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Wolff: Trio IX and Exercises / Trio Accanto
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Wolff: Trio IX and Exercises / Trio Accanto

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Composer
WOLFF, CHRISTIAN
Artist
TRIO ACCANTO
Format
CD
Label
Wergo
Released
Aug 20, 2021
Catalog #
WER74002
UPC
4010228740028

About

The American composer Christian Wolff (b. 1934) is the last living representative of the New York School (Rauschenberg, Rothko, etc.). Wolff was not even an adult when he studied with Grete Sultan and John Cage. Wolff’s music was much more politically motivated than that of Feldman and Cage, which is evident on this new WERGO album by Trio Accanto. The album features first recordings made in close collaboration with Wolff in the studios of Deutschlandfunk Cologne/Germany. Wolff's great “Trio IX – Accanto” (2017) is a testament to his long-standing friendship with the musicians. Peculiarly serene and unobtrusively narrative, the piece features many reminiscences and hidden quotations from music by J. S. Bach to union songs. There are also tributes to Wolff's own “Exercises”, whose more recent numbers can be heard on the album as well. These “Exercises” sound lucid and atmospheric, yet complex. Each player has to decide for himself/herself on the course of the musical thoughts and spontaneously put them together in the group as an exercise. Collective agreement for individual positions as a musical and social task. This music by Wolff “still sings a longer modernism”, writes Seth Brodsky. “You can hear the historical horizon in it, not as some grandiose prophecy, but like an outline full of white space. The music is interested in the grace of presentness, of being-here, but it doesn’t lack desire.”

Tracklist 9 tracks

  1. 1 Part I 24:37
    Track
    1
    Title
    Part I
    Duration
    24:37
    Composer
    Christian Wolff
    Ensemble
    Trio Accanto
  2. 2 Part II 06:14
    Track
    2
    Title
    Part II
    Duration
    06:14
    Composer
    Christian Wolff
    Ensemble
    Trio Accanto
  3. 3 Exercise 32 14:01
    Track
    3
    Title
    Exercise 32
    Duration
    14:01
    Composer
    Christian Wolff
    Ensemble
    Trio Accanto
  4. 4 Exercise 37 (performance 1) 02:16
    Track
    4
    Title
    Exercise 37 (performance 1)
    Duration
    02:16
    Composer
    Christian Wolff
    Ensemble
    Trio Accanto
  5. 5 Exercise 29 04:20
    Track
    5
    Title
    Exercise 29
    Duration
    04:20
    Composer
    Christian Wolff
    Ensemble
    Trio Accanto
  6. 6 Exercise 30 07:25
    Track
    6
    Title
    Exercise 30
    Duration
    07:25
    Composer
    Christian Wolff
    Ensemble
    Trio Accanto
  7. 7 Exercise 31 05:42
    Track
    7
    Title
    Exercise 31
    Duration
    05:42
    Composer
    Christian Wolff
    Ensemble
    Trio Accanto
  8. 8 Exercise 37 (performance 2) 02:38
    Track
    8
    Title
    Exercise 37 (performance 2)
    Duration
    02:38
    Composer
    Christian Wolff
    Ensemble
    Trio Accanto
  9. 9 Exercise 38 05:12
    Track
    9
    Title
    Exercise 38
    Duration
    05:12
    Composer
    Christian Wolff
    Ensemble
    Trio Accanto