Lachenmann: NUN & Notturno (Musik für Julia)

Featuring

Jonathan Nott
Gaby Pas-Van Riet
Mike Svoboda
Hans Zender
Andreas Lindenbaum
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln

Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
Klangforum Wien
Helmut Lachenmann

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Lachenmann views music as a 'meteorological state' rather than a continuous narrative or discursive text, aiming to conjure a sense of 'presence'.

Performer Biography

Michael Svoboda, the trombonist, was born in Guam, grew up in Chicago, and won the Louis Armstrong Award in 1978 as a jazz trombonist.

Composer Biography

Helmut Lachenmann, the composer, studied with Luigi Nono, a prominent figure in contemporary music, at the age of 22.

Compositional Technique

The composer often 'pollutes' sounds by demanding qualities like 'yapping, rattling, choked, tinkling' or even 'soundless' from instruments, or by having pianists drag plastic pots across keys.

Compositional Technique

Lachenmann's compositional approach involves creating a 'hybrid instrument' from the orchestra, using unconventional techniques to produce 'polluted' sounds and noises.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Lachenmann's music aims to purify the listening and creating ego, freeing art from commercial exploitation and conventional rules.

Compositional Technique

In Lachenmann's works, noises are aesthetically legitimized as elementary components of composition, with extensive technique notes often accompanying the scores.