Wolfgang Rihm / Luciano Berio / Morton Feldman / Jean Barraqué

Wolfgang Rihm/Luciano Berio/ Morton Feldman/Jean Barraqué

Archive 2009
Music

Wolfgang Rihm
Über die Linie VII

Luciano Berio
Sequenza VIII
Morton Feldman
For Aaron Copland
Jean Barraqué
Sonate pour violon seul
Creation
Carolin Widmann, violin solo
Corealisation Instant Pluriel ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the help of Sacem
Concert recorded by France Musique

For Aaron Copland has Feldman offering sounds without any attempt at polyphony, mere layers of listening and memory.  In Sequenza VIII, Berio took the principles of a Bach Chaconne to produce polyphony both elusive and real. The Sonata for solo violin by Jean Barraqué (a world première of a score discovered only last year) retains remnants of classical breathing;  while Rihm focuses on the line, edge, boundary, horizon, where substance generates shape, itself constantly changing.