Pranav Ranjit | Hans Otte - Das Buch der Klänge (The Book of Sounds) (Score Video) @towardthesea_ | Uploaded January 2022 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Hans Otte, piano
Part 1 | 08:59 Part 2 | 19:19 Part 3 | 25:18 Part 4 | 29:48 Part 5 | 38:20 Part 6
41:41 Part 7 | 50:28 Part 8 | 55:03 Part 9 | 58:47 Part 10 | 1:06:47 Part 11 | 1:11:47 Part 12
This video is intended for educational use only; please email me at pranav.sivakumar@berkeley.edu regarding any copyright issues. If you would like to play this cycle, the score is easy to find and inexpensive to purchase - I own a copy and would highly recommend it!
Hans Otte (1926-2007) was a German composer, pianist, poet, and artist. A student of Paul Hindemith at Yale and of the German pianist Walter Gieseking, Otte often worked with very simple musical materials, finding subtle and sensitive forms of expression within them.
The twelve-part "Das Buch der Klänge", written from 1979 to 1982, is probably Otte's best-known work, drawing from a variety of musical influences to create an uniquely intense yet intimate sound. According to the description of the recording, Otte dedicated it to "all those who want to draw close to sound, so that, in the search for the sound of sound, for the secret of life, one's own resonance is discovered."
Hans Otte, piano
Part 1 | 08:59 Part 2 | 19:19 Part 3 | 25:18 Part 4 | 29:48 Part 5 | 38:20 Part 6
41:41 Part 7 | 50:28 Part 8 | 55:03 Part 9 | 58:47 Part 10 | 1:06:47 Part 11 | 1:11:47 Part 12
This video is intended for educational use only; please email me at pranav.sivakumar@berkeley.edu regarding any copyright issues. If you would like to play this cycle, the score is easy to find and inexpensive to purchase - I own a copy and would highly recommend it!
Hans Otte (1926-2007) was a German composer, pianist, poet, and artist. A student of Paul Hindemith at Yale and of the German pianist Walter Gieseking, Otte often worked with very simple musical materials, finding subtle and sensitive forms of expression within them.
The twelve-part "Das Buch der Klänge", written from 1979 to 1982, is probably Otte's best-known work, drawing from a variety of musical influences to create an uniquely intense yet intimate sound. According to the description of the recording, Otte dedicated it to "all those who want to draw close to sound, so that, in the search for the sound of sound, for the secret of life, one's own resonance is discovered."
![Eduard Tubin - Symphony No. 11 [unfinished] (Score Video)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/l-vYcU8buKo/hqdefault.jpg "Eduard Tubin - Symphony No. 11 [unfinished] (Score Video)
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arvo Volmer
Eduard Tubin (1905-1982) was an Estonian composer and conductor, his countrys most prolific and arguably greatest symphonist. Having completed his studies under another very prominent Estonian composer, Heino Eller (whose music I also plan to upload), in independent Estonia, Tubin fled following the Soviet reoccupation of his country in 1944. He settled permanently in Sweden for the rest of his life, writing many of his most important works, being elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and becoming a Swedish citizen in 1961. In addition to an impressive eleven symphonies, Tubin wrote two operas, the first Estonian ballet (Kratt), concerti for double bass and balalaika, choral music, art songs, and chamber and solo works (particularly violin and piano music.)
For those unacquainted with Tubin, his orchestral music - particularly the symphonies of his middle and later period - shares some common elements with Shostakovich, often marrying relatively rigid formal structures like fugues with rather astringent harmonic ideas and an unexpected emotional intensity. He also often brought Estonian folk music into several of his works. Although Tubins work was initially somewhat unrecognized outside Estonia (even in Sweden), it has gained prominence in the last few decades due to the efforts of Estonian conductors including Neeme and Paavo Järvi.
The eleventh symphony, which Tubin was working on when he passed away in 1982, combines the aforementioned characteristics with a rather bright orchestration typical of his later music. The last minute or so of the first movement was completed by the Estonian-Canadian composer Kaljo Raid, resulting in the recording here; the score I have available is a copy of Tubins manuscript and thus does not contain this completion.
I now have scores of all of Tubins symphonies except the first; some of them are scans of old and battered copies, so they will take a little longer to upload - especially as most of his symphonic works are quite substantial in both musical material and length. I also plan to post his balalaika concerto soon, so if you enjoyed this work, stay tuned for more!")
