E Sharp - Die Grosste Fugue
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Label: Infrequent Seams Records
Cat No: CDIS1044
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 24th March 2023
Contents
Artists
Nicholas Isherwood (bass-baritone)Asasello Quartet
About
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 Große 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 Große Fuge as seed materials for extrapolation, randomisation, and recombinance. Beethoven is presented as a disturbed and effecting figure, the tortured genius. The performers play Sharp's score, both apocalyptic and ecstatic, with incredible intensity.
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