This composer appeared to try to ride several horses at once, and here he stays pretty well in the saddle. If his use of "aleatorism" was a clever device meant to conceal the basic lack of inspiration, it worked pretty well.
@fredericfranc take a look at the score sometime if you get a chance. Not only is it pretty specifically worked out (i.e. all the pitches and rhythms are composed) but I doubt someone lacking inspiration would do the work required to put such a score together. IMHO the "aleatorism" came from a desire for a specific sound that he couldn't get any other way.
@garmonbozia318 ...this being the time called " the Postmodernism" the very term "inspiration" is suspect these days...at any rate this, and much of the other work of Lutoslawski is so effective that how he exactly got there is a bit of a philosophical-academic question. Lutoslawski, in interviews hints at the idea of "the less he knows what he is doing, the better it works"...driven by pragmatism-empiricism, not "inspiration", (a very un-american approach, but Cage-like).
Absolutely brilliant. It is so haunting, so empty...leaves me desiring something that seems not to be there. Yet it is so chatoic, and very busy. Words truly cannot describe this composition!
Segun Simon Rattle esta piez la escribe el compositor bajo la influencia de las obras que conoce de John Cage ,que le hace reconocer la no necesidad de recurrir a todo el arsenal musical,sino a dosificarlo,incluso a no hacer uso de parte de el.
Un nuevo concepto que claro esta choca con la famosa frase citada por Bach de que interpretar una pieza faltandole alguna de sus partes es un crimen artistico.
This is the entire work?Thanks for posting!
alexander1998100 6 months ago
The wonderfully cataclysmic 4th movement finale is missing from this post!
windowdresser 4 months ago
This composer appeared to try to ride several horses at once, and here he stays pretty well in the saddle. If his use of "aleatorism" was a clever device meant to conceal the basic lack of inspiration, it worked pretty well.
fredericfranc 1 year ago
@fredericfranc take a look at the score sometime if you get a chance. Not only is it pretty specifically worked out (i.e. all the pitches and rhythms are composed) but I doubt someone lacking inspiration would do the work required to put such a score together. IMHO the "aleatorism" came from a desire for a specific sound that he couldn't get any other way.
garmonbozia318 1 week ago
@garmonbozia318 ...this being the time called " the Postmodernism" the very term "inspiration" is suspect these days...at any rate this, and much of the other work of Lutoslawski is so effective that how he exactly got there is a bit of a philosophical-academic question. Lutoslawski, in interviews hints at the idea of "the less he knows what he is doing, the better it works"...driven by pragmatism-empiricism, not "inspiration", (a very un-american approach, but Cage-like).
fredericfranc 1 week ago
Absolutely brilliant. It is so haunting, so empty...leaves me desiring something that seems not to be there. Yet it is so chatoic, and very busy. Words truly cannot describe this composition!
kylejaymes 1 year ago 2
esta obra es verdaderamente genial!!!!
pabloadrian1989 2 years ago
Segun Simon Rattle esta piez la escribe el compositor bajo la influencia de las obras que conoce de John Cage ,que le hace reconocer la no necesidad de recurrir a todo el arsenal musical,sino a dosificarlo,incluso a no hacer uso de parte de el.
Un nuevo concepto que claro esta choca con la famosa frase citada por Bach de que interpretar una pieza faltandole alguna de sus partes es un crimen artistico.
JorPove 2 years ago
was it Bach who said that playing a piece of music without some of its parts is a crime?
PawelWysocki 2 years ago
One of the most essential works of the sixties (and one of the best of this composer), unfortunately so rarely played !
komp1979 3 years ago 3
I agree! Thanks for your comment!
NewMusicXX 3 years ago