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Liner Notes und Credits zu „Schönberg Improvations“
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Harry Pepl Archive: Amadeo (CD-Booklet): Liner Notes und Credits zu „Schönberg Improvations“ (1990). https://www.harrypepl.com/en/archive/press/#p157 (accessed 20 October 2026).
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- Collection
- Press
- Title
- Liner Notes und Credits zu „Schönberg Improvations“
- Authors
- Harry Lachner
- Date
- 1990
- Publication, label, publisher or university
- Amadeo
- Language
- EN
- Summary
- Amadeo (CD-Booklet) · Harry Lachner · Other
- Permanent address
- https://www.harrypepl.com/en/archive/press/#p157
Harry Lachner's English booklet text for the CD “Schönberg Improvations” (Amadeo 843 086-2, PolyGram Vienna, 1990). Lachner describes the record's paradox: Pepl, once recognisable by a modified Ovation guitar, later worked with samples on the MIDI guitar; here, however, he plays a real Bösendorfer grand piano from the guitar, and only “The Last Bars Of Mankind” sounds different. He calls this “a most radical use of technology” and quotes Dave Liebman on the urge to go beyond the limits of the instrument. The piano track is completely improvised, inspired by recordings of Arnold Schoenberg's piano works; the lyricism of “Alone Is A Golden Stone” and the trance-like 4/4 groove of “Magnet Resonance” stand amid highly abstract, atonal pieces. It closes with Glenn Gould as another source of inspiration. Plus the credits: recorded in November 1989 at the Sing Sang studio, Vienna, recording …
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