FLUCHTLINIE NAHT

This CD presents the works by Philipp Maintz in balance between expressive tone clusters and fragile structures. “A tense chasm sometimes gapes between the meticulously constructed textures of Philipp Maintz' compositions and the drastic pictorial or literary associations”, as Marie Luise Maintz writes in the CD booklet. His works are based on serial techniques which he uses to develop formal, rhythmic, harmonic and motivic structures that already exist in literature and historical music. The excessive “overpainting” of the material thus created is characteristic of Maintz‘ way of working.