Klang by Wolfgang von Schweinitz

German composer Wolfgang von Schweinitz’s piece Plainsound String Trio ‘KLANG auf Schön Berg La Monte Young’, Op. 39 (1999-2013) comprises a single movement – one 45-minute track – and is here performed by the Flemish chamber group, the Goeyvaerts String Trio, who played it in Dundalk at Louth Contemporary Music Society’s ‘The Book of Hours’ festival in June 2018. Paul Griffiths notes: “The work provides moments of great calm, of sudden beauty, of agitation, of distress, of startlement, all in a place like nowhere else.”

“The dilated beauty of Wolfgang von Schweinitz’s KLANG auf Schön Berg La Monte Young” –The Guardian

The full title of KLANG” is given as ” PLAINSOUND STRING TRIO KLANG AUF SCHÖN BERG LA MONTE YOUNG…” Op. 39 (1999, rev 2013), and while the musical references to Schoenberg and Berg are there, the experience is that of an almost romantic tableau of long tones and rich harmonics descended from the Urtext of minimalism that is La Monte Young. The spirit of Morton Feldman appears to reside here as well, maybe even a wisp of Brian Eno. The kaleidoscopic effect of the just intonation with all the rich harmonic overtones evoke a great deal and probably will provoke different memories for different listeners. It is a maybe even a sort of Verklärte Nacht for the millennium though what is ultimately transformed is the listener themselves. You can choose your own metaphor, but first you’ll be charmed by the music.

And dontcha have to love that cover graphic?
https://newmusicbuff.com/2019/06/12/wolfgang-von-schweinitzs-klang-gorgeous-postminimalism/

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