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Georg Friedrich Haas‘s limited approximations Performed at the Konzerthaus Berlin

Nov. 26, 2022

The Konzerthaus Berlin presented a performance of Georg Friedrich Haas's masterpiece, limited approximations, on November 18 by the Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin and pianists Soojin Anjou, Pi-Hsien Chen, Anton Gerzenberg, Andreas Grau, Matan Porat, and Götz Schumacher under the baton of Jonathan Stockhammer. The program, innovatively conceived by Dorothee Kalbhenn, also included J.S. Bach's Chaconne aus der Partita für Violine solo d-Moll (BWV 1004) and Thomas Tallis's spectacular 40-voice motet, Spem in Alium, performed by the Kammerchor des Collegium Musicum Berlin and the Neue Kammerchor Berlin, led by chorus masters Donka Miteva and Adrian Emans.

Premiered in 2010 by The SWR Baden Baden and Freiburg Symphony Orchestra, led by Sylvain Cambreling, limited approximations utilizes a particular tuning of the six pianos that enables music within a scale of 72 equal frequency ratios per octave to be heard precisely. Haas creates a vastly expanded palette of color and sound with this technique than would normally be achieved by use of a conventional twelve-tone temperament.


(The SWR Baden Baden and Freiburg Symphony Orchestra, led by Sylvain Cambreling
perform Georg Friedrich Haas's limited approxmations)

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Georg Friedrich Haas
limited approximations (2010)
concerto for six micro-tonally tuned pianos and orchestra
4141-6140-str
27'

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