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  
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
Nathan Davis
James Moore & Elliot Simpson
Eyal Maoz & Eugene Chadbourne
Mad Myth Science
James Ilgenfritz
James Ilgenfritz
Ty Citerman
James Ilgenfritz
Elliott Sharp
Elliott Sharp
Elliott Sharp
Elliott Sharp
Elliott Sharp