Orient/Occident
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SKU: NX.WER-67062

By Schrammel and Vandre. By John Cage and Otte. Listening CD. Wergo #WER 67062. Published by Wergo (NX.WER-67062).

Live recording of the piano recital for the eightieth birthday of composer Hans Otte that Philipp Vandre and Elmar Schrammel presented at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. A selection of John Cage's "Sonatas and Interludes" for prepared piano was interwoven with selections from Hans Otte's piano cycles "Das Buch der Klange" (The book of sounds) and "Stundenbuch" (Book of hours). This concert experiment, conceived by Ingo Ahmels, paid quiet homage to the "beautiful piano sound" also found in twentieth-century music, within which Occidental (Otte) and Oriental (Cage) worlds of thought find their way to contrasting commonalities.



"WERGO has just released the sound document of a memorable evening worth listening to. Elmar Schrammel and Philipp Vandre could be won as creative pianists with a great sense of tone who give both work series the necessary depth and calm without ever letting the musical flow falter." (www.klassik.com).

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