Widmann: Works for Ensemble – Freie Stücke; Sieben Abgesänge; Oktett | Classical CD review

Pasichnyk/Collegium Novum Zurich/Widmann(Neos)The more I hear of Jörg Widmann's music, the less interesting it seems. It's ingenious, certainly, and full of deft sonorities, but once one has sampled the range of Widmann's tricks and historical conceits, the more trite and lacking in substance it seems. This is music about music, about the self-conscious awareness of being a composer at the beginning of the 21st century, with the awesome weight of tradition pressing in; it's not about continuin...

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