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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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Lauermann presents his solo debut, and invites us to listen into the “the great spaces all around” – spaces of memory, chambers of sensation, places of yearning.  |
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| “The succinctness of his work will first become fully apparent when it becomes possible to view the second half of the twentieth century from something more like a bird’s-eye view.” (Alessandro Solbiati) |
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| Ekphrasis [Continuo II] (1996), a musical homage to American architects, and Coro (1975/76), Berios renewed quest for the folk song. |
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