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Born in Linz, Austria, Bernhard Lang studied at the Bruckner Conservatorium. He later moved to Graz to study jazz, arranging and classical piano. Between 1977 and 1981 he worked in various jazz groups, and furthered his classical studies with Polish composer Andrej Dobrowolsky. A music-theatre piece in three parts, The Theatre of Repetitions is based on texts by Sade, Burroughs and extracts from the minutes of the Nuremberg trials. The title refers to Gilles Deleuze (the 20th century French philosopher); in content, it is about "a possible history of atrocity". The three parts deal with historic events, which Lang transcends by means of his compositional principle of "Difference and Repetition", through which this work achieves, in the face of the most current political developments and relapses into old nationalistic patterns, the most highly-charged artistic and political effect.

Musicians:
Renate Wicke, mezzo soprano
Anna Maria Pammer, soprano
David Cordier, counter tenor
Martin Wölfel, counter tenor
Alfred Werner, bass
Ekkehard Abele, bass
Les jeunes solistes
Klangforum Wien
Johannes Kalitzke, conductor

Selections:
Bernhard Lang (b.1957)
Das Theater der Wiederholungen (The Theatre of Repetitions) (200-2002)
CD1
I. Erzahlung
1. Passage 1
2. L'eloge de la raison cynique 1
3. Supplices 1
4. Vision du Christ
5. Supplices 2
6. L'eloge de la raison cynique 2
7. Passage 2: Exitus (Les meurtres)
II. Erzahlung
8. Passage 1: Shootout
9. Love of Weapons 1: The Old Weapon Dealer
10. The baron says these things
11. Happiness is a by-product of function
CD2
II. Erzahlung
1. HUMWAWA
2. Love of Weapons 2: The Perfect Killer
3. Passage 2: Shootout 2: Showdown
III. Erzahlung
4. Passage 1: Einfahrt
5. Kaduk
6. Die Schwarze Wand 1
7. Von Menschen und Engeln
8. Die Schwarze Wand 2
9. Dr. Capesius
10. Passage 2: Ausfahrt

Total Time:
Disc 1: 57:54
Disc 2: 47:51
Recorded Live in Graz, October 10-11, 2003