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HERMESensemble, Ensemble Interface, Jan Michiels, Paulo de Assis, Juan Parra Cancino, Mieko Kanno, Lucia D'Errico, Valentin Johannes Gloor
Diabelli Machines8
Album BE 2018 on Orpheus Institute label
Classical (Contemporary, Classical)
Imagining Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations as a musical time machine, the Diabelli Machines research project exposes productive tensions between Beethoven’s own time, its past, and its future. Beethoven’s original work was composed in two periods: the first draft (1819) included twenty-three variations, while the final version (1823) took the total to thirty-three variations. In the final version, Beethoven included many musical parodies, alluding to Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, and Cramer. Diabelli Machines makes these past references audible to listeners, and adds future compositions, in the form of new pieces reflecting on the Diabelli Variations. Diabelli Machines8 contains a CD, a DVD, and a written essay. The CD presents six new pieces, which were composed in response to specific variations from Beethoven’s original work, and the first ever recording of the 1819 version of the Diabelli Variations. The DVD documents a live performance of Diabelli Machines in which the time machine is staged through conventional piano performance, transcriptions of the original variations for ensemble, and contemporary pieces. And the comprehensive new essay provides detailed insight into the ideas behind this project and its wider implications for future experimental performance practices of Western notated art music.
Musicians
 | HERMESensemble , *1999 BE ensemble, album by |
 | Ensemble Interface , ensemble, album by |
 | Jan Michiels p, *1966 BE piano, album by |
 | Paulo de Assis p, *1969 PT piano, album by |
 | Juan Parra Cancino , electronics, album by |
 | Mieko Kanno vn, violin, album by |
 | Lucia D'Errico , album by |
 | Valentin Johannes Gloor , tenor vocals, album by |
 | Tiziano Manca , performer on track |
 | David Gorton tb, performer on track |
 | Bart Vanhecke , *1964 BE performer on track |
| Paolo Galli , performer on track |
 | Ludwig van Beethoven voc, p, 1770-1827 DE performer on track |
| Ludwig van Beethoven , Paulo de Assis , Hans Roels , Tiziano Manca , Lucia D'Errico , Juan Parra Cancino , Bart Vanhecke , performer on track |
Producers
| Lucia D'Errico lighting director |
Album Tracks
| No | Title | Artist | Composer | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DeleuzApierre | Juan Parra Cancino | 4:29 | |
| 2 | Variation 8 | Lucia D'Errico | 5:48 | |
| 3 | Parlando | Tiziano Manca | 5:34 | |
| 4 | [Variation 12] | David Gorton | 0:56 | |
| 5 | [Variation 13] | David Gorton | 1:00 | |
| 6 | [Variation 14] | David Gorton | 6:00 | |
| 7 | Commentaire . . . Variation 20 | Bart Vanhecke | 5:04 | |
| 8 | . . . heraus in Luft . . . | Paolo Galli | 4:42 | |
| 9 | Diabelli Variations (1819 version) | Ludwig van Beethoven | 29:30 | |
| 10 | Diabelli Machines4 | Ludwig van Beethoven , Paulo de Assis , Hans Roels , Tiziano Manca , Lucia D'Errico , Juan Parra Cancino , Bart Vanhecke | 87:00 |
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