Bernhard Lang: I Hate Mozart [Hybrid SACD] [Hybrid SACD - DSD]

David Pittman-Jennings (Performer), Florian Boesch (Performer), Bernhard Lang (Composer), Recorded Sound (Composer), Johannes Kalitzke (Conductor), Klangforum Wien (Orchestra), Andrea Brown (Performer), Dagmar Schellenberger (Performer), Salome Kammer (Performer), Mathias Zachariassen (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: David Pittman-Jennings, Florian Boesch, Andrea Brown, Dagmar Schellenberger, Salome Kammer, et al.
• Orchestra: Klangforum Wien
• Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke
• Composer: Bernhard Lang, Recorded Sound
• Audio CD (June 10, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD
• Label: Col Legno
• ASIN: B0017SQS6E
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #787,775 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. I Hate Mozart, opera: Act 1. No. 1. Ouvertüre / Albtraum 1

2. I Hate Mozart, opera: Act 1. No. 2. Fi Fa Fu

3. I Hate Mozart, opera: Act 1. No. 3. Vorsingen

4. I Hate Mozart, opera: Act 1. No. 3. [B] Ach ich

5. I Hate Mozart, opera: Act 1. No. 4. Singing in the Bath

6. I Hate Mozart, opera: Act 1. No. 4. [A] Dallasuapace

7. I Hate Mozart, opera: Act 1. No. 5. Musikalische Probe

8. I Hate Mozart, opera: Act 1. No. 6. Dalla sua pace

9. I Hate Mozart, opera: Act 1. No. 7. Albtraum 2

10. I Hate Mozart, opera: Act 1. No. 8. BO Surprise

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Disc: 2

1. I Hate Mozart, opera: Applaus

2. I Hate Mozart, opera: Act 2. No. 13. Albtraum 3. Den Morgen zu verkünden

3. I Hate Mozart, opera: Act 2. No. 14. And then you will be gone...

4. I Hate Mozart, opera: Act 2. No. 15. Ich hab mich lieb

5. Applause

6. I Hate Mozart, opera: Act 2. No. 17. Orchesterhauptprobe

7. I Hate Mozart, opera: Act 2. No. 18. Nach dem Albtraum 4/5

8. I Hate Mozart, opera: Act 2. No. 19. The chairman

9. I Hate Mozart, opera: Act 2. No. 20. More delicate than gratification is desire

10. I Hate Mozart, opera: Act 2. Komm lieber Mai

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Customer Reviews

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1.0 out of 5 stars Big surprise...., August 30, 2010

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Daniel Pi (Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bernhard Lang: I Hate Mozart [Hybrid SACD] (Audio CD)

Big surprise that Bernhard Lang, who has made a career of making phony and ignorant references to "philosophy" and generally faking out gullible avant-garde wannabes with his self-aggrandizing talk of being "cutting edge", has here decided to "shock" us with an "irreverent" title. Don't be fooled, there is nothing "rebellious" or "new" or even remotely interesting about this dreck. Basically, he randomly pastes together repeating loops of Mozart's music, imagining this to be somehow "deconstructionist". What it is REALLY is simply a third tier, fifth rate hack messing around with Pro Tools, showing that he can use (sort of) the "cut and paste" function. This demonstrates not one iota more skill or intelligence than the random fumbling of a first-time computer user dicking around with audio editing software.

I have tremendous respect for genuinely avant-garde music -- everything from Webern and Boulez to Xenakis and Penderecki to Reich and Glass (the latter pair of whom Bernhard Lang pitifully attempts to copy, while declaring their work obsolete, and his own work "cutting edge"). If you are a fan of "new" music, look elsewhere. Don't waste your money on this monument to masturbatory self-aggrandizement by this idiot parading around as a "composer".

I myself am not crazy about Mozart. But I HATE Bernhard Lang.

It is perhaps indicative of the cultural decay in contemporary Europe that utter phonies like this can make a living, faking out people with big, meaningless words, irrelevant references to philosophy, and unwarranted declarations of self-importance. It shall be a glorious day indeed when Mr. Lang finally expires and is consigned to the dustbin of history forever.