Various Artists - Olga Neuwirth: Orchestral Music (2020)

Three important orchestral works from the oeuvre of Olga Neuwirth, one of the most eminent composers of our time, are combined on this recording. Besides works for trumpet as well as viola and orchestra (with Håkan Hardenberger and Antoine Tamestit as soloists), there is Masaot/Clock without Hands, performed by its dedicatee, the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Daniel Harding. In the anniversary year of the KAIROS label, this is a special highlight with most prominent musicians. Olga Neuwirths art represents for her the abstracted, codified love for the human sound that lies deep inside us. Its sounds are nurtured by an affinity for unusual sound producers with an amplified artificiality and a transfiguration of the means of sound (frequently a radical change in timbre), as well as a proclivity for large orchestral apparatuses with transparent instrumentation. The impact of the sound can also be used to create fractures or discontinuities, which are produced by alienation effects and various idioms or frequently by musical allusions and a refined technique for citation. For me, the work on the sound itself is always significant, work on the tiniest, most subtle particles that are constantly in motion and always have the potential to take on other forms or move in other directions.