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- Rued Langgaard
The Sfærernes Musik (1918)
(Music of the Spheres)- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
- 4(pic)3(ca)3.3/8.3.3.1/2timp.perc/hp.pf.org/str; distant orchestra: 2.1.2.0/1.0.0.0/timp/hp/str(2.1.1.1.1)
- SATB
- Mezzo soprano
- 39 min
- 23rd October 2025, DR Koncerthuset, Copenhagen, Denmark
Media
Hel-Sfaerernes Musik (Music of the Hel-Spheres), BVN 371: Efterhaanden vanvittigt Tempo
Scores
Reviews
...does interesting things to the ears...
13th August 2010
Deploying clusters, proto-minimalist repetition and expansive spatial effects, it anticipates some of the stock-in-trade of later 20th-century music by some decades.
13th August 2010
Time and again we were astonished as sounds came from remote corners of the hall...
13th August 2010
...if at the mid-point of the 36-minute impressions we wondered where Langgaard could go, the ever-onward closing sequences took us higher and further than we'd imagined possible.
12th August 2010
...if you can surrender yourself to the experiance, it can be wonderful.
5th August 2010