Sabine Lutzenberger, the mezzo-soprano on this recording, has performed for over 20 years as a soloist and ensemble singer in various early music formations and baroque orchestras at major European festivals.
Compositional Technique
Lang's 'Monadologien' series, named after philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's concept of monads, expands the idea of repetition to constantly generate difference, moving beyond the strict distinctions of his earlier 'Differenz/Wiederholung' series.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Bernhard Lang, the Austrian composer, finds everyday phenomena like the rhythm of a broken record to be among the most fascinating themes for his compositions.
Compositional Technique
All but the first piece in Lang's 'Monadologien' series are 'meta-compositions' that use quotations from well-known pieces of music history as their starting material.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Bernhard Lang's music explores how modern audio technology and the ability to endlessly replay and compare musical works have changed our listening experience.
Compositional Technique
Lang's compositional approach challenges the tradition of contemporary music, which, since Schönberg, largely avoided repetition; Lang instead embraces and overcomes this taboo.
Composer Biography
Bernhard Lang, born in 1957 in Linz, Austria, studied piano, jazz theory, composition, philosophy, and German philology, and has held a professorship in composition at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz since 2003.
