Violin
All records with violin · Solo violin only
Dispersion
Elliott Sharp's Dispersion: Flexagons, Dispersion of Seeds, The Hidden Variable and Palimpsest, four processes-based works for large ensemble, played by the young musicians of Veni Academy under Marián Lejava, with Sharp on electroacoustic guitar.
So(u)len(skin(ner)
So(u)len(skin(ner) is the second solo LP Katt Hernandez has released. After 13 years as a veteran of the variated wonderments of the experimental music scenes of the east coast, Katt moved to Sweden. She became a producer at Fylkingen and several other organizations for new and experimental music, started making electro-acoustic music alongside her long beloved violin at EMS and the Royal Music Academy alike, and is playing all about Sweden and further with a burgeoning tumult of new and fantast…
Violostries
Another remarkable reissue from the hallowed GRM archive, three major works of ultra-vivid, immersive and inventive music by Bernard Parmegiani, one of the 20th century's most revered and important electro-acoustic composers
Lokale Musik
Expanded 3-CD reissue of Walter Zimmermann's Lokale Musik, first issued in 1982 as a 3-LP set: two CDs remastered from the analog tapes, a third with new supplemental recordings and revised works, and a 60-page book.
Puck
** Edition of 500, comes with 12-page “Puck” pamphlet + Two art cards with program notes** Sean McCann's Puck is here. Music for Public Ensemble, my previous album, was released three years ago. And three years before that was Private Ensemble. Puck is both public and private in nature. A smear of chamber works from Stockholm, Moscow, New York, and Kansas. Three aged personal recordings from 2008, 2009, and 2010 are also poured in the batter: a bedroom violin trio, ambient music, and a sad pl…
Saccharine Scores
Saccharine Scores is an album/art book documenting Sean McCann's
recent chamber compositions. Ranging from the 10-person ensemble
performance of "Portraits of Friars" at Fylkingen, Stockholm in February
2018, to his first quartet piece "Victorian Wind", performed in Toronto
in 2014. McCann's scores leak pastoral and bizarre passages, dancing in
the banal beauty of sound poetry. The performances feature guest
musicians Sarah Davachi, Zachary Paul, Geneva Skeen, Celia Eydeland, Maxwell Augus…
Ascension to Purgatory
Recent works by Gerard Pape, 1998-2004, for voices, percussion, computer, amplified strings and ensemble, with Roland Auzet, Rohan de Saram, Irvine Arditti and others, on his third monographic CD for Mode.
Musica Da Camera
Chamber works by Luigi Dallapiccola and Goffredo Petrassi, alternated for comparison, played by Naples-based Ensemble Dissonanzen: Quaderno musicale di Annalibera, Tartiniana seconda, Parole di S. Paolo, Sestina d'autunno and Seconda serenata-Trio.
Mexico: New Music For Strings
Six works by Mexican composers born between 1957 and 1977, for string quartet and solo violin, recorded in 2002 at the first Radar festival in Mexico City by the Arditti Quartet and Irvine Arditti.
Complete Music For Violin & Piano
Morton Feldman's complete music for violin and piano, from Piece for Violin and Piano (1950) to For John Cage (1982), which spans both discs, played by Marc Sabat and Stephen Clarke.
String Quartet No. 1
Morton Feldman's String Quartet No. 1 in the longest recorded performance, with Structures and Three Pieces for String Quartet, played by the Flux Quartet. Two CDs plus a bonus DVD of the uninterrupted 90-minute audio.
Trio
Morton Feldman's Trio for violin, cello and piano, lasting one hour, 45 minutes, in a recording with Aki Takahashi, Marc Sabat and Rohan de Saram, two of whom worked closely with the composer.
String Quartet No. 2
Morton Feldman's String Quartet No. 2, a work of more than six hours, played by the FLUX Quartet on a deluxe five-CD box with liner notes by Christian Wolff and FLUX founder Tom Chiu.
Two Circles
Four works by Alvin Lucier played by the Italian ensemble Alter Ego: Two Circles, Fideliotrio and Three Translations of the Works of Maurizio Mochetti, plus a new recording of I Am Sitting in a Room with the composer.
Piano Sonatas & String Quartets 1
First volume of Horatiu Radulescu's Piano Sonatas and String Quartets, with String Quartet No. 5 and Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 and 5, the quartet and Sonata No. 5 first recordings, played by the JACK Quartet and Stephen Clarke.
Soweto Stomp
Structured improvisation compositions by violinist Malcolm Goldstein, ranging from jazzy to dense microtonal sound, in which he plays with the Montreal-based Ratchet Orchestra as composer, soloist and ensemble member.
Onsets
Five chamber works by Tim Hodgkinson, co-founder of Henry Cow, for ensemble and electronic sound, bass clarinet and strings, and string quartet with harp, trombone and synthesizer, played by Hyperion Ensemble and others.
Complete String Quartets
The three string quartets of Helmut Lachenmann, Gran Torso, Reigen seliger Geister and Grido, played by the JACK Quartet in a recording endorsed by the composer.
Clouds and Sky
Four works by Johannes Schöllhorn: the concert piece clouds and sky for piano and orchestra with the WDR orchestra, rota for contrabass clarinet and string quartet, red and blue for percussion sextet, and a self-same song for solo contrabass clarinet.
The Works for Violin
The first complete recording of Giacinto Scelsi's works for solo violin, including the first recording of Divertimento No. 2, played by Weiping Lin, assistant concertmaster of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.