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The music of Wilhelm Killmayer needs no declaration of facts, nor a declaration of love. Like almost no other music it "emanates from itself", is autonomic. For the premiere of "fin al punto" (which was...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 01, 1996

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Pioneers of the Ars Acustica: Every radio plays is to be understood in the most general sense, as an auditory experience in which all of the sound phenomena, whether sounds, words, or noises, are in...

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Release Date: September 01, 1998

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In Adriana H�lszky's opera "Bremer Freiheit", Geesche leads her fellows with cheerful nonchalance to their doom. The murders follow in regular succession, with no more passion or sentimentality than "Ten Little Indians". What H�lszky wanted...

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Release Date: October 01, 1992

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To pigeonhole Schenker in the category of “progressive expressionism”, however, is to display an ignorance or misunderstanding of the range and variety of his oeuvre to date. There is nothing in the altercations between East...

Format: CD

Release Date: April 01, 1996

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The Swiss composer Heinrich Sutermeister holds an important position in the musical history of our century as a significant composer of operas. Sutermeister's numerous religious works are among the most important of those independent and...

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Release Date: July 01, 1996

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Elliott Carter is the one of America's most distinguished creative artist in any field. - Aaron Copland nominating Elliott Carter for the "Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters for Eminence in...

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Release Date: January 01, 1995

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Three rather meditative pieces from the repertoire of "Ars Acustica", but nevertheless: Fluxus! The New York-born artists whose radio plays are collected on this CD, Philip Corner, Alison Knowles, and George Brecht, have appeared together...

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Release Date: July 01, 2001

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"Given such unspeakable things, art seems compelled to choose between cynically indolent glass-bead games, ridiculously vulnerable self-inspection, and, should it harbour politcal ambitions, the danger of turning into monstrous kitsch."(Spahlinger) It is his insistance on...

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Release Date: June 01, 1993

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Hans-J�rgen von Bose belongs to that generation of German composers who brought about a volte-face in the early 1970s. They bridled at the constantly increasing complexity of music and instead wrote their works "from the...

Format: CD

Release Date: July 01, 1996

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The compositional roots of Ruth Zechlin - composer, harpsichordist, organist and teacher in the former East German Republic - were nourished by the musical atmosphere of Leipzig, the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and, surreptitously,...

Format: CD

Release Date: August 01, 1995

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This CD is dedicated to early works by the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov: "Avant-garde is an attempt to break out of an enclosed space into a more open one. In the attempt to break out...

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Release Date: December 05, 2014

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Heinz Winbeck is an unusual case. Up until a few years ago he was known to only to initiates as an eccentric Bavarian who could not be placed in the cubby-hole of any particular style....

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Release Date: December 01, 1990

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On the occasion of his 85th birthday on February 9, 1994 WERGO has published Harald Genzmer's two Trautonium concertos on CD. Both of them - historical recordings from 1950 and 1958 - had already been...

Format: CD

Release Date: January 01, 1994

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Unsettling and opposed to any and all concessions to fashion, these are apt descriptions of Christfried Schmidt's music. For decades this composer, now over sixty years old, was subjected to massive and undisguised repressive measures...

Format: CD

Release Date: November 01, 1994

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"A whirling panopticon in which dreamlike images fly past, flaring up explosively in light and rapidly vanishing into the dark." What Detlev Muller-Siemens fascinated about Walter Hasenclever's play "People" - which the libretto of his...

Format: CD

Release Date: November 01, 1994