Peter Ablinger: Der Regen, das Glas, das Lachen; Ohne Titel; Quadraturen IV

Der Regen, das Glas, das Lachen; Ohne Titel; Quadraturen IV for full orchestra, composed by the highly underrated Austrian composer, Peter Ablinger. 'He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.'

Peter Ablinger (1959) is an incredible Austrian composer whose works are really not appreciated (especially by Anglo-Americans, see http://http://www.lafolia.com/archive/covell/covell200108new.html all the way at the bottom). I find his music creative, charged, and quite different from that "Third Viennese School" of Stockhausen, Lachenmann, and followers. His is a sound that concentrates almost exclusively on "repetition and monotony, reduction and redundancy, density and entropy" (Peter Ablinger), and in a way, is a continuation of Morton Feldman's ethos. Ablinger's first interest in art, like Sciarrino, was visual; he endeavors to create sounds of art, rather than conform to the rigid parameters of Western music. I especially love his Quadraturen IV. To me it sounds very much like the music of insects and recalls the energy of Conlon Nancarrow. This piece has been a revelation for my own artistic development.

Peter Ablinger
Der Regen, das Glas, das Lachen; Ohne Titel; Quadraturen IV
1) Der Regen, das Glas, das Lachen
2) Ohne Titel
3) Quadraturen IV
4) Quadraturen IV
5) Quadraturen IV
6) Quadraturen IV
7) Quadraturen IV
8) Quadraturen IV

Performed by the impeccable Klangforum Wien and conducted masterfully by Sylvain Cambreling. KAIROS, the Austrian recording label, concentrates exclusively on music being composed today.
Sorry to say that this is in lossy format (AAC). I wish I could upload lossless, but most of my recordings are in NY and I'm an ocean apart in Oxford. Next month I can start uploading in Lossless, but please download these in the meantime.

Tiny parts at 3ntcuv and 3sa9b3.