Lars Sandberg's Five White Pieces are very strange indeed. I know of
them from a CD of Lars Sandberg's music and they are written for, and
exquisitely played by, Peter Söderberg on the CD. The lute pieces (in
4/4 and using only 'white' notes) sit alongside chamber music of a much
more obviously modernist cast.
The music (like other modern Swedish lute music) is not in tablature.
It's very clear that Sandberg wants certain notes to be sustained as
other notes are played. This makes things difficult!
I don't know if it is bad form to play just one piece from the five - or
whether this is territory that only the most specialist of specialists
can inhabit - but here's a go at the second of the five. It doesn't
sound like there is much going on but it's really very tricky - but also
very intriguing and strange.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61axzK2bUGk
Stuart
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