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Die Größte Fuge

Elliott Sharp

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Format: 2CD

Cat No: CDIS1044

Release Date:  24 March 2023

Label:  Infrequent Seams Records

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  650076547499

Genres:  Classical  Avant-garde  

  • Description

    Die Größte Fuge, an opera by Elliott Sharp, features bass baritone Nicholas Isherwood and the Asasello Quartet.



    After 1815, Beethoven was beset with problems: physical, emotional, financial. Retreating into ""fuge"" states, he has visions, celestial and horrific, not hallucinations but visitations from a parallel reality of marvelous inventions, gleaming ships in the air, unheard musics, carnage beyond belief. Emerging, he translates these scenes into a music that stretches the rules to the verge of destruction. The resultant work, Die Größe Fuge, is considered the first 20th century string quartet.



    Sharp created a libretto from letters and writings of Beethoven as well as taking elements from Die Größe Fuge as seed materials for extrapolation, randomization, and recombinance. Beethoven is presented as a disturbed and effecting figure, the tortured genius. The performers play Sharp's score, both apocalyptic and ecstatic, with incredible intensity.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Die Groiste Fuge - Overture
      • 2. Dieser Ton
      • 3. Ein unerhörter Traum
      • 4. Brüllen und Sturm
      • 5. Wunder
      • 6. Eine Rückgabe
      • 7. Natur
      • 8. Tod Erscheint
      • 9. Die Sendung
      • 10. Die Komedie ist Vorbei
      • 11. Der Durchgang