{"content":"\n    <div class=\"detail-content\">\n        \n        <strong>About work:</strong> <p>Schneller, weiter, höher is the first of my pieces in which I wanted to draw on Bach`s Well Tempered Clavier. In writing through Bach`s fugues I aimed at economy in writing and recycling the material used by the master. Though the result may seem quite simple, the actual process of writing through was was slow and tedious. The basic material is built on four fugues (C major, E major, A major and a minor) from the first book of Well Tempered Clavier. The rhytmic structure follows a set of numbers 1-2-7-1-9-6-3. This set served also as guide in choosing the material, as a „roadmap“ to the reading of four Bach fugues. The title Schneller, weiter, höher (Faster, Further – that is „carry on“, Higher) serves also as a „manual“ instructions, how to control the process of imdividual sections and of the whole piece... Tamara Bernstein wrote in her review of the premiere, „...the piece explores a troubled relationshuip between baroque and modern musical worlds. A synthesizer, sounding like a funeral-parlour organ, creates a soft wash of sustained, chorale-like chords, the twangy sound of the piano... might be described as a Halloween harpsichord. Random percussion blows rupture the violin`s and cello`s tentative gropings toward baroque-style lyricism... At times, these snatches of baroqueness seemed like musical detritus floating in space...“ The piece was written in 1996 as a commission of the Arcana Ensemble and Allison Cameron, to whom i tis dedicated.</p><br>\n        <em>(author, in: booklet of the CD \"Schneller, weiter, höher\")</em><br>\n        <br>\n        \n\n        \n    </div>\n"}