Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Col Legno
Catalogue: COL40002
Release: 2016
Size: 486 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
CD 01
01. Varèse: Poème électronique (1958)
02. Ligeti: Glissandi (1957)
03. Ligeti: Artikulation (1958)
04. Maderna: Musica su due dimensioni (1958)
05. Berio: Différences (1959)
06. Berio: Visage (1961)
CD 02
01. Lachenmann: Szenario (1965)
02. Harvey: Mortuos plango, vivos voco (1980)
03. Boulez: Dialogue de l’ombre Double (1985)
04. Ferneyhough: Mnemosyne (1986)
Is a musical performance “historically informed”? Does it do justice to the “original sound”? Is it even possible to truly experience the “original idea” behind a composition when it is performed with “modern instruments”? We are familiar with questions such as these in connection with the interpretation of so-called early music. On this double album they are rigorously applied to so-called new music. Milestones of electroacoustic music – from Varèse’s Poème électronique (1958) to Ferneyhough’s Mnemosyne (1986) – are investigated from a music-historical perspective