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Re: question on 2 scores

Author: Markus Wenninger
Date: 2004-03-21 14:11

Yes, JNK, indeed, this fuzzing one´s own way through the forest and not following those highways laid out by tradition is indisbutably a most enjoyable dimension of New Music. Your answer is, all the more, of such a kind which I chersih withing the realms of the contemporary - getting advice from older pathfinders, going something like "...oh perhaps you could hack your way through here...tried it last time and it went o.k....". Sometimes I am just plagued by not being able to see simple solutions lying near at hand - I never though E. Brunner premiered it at all, just on the clarinet methinks (the original German liner text suggessts this at least. It is the CD "Dal Niente", after Lachenmann´s incredible copmosition for cl solo, and "Piri" is the first piece on this recording; it´s an "ECM New Series" edition, absolutely wonderfully recorded and mastered - one of those rare publikations where the company doesn´t think it to over the top to meet standards which are unquestioned for some Chopin´s xth recording et al! Oh "Riul" is one of my absolute absolute favorites for the cl, stunning simply, expertly displaying the technique of today together with a deep spiritual conception, something which I long for strongly. Like Rilke has it, the beautiful is just terrible´s beginning, which holds true for all New Music, in itself this is beatuiful again. O.K., first thing next week is that I will get myself a copy of the obe score of "Piri" (I so easily can imagine Brunner Cheshire-Cat-like grinning and saying "fine,I play it right of the page, oboe or not!", You might be so right...). This timing in Yun´s compositions is due to a classical Asian stratum in his oevre, the pulses of this continent´s music is much more flexible, coming and going from the historical beginnings already rather than beating steadily however complex. But I can ony argue this on the grounds of music for shakuhachi definitely.
Thank You in any way for Your advice,
Markus

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