Introduction. Sounding the Wounded Dialectic -- Russian Gambit -- Forest near Moscow -- The Duel -- Centaurs -- The Foundling -- Epilogue : The End of Epic as Its Beginning.
Summary:
"By gathering historical and musical fragments from a Europe torn apart by World War II and the Cold War, East German playwright Heiner Mu˜ller and West German composer Heiner Goebbels created Wolokolamsker Chaussee as a musical panorama that stretched across modern European history at a moment of international crisis. The question at the heart of the recording was prescient in the waning years of the Cold War, but it remains no less critical for the "crisis of Europe" today: Is it possible for Europe to be unified? A vast range of musical styles-from folk song to hip-hop, from the symphonic canon to heavy metal-coalesce in the five acts, which expose the wounds of European history while struggling musically to heal them. This extraordinary recording from 1988 not only captures the sound of a historical moment, but also powerfully enacts responses to it"-- Provided by publisher.
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