For the occasion of Helmut Lachenmann’s 75th birthday, on 27 November 2010, WERGO presents a CD re-release of reference recordings of works published on LP in 1985. “Here we must depart from a conception that only accepts the ‘showy’ side of sound, usually promoted as a medium for a certain kind of spurious social ostentation”, the conductor Clytus Gottwald wrote about Lachenmann’s sound realism . Lachenmann creates “music that removes the false aspects of sounds by returning sound to its natural realm”.
