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Music of the Absurd? Thoughts on recent Kagel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Ian Pace
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In recent years, Europe has seen numerous retrospectives of the music of Mauricio Kagel. The last such in Britain was the 1995 Huddersfield Festival; since then a handful of his works have been performed in London. In tandem, Disques Montaigne have been steadily issuing their Kagel edition, which currently stands at eight volumes: the first four were reviewed by Antony Bye (and the first also by Nicolas Hodges) in Tempo 188. In a similar manner to recent retrospectives of Stockhausen and Nono, the focus has been upon the work of the last 10–20 years, perhaps not least because of the many country premières then available, but maybe because of a fashionable tendency to treat music of the 1960s and early 1970s as rather passé.

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Tempo , Issue 200 , April 1997 , pp. 29 - 35
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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1 See Tempo 188 (March 1994), pp. 42–44.Google Scholar

2 ‘Mauricio Kagel at 65 – Music of the Absurd’: QEH, Sunday 1 December 1996: London Sinfonietta, c. Reinbert de Leeuw. Roland Hermann (bar).

3 5 Stücke der Windrose: Osten, Süden, Nordosten, Nordwesten, Südosten; Phantasiestück. Schönberg Ensemble c. Reinbert de Leeuw. Disques Montaigne MO 782017.

4 Sankt-Bach-Passion. Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Hans-Peter Blochwitz (ten), Roland Hermann (bar), Peter Roggisch (speaker), Gerd Zacher (organ), Limburger Domsingknaben: NDR-Chor Hamburg; Südfunk-Chor Stuttgart; Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Stuttgart, c. Mauricio Kagel. Disques Montaigne MO 782044 (2 CDs).

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6 Nah und Fern. Arie Abbenes (bells of Domkerk Utrecht), Markus Stockhausen, Marco Blaaus, Andreas Adam, Achim Gorsch (tpts), c. Mauricio Kagel. Disques Montaigne MO 782062.

7 Klangwölfe; Unguis incarnatus est; An Tasten; Trio. Sachko Gawriloff (vln), Siegfried Palm (vcl), Bruno Canino (pno). Disques Montaigne MO 782043.

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