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| Veerhoff’s drive to recast traditional forms in the vocabulary of the avant-garde is particularly evident in his chamber music. For all its resolve and concision, his music language is highly expressive, and, at least partly, a result of his preoccupation with dodecaphony, from which he derived his own principles of composition. Two concerns lie at the center of his work: Many of his compositions are essentially a call for the preservation of the world, life, and the planet. And then there is his understanding of tradition as responsibility towards new ideas. The use of traditional forms and the way many of his pieces actually sound unmistakably refer to the expressive musical language of the Second Viennese School. Among these pieces are Klaviersonate No. 1, Violinsonate op. 47, and Streichtrio op. 56, all of which have three movements in the traditional tempi quick-slow-quick. By contrast, the piece 7 mal 1 op. 58 for percussion bewitches its audience with unvarnished expressions of Veerhoff’s “enjoyment of the musical development of sound and friendly irony” (Franzpeter Messmer). |
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Music on music on music: in his play with reminiscences superimposed many times over, the Spanish composer Alfredo Aracil surpasses himself.  |
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| The crack in the groove of a record, a VCR whose pause function does not work and voices of demons from the Middle Ages: Bernhard Lang’s DW 8, DW 3 und DW 15 |
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| A single (and singular) CD documents the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik 2004: Wolfgang Mitterer’s electrifying pieces for organ and electronics. |
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