{"product_id":"sharp-elliott-die-grosste-fugue-cd","title":"Sharp, Elliott - Die Größte Fugue (CD) |","description":"\"Die Größte Fuge, an opera by Elliott Sharp, features bass baritone Nicholas Isherwood and the Asasello Quartet.\n\nAfter 1815, Beethoven was beset with problems: physical, emotional, financial. Retreating into \"\"fugue\"\" states, he has visions, celestial and horrific, not hallucinations but visitations from a parallel reality of marvelous inventions, gleaming ships in the air, unheard musics, carnage beyond belief. Emerging, he translates these scenes into a music that stretches the rules to the verge of destruction. The resultant work, Die Größe Fuge, is considered the first 20th century string quartet.\n\nSharp created a libretto from letters and writings of Beethoven as well as taking elements from Die Größe Fuge as seed materials for extrapolation, randomization, and recombinance. Beethoven is presented as a disturbed and effecting figure, the tortured genius. The performers play Sharp’s score, both apocalyptic and ecstatic, with incredible intensity.\"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: 2CD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: CD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLabel: Infrequent Seams Records\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCatalog Number: CD-IS-1044\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Sharp, Elliott","offers":[{"title":"- CLASSICAL *NEW*","offer_id":45087896993907,"sku":"60M7HH-8E3I-UK","price":16.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0500\/7837\/files\/classical-new_Ni0QG.jpg?v=1781037166","url":"https:\/\/www.lovevinylrecords.com\/products\/sharp-elliott-die-grosste-fugue-cd","provider":"Love Vinyl Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}