Cat No:
CDIS1044
Release Date: 24 March 2023
Label: Infrequent Seams Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 650076547499
Genres: Classical Avant-garde
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Description
Die Größte Fuge, an opera by Elliott Sharp, features bass baritone Nicholas Isherwood and the Asasello Quartet.After 1815, Beethoven was beset with problems: physical, emotional, financial. Retreating into ""fugue"" states, he has visions, celestial and horrific, not hallucinations but visitations from a parallel reality of marvelous inventions, gleaming ships in the air, unheard musics, carnage beyond belief. Emerging, he translates these scenes into a music that stretches the rules to the verge of destruction. The resultant work, Die Größe Fuge, is considered the first 20th century string quartet.
Sharp created a libretto from letters and writings of Beethoven as well as taking elements from Die Größe Fuge as seed materials for extrapolation, randomization, and recombinance. Beethoven is presented as a disturbed and effecting figure, the tortured genius. The performers play Sharp's score, both apocalyptic and ecstatic, with incredible intensity.
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Tracklisting
- 1. Die Groiste Fuge - Overture
- 2. Dieser Ton
- 3. Ein unerhörter Traum
- 4. Brüllen und Sturm
- 5. Wunder
- 6. Eine Rückgabe
- 7. Natur
- 8. Tod Erscheint
- 9. Die Sendung
- 10. Die Komedie ist Vorbei
- 11. Der Durchgang
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