Lachenmann Perspectives
DVD series about Helmut Lachenmann’s orchestral works
In 2015/16 I travelled across Europe with cameraman Michael Zimmer to document a total of nine orchestral rehearsals of and with [meaning rehearsals of music by HL, conducted by HL? OR?] Helmut Lachenmann in the course of “Lachenmann Perspectives”, a project of the “Musik der Jahrhunderte”. This DVD series is the filmic result of these journeys.
The DVD series received the German Music Edition Award “Best Edition” in 2019 and was also awarded the BMU Media Prize 2020 by the German Music Teacher Association (BMU) shortly afterwards.
Description
The individual DVDs are as varied as the various circumstances:
With the camera, we accompanied some orchestras for several days, with others the time and hence our film “yield” was more limited. Sometimes there were detailed sectional rehearsals with Helmut Lachenmann, sometimes the composer (and so also our filming team) arrived only after the sectional rehearsals had already taken place.
Most rehearsals were in German, several in English, others again in a colorful mixture of German, English, Spanish, and Italian.
There was also a big difference regarding familiarity with the music: This ranged from the student orchestra in San Sebastian, facing Lachenmann’s playing techniques for the first time in “SCHREIBEN,” to the rehearsals of “Air” / “Schwankungen am Rand” by the Ensemble Modern Orchestra, an ensemble very experienced with Lachenmann’s music.
So the DVDs are to be considered an approach to Lachenmann’s orchestral works, which – without raising claim to completeness of perfection – convey a vibrant impression of the composer collaborating with the musicians and conductors.
(Wiebke Pöpel)
BHM 7811
DVD
(PAL) 1 Accanto – Music for One Clarinetist with Orchestra, EMO version 2005
EAN: 9790004650370
BHM 7812
DVD
(PAL) 2 Air – Music for Large Ensemble with Percussion Solo, EMO version 2015
EAN: 9790004650387
12 pages / 13.8 x 18.6 cm / 99 g
BHM 7813
DVD
(PAL) 3 Schwankungen am Rand
EAN: 9790004650394
12 pages / 13.8 x 18.6 cm / 90 g
BHM 7814
DVD
(PAL) 4 Les Consolations
EAN: 9790004650400
12 pages / 13.8 x 18.6 cm / 92 g
BHM 7815
DVD
(PAL) 5 Double (Grido II) | Klangschatten
EAN: 9790004650417
16 pages / 13.8 x 18.6 cm / 99 g
BHM 7816
DVD
(PAL) 6 Tanzsuite mit Deutschlandlied
EAN: 9790004650424
12 pages / 13.8 x 18.6 cm / 91 g
BHM 7817
DVD
(PAL) 7 Kontrakadenz | SCHREIBEN
EAN: 9790004650431
16 pages / 13.8 x 18.6 cm / 99 g
Description
Description
The individual DVDs are as varied as the various circumstances:
With the camera, we accompanied some orchestras for several days, with others the time and hence our film “yield” was more limited. Sometimes there were detailed sectional rehearsals with Helmut Lachenmann, sometimes the composer (and so also our filming team) arrived only after the sectional rehearsals had already taken place.
Most rehearsals were in German, several in English, others again in a colorful mixture of German, English, Spanish, and Italian.
There was also a big difference regarding familiarity with the music: This ranged from the student orchestra in San Sebastian, facing Lachenmann’s playing techniques for the first time in “SCHREIBEN,” to the rehearsals of “Air” / “Schwankungen am Rand” by the Ensemble Modern Orchestra, an ensemble very experienced with Lachenmann’s music.
So the DVDs are to be considered an approach to Lachenmann’s orchestral works, which – without raising claim to completeness of perfection – convey a vibrant impression of the composer collaborating with the musicians and conductors.
(Wiebke Pöpel)