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Michael Jarrell - Cassandre - a spoken opera for ensemble and actress

Michael Jarrell - Cassandre - a spoken opera for ensemble and actress
ID: KAI0012912
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Kolekce: Opera Collection

It's stretching the conventional, technical definition of the term to call Swiss composer Michael Jarrell's spoken monodrama "Cassandre" an opera, but that's the composer's description of it, and as such, it ought to be respected. It does consist of a musical narrative accompanying a verbal narrative, so even though it doesn't involve singing, it comes closer to standard opera than some pieces that are so designated. Also, the fact that it is so compelling as a unified musical and dramatic entity makes its definition seem less consequential; it's fully successful in using music and story to draw the listener into the protagonist's world. "Cassandre" has received numerous international performances since its 1994 premiere and has been translated into a variety of languages. In its form, popularity, subject matter (the protagonist's reflection on the trauma of war), emotional impact, and to some extent its musical style, it strongly resembles Marc Neikrug's haunting 1980 "music-drama" "Through Roses."

"Cassandre" is based on a text by Christa Wolf that actress Astrid Bas delivers with urgency and poignant dramatic restraint. Jarrell's score for chamber ensemble is notable for the evocative subtlety of its depiction of the Trojan prophet's state of mind as she recounts the horrors of the war. Jarrell avoids the obvious -- the big rhetorical gestures -- that would seem to be appropriate for such a dramatic and grim story, and instead creates a soundworld of gossamer, dream-like ethereality to underscore "Cassandre"'s intimate musings. His orchestration is incandescent, and the music is simply beautiful in its prismatically evolving textures. For a piece that rarely rises above a whisper, it makes a surprisingly visceral impact. IRCAM's Ensemble InterContemporain, led by Susanna Mälkki, plays the challenging score with exceptional grace and delicacy. Kairos' sound is immaculate, as is typical for its releases. Highly recommended for fans of new music.
Stephen Eddins, All Music Guide
21.00 eur Buy

Brian Ferneyhough - Terrain

Brian Ferneyhough - Terrain
ID: KAI0013072
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Kolekce: Contemporary music

Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an English composer of contemporary classical music. His complex, multi-layered music is distinctive and his output spans many genres of contemporary music, from chamber works to orchestral pieces. Between 1987 and 1999 he was Professor of Music at the University of California at San Diego. As of 1999, he is William H. Bonsall Professor in Music at Stanford University. For the 2007-08 academic year, he was appointed Visiting Professor at the Harvard University Department of Music.

The works of the British composer Brian Ferneyhough have been performed throughout the world. The compositions on this CD focus on the relationship between soloist and ensemble and the relationship of the music to tradition.

1 - Graeme Jennings, violin
2, 5 - Geoffrey Morris, guitar
2 - Ken Murray, guitar
3 - Carl Rosman, clarinet
4 - Erkki Veltheim, viola
3 - Jean Deroyer, conductor
1, 4, 5 - Franck Ollu, conductor
1- 5 ELISION Ensemble
21.00 eur Temporarily out of stock

Morton Feldman - Something Wild (Music for film)

Morton Feldman - Something Wild (Music for film)
ID: KAI0012292
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Kolekce: Contemporary musicPodkolekce: Film Music

With his disconcertingly hypnotic, excitingly oscillating music, the American Morton Feldman has become a cult figure in recent years. Now, recordings of hitherto unpublished compositions for film are available for the first time on a cd. When we imagine Feldman, we think of pure, crystalline music. But we do not think of wide, soft sounds, that do describe paintings through their power, like you would expect in Hollywood productions. We do not know him like that. On this cd we have two pieces that give notice of the narrow liason with painting, (Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock). Being in the present with the sound, this time music with stories and history: this is how we experience this extraorbitant dramatic art by the fascinating recording by ensemble recherche.

Includes booklet with text by Peter Niklas Wilson
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LUIGO NONO - La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura - Melise Mellinger - Salvatore Sciarrino

LUIGO NONO - La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura - Melise Mellinger - Salvatore Sciarrino
ID: KAI0012102
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Kolekce: Instrumental

"Nostalgic, utopian, future distance", the title of this piece investigates the possibilities of violin playing, the intimate, physical quality of the sound and the historical dimensions inherent to this instrument."
21.00 eur Buy

MATTHIAS PINTSCHER - sonic eclipse

MATTHIAS PINTSCHER - sonic eclipse
ID: KAI0013162
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Kolekce: Contemporary musicPodkolekce: Voices and Chamber Ensemble

In the three-part ensemble cycle sonic eclipse (2009-10), another theme of the compositional process is auditory masking as a step-by-step process of concealment. The solo instrument featured in the work’s first part, is the trumpet, with the horn taking up this role in the secont Part. Part three interlinks the two solo instruments, which in turn proceed to integrate themselves fully with the rest of the ensemble. In search of a metaphor for this process, Pintscher hit upon the phenomenon of the eclipse-in which celestial bodies overlap and cast their shadows upon one another at the moment of complete coverage.

From twilight to twilight and from morning to evening is the range spanned by a twilight’s song and the E.E.Cummings poem upon which it is based. Pintscher composes the “in-between”, a
penetration of the poem’s inflection and structure; the pictorial language is re-sketched via the creation of an “integral of the simulated spatiality”. An instrumental ensemble placed at a considerable distance to one another begins with nearly inaudible whispering and proceeds to conjure up an incipient sonic space consisting of heterogeneous events: rasping, floating; pulsations, plosives, breathing. At its centre, the bass flute’s melodious opening gesture of a prepares the register of the soprano.

For Matthias Pintscher, the shir ha shirim (song of songs) is “a supremely condensed compendium of nearly boundless emotional states. All its sections give the impression of having neither beginning, nor end, nor middle, simply being modes of expression that circle one another.” It is from the fifth song that the Pintscher took the text for his a cappella piece. The words “she-cholat ahavah ani” translate as “how lovesick am I”, and for the composer this is a core sentence which sums up the topic of the love song. Not only in terms of content, but also structurally, the famous Hebrew text opens up very special perspectives. “In Hebrew, words are like islands or sources of energy, since everything in the language is derived from short root words. For a musician or a composer, this represents the opportunity to delve deep into the words’ connotations, since one can oneself shape the flow, the route between the individual words, each one of which is like an object.”
(Marie Luise Maintz)

Includes booklet with text by Marie Luise Maintz
21.00 eur Buy

East Meets West - Les Percussions de Strasbourg

East Meets West - Les Percussions de Strasbourg
ID: PTC5186156
Disk: 1
Type: SACD
Podkolekce: Sbor

Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD
21.00 eur Buy

DAI FUJIKURA ice

DAI  FUJIKURA ice
ID: KAI0013302
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Podkolekce: Guitar

International Contemporary Ensemble: Daniel Lippel, solo guitar
Jayce Ogren . Matthew Ward

Includes booklet with texts by Daniel Lippel and Jacob Greenberg

This CD presents music for various ensemble configurations and electronics by British-Japanese composer Dai Fujikura, one of the most strikingly original composers of our day, masterfully performed by the New York-based International Contemporary Ensemble featuring guitarist Daniel Lippel.

"I think of Dai as a model of an “international” composer - someone who transcends regional styles and aesthetic schools in favor of his or her individual voice. He is able to deftly allude to and absorb music of different styles without being in the least bit derivative." Daniel Lippel, guitarist, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
21.00 eur Temporarily out of stock

Mark-Anthony Turnage - On All Fours

Mark-Anthony Turnage - On All Fours
ID: NMCD024M
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Podkolekce: Saxophone

Four imaginative and evocative works by this now well-known contemporary figure: On All Fours and Release are exciting instrumental displays demanding a characteristic battery of percussion, while Lament for a Hanging Man sets texts by Sylvia Plath.
22.00 eur Buy

Luigi Nono:Caminantes Tryptichon - No hay caminos, hay que caminar ...; Etc.

Luigi Nono:Caminantes Tryptichon - No hay caminos, hay que caminar ...; Etc.
ID: KAI0012512
Disk: 2
Type: CD
Kolekce: Vocal Collection

Luigi Nono No hay caminos, hay que caminar … Andrej Tarkowskij (1987) “Wayfarer, there is no path. Yet you must walk”, in Spanish: “Caminante, no hay caminos. Hay que caminar.” These words are the contents of an inscription, which Luigi Nono read on the wall of a monastery in Toledo in the middle of the 1980s. They must have affected him most deeply, since in the last three years of his life he made them the basis of the titles of a trio of works. In “Hay que caminar” he surely recognized his own lifelong principle of continual creative restlessness, of perpetually being en route, which guided him from the outset. For a long time this was perhaps unconscious, but during the several years’ incubation of Prometeo it took conscious shape in the presentation of a route-less wayfaring that directs everything. An observation from 1981 is characteristic of this consciousness. For him it was primarily to do with the attempt “to find something, but not something certain.” The central piece of the trilogy mentioned above is No hay caminos, hay que caminar … Andrej Tarkowskij.
Nono dedicated the piece to the Russian film director Andrej Tarkowskij, outlawed from his own country, perhaps in view of the film Nostalghia, which has as its theme the search “for something, which perhaps doesn’t exist”... (Josef Häusler)

Includes booklet with text by Josef Häusler
28.00 eur Buy

Ensemble PRO ARTE - New Russian Music - Pythian Games. Highlights (2002-2005) Competition (Live)

Ensemble PRO ARTE - New Russian Music - Pythian Games. Highlights (2002-2005) Competition (Live)
ID: MELCD1001056
Disk: 2
Type: CD
Kolekce: Contemporary musicPodkolekce: Sbor

CD1
(1 - 7) - Ensemble PRO ARTE Institute
(2) - Matvey Lapin, violin
(4) - Angelina Dashkovskaya, soprano
(5) - Sergey Chirkov, accordion
(6) - Andrei Vikharev, flute
(7) - Aleksei Bogorad, viola
CD 2
(1 - 5) - Ensemble PRO ARTE Institute
(1) - Youth Chamber Choir of St.Petersburg
(1) - Dmitry Skazhenik, tenor
(4, 5) - Boris Filanovsky, voice
29.00 eur Buy

 
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