Kagel: 1898 & Music for Renaissance Instruments (1999)

Mauricio Kagel composed 1898 to commission from Deutsche Grammophon to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the company. Taking as his inspiration the unstable nature of very early recording techniques and the odd instruments used to make early records -- such as the brass-horn-endowed Stroh violins -- Kagel sought to create a work that said something about the historic confluence between the advent of recording in Europe and the gradual dissolution of Western tonality. He also added a children's chorus, but the children do ... Read More

Mauricio Kagel composed 1898 to commission from Deutsche Grammophon to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the company. Taking as his inspiration the unstable nature of very early recording techniques and the odd instruments used to make early records -- such as the brass-horn-endowed Stroh violins -- Kagel sought to create a work that said something about the historic confluence between the advent of recording in Europe and the gradual dissolution of Western tonality. He also added a children's chorus, but the children do not sing; they chatter, chuckle, and chant at certain points, which adds an element of sinister surreality to the piece, which is evocative, dreamlike, and cinematic. 1898 contains some of Kagel's most relentlessly ostinato-based writing, alternating with restrained sections rich with tension and irony, and nowhere does he shy away from nostalgic elements or the special qualities of his arcane choice of instruments.When the resultant LP rolled off the shelves in 1973, many European... Read Less

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