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World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
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ID: KAI0012002
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble
In this "composer's interpretation" Hans Zender takes on the sacred cow that is Franz Schubert's song cycle "Die Winterreise" and reconstructs it, much in the way a modern stage director might recontextualize an opera by changing its setting. The words and melodies remain and the sequence of songs is intact, but the accompaniments are rendered with a sense of fantasy, varying from a folksy guitar-and-harmonium background or the parlor intimacy of a string quartet to a completely modern percussion ensemble. At moments it sounds as if the poor love-forsaken traveler has wandered into a scene from Strauss or Berg, but what prevails above all is the haunted atmosphere of the original, the tandem vision of Schubert and the poet Muller that takes the listener from the pointed immediacy of heartbreak to the blurred numbness of insanity. |
| 28.00 eur Buy |
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ID: KAI0012012
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
"'Beckett'...is a work for 23 players divided into five homophonic groups, each staying at or near its original pitch or pitches...The new disc has superlative sound: there is an inconspicuous crispness to Cambreling's Viennese band, but also a cushion-like warmth to the lower winds and strings, and a beautiful blend of timbres. This would be an excellent introduction to Feldman...Feldman acolytes will also need the disc. Indeed, no one should be caught without it." -Ashby, ARG |
| 21.00 eur Buy |
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ID: KAI0012032
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
After his hospitalization for a psychological break in the 1950's, Giacinto Scelsi began composing music that was radically different from his earlier, more conventional serial works. Based on explorations of tiny details of timbral variation, his new music defied categorization. His first new works are compelling examinations of repeated notes and their microtonal neighbors. His later pieces are lush sculptures of sound, placed carefully in a silent landscape. 'Okanagon,' is a microscopic observation of repeated low notes, juxtaposed at various angles. In some "views" the ensemble plays percussively on the sides of their instruments, giving the impression of a note magnified so largely that one can hear the individual pulses.
Though it may be difficult to relate Scelsi to other music, it is not without contemporary relevance. Ligeti's string quartets and Penderecki's "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima" also employ drone and microtonality. Theirs are harsh cries to Scelsi's fascinated murmur, however.
This great collection, all from various stages of Scelsi's second period, shows the development of his style. Unconventional music always risks horrifying misinterpretation but Hans Zender and the Vienna Klangforum honor Scelsi's music with a reverence for timbre and space. The performances are excellent, and beautifully recorded. |
| 21.00 eur Buy |
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ID: KAI0012052
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Orchestra
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| 21.00 eur Buy |
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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 |
| 21.00 eur Buy |
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ID: KAI0012072
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
"Art, working with art and making art, is in itself an invitation to boundless freedom. There can be no submission here," writes Wolfgang Rihm. "Uncertainty predominates, the only potential for an agile mind." Four pieces of one of the most significant and provocative post-war composers whose titles speak for themselves: "Gejagte Form" or hunted form, "Verborgene Formen" or concealed forms, "Chiffre I" or cipher, and "Silence to be beaten (Chiffre II)". Four pieces of music that attempt to realise what Wolfgang Rihm considers "art's purpose": "Not to be a place of refuge but a reservoir of energy in regressive times."
Includes booklet with text by Wolfgang Rihm |
| 21.00 eur Buy |
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ID: KAI0012142
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
Nun:Ruin-like music - which acquires its own kind of beauty from the debris and fragments of the past.
Includes booklet with texts by Helmut Lachenmann, Christoph Metzger and Michael |
| 21.00 eur Buy |
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ID: KAI0012192
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
While standing at the waterfall, we become aware of our thoughts, but not the waterfall itself; if we succeed in letting our thoughts stand still, we hear a melody within the turmoil. Everyone his own. (Peter Ablinger)
Includes booklet with text by Peter Ablinger |
| 21.00 eur Buy |
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ID: KAI0012202
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
Lachenmann chose a text by Leonardo da Vinci:"...but when I had remained silent for a fairly long time, all at once two feelings awoke in me. Fear and desire. Fear of the cave's looming darkness, but the desire to see with my own eyes what marvels may lie within..." and there are many marvels to discover on this exceptional recording.
Includes booklet with texts by Helmut Lachenmann and Kurt Gerstenberg |
| 21.00 eur Buy |
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