Die Grˆflte Fugue Music CD
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"Die Grˆflte 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 Grˆfle 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 Grˆfle Fuge as seed materials for extrapolation, randomization, and recombinance. Beethoven is presented as a disturbed and effecting figure, the tortured genius. The performers play Sharps score, both apocalyptic and ecstatic, with incredible intensity."
1. Die Grˆflte Fuge - Overture
2. Dieser Ton
3. Ein unerhˆrter Traum
4. Br¸llen und Sturm
5. Wunder
6. Eine R¸ckgabe
7. Natur
8. Tod Erscheint
9. Die Sendung
10. Die Komedie ist Vorbei
11. Der Durchgang
Die Grˆflte Fugue Music CD
$18.49
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Regular price
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- Format Detail: 2CD
- Format: CD
- Genre: Classical