Label: Tochnit Aleph

1938年にウィーン出身、宗教美術に興味を持ち1957年には先鋭演劇"Orgien Mysterien Theater"を始動する事となる、実験マルチメディア・アーティストにしてウィーン・アクショニズムの代表格Hermann Nitsch。氏の過去の激レア音源発掘から新録出版を行うドイツTochnit Alephが手掛けたリリースもの。本作はO.M.Theater155回目のパフォーマンスの為に作曲され、オーストリアはミステルバッハにある"nitsch museum"にて披露された凄まじい規模の集団ドローン記録。大規模オーケストラ、ブラスバンド、合唱団が一体となり、約2時間もの間崇高な持続音を奏で続けた超傑作！！マスト。



Recording of the premiere performance of Nitsch’s latest large scale symphony for full orchestra, brass ensemble and choir, in five movements. Composed for the 155th Action of the Orgien-Mysterien-Theater, and performed at the nitsch museum, Mistelbach, September 9th, 2018. Directed by Andrea Cusumano.
"The 155th action in Herman Nitsch's Das Orgien Mysterien Theater took place on September 1, 2018. As the first action to be staged in the Nitsch Museum in Mistelbach, Vienna, it coincided with the occasion of his 80th birthday. A series of processions both viscerally affecting and poignant in their restraint took place in the museum to a very crowded audience. This action was accompanied by a new symphony composed by Nitsch for large orchestra, brass band, and choir. Sudden and explosive motifs for the brass band punctuate still, though unnerving, drone-like passages that modulate over the course of the two-hour performance. Throughout, the movement of the participants in the action and the audience is accentuated by the incongruous percussive ring of the whistle that calls attention and directs the activity, heightening the intensity of the entire work.“ (Patrick Quick)