Sunday, 13 July 2014

Rued Langgaard

Sfærernes musik (Music of the spheres) (1916) ...

Rued Langgaard, Danish composer (1893 - 1952), inspired yet again by planetary motion, divided his orchestra and vocalists to create a spatial music, long before Stockhausen ...Influenced by Wagner and Strauss, he's a  great orchestrator, very dramatic ...



Langgaard's extensive use of slow moving string clusters prompted the composer György Ligeti to proclaim himself a "Langgaard-epigone" when presented with the score in the late 1960s. ...

Performed at the Proms 2010 ...

Promotion for CD ...

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