To mark the 75th anniversary of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BRSO) in 2024, the BR-KLASSIK label is now making previously unreleased recordings of concerts worth listening to available on CD and as a stream. The six-part composition My Melodies for eight horns and orchestra was composed between 2016 and 2018, revised for the first time in 2019, and then again in 2023 as the musica viva Munich version. It was commissioned by Bavarian Radio's musica viva with the support of the Friends of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra e.V. This is a live recording of the premiere of the Munich 2023 version of June 23, 2023 from the Herkulessaal, again as part of BR's musica viva concert series, with the horn section and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Matthias Hermann.Helmut Lachenmann, born in Stuttgart in 1935, is one of the most renowned German composers of contemporary music. He studied piano, music theory and counterpoint in Stuttgart and composition with Luigi Nono in Venice. The first public performances of his works took place in 1962 at the Venice Biennale and at the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. He taught composition in Hanover (1976-1981) and in Stuttgart (1981-1999), and gave numerous master classes in Germany and abroad. His works are performed by internationally renowned players and orchestras all over the world. Helmut Lachenmann has received numerous awards, most recently the GEMA German Music Authors' Prize for his life's work (2015).The phenomenon of melody has long preoccupied Helmut Lachenmann. He went to study in Venice at the end of the 1950s with Luigi Nono, a teacher who strictly insisted on a critically reflective approach to musical material. Nono had objected to any trace of linear progression in Lachenmann's compositional sketches as a "tonal cell" - a melodic object that was seen as a recourse to a romanticising tonal language that had to be overcome. The impetus for the scoring of My Melodies came from a rehearsal of Lachenmann's opera The Little Match Girl in Madrid in 2008: eight horns forming a homogeneous yet at the same time complex instrument. The premiere took place ten years later. In 2023, My Melodies was extended by 77 additional bars since that first performance, with Lachenmann drawing on further sketch material. It is rare for the composer to alter his own works after their premiere - but the sound ideas for the eight horns seem to have retained a special fascination for him. The bonus tracks offer short excerpts from this concert recording of My Melodies. They present characteristic passages of the work, inviting listeners to detect specific noises or sequences and to familiarise themselves with Lachenmann's world of sound.? Helmut Lachenmann's My Melodies in the revised version, Munich 2023, live recording of the premiere on June 23, 2023 from the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz as part of Bavarian Radio's musica viva concert series ? Bonus tracks with excerpts from this concert recording? Conversation between the composer and Johann Jahn about the musica viva premiere of My Melodies in 2018

Tracklist:

My Melodies, Musik fÃ¼r act HÃ¶rner und Orchester~ErÃ¶ffnung
My Melodies, Musik fÃ¼r act HÃ¶rner und Orchester~Tonloser Einsatz nach Stille, ab Takt 141
My Melodies, Musik fÃ¼r act HÃ¶rner und Orchester~Tonlose Akzente der HÃ¶rner, ab Takt 195
My Melodies, Musik fÃ¼r act HÃ¶rner und Orchester~Beginn der Zeitlupenmelodie der Streicher, ab Takt 405
My Melodies, Musik fÃ¼r act HÃ¶rner und Orchester~Kadenz der acht SolohÃ¶rner, ab Takt 485
My Melodies, Musik fÃ¼r act HÃ¶rner und Orchester~Schluss, ab Takt 485c
My Melodies (Bonus tracks)~Melodische Keimzelle
My Melodies (Bonus tracks)~Schwebungen
My Melodies (Bonus tracks)~Tonloses Spiel
My Melodies (Bonus tracks)~StimmzÃ¼ge 1
My Melodies (Bonus tracks)~StimmzÃ¼ge 2
My Melodies (Bonus tracks)~LuftsÃ¤ulen
My Melodies (Bonus tracks)~Retardierende Intervention des Klaviers
My Melodies (Bonus tracks)~Pauken-Melodie
My Melodies (Bonus tracks)~Zeitlupenmelodie
My Melodies (Bonus tracks)~Kadenz der acht SolohÃ¶rner
My Melodies (Bonus tracks)~SpÃ¤te Melodien 1
My Melodies (Bonus tracks)~SpÃ¤te Melodien 2
My Melodies (Bonus tracks)~SpÃ¤te Melodien 3
My Melodies (Bonus tracks)~SpÃ¤te Melodien 4
Helmut Lachenmann im GesprÃ¤ch mit Johann Jahn....der "My Melodies" 2018

UPC: 4035719006438
Label: Br Klassiks
Release Date: 4.5.24
Format: CD

Lachenmann / Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen - My Melodies (CD)