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Daniel OTT (b. 1960) Klangkörperklang (2000) Ensemble directed by composer rec. 16-20 Apr 2002, Schweizer Radio DRS2, Zürich. DDD MGB MUSIKSZENE SCHWEIZ MGB CD 6190 [73.55]

Daniel Ott's part-composed, part-improvised piece was prepared for the Swiss Pavilion's Sound Box at Hannover's Expo 2000. Some three hundred musicians contributed when it was given at the Expo - they are all named in the booklet. The piece is recreated here by 24 instrumentalists. The splendidly detailed notes give extensive background stressing the music’s linkage with the larch and pine architecture and the wide-ranging catholicity of the Swiss sources on which Ott draws. The soundworld is eclectic. There is the gemutlich Bettina and Hans (trs. 4 and 13) in which a ruddy-cheeked rustic sentimental waltz is corroded until it collapses into a flailing gamelan rout from which the body parts of the waltz reach out in agony. Accordions chatter and saxophones wail. There is even an alphorn, driven and dashed by keyboard figures that slam and rush in a minimalist Nyman-like insistence that will not be denied. 19/12 begins with a horrific vision of bedlam which decays into a quiet patter. Avant-garde jazz crosses into Ott's creativity as does some rather desiccated percussive effects in E-Bass (tr. 12). Ott, composer and pianist, studied theatre in Paris and London and composition in Essen and Freiburg. In 1990 he founded the festival Contemporary Music Rümlingen. He teaches experimental music at the University of the Arts in Berlin (see www.danielott.com). Another superbly documented and executed volume of Swiss modernism from MGB. Would that British resources stretched to such ambitious projects and to the concomitant open-mindedness that permits such risk-taking. Rob Barnett   Advertising Rates Visitor stats MusicWeb International has over 40,000 Classical CD reviews on offer Discs received Having a problem Donating? Gerard Hoffnung Concerts & The Bricklayer Story   New Releases New Releases   MusicWeb sells the Polish catalogue CDAccord £10.50 post free W-W MusicWeb sells the Arcodiva catalogue £12.00 post free W-W £11.75 post-free world- wide MusicWeb can now offer you discs from the following catalogues: Prices include postage [Acte Préalable £13.50] [Arcodiva £12.00] [Avie from £6.25] [British Music Society £12.00] [CDACCORD from £13.50 ] [ClassicO £12.50] [Hallé from £11] [Heritage £10] [Hortus £14.99 ] [Lyrita ONLY £11.75 ] [Nimbus Special prices] [Northern Flowers £13.50] [REDCLIFFE £11 ] [Sheva £11] [Tactus £11.50 ] [Talent from £12.00 ] [Toccata Classics £10.50 ] Musicweb Special Offers Monthly Best Buys     Google Ads - for information about privacy matters, click here.  Amazon Musicweb International is a participant in the Amazon EU Associates Programme, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com

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