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  • Webern, Six Pieces op.6

    Hi,

    During 1909, the young Anton Webern wrote a revolutionary collection of orchestral aphorisms, maybe a bit too undervalued today. The revolutionary content of those pieces is the same as that of the Sacre, Erwärtung, Elektra, and predates many of the experiments from Varèse (but not the early experiments of the still unknown Ives).

    Webern tested the possibilities of the orchestra, going towards the limits of extreme silence and extreme noise. The boundaries between music and noise were often broken. I'm using his pieces to test my skills with the virtual orchestra, as he did with the real orchestra.

    In this first effort, I used nearly all VSL SE instruments, apart for some help from a frullato flute from Xsample. There are still no muted brass, since I have still to decide on the muted brass libraries to use (I'm not convinced by VSL's muted brass, sounding a bit too jazzy). It's an ongoing project.

    Paolo

    http://www.studio-magazine.com/music/musichealtri/Webern-Sechs_Stuecke_Op6-IV.m4a


  • Sounds great Paolo.

    I don't know these pieces, but you've piqued my interest in them and I'll hunt them out. I love his chamber music and the Passacaglia. Shame about how he was killed, who knows what else he would have written. Just goes to show that smoking is bad for you. 

    For those who don't know the story, read on....

    However, his life ended in a tragic note when on the evening of September 15, 1945, he was shot and killed by an American soldier by mistake, when he stepped out of his son-in-law’s house. Austria was under the occupation of Allies and his son-in-law was arrested for black-market activities. Despite the curfew that was imposed, he stepped out of his house to enjoy a cigar, when he was shot. The soldier who was responsible for the action, Raymond Norwood Bell was overcome by regret and died of alcoholism in 1955.
     

     


    www.mikehewer.com
  • Thank you very much, Mike.

    Say the nemesis. The most ascetic musician of the Western history, killed because of a vice…

    Paolo


  • You did a terrific job, Paolo.

    Webern music is far more interesting than the output of most Webernists.


    VI Special Edition 1-3, Reaper, MuseScore 3, Notion 3 (collecting dust), vst flotsam and jetsam
  • I could finally work on a version including mutes (con sord./mit Dampfer), as in the original score. The sound is radically different, and I admit I'm quite uncomfortable with the result. Not because it doesn't sound as expected, but because how it sounds. The first version was Klee/Kandinsky, now it is Schiele and all the illness in his paintings.

    This is an example of how VSL SE mixes with other libraries (Xsample Extended). Sometimes, I've used two different articulations from different libraries for the same instrument. I need some time to listen it with "fresh" ears, but they seem to blend well. Despite the great difference between their philosophy: VSL is meant to always sound polished and round, Xsample to sound aggressive. United they stand…

    http://www.studio-magazine.com/music/musichealtri/Webern-Sechs_Stuecke_Op6-IV-VSLSE-XAILX.m4a

    Paolo


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