Topic: The Lachenmann Lacuna

[Mandryka]

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Air. Has this ever been commercially recorded?

[petrarch]

Air. Has this ever been commercially recorded?

Here:



https://www.amazon.com/Orchestral-Works-H-Lachenmann-2001-02-27/dp/B01KASEODA

[CRCulver]

An old radio recording of Air was released on one of the volumes of BMG's Musik in Deutschland series.

[petrarch]

An old radio recording of Air was released on one of the volumes of BMG's Musik in Deutschland series.

Indeed, it is the recording of the premiere:

[Mandryka]

Excellent, gentlemen. I have downloaded them both.

[Mandryka]

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/ZVAu6QJZp0k&amp;t=10s" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/ZVAu6QJZp0k&amp;t=10s</a>

This live Allegro Sostenuto from Ensemble Recherche seems to me to be more successful than the recording - more tension.


And I’ll just mention that I’ve been really enjoying Double (Grido II), in fact I like it more than Grido I! Maybe Lachenmann’s most accessible modernist piece.

[Mandryka]

My single biggest problem with these pieces is that Bernd Alois Zimmermann did all of this far better--and far more disturbingly--in the 1960s.

I'm not used to Lachenmann-as-pale-imitation-of-his-predecessors.

As far as I can see the experimentation with tonality happened as early as 2000, before he had released Grido and Schreiben in fact, with the Sakura variations.


I think the idea is that the listener will find himself reassessing his relation to mainstream music.

Concertini is interesting in this respect.