*300 coipes limited edition* PMP releases Trillium X, Anthony Braxton's sixth opera, to mark his 80th birthday. Composer, multi-instrumentalist, experimentalist and visionary Anthony Braxton is considered one of the most important musicians, educators and creative thinkers of the last fifty years Limited edition deluxe box set of 8 CDs includes a live recording of the world premiere in Prague, a studio recording made at the famous Darmstadt summer courses, 6 hours of exclusive audiovisual material - the documentary film In the Garden of Trillium X by director Mark Bouda, an in-depth interview between Anthony Braxton, Swiss conductor Roland Dahinden and German writer and Braxton scholar Timo Hoyer, and a complete recording of the world premiere in Prague. "Overall, the performance sounded like a significant milestone in Braxton's operatic career, thanks to the remarkable performance of the PMP Orchestra and conductor Roland Dahinden. This Prague performance showed how much American opera companies and audiences are missing out on...Dahinden's orchestra responded to the score's thrilling moments with precise intonation and enviable balance," wrote the New York Times of the Prague world premiere.

Braxton worked on his magnum opus for five years. He has been a major contributor to all the performances of the Trillium opera cycle, including this, the last one so far. Braxton was present at the rehearsals from the very beginning. The conductor is Roland Dahinden, his longtime collaborator at Wesleyan University. Braxton worked on the four-act work for five years, exploring themes of metaphysics, mysticism and human consciousness, and with biting sarcasm and liberating humour, he bristles at highly topical themes. He reveals dark visions of the future, whether they concern global catastrophes, nuclear threats, or the coexistence of robots and humans.

Anthony Braxton has been working on the unique Trillium opera complex since the 1990s and it can be described without exaggeration as his life's work. He has created a total of twelve masterful philosophical three-act operas that allow for interconnectedness. His part of Trillium X was given its world premiere in Prague in 2023. Trillium is not the basis for conventional storytelling in the sense of classical Italian and German opera. There is no single storyline; the audience is presented with a multi-level sequence of events. Braxton, who also wrote the libretto, gives insight into one primary level of logic (or association) and tries to transport the audience into a multiple universe of feelings and individuals. The work is constructed more as a series of dialogues based on logical constructions of four (or more) scenes in which the characters act out a series of scenes or situational details. "The fact that Braxton's long-time collaborator Roland Dahinden is behind the conductor's desk is a real feat. The completely autonomous solo instruments, which are assigned to the singers as their alter egos, also come across as sheer delight. The piano interludes performed by Hildegard Kleeb, who is well known from Braxton's piano works, bring additional sensory and spiritual highlights," explains Timo Hoyer, a writer and teacher who has long been interested in the work of Anthony Braxton.

Anthony Braxton, 80 years old this year, is held in high esteem not only in the experimental music community for his vision, but also for the mentorship and inspiration he has provided to generations of young musicians. As a saxophonist and composer, he broke new conceptual and technical boundaries in the American jazz and experimental music tradition. Whether through his own musical endeavors or as a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), an organization founded in Chicago in the late 1960s, he has placed himself alongside such extraordinary improvisers as John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Paul Desmond, Warne Marsch, and Albert Ayler, as well as composers such as Charles Ives, Harry Partch, and John Cage. In addition, he developed his own concepts of instrument playing technique, timbre, meter and rhythm, voice leading and ensemble instrumentation, harmony and melody, improvisation and notation into a personal synthesis of these traditions with 20th century European art music, the foundations of which were laid by composers such as Schoenberg, Stockhausen, Xenakis, Varèse and others.