Apparat: Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre)

There is a level of expectation with a piece of work like Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre) that threatens to color the experience of listening to it. It's a reminder that what we bring to a piece of music shapes how we listen. In the crudest of terms, it's an album adapted from a score for a piece of theatre based on novel responding to a historical event. More specifically, it is the work of Berlin-based producer Apparat, commissioned by German theatre director Sebastian Hartmann for his 2...

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