Die Natur der Klange: Neue Musik fur Harfe
Gabriele Emde-Hauffe was born in 1953 in Darmstadt, Germany. She received a humanistic education at a local grammar school in Darmstadt and started studying the harp after her A-levels, first in Darmstadt and finishing in Cologne. Conducted by Pét…
A Failed Entertainment: Works 2009-2014
Works from Italian composer Clara Iannotta recorded from 2012 - 2014, including a work for string quartet composed for the DAAD artist-in-Berlin program
Piano Music And Transcriptions
Michael Habermann made the first, and in many respects the best commercial recordings devoted to Kaikhosru Sorabji’s ridiculously difficult and overwrought piano works. As with Habermann’s previous three Sorabji discs, the present recital offers seve…
100 Trascendental Studies
“Volume 2 of this much-anticipated continuation of Sorabji’s mammoth set of studies takes us almost half way in terms of number, if not in playing time (perhaps a third or thereabouts). The reason for this is encapsulated in the first entry on this n…
New Piano Works From Europe And The Americas
A debut recital of incredibly varied and fascinating music from Argentinean pianist Haydée Schvartz. Her teachers include Roberto Brando, Dora Castro and Nikita Magaloff. Ms. Schvartz continued her studies in London with Maria Curcio and subsequen…
The World Of Harry Partch
180 gram exact repro reissue, originally released in 1969. Classic Harry Partch, and the kind of record that's a great introduction to his music. There's lots of Partch's weird invented instruments – like chromelodeon, diamond marimba, mazda marimba,…
Mind Is Moving IX
Intonema is proud to present the first CD release of an album by a Wandelweiser composer in Russia ! In April 2013 Denis Sorokin played Michael Pisaro's 'Mind Is Moving IX' at the Teni Zvuka Festival which became its Russian premiere performance. …
James Moore Plays The Book Of Heads
Composed 1976–8 and now studied by guitarists the world over, The Book of Heads is one of John Zorn’s most popular and oft-performed compositions. Utilizing an hermetic language of meticulously notated sounds inspired by contemporary classical ext…
Passio
The recording of this formidable piece of religious music dates back to 1988, though Passio had its Munich premiere back in 1982. The piece is an interpretation of the Passion as given account by St. John's gospel, which is here performed by The H…
Hyperrealist Music
This collection, featuring seven pieces from 2011 to 2015, celebrates Noah Creshevsky's 70th year with a fittingly life-affirming and masterful verve. An award-winning composer who has studied with Nadia Boulanger and Luciano Berio, he began composin…
Live In Berlin
Iancu Dumitrescu, 'Ultrasonic sublime I' for crystals, artificial dimonds, contact microphones prepared piano, stretchable steel and computer. 'Gnosis IV' for solo doublebass. Soloist Ion Ghita. Ana-Maria Avram, 'Nocturnal' for two bass clarinets and…
Clarinet and String Quartet
Saltern returns with a gorgeous new recording of Morton Feldman's Clarinet and String Quartet (1983) performed by Anthony Burr (clarinet), Graeme Jennings (violin), Gascia Ouzounian (violin), Che-Yen Chen (viola) and Charles Curtis (cello). This perf…
One Earth, One People, One Love: Kronos Plays Terry Riley (5-CD
In honor of groundbreaking American composer Terry Riley’s 80th birthday, Nonesuch Records releases One Earth, One People, One Love: Kronos Plays Terry Riley—a five-disc box set of four albums of his work composed for, and performed by, his longtime …
Broken Line
Alvin Lucier (b.1931) is the great American poet of acoustic phenomena. He has a keen sensitivity to the way objects vibrate, the way sound waves travel to our ears, and to the way our brain processes those vibrations. Trio Nexus is a Berlin based en…
1918 - 1993
The Society of Swedish Composers (FST) was founded in November 1918 as a professional association of full-time composers. Since then it has had a total of 269 members, including every composer of importance during this century. This recording works b…
Assigned #15
The leading contemporary music ensemble Apartment House perform a new piece developing out of James Saunders's long-term modular project '#unassigned'. The new piece, 'assigned #15', was recorded in April this year and creates a mesmeric, dense, jung…
Five Compositions
Antoine Beuger (flute), Germaine Sijstermans (clarinet), Tobias Liebezeit (percussion), Burkhard Schlothauer (violin), Lydia Haurenherm (viola), Marcus Kaiser (violoncello). Cem Güney was born in Turkey in 1973. Influenced by jazz music, he learned t…
Polveri Sonore. Una prospettiva ecosistemica della composizione
In Italian only, extensive book on the well-known Italian composer Agostino Di Scipio, that collects his writings. along with interviews and essays. Deluxe edition. "Polveri sonore, una prospettiva ecosistemica della composizione è un libro sull'oper…
Le Domaine Musical 1956... 1967
"For the occasion of Pierre Boulez' 90th birthday on 26 march 2015, Universal Classics France present a revised and enhanced version of the former edition celebrating his years at the helm of paris' legendary "Le domaine musical" concerts. Initially …
Words Fail Me
The majestic beauty and savage turbulence that one often beholds while witnessing an awesome act of nature is also evident in Lois V Vierk's vigorous and delicate music. In her meticulously wrought works, she enfolds the rapture of opulent expressio…