in den extremen Lagen, so schnell wie moglich 4) Mischung von: a) Schnalzen in Richtung Gaumen, Mundstellung offen/zu, b) Lippengerausch ahnlich dem Gerausch eines Korkenziehers, c) Schnalzen in Richtung vordere Zahne, Mundstellung offen/zu, und d) knarrende Stimme 5) Pfeifimpulse 6) Pfeifen mit gleichzeitigem Sprechgesang, glissando 7) Pfeifen mit gleichzeitiger Singstimme, glissando 8) rhythmisiertes Alternieren von Schnalzen in Richtung vordere Zahne, Mundstellung offen/zu 9) Flustern mit Handvibrato 10) Singstimme auf ,,a 11) ,,Einatmen-Ausatmen-Impulse Das Schleudern der Gerauschpartikel durch den 36kopfigen Klangapparat beruht auch auf Kategorien visueller Dimension: dem Einbeziehen von Nahe und Weite, Linie und Flache, Oszillation und Stillstand, Richtungsanderung oder Pendeln der Klange. In letzter Konsequenz will die Komposition die Illusion eines expandierenden Klangraumes mit migrierenden Punkten und Figuren schaffen. So wird die Partitur zu einer ,,Landkarte der in Raum beweglichen ,,Klanglandschaft, die aus dem Zusammen- und Wechselspiel vieler filigranartiger, in sich geschlossener Klangfelder entstanden ist. Auch wenn grossere Blocke oder Flachen im Werk sich entfalten, deuten sie immer auf die Fluchtigkeit, die Instabilitat und Zerbrechlichkeit des Moments.CDs:ORF-Chor, cond. Erwin OrtnerCD cpo 999 290-2ORF-Chor, cond. Erwin OrtnerCD ORF MP 30/4 (30 Jahre Musikprotokoll Moderne in Osterreich 1968-1997)Bibliography:Hinterberger, Julia: Zwischen Sprachzertrummerung und Textkonservierung. Schlaglichter auf Adriana Holszkys Umgang mit literarischen Texten, in: Adriana Holszky, hrsg. von Ulrich Tadday (Musik-Konzepte, Neue Folge Heft 160/161), Munchen: edition text+kritik 2013, pp. 25-42.Kostakeva, Maria: Metamorphose und Eruption. Annaherung an die Klangwelten Adriana Holszkys, Hofheim: wolke 2013 (pp. 101f, 141-143).Petersen, Peter: ... getraumt von Adriana Holszky. Versuch uber ein Vokalstuck nach Ingeborg Bachmann, in: Adriana Holszky, hrsg. von Eva-Maria Houben, Saarbrucken 2000, pp. 44-54.World premiere: Graz (Steirischer Herbst), October 10, 1991.
SKU: CA.1631000
ISBN 9790007242800. Language: all languages.
1989. Stay in Aix-en-Provence, France, doing a language course. Reading, discussing and analyzing Les Georgiques; this pursuit is going to be the foundation of the multiple intellectual and literary levels of my composing. 2. THE WOODEN PLATFORM IS COVERED WITH FINE WHITE SAND (OR SALT), THE TWO SHELVES WITH BLACK CLOTH ... At the time I work on my first serious piece, still a far cry from the under-standing of writing music I have today. << tellement froid que >> (georgiques I) for bass flute, electronics and scene (1995-96), sections 1-7. << comme si le froid >> (georgiques II) for baritone saxophone, timpani and piano (1998), sections 18-24. << n'etait le froid >> (georgiques III) for orchestra (2000-2002), sections not yet decided. 3. THE INTERPRETER WILL BE DRESSED IN BLACK AND WHITE, MAINLY WHITE IF BLUISH LIGHT IS AT HAND ... The enormously rich vocabulary and the accuracy of expression - in temporal, spatial and material terms - is particularly impressive. To comprehend all of it, a reading on three different levels is called for: a first reading of one passage, then the acquisition of unknown vocabulary; thirdly a repeated - knowing - reading, which points out the utopia of precise expression: The text is treated in a rather problematic (cold: le froid?) manner: it's not the semantic content that is primarily dominant, but rather the outward appearance, the mise en page and the syntactic structure. 4. THE INTERPRETER ENTERS THE STAGE WITH ALL THE FLUTES (S)HE WILL PLAY DURING THE CONCERT AND DEPOSITS THEM - EXCEPT FOR THE BASS FLUTE - ON SHELF B; IF (S)HE ONLY PLAYS THIS PIECE, (S)HE SHOULD PUT THE PROGRAMME OF THE CONCERT THERE; IN ANY CASE THE INSTRUCTIONS IN BAR 195 MUST BE FOLLOWED ... In concrete terms the 10 centimetres of a line in the minuit edition correspond to 10 seconds of musical structure (which is three times as slow as the average reading speed). Only seven years later is the term / expression casse ferique changed into casse ferrique, and thus its secret is revealed, which almost becomes - due to its unreadability - the key to the planned musical cycle. The text is measured from section to section (big format: each section is marked with a continuous, ,,cold chord by the bass flute, played on tape recorder), from full stop to full stop (new entry of keynote material), from comma to comma (tripling of continuous resonances) etc. 5. DURING THE PERFORMANCE UP TO BAR 195, THE INTERPRETER WILL TRY - IN A KIND OF THEATRICAL ADAPTATION - TO EXPRESS HIS/HER OWN FEELING OF IRREPRESSIBLY GROWING FRUSTRATION; FROM BAR 195 ONWARDS (S)HE WILL DEFINITELY HAVE PUT UP WITH THE BASS FLUTE ... Brackets in the text bring about a reduction of sound (the differentiating micro tones are no longer used), the syntactical progression to subordinate clauses of the remotest degree has its immediate effect on dynamics (degree of volume). Then: the perception of a logical and yet erratic syntax, vastly progressive layers of subordinate clauses and brackets (lowering tone of voice?), a polyphony of ,,memoire, which leads to a maelstrom of attention, a tonally centric / concentrated (main material?) and progressive (subordinate and brackets-material?) reading, listening and proceeding. The different levels are constantly in touch - transferring the sensuous moment of scenes of bodily encounter (Tryptique) that are evoked again and again - in perpetual excitement of text and imagination, memory and remembering sensitivity. 6. THE BODY MOVEMENTS AND FIXATION (FIGE) , BOTH CLEARLY PERCEPTIBLE, WILL EVOKE AND SUPPORT THE SAME EMOTIONS ... The basic moods of the text will be reflected in the relationship (which is very important here) of the interpreter to the music; (s)he is somehow at the mercy of given (and not always transparent) structures on the one hand and the complexity of musical sensations on the other, which has to be defeated inspite of exhaustion. It's not only here that semantic agreement (besides the materialistic structure) of music and text can be felt: On top of that there's the existential helplessness in view of the mercilessly flowing polyphony of levels and events -- as a mirror of this there are the remembered scenes of the Flemish cold in the second chapter (Les Georgiques). The interpreters are confronted with unusual directions which correspond to the adjectives in the respective passages of the text: anachronique, engourdi, glace et acre, monotone et desert etc. The possibilities of interpretation are amplified, the ability to perceive and personal reaction is opened. The impression of this inexorability is multiplied in the extremest way by the fact that the particular layers can be found in Simon's complete works. It's a continuous work of art in which each novel turns into a chapter of a complex, cyclic whole; its title denoting only one main strand, as it were. A personal comment is made also as regards the clearly defined stage; the mise en scene points out the extra-musical elements and the correlation between text, human being and music. 7. THE INTERPRETER IS ASKED TO MOVE FREELY WITHIN A DEFINED SPOT WITHOUT LOOKING ARTIFICIAL; SOUNDS CAUSED BY THE FEET MOVING ON THE SAND ARE WELCOME DURING THE WHOLE PIECE ... And here the idea of a cycle is born, an attempt to transfer these nuances of memorized structures, this clarity and coldness, to transform the text into musical material. Walter Feldmann.
SKU: BR.EB-9172
World premiere: Cagliari, November 24, 2004
ISBN 9790004182451. 9 x 12 inches.
Dieses Stuck durchlauft eine Reise durch die Grenzen des Instruments, genau wie Arquitecturas de espejos nicht nur durch die extremen Register, sondern auch durch die Manipulation und Verzerrung des Klangs durch neue Instrumentaltechniken (erstickte Tone, Schatten zwischen Luft, Gerausch und Tonhohen, Wiederholungen, komplexe Horwahrnehmungen usw.). Mit Arquitecturas de espejos hat dieses Werk verschiedene Verbindungen, und ich merke, warum das Akkordeon mir ganz nah in meiner eigenen Musik bleibt. 2004 komponiert, wurde Arquitecturas del silencio im Jahr darauf von Esteban Algora in Cagliari uraufgefuhrt. Das Werk ist ihm auch gewidmet. (Jose M. Sanchez-Verdu) CD: Esteban Algora (accordeon) CD Columna Musica, 1 CMO142 Bibliography: Garcia del Busto , Jose Luis: Arquitecturas de la ausencia de Jose M. Sanchez-Verdu, in: Sibila. Revista de arte, musica y literatura 18 (April 2005), pp. 47-49.World premiere: Cagliari, November 24, 2004.
SKU: AP.12-0571572006
ISBN 9780571572007. English.
Thomas Adès's Piano Quintet (2000) is a vivid reimagining of sonata form (complete with exposition repeat). Whilst its themes are recognizably tonal, these simple building blocks are the starting points for rich and intricate processes of transformation. The long exposition is full of subtle metrical juxtapositions, with the piano and string quartet often playing in different time signatures simultaneously, creating a disorienting sense that the music is continually shifting in and out of temporal focus. After the extremes of the central development section, the recapitulation is a gigantic accelerando which speeds up to four times the original speed, and generates enormous, seemingly unstoppable momentum. The effect is of a dramatic and temporal compression: it is as if the whole work were squeezed into this musical black hole. This product is the set of instrumental parts.
SKU: HL.49011079
ISBN 9790001129770. UPC: 884088047399. 9.0x12.0x0.05 inches.
This demanding and sophisticated exploration of the specific instrumental possibilities of the clarinet was written for Sabine Meyer. Solo for Clarinet is a real virtuoso showpiece for solo recitals and competitions. The entire range of the instrument is used as well as extremes of dynamics and idiomatic phrasing. The elegiac finale is preceded by powerful multiphonics.
