Lachenmann Perspectives
DVD series about Helmut Lachenmann's orchestral works
by Helmut Lachenmann
DVD - Sheet Music

SKU: BR.BHM-7815

DVD series about Helmut Lachenmann's orchestral works. Composed by Helmut Lachenmann. Breitkopf New Media.

Here you can order the perfomance material for Double (Grido II) and Klangschatten.

Music post-1945; New music (post-2000). New Media. 16 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #BHM 7815. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.BHM-7815).

ISBN 9790004650417. 5.5 x 7.5 inches.

The present DVD brings together the recordings of two of Helmut Lachenmann's orchestral works that originated far apart in time, but are similar in their small-scale scoring (strings and 3 grand pianos or just strings): "Klangschatten - mein Saitenspiel" (1972) and "Double (Grido II)" (2004). We filmed "Double" in May 2016 with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrucken Kaiserslautern under the musical direction of Peter Hirsch, who has long been collaborating with the composer. Two films have been created from the sectional rehearsals of several hours in length ("Sectional rehearsal violins"/ "Sectional rehearsal violas, cellos, double basses") in which, among other things, Lachenmann explains in detail and demonstrates the relevant playing techniques. Our camera could accompany the rehearsals of "Klangschatten - mein Saitenspiel" (SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden and Freiburg, conductor: Pascal Rophe) for only a few hours. The result is two shorter rehearsal films, giving nonetheless a good insight into the piece that Lachenmann describes as one of his "favorites" among his own works. (Wiebke Popel)

In 2015/16 I travelled across Europe with cameraman Michael Zimmer to document a total of nine orchestral rehearsals of and with [meaning rehearsals of music by HL, conducted by HL? OR?] Helmut Lachenmann in the course of "Lachenmann Perspectives", a project of the "Musik der Jahrhunderte". This DVD series is the filmic result of these journeys.