{"id":157509,"date":"2026-05-10T09:15:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/records\/conor-hanick-hans-otte-book-of-sounds-piano-minimalisme-minimalism\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T09:17:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:17:50","slug":"conor-hanick-hans-otte-book-of-sounds-piano-minimalisme-minimalism","status":"publish","type":"records","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/records\/conor-hanick-hans-otte-book-of-sounds-piano-minimalisme-minimalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor Hanick &#8211; Hans Otte : Book of Sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Hans Otte (1926-2007) is probably the least known composer associated with the repetitive, &#8220;minimalist&#8221; school. When this iconic musical movement is mentioned, one immediately thinks of pioneers such as La Monte Young and Terry Riley, or major stars like Steve Reich and Philip Glass in the United States, Michael Nyman and Gavin Bryars in the United Kingdom, Louis Andriessen in the Netherlands, etc. But the German-Polish Hans Otte? Crumbs. Yet, he wrote several notable works in the genre, including the <em>Book of Sounds<\/em> (<em>Das Buch der Kl\u00e4nge<\/em>) composed between 1979 and 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It is a cycle of twelve pieces for solo piano, where a delicate work on the quality and beauty of the sounds created by the soloist flourishes, in individual repetitive-type architectures, but also in a general arc-shaped architecture that makes the entire cycle more holistic.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"76th Ojai Music Festival, SUN 6.12.22 | The Books of Sounds\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LGBLGdEt0c4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The occasional listener will notice the harmonic transformations, evolving toward greater density and chromaticism, as the cycle progresses toward the sixth part, right in the middle. Then, up to the twelfth, the atmospheres lighten again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The discerning listener will notice other technical subtleties that make the experience fully satisfying and stimulating, such as references to Chopin, Debussy, and Messiaen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The American pianist Conor Hanick offers a lively interpretation, very attentive to the multiple details of the score, although muted, somewhat veiled (perhaps the recording?), in terms of colors. Several other recordings exist, including one under the Naxos label with Ralph van Raat, and another, excellent one, with Herbert Henck at ECM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A major work to discover quickly, if you haven&#8217;t already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 400px; height: 472px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2440912806\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/ilpiratarecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/hans-otte-the-book-of-sounds\">Hans Otte: The Book of Sounds de Conor Hanick<\/a><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hans Otte (1926-2007) is probably the least known composer associated with the repetitive, &#8220;minimalist&#8221; school. 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