Accanto, Consolation No, 1, Kontrakadenz : Brunner, Zender / Saarbrucken RSO, Gielen / Stuttgart RSO, etc

Helmut Lachenmann:

Accanto Music for a clarinettist with orchestra
Eduard Brunner (clarinet)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrucken / Hans Zender, conductor

Consolation I for 12 voices and 4 percussionists
Arno Arndt, Siegfried Fink, Hermann Gschwendtner & Michael Ranta (percussion)
Schola Cantorum, Stuttgart / Clytus Gottwald, conductor

Kontrakadenz, for full orchestra
RSO Stuttgart des SWR / Michael Gielen, conductor

For the occasion of Helmut Lachenmann's 75th birthday, on 27 November 2010, WERGO presents a CD re-release of reference recordings of works published on LP in 1985. "Here we must depart from a conception that only accepts the 'showy' side of sound, usually promoted as a medium for a certain kind of spurious social ostentation", the conductor Clytus Gottwald wrote about Lachenmann's ‘sound realism’. Lachenmann creates "music that removes the false aspects of sounds by returning sound to its natural realm".