File under: Contemporary
We know the mantra all too well: If I love it, what can I do but repeat it? If I repeat it, what can I do but get bored with it? One answer might be (must be): to make out of its repetition something infinitely variable. This Clementi has done for the last twenty years. He has found a technician's answer to the familiar question of what to do, musically, with the compulsive nature of memory, the obstinate tenacity of the Proustian 'petite phase'. Beethoven and Brahms exorcised this power, this compulsion to repeat, through variations. Clementi constructs canons. — David Osmond-Smith
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File under: Contemporary
Cat. number: hat[now]ART 123
Year: 2000
Notes:
Composed 1989/ 1992/ 1993/ 1985/ 1993/ 1956/ 1983/ 1979/ 1994/ 1997.
Recorded 30 September & 1 October 1996 and 1 & 2 December 1997 at Theater Romein, Leeuwarden, Netherlands. Tracks 2, 3 & 5 to 10 are first recordings.
Edition of 3000 CD's
Cardboard sleeve
