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(More customer reviews)For Flute(alternating with {Piccolo), Bb(alt.Eb Clar) Clarinet, Oboe, Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet, Trombone and Contra-bass, a mere 7 minutes, but representative of the middle innovative period;The Twenties. Varese had to begin again, his early works, many destroyed or forgotten had that "leftover" typically French ambience to them,un-innovative,or at the ends of whatever can be used. Like he was left with an abandoned studio's materials, mortgaged,exhausted now; perhaps if there is anything to living in a newfoundland, in exile (although he freely travelled back to Paris, before settling in New York City) there are the works from this period, Hyperprisms, Arcana, Integrales, Ionization, Density. Octandre here has a scaled down content/gestures to it, so we can follow more the musical language in clarity; the tensions from the solo moments the opening plaintive, almost lamenting Oboe, then returning in the reedy Piccolo,then Bassoon as solo. The declamatory chordal punctuations in between. You always feel in Varese the endlessnesss to the power of timbre, of sound, like it can be projected into infinite spaces, although he in his work took great arduous pleasure in shaping his materials,giving them an endpoint to progress to in constructing them, rendering the obvious now scholarly descriptions of "blocks","beacons" "densities" of shapes,like the tension in a suspension bridge. He was not fond of program notes, and wanted his music to be free from any kind of narrative, or critique, and in retrospect his music does have that independence from comment,so I refrain from such associations;it does however have the modernity of the city,o the civilized/uncivilized world imparted within every inch of the work's content, we feel the present ofimpenetrable walls, and demarcations, endpoints, where we cannot go further, he tries to exploit the emotive crevices between those two voids, of the endless beacon he called it of sound and what can be limited through the physical lifeworld.Octandre is simply smaller proportioned than his other works, one herein of every instrument given, no percussion here, and I suspect it was a challenge to try his hand without the aid of the percussion world he was so fond of, and helped him formulate this innovativeness. The work has a miniature beauty to it,but not beautiful like a landscape more like the intersting gradations of seeing water splash(rain) gently against the power of a skyscraper standing here looking upwards.

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