Sakura-Variationen
Variations on a Japanese Folk Song
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SKU: BR.KM-2438
Variations on a Japanese Folk Song. Composed by Helmut Lachenmann. Chamber music; stapled. Kammermusik-Bibliothek (Chamber Music Library).World premiere: Cologne, February 18, 2001 (Trio Accanto)
Variations; Music post-1945; New music (post-2000). Performance score. Composed 2000. 24 pages. Duration 6'. Breitkopf and Haertel #KM 2438. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.KM-2438).ISBN 9790004503010. 9 x 12 inches.
The Sakura Variations are rooted in a world of sounds that is very familiar to us. They do not represent a step backwards, but a look backwards, and are to be understood as both cheerful and serious just as I take children seriously, along with their need to be taken seriously within their horizon. The exotic inflections of the sadly cheerful Japanese folk and childrens song which conjures up the connection of pure beauty and inevitable transitoriness in the symbol of the cherry blossoms, is embedded into the functional-harmonic practice of the European musical tradition. My variations escalate albeit slightly in jest into the pseudo-dramatic: towards the end, the music remains bound to the three beginning notes of the melody; the piano injects broad clusters, and the saxophone breaks out into an almost ecstatic improvisation a situation that sends the music scurrying back to orderliness.(Helmut Lachenmann)CD:trio accanto (Christian Dierstein, Nicolas Hodges, Marcus Weiss) CD Wergo WER 7393 2
World premiere: Cologne, February 18, 2001 (Trio Accanto).