Robert Wittinger: Om (1968)

Robert Wittinger (*1945): Om, per orchestra, (1968). Robert Wittinger, gong. Hessischer Rundfunks Symphony Orchestra diretta da Hermann Michael. Cover image: painting by Karen Jacobs. “OM per orchestra“ op. 12 was commissioned by the Hessischer Rundfunk for the 1968 Darmstadt Holiday Course for New Music, and was given its first performance by the Hessischer Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra under Hermann Michael with Robert Wittinger (as the soloist in the “coda“) on the large gong. In the score it says in 14 different languages: “This difficult gong beat can only be performed by the composer; for this reason he should be invited to every performance!“ This gong beat represents as it were the nadir of Wittinger’s formal connective technique. Reinhard Oehlschlägel (dalle note di copertina del disco). *** The music published in our channel is exclusively dedicated to divulgation purposes and not commercial. This within a program shared to study classic educational music of the 1900’s (mostly Italian) which involves thousands of people around the world. If someone, for any reason, would deem that a video appearing in this channel violates the copyright, please inform us immediately before you submit a claim to Youtube, and it will be our care to remove immediately the video accordingly. Your collaboration will be appreciated.