Monadologie XXXVI by Daan Vandewalle

Bernhard Lang

Daan Vandewalle

Monadologie XXXVI

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Format: CD
Label: Antarctica
UPC: 0608917737523
Catnr: AR 075
Release date: 07 November 2025
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Label
Antarctica

UPC
0608917737523

Catalogue number
AR 075

Release date
07 November 2025

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About the album

Bernhard Lang’s Monadology XXXVI is a radical “meta-composition”. It deconstructs Chopin’s Op. 10 Études through granular analysis, loops, and virtual remixing—destroying and reassembling the score into new sonic textures. The cycle consists of 12 Etüden. The last three are dedicated to Daan Vandewalle, the internationally acclaimed pianist renowned for his mastery of 20th- and 21st-century repertoire, who now brings them to this album.

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Daan Vandewalle (piano)

Daan Vandewalle enjoys an international reputation as a new music specialist, with a strong focus on 20th and 21st century American piano music. He studied at the Conservatory of Ghent, Belgium with Claude Coppens and at Mills College, California with Alvin Curran. He gave concerts and lectures devoted to American music throughout the world. He is a fellow of the Belgian-American Educational Foundation and teaches piano at the conservatory of Ghent, Belgium. His programs are often highly unusual both on a technical or intellectual level, often combining the classical repertoire [Mussorgski- integrale, the entire set of Chopin studies] with premieres of new works written especially for him f.e. Frith, Newman, Rzewski, Curran, De Alvear, Barlowe. He collaborated with many music...

Daan Vandewalle enjoys an international reputation as a new music specialist, with a strong focus on 20th and 21st century American piano music. He studied at the Conservatory of Ghent, Belgium with Claude Coppens and at Mills College, California with Alvin Curran. He gave concerts and lectures devoted to American music throughout the world. He is a fellow of the Belgian-American Educational Foundation and teaches piano at the conservatory of Ghent, Belgium. His programs are often highly unusual both on a technical or intellectual level, often combining the classical repertoire [Mussorgski- integrale, the entire set of Chopin studies] with premieres of new works written especially for him f.e. Frith, Newman, Rzewski, Curran, De Alvear, Barlowe. He collaborated with many music ensembles (The Simpletones, Champ d’Action, Tense Serenity, Vapori del Cuori, Sonic Youth, Ostravska banda) and formed a piano-duo with Geoffrey Douglas Madge.

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Bernhard Lang

Bernhard Lang (b. 1957, Linz) is an Austrian contemporary composers, known for his bold explorations of repetition, transformation, and hybrid forms. Trained in composition, piano, jazz, German literature and philosophy in Graz, he studied with Andrzej Dobrowolski, Georg Friedrich Haas, Gösta Neuwirth, and at Darmstadt with John Cage and Helmut Lachenmann. After early work as an improviser and jazz pianist, he turned toward composition, electronics, and music theatre, founding the collective die andere saite in 1987 and the publishing house Zeitvertrieb in 1999. Lang has written around 22 stage works, 22 orchestral works, and more than 160 chamber pieces, as well as electronic and dance music. He has been featured at major festivals including Wien Modern, Donaueschingen, Salzburg, Darmstadt, MaerzMusik,...

Bernhard Lang (b. 1957, Linz) is an Austrian contemporary composers, known for his bold explorations of repetition, transformation, and hybrid forms. Trained in composition, piano, jazz, German literature and philosophy in Graz, he studied with Andrzej Dobrowolski, Georg Friedrich Haas, Gösta Neuwirth, and at Darmstadt with John Cage and Helmut Lachenmann. After early work as an improviser and jazz pianist, he turned toward composition, electronics, and music theatre, founding the collective die andere saite in 1987 and the publishing house Zeitvertrieb in 1999. Lang has written around 22 stage works, 22 orchestral works, and more than 160 chamber pieces, as well as electronic and dance music. He has been featured at major festivals including Wien Modern, Donaueschingen, Salzburg, Darmstadt, MaerzMusik, Warsaw Autumn, and Suntory Hall Tokyo. Winner of numerous prizes, including the Erste Bank Composition Prize and the Austrian Prize in the Arts, both his operas HIOB and DORA were elected premieres of the years 2023 and 2024. He lives as a freelancing composer in Vienna, teaching masterclasses all over the world.

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