Peter Schat's Thema op 21

[Van Basten II]

While slowly going around the RCO anthology volume 5 , by the way great collection can't wait to put my hands on the huge box if I can ever get it to a more reasonnable price, encountered this piece of music., quite fascinating rather wild a bit cacophonesque especially if you like classical but as mostly a jazzhead I almost felt like I was in La Sala Rosa at the Suoni per il popolo festival as you could easily imagine a free jazz band taking a try at it and make it swing it even more .

Found very little about the piece, here's taken fron Schat's site

http://www.peterschat.nl/ensembles.htm

This piece belongs to my most extreme, repetitive and loudest compositions. It was premiered in the Holland Festival 1970 in the Concertgebouw,under my direction. When it was retaken 25 years later in The Hague it was generally considered to be the starting-point of the repetitive-fortissimo 'Hague-school' of 'bulldozer Louis Andriessen'. (But I never aspired to form a 'school' myself. I'd seen enough in Darmstadt and the like - they're always breeding-places of epigonism and fanaticism.)

Was wondering if you encountered this piece in other settings or recordings of this piece.

PS I started this thread in the classical forum since the piece was taken from a Classical set but I guess it could also fit into other sections as well, to the mods put where it fits the best, important thing is to talk about the music itself.

[Д.Д.]

Nice piece, a bit too long for what it is, reminds me of Zappa's "classical" works.

Edited February 23, 2014 by Д.Д.