ALLEGRO SOSTENUTO (playing score)

In retrospect, the world premiere of Helmut Lachenmann's 'Allegro sostenuto' in December 1989 at the Cologne Philharmonie can be seen as a kind of re-birth of chamber music in the late 20th century. In countless concerts and at least four CD recordings, Lachenmann's large-scale clarinet trio has since offered ample evidence that 'it has a clarity of contour coupled with a shading of sonorities that I cannot imagine anywhere else besides Debussy' (JUrg Stenzl). The new performing score will considerably facilitate the access to the work.As in my earlier work 'Ausklang' for piano with orchestra, here, too, the musical material is determined by a mediation between the experience of 'resonance' ('tenuto' variations between a 'secco' sound and natural or artificial 'laisser-vibrer') on the one hand, and 'movement' on the other. Both aspects of the sounds confront each other in the conception of structure as a highly ambivalent 'arpeggio', i. e. as a successively experienced process of buil

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