(solos: 2vl.va.vc -
4(4picc.A-fl).3.3.B-clar.
3.dble bsn - 4.3.3.1 -
perc(4) - hp - pno - str:
10.10.8.8.6)
SKU:
BR.PB-5714
Music
for Orchestra with String
Quartet. Composed by
Helmut Lachenmann.
Softcover.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library). Solo
concerto; Dances/marches;
Music post-1945. Sheet
Music. Composed 1979/80.
176 pages. Duration 36'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #PB
5714. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.PB-5714).
ISBN
9790004216514. 10.5 x 14
inches.
More than
my earlier works, this
one is interspersed with
metrically bound rhythms
and musicianly characters
that constantly
recrystallize and drift
towards or away from
familiar situations.The
familiar: These are
dance-like figures and
music-making formulas,
but also songs and, in
two cases fragments of
Bach's music - playfully
collected memories of
impressions in which -
consciously and
unconsciously - I am
embodied with that
collective comfort in
whose protection
bourgeois thinking and
feeling, magically
protected, grow up and
emerge apart.(It is well
known that such security
has its fetishes from the
childlike to the adult
stage: Home, religious
bond, holidays,
tradition, longing for
childhood - the
superficiality may have
little idea of the depth
that opens up underneath.
There is also no question
that we are still marked
by such security even
when the contradictions
and alienation of
existence force us to
step out of their
protection, to recognize
and act upon reality, and
to oppose the domination
of such inner bonds where
their original truth has
become the fatal untruth
of comfortable illusion,
stubbornly and fearfully
conjured idyll and
reactionary
narrow-mindedness.My
music feeds on figures in
which such memories are
encapsulated. It deals
with them not much
differently than in other
pieces with the elements
of the traditional
musical concept of
material, having already
always reflected
compositionally as a
product of sociality and
anticipation of musical
expression, i.e. it moved
into a structurally
expanded context and
expressively redefined
from there.Such an
approach aims at
overcoming lack of
freedom: grasping as part
of conceiving, i.e. not
philosophical reflection,
but rather an
artistically gripping
reflex by intervening in
the physical immediacy of
such predetermined
elements. These penetrate
and infect the structural
events, inducing a
musicianship that cannot
be relied upon; the music
jumps onto rhythms like
onto moving vehicles,
allows for being carried
by them until they deform
or disintegrate. This
creates an incline of
rhythmically shaped
situations: sequence and
interweaving of dances
and structures.The role
of the solo string
quartet is versatile,
obbligato and
concertante, leading and
accompanying in a
changing sense. Set as a
chamber music apparatus
in an orchestral
landscape, it repeatedly
forces its own sound
dimensions onto the
orchestra, it must accept
being drowned out at
times, it nests in the
holes of tutti fields, it
acts as a louse in the
fur, forcing one to
listen in and out.The
Tanzsuite with
Deutschlandlied is
structured as follows:I.
Section. 1. Introduction
- 2. Waltz - 3. March -
4. Bridge -II. Section.
5. Siciliano - 6.
Capriccio - 7. Valse
lente -III. Section. 8.
Bridge - 9. Gigue - 10.
Tarantelle - 11. Bridge
-IV. Section. 12 Aria I -
13 Polka - 14 Aria IIV.
Section. 15. Introduction
- 16 Gallop - 17 Coda
(Aria III)All 17 parts
merge into one
another.(Helmut
Lachenmann,
1980)CDs/LP/DVD:Arditti-Q
uartett, Deutsches
Symphonie-Orchester
Berlin, cond. Olaf
HenzoldCD Montaigne
Auvidis MO 782019Berner
Streichquartett,
Sinfonieorchester des
SWF, cond. Sylvain
Cambreling (Excerpt)CD
BMG/RCA 74321 73510 2
(Musik in Deutschland
1950-2000)Berner
Streichquartett,
Sinfonieorchester des
SWF, cond. Sylvain
CambrelingLP DMR
1028-30Arditti Quartet,
SWR Sinfonieorchester
Baden-Baden und Freiburg,
cond. Hans Zender Excerpt
on CD ,,Auswahl von zehn
Urauffuhrungen aus 70
Jahren, SWR
Sinfonieorchester
Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Arditti Quartet,
Staatsorchester
Stuttgart, cond. Sylvain
Cambreling DVD
,,Lachenmann-Perspektiven
6 (Breitkopf & Hartel,
BHM 7816)
Bibliography:Cavalotti,
Pietro: Differenzen.
Poststrukturalistische
Aspekte in der Musik der
1980er Jahre am Beispiel
von Helmut Lachenmann,
Brian Ferneyhough und
Gerard Grisey (= Sonus.
Schriften zur Musik,
hrsg. von Andreas
Ballsteadt, Band 8),
Schliengen: Argus 2006,
pp. 79-128.Das sind doch
alles Deutschlandlieder!
Helmut Lachenmann im
Gesprach mit Michael
Rebhahn, in: Der
Taktgeber. Das Magazin
der Jungen Deutschen
Philharmonie, Heft 40
(Sommer 2019), S.
6f.Stawowy, Milena:
Fluchtversuche in die
Hohle des Lowen. Helmut
Lachenmanns Tanzsuite mit
Deutschlandlied, in:
MusikTexte 67/68 (1997),
pp. 77-90.Toop, Richard:
Concept and Context: A
Historiographic
Consideration of
Lachenmanns Orchestral
Works, in: Helmut
Lachenmann Inward Beauty,
hrsg. von Dan Albertson,
Contemporary Music Review
23 (2004), Heft 3/4, pp.
125-144.
World
premiere: Donaueschingen
(Donaueschinger
Musiktage), October 18,
1980.
