Alexander Goehr (b. 1932)

Symmetry Disorders Reach op. 73

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Details
For
piano
Author / Composer
Alexander Goehr
Product number
175756
Duration
45 Minutes
Release Year
2005
Extent
60 Pages
Description

For Alexander Goehr, like Schumann, teaching and fostering new ideas and talent has been an integral part of his life as a composer. In these 15 pieces he uses models (by Bach, Handel, Mozart and Schumann) to explore the creative act. “The disorders of the imagination, recorded as they present themselves, are to be ordered and extended in the hope of ‘reaching a symmetry’, or a ‘true gestalt’ [in the words of W.H. Auden, whose poem New Year Letter, 1940, provided the title and context for this p...

Content
  • Vol. 1:
  • Prelude
  • Invention
  • Capriccio
  • Fughetta
  • Chaconne
  • Moto perpetuo
  • Invention
  • Burlesque
  • Metric Maze
  • Vol. 2:
  • Litlle Harmonic Labyrinth
  • Little Harmonic Labyrith, Double
  • Air
  • Air, Double
  • Adagio
  • Vivo
  • Appendix:
  • J.S.Bach: Kleines harmonisches Labyrinth [Werke XXXVIII, Orgelwerke Vol. 3]
  • G.F. Handel: Air
  • W.A. Mozart: Adagio in h, KV540 [Serie IX, Vol. 2]
  • R. Schumann: No. 8 [Piano Solo I]