Steffen Schleiermacher, a German composer and pianist born in 1960, is a skillful practitioner of European modernism, and the listener's reaction to this CD will likely depend on his or her affection for that aesthetic. There is little here that would make a convert out of a skeptic, but a listener attuned to modernism could find much of interest here. This CD features five works, including both chamber music for acoustical instruments and works for ensemble and tape. The largest work, a site-specific piece, Auto Werk mit ...
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Steffen Schleiermacher, a German composer and pianist born in 1960, is a skillful practitioner of European modernism, and the listener's reaction to this CD will likely depend on his or her affection for that aesthetic. There is little here that would make a convert out of a skeptic, but a listener attuned to modernism could find much of interest here. This CD features five works, including both chamber music for acoustical instruments and works for ensemble and tape. The largest work, a site-specific piece, Auto Werk mit Hup Raum, was composed for a new BMG factory in Leipzig. In the tradition of Mosolov's Iron Foundry and Varèse's Déserts, Schleiermacher has created a piece of musique concrète using the sounds of the factory and has added an acoustical layer played by a live ensemble. The resulting piece is marked by evolving textures that are thoroughly industrial sounding and has a monumentality appropriate to the huge space for which it was created. In terms of scale and textural variety,...
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