<a href"www.guardian.co.uk">guardian.co.uk: "As far as I'm aware, no major works by Clemens Gadenstätter have been heard so far in Britain, but this hour-long ensemble piece, Comic Sense, a zany hybrid between a piano concerto and an instrumental suite, suggests British new music groups would do well to investigate his output.
In 1966, the Austrian-born Gadenstätter began his professional life as a flautist, and was briefly a member of Klangforum Wien before going off, in 1992, for post-graduate studies with Helmut Lachenmann in Stuttgart. Lachenmann's approach appears to have left a deep impression on Gadenstätter's sound, but in a work like Comic Sense, completed last year, there is none of his teacher's deliberately alienating techniques."
