Louis Andriessen: De Tijd (Time) for Large Ensemble - Schönberg Ensemble

Louis Andriessen (Artist), Reinbert de Leeuw (Artist), Schönberg Ensemble (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 18, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Nonesuch
• ASIN: B000005J1M
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #147,583 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. De Tijd

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A hauntingly mesmerizing work, June 18, 2009

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This review is from: Louis Andriessen: De Tijd (Time) for Large Ensemble - Schönberg Ensemble (Audio CD)

This is an utterly mesmerizing work. De Tijd employs a female choir - which is more or less constantly present - but is, in practice, an instrumental work, attempting to at least draw inspirations from the nature of time (or rather, musings on the purported nature of time from several authors). Stylistically, the music bears some superficial resemblance to the minimalism of Reich, but the purpose of the figures deployed is different and the language more dissonant. The voices of De Tijd are given a swelling and heaving, long-breathed line as a backdrop for percussive, dissonant chords (interspersed with very effective uses of silences and gear changes), which are slowly but gradually (though almost unnoticeably) accelerating. At the same time there is harmonic motion and development, and the whole work is thus gradually evolving throughout its 43 minute span, building up tension and urgency (I've rarely heard anything as intense and intensely beautiful as the last 8 minutes). And the Schönberg ensemble under Reinbert de Leeuw gives what sounds like a marvelous incisive and scrupulously exact performance (though I haven't heard any alternatives) and the sound quality is fine. I do, perhaps, not think this will be a work for everyone and anyone, but then again I didn't, when acquiring this disc, really think I myself would be one of those who would get enchanted by it. Yet it turned out to be one of the most haunting, hypnotically effective works I've heard in a long time. Strongly recommended.

10 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Here is excellent, March 29, 2004

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This review is from: Louis Andriessen: De Tijd (Time) for Large Ensemble - Schönberg Ensemble (Audio CD)

This is an excellent album that most people will not like too much. It can be hard to get into - but really it's superb - very interesting. Listen to everything else by Andriessen before you get this one though - if you have The Time, this is definitly a piece you'll want to make time for. :)

0 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars andriessen- de tijd, July 31, 2007

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This review is from: Louis Andriessen: De Tijd (Time) for Large Ensemble - Schönberg Ensemble (Audio CD)

Thank you for the quick delivery of the disc. Everything is in great shape and it plays beautifully.