{"product_id":"die-groiste-fugue","title":"Die Groiste Fugue","description":"\u003cp\u003eDie Größte Fuge, an opera by Elliott Sharp, features bass baritone Nicholas Isherwood and the Asasello Quartet. After 1815, Beethoven was beset with problems: physical, emotional, financial. Retreating into \"\"fugue\"\" states, he has visions, celestial and horrific, not hallucinations but visitations from a parallel reality of marvellous inventions, gleaming ships in the air, unheard musics, carnage beyond belief. Emerging, he translates these scenes into a music that stretches the rules to the verge of destruction. The resultant work, \u003ci\u003eDie Größe Fuge\u003c\/i\u003e, is considered the first 20th century string quartet. Sharp created a libretto from letters and writings of Beethoven as well as taking elements from \u003ci\u003eDie Größe Fuge\u003c\/i\u003e as seed materials for extrapolation, randomisation, and recombinance. Beethoven is presented as a disturbed and effecting figure, the tortured genius. The performers play Sharp's score, both apocalyptic and ecstatic, with incredible intensity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Infrequent Seams Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50779463582027,"sku":"2010596","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/650076547499_fdf74373_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1731004899","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/die-groiste-fugue","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}