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Josef Anton Riedl: maybe – perhaps – peut-être
Info text: He is an engineer, a designer of fragile structures. His “sound actions” do social work: professional musicians and amateurs work together, playing on self-made and traditional instruments. Disabled people can communicate with non-disabled people. Graphic, gestural and acoustic forms of expression intertwine. Skepticism and playfulness, and a fascinating transparency in thinking characterize the work of Josef [...]
Matthias Arter: Solo Pieces 1993-2007
Info text: Vital, lively music from an excellent soloist who studies the tricks and finesse of his own and many other instruments in great detail, always makes new discoveries and creates pointed, funny scenes on this basis. Matthias Arter, a student of Heinz Holliger, is a composer, oboist, conductor, creative project developer and organizer. His pieces are playful, concrete, associative: of themselves […]
Bruno Maderna: Complete Works for Orchestra Vol
Info text: The focus of the second part of the Maderna edition is on concert works, some of which became building blocks for the opera “Hyperion”. Arturo Tamayo can fill the instrumental solos entirely from the ranks of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra: in Hölderlin's Aria and the flute concertos with Thaddeus Watson, Sebastian Wittiber and Clara Andrada de la Calle, in the Stele per [...]
Bruno Maderna Complete Works for Orchestra Vol
Info text: Everything has to be re-examined: Bruno Maderna follows this post-war maxim by choosing simple, workshop-like titles. Composition, practice, improvisation – for him this means a maximum of freedom, and at the same time a commitment to developing polyphony, to the logic and mobility of thoughts. To a weightless, transparent form that points beyond itself and questions itself […]
Georg Friedrich Haas: Works for Ensemble
Info text: Georg Friedrich Haas creates music of hypnotic power. Under the simple title ... and ... he forces ensemble and electronics, microtones and tempered systems together in his own unique way. In the premiere concert in September 2008, this turns into twenty-seven minutes of maximum excitement, created jointly by the SWR's Experimental Studio and the Collegium Novum Zurich under the direction of Enno Poppe. […]
Alberto Ginastera: Popol Vuh - Cantata para America Mágica
Info text: The irrepressible power of pre-Columbian myths, reborn in a modern language. Stefan Asbury brings the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne to a boil when Alberto Ginastera tells the creation story of the Mayas in his late work “Popol Vuh” (1975–83). The dramatic “Cantata para América Mágica” (1960), based on words by Mercedes de [...]
Olivier Messiaen: Complete Works for Piano Solo Vol.1
Info text: Markus Bellheim begins his recording of all of Olivier Messiaen's piano compositions with a major work in which the elements that are important for further work work together in an exemplary manner: Franciscan-influenced mysticism, synesthesia, the love of the voices of nature and the sharpening of awareness of foreign musical cultures with their diverse melodies and rhythms. In the “look of the prophets, the […]
Claude Debussy - Boris Tchaikovsky - Carl Maria von Weber: Concerto
Info text: Second NEOS recording with the fabulous Swiss clarinetist and composer Matthias Mueller Boris Tchaikovsky's Clarinet Concerto is presented here by NEOS as the first Western European recording. The work of the composer, who lived in the communist USSR, inspires with its Russian soul and playful insouciance. A concert far away from the Western European avant-garde trends that exudes joyful music with charm and nonchalance. Debussy's […]
Matthias Mueller - Gioacchino Rossini - Igor Stravinsky - Niccolò Paganini - Karlheinz Stockhausen: Virtuoso
Info text: Matthias Mueller impressively demonstrates that this wind instrument is suitable for virtuosity. Rossini's variations celebrate the romantic and bravura brilliance. The brand new clarinet concerto, which the Swiss soloist wrote for himself, focuses on tonal finesse and rhythmic variability. In the recorded solo works, these characteristics are taken to the extreme. In addition to the classics […]
Isabel Mundry, Enno Poppe, Brice Pauset, Ben Johnston, Arnulf Herrmann, Saed Haddad, Eduardo Moguillansky, Georges Aperghis, Bernhard Gander, Dror Feiler,
Info text: “One hundred years of new music – what now?” The question thrown into the room by the organizer provokes different positions. Enno Poppe retreats to a dusty corner, Isabel Mundry to a philosophical hall of mirrors. Ben Johnston celebrates his late Donaueschinger debut with the “Quintet for groups”. Brice Pauset, Arnulf Herrmann and Bernhard Gander let their [...]
Minas Borboudakis: Photonic constructions
Info text: Borboudakis enjoys studying ancient mythology and philosophy as well as modern science and technology. For Peter Sadlo he wrote a drum concerto about “the primordial” (“Archégonon”), for the ensemble spectral a string quartet about “the number four” (“Tetractýs”) and a sextet about “alloys” (“Krámata”). In the “Photonic constructions” he argues with Ensemble Modern about the wave-particle dualism of light. […]
Paul Ben-Haim: Kabbalat Shabbat
Info text: The Munich-born Paul Ben-Haim, once assistant to Bruno Walter and Knappertsbusch at the State Opera, then Kapellmeister in Augsburg, then unemployed and refugee, experienced a late rediscovery by the Munich Jakobsplatz Orchestra. Daniel Grossmann presents works from the years in which the composer was building a new life for himself in Israel: his “Sonata in G”, which he […]