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ID: KAI0013142
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
Dufourt’s works typically appear to be something like the slow differentiation of an overarching “structural sound” (Lachenmann), like a “texture which tears apart and grows back together again, albeit with a unified note that prevents the work from disintegrating.” Here, harmonic objects are endlessly weighed, turned over, put under a magnifying glass, stretched, distorted slightly, filtered and rubbed to dust via instrumentation, with the fine line between chord and timbre drifting this way and that. (Martin Kaltenecker)
Includes booklet with texts by Hugues Dufourt and Martin Kaltenecker |
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ID: KAI0013122
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: String instruments
In his String Quartets Rueda exhibits, his special capacity for inextricably bringing together an array of compositional techniques and results, structure and instinctive feeling, a latent capacity for development and communication. The quartets of Jesús Rueda act as a renewal of the heartfelt consciousness to sense and feel music, something to which we have always been getting closer to. (Javier Arias Bal)
Includes booklet with texts by Javier Arias Bal |
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ID: KAI0013112
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
Due to the style in which he combines and joins his sonic material, Posadas’ compatriots often refer to his music as “Francophile”. Beyond the Pyrenees and above all in Francophone countries, where many doors of opportunity were opened to him (including by Festival d’Automne in Paris, Agora Festival (IRCAM), Strasbourg’s MUSICA and Brussels’ Ars Musica), the opposite is true: there, he is viewed as a genuinely Spanish composer due to the power and aplomb that emanate from even his more transparent masses of sound.
(José L. Besada)
Includes booklet with text by José L. Besada |
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ID: KAI0013062
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
Like Xi and Fantaisie mécanique, the Double Concerto for prepared piano, percussion and ensemble (2002) was written for the Paris-based Ensemble intercontemporain. Its central compositional idea is that of combining its two antagonists - soloists and ensemble - to create a single homogeneous body of sound. While the soloists provide the impulse for the motivic cells, the ensemble takes up these cells and develops them further. Here too Unsuk Chin uses the idea of metamorphosis to realize a coherent musical texture that is nonetheless constantly growing The sonorities and the complex rhythmic layering of the piece are to some extent influenced by Balinese gamelan music. (Martin Demmler)
“I’ve tried to write music that’s highly coloured in character and expression, freely flowing and flexible, and which sometimes develops in entirely unexpected directions.”
Includes booklet with text by Martin Demmler |
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ID: KAI0012672
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: New Music
When Johannes Maria Staud refers in a commentary to one of his works to the pre-Socratic philosopher Anaximander and the latter’s contrasting pair of concepts apeiron (unlimited or infinite) and peras (limited or finite), he outlines a fundamental problem: the conflict between associative invention and logical development. The two compositions of the same name, however, are less suited to separate the two aspects of this relationship than to explore the various priorities between them. (Daniel Ender)
Includes booklet with texts by Daniel Ender, Durs Grünbein and Johannes Maria Staud
Born in 1974, Austrian composer Johannes Maria Staud has established a solid international career, including a substantial presence in the U.S., as featured guest composer at Tanglewood, and with a three-year residency with the Cleveland Orchestra. Apeiron, the highlighted work on this disc, is scored for a massive orchestra of 101 players, and while it has moments of gossamer delicacy, when Staud pulls out all the stops, he makes good use of all 101 players to create music of cataclysmic power. The title is taken from a cosmological theory developed by Greek philosopher Anaximander to describe the primal chaos that embraced and incorporated all things, and from which all things developed, and it's an apt metaphor for the sound of the music itself. Staud has said that the development of his pieces is organic rather than architectural, and Apeiron has a spontaneity and unpredictability that's more viscerally gripping than analytically explicable. Apeiron is the most intriguing and engaging piece. |
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ID: KAI0012062
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
The Austrian composer of Swiss origin considers his art to be a "view over the moving matter 'sound'": Beat Furrer does not develop sounds, he observes them, his music does not unfold dynamically with time, but attempts to rescind it: "No beginning", writes Furrer, "everything is present from the start". "nuun" thus filters out the individual layers of an initially almost impenetrable sound, as when you suddenly discover structures in a monochrome painting upon taking a closer look. Furrer then compares the sound dramaturgy of "still" with an electrical circular saw which when set into operation almost inaudibly unfolds greatest power and energy - until it encounters resistance.
Includes booklet with text by Klaus Haendl |
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ID: CC0023
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Music for Clarinet
Clarinet Classics is proud to present an important and fascinating collection of chamber works from the turn of the century.
Trio for Clarinet, Basson and Piano
Howells: A Near-Minuet for clarinet and piano / Minuet - Grace for a Fresh Egg
Hurlstone: Four Characteristic Pieces for clarinet & piano / Trio in G minor for Clarinet, Bassoon & Piano
Lloyd, C H: Trio for clarinet, bassoon & piano
Victoria Soames Samek (clarinet), Laurence Perkins (bassoon), John Flinders (piano) |
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ID: CC0039
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Music for Clarinet
A companion disc to CC0038, this CD completes, to date the smaller chamber works written by Thea Musgrave featuring the clarinet. The main work here is the impressive Wind Quintet.
All the works on this CD receive their Premiere Recordings.
An important documentation of works with notes by the composer.
Musgrave: Narcissus (clarinet & digital delay) / Wind Quintet / Impromptus Nos. 1 & 2 / Serenade / Four Portraits
Victoria Soames Samek (clarinet) / Stephen Varcoe (baritone), members of the Mühlfeld Ensemble, wind players from English Serenata, Rachel Masters (harp) |
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ID: QTZ2055
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Quartet
This CD features newly commissioned works by some of America's leading composers with the aim of producing "a collection of string quartets that connects the music we make with the American experience and issues of our time".
The second volume of the Ying Quartet's accalaimed LifeMusic series.
The Ying Quartet
Ned Rorem
United States - Seven Viewpoints for String Quartet
August Read Thomas
Eagle at Sunrise
Chen Yi
At the Kansas City Chinese New Year Concert
Jennifer Higdon
Southern Harmony
William Bolcolm
Three Rags |
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ID: QTZ2052
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: String instruments
Affairs of the Heart
Concerto for violin and string orchestra
Marjan Mozetich
Platch
for violin and string orchestra
Elena Langer
Concerto for Three
for violin, viola, cello and chamber orchestra
Alfred Schnittke
BONUS TRACK (Hard copy CD only - not download)
Sometimes It Rains
for violin and electronics
Ed Bennett
Roman Mints, violin
Maxim Rysanov, viola
Kristine Blaumane, cello
New Prague Sinfonia
West Kazakhstan Philharmonic Orchestra
Mikel Toms, conductor |
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