Credits:

Wolfram Oettl

Description:

A piano piece by Bernhard Lang, a reinterpretation of Haydns *The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross*!Austrian composer Bernhard Lang (b. 1957) draws on a wide range of musical styles and genresfrom free jazz and improvisation to hip-hop and DJ culturein his compositional work, which defies categorization. The highlight of this latest portrait album is *Hassans Seven Last Words*, a reimagining of Joseph Haydns *The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross*, which creates a moving connectiontypical of Langbetween the 18th and 21st centuries. The performance is by German pianist Wolfram Ettl, who specializes in minimalist music by composers such as Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Michael Nyman, and David Lang. He studied early musicincluding harpsichord, fortepiano, and basso continuoat the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and, like Lang, is interested in the interplay between the old and the new, as