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Nordheim / Beethoven - Piano Works | Simax PSC1269

Nordheim / Beethoven - Piano Works

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Label: Simax

Cat No: PSC1269

Barcode: 7033662012695

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 27th August 2007

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About

Some times a recording project grows and finds a shape all by itself. The seed for this was planted when Arne Nordheim first presented his only work for piano called listen which draws lines back to the work Beethoven did in his last piano sonata. Just how this would evolve became clear when the electronic version of Nordheim’s “Listen Inside–Outside” was completed in 2005 and premiered by Einar Steen-Nøkleberg. The music then burst out into full bloom during the Nordheim Composer Prize Award that same year when this live recording of Inside–Outside was made.

There are many possible ways of varying the reverberation in a piano. With the help of the pedals different types of interference producing a variety of colours can be singled out. In order to get these ideas entirely under control, I had to compose Listen, a work devoted to the ebbing existence of a complex of timbres. I wanted to get behind and under the sound when I wrote this strange piece in 1971. I intended, like my colleague Beethoven, to render these little-regarded phenomena audible and eventually accessible – in a similar way to opus 111, perhaps.

After many performances of Listen, the mechanics of the music began to reveal new timbres, and I decided to put my experience of electronic music to use. Everything the pianist plays is recorded and fed back to the pianist and the audience. Everything that is recorded via delay or timbre modulation reaches the listener’s ears and emotions once again in constantly changing strata of sound. That is how Listen – Inside Outside came into being”. - Arne Nordheim

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