Winter & Winter's Hans Abrahamsen: Schnee features an extended chamber work by one of Denmark's most intriguing contemporary composers, Hans Abrahamsen, whose compact, transparent yet dense music has won him many followers and kind critical notices throughout Europe. Abrahamsen is viewed as a composer whose work moves against the precepts of the Darmstadt style that emerged in the 1950s, and his name is sometimes included with that of other Danish composers identified with the "New Simplicity" movement that began in the ...
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Winter & Winter's Hans Abrahamsen: Schnee features an extended chamber work by one of Denmark's most intriguing contemporary composers, Hans Abrahamsen, whose compact, transparent yet dense music has won him many followers and kind critical notices throughout Europe. Abrahamsen is viewed as a composer whose work moves against the precepts of the Darmstadt style that emerged in the 1950s, and his name is sometimes included with that of other Danish composers identified with the "New Simplicity" movement that began in the 1960s. However, in Denmark, "New Simplicity" sought to decrease subjectivity in favor of an even more objective style than that of Darmstadt by using simpler, less obviously angular musical materials than their German and Italian colleagues.Abrahamsen's language is extremely compressed, and like Anton Webern, his worklist is generally made up of very short pieces, his Piano Concerto (2000) lasts only a little over 15 minutes. This selection from Abrahamsen's Schnee (2006-2008) lasts...
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