Asmussen Esbjerg Ensemble - Music of the Abyss - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Rued Langgaard's (1893-1952) inner division can be experienced at it's extreme in the chamber music written between 1913 and 1924, in which the secure world of his youth is undercut by a dark musical understream. This is most apparent in the work for piano, Music of the Abyss, which is presented here in a transcription for chamber ensemble by Allan Gravgaard Madsen (born 1984) of which this is the first recording. This meeting between Langgaard and Gravgaard brings to a climax the work's view of modern man's destructive strength in a crazy ride towards the abyss. Album Tracks 1. Septet, BVN 95 2. Augustinusiana, BVN 63 3. I Blomstringstiden, BVN 136 4. Scherzo After Ach Du Lieber Augustin, BVN 62 5. Lenaustemninger, BVN 138 6. Humoreske, BVN 176 7. Afgrundsmusik (Music of the Abyss), BVN 169