1960 tango instrumental soundscape
"To record music is a very intimate, personal process for which I have utmost respect", begins Harriet Krijgh. Élégie (from “Morceaux de fantaisie”, Op. Sonata for cello and piano in G minor, Op. In comparison with her youthful oeuvre, she has long discovered tonally coloured aesthetics that meet with broad acceptance in the repertoire. Even the fact that her musical diction is not in keeping with what is usually understood as ‘progressive’, need not bother her. She is commissioned with work and her work is performed because she and her music are appreciated. With her work, Johanna Doderer fortunately stands above such criteria. The issue as to whether women can compose music has been obsolete since Hildegard von Bingen’s work in the 12 th century at the latest. My three-movement work also touches on this sound.’ In short, the idyll utters a silent scream. In the course of time, I found out what happened there during the First World War. “I was fascinated above all by the superb scenery. More than half a century later, in her 2 nd Symphony ‘Bohinj’, his great-niece erected an artistic memorial to Lake Bohinj in Slovenia, around 300 km away from that Croatian natural beauty.
‘I’m composing colours’ he always pointed out and admit his work not only to impressionism but also to his great reverence to van Gogh. Henri Dutilleux, named as “van Gogh of classical music” (Die Welt), has been a long time of his artistic life a maverick, dreamy and stubborn man, looking for his own style between tradition and modernism orientated to his great paragons Dukas, Ravel and Roussel.