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Latvian composer Peteris Vasks (b. 1946) began his musical career as a violin student at the Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music, then as a double-bass player at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre....

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Release Date: July 29, 2016

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Esthetic games as ends in themselves are far from the mind of the Latvian composer Peteris Vasks. He believes in "L'art pour l'homme" (Art for mankind) rather than "L'art pour l'art" (Art for art's sake)....

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Release Date: June 12, 2015

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Though Vasks in his early works was influenced by Bartók, Shostakovich, and the “New Polish School”, he was inspired after 1990 by the minimalism coming out of Estonia. This Baltic-Finnish stylistic atmosphere is definitely present...

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Release Date: January 20, 2017

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Jakob Ullmann's career can be measured by the obstacles placed in his path. It was in the teeth of these obstacles that he learnt his craft: they have left their mark on his artistic stance,...

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Release Date: September 01, 1996

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Toshio Hosokawa's compositions for string quartet reveal manifold links with traditional Japanese arts: music, poetry, calligraphy, ink painting, and philosophy inspire him to compose his works. His compositional esthetic is also influenced decisively by his...

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Release Date: August 30, 2013

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The present recording unites two very different works by Mikis Theodorakis. The ballet suite created between 1947 and 1953 and originally entitled Greek Carnaval, and the elegiac composition Raven of 1970, music set to a...

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Release Date: July 01, 2003

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Classical Music

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Release Date: August 26, 2016

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'Tierkreis' [Zodiac] is one of the most beautiful and accessible compositions by Karlheinz Stockhausen, which he issued in several different arrangements, allowing each interpreter to create his or her own version by using special formulas....

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Release Date: July 01, 2003

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'Mantra', composed in 1970 and premiered in Donaueschingen, was Karlheinz Stockhausen's first composition following the orchestral work 'Carré' to return to a largely traditional style of notation and to a relatively closed form. 'Mantra' is...

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Release Date: June 01, 1995

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STOCKHAUSEN Kontra-punkte. 1 Refrain. Zeitmasze. 2 Schlagtrio • Rupert Huber, cond; 1, 2 Recherche Ens • WERGO 6717-2 (52: 14) In his program notes for this release, British scholar, pianist, and one-time Stockhausen assistant Richard...

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Release Date: September 01, 2009

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A simplified graphic representation of the electronic music with the notation of the instrumental parts exists as a score. "Kontakte" exists in two versions: a four-track one for electronic sounds, of which the single or...

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Release Date: August 01, 1992

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The five musicians Markus Stockhausen, Tara Bouman, Stefano Scodanibbio, Fabrizio Ottaviucci and Mark Nauseef had known each other since the 1980s. A sense of friendship on both personal and artistic levels grew among these musicians,...

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Release Date: May 10, 2013

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Between 1980 and 1997, artists presented a panoply of exhibitions, installations, performances, and concerts, and engaged in lively debate on art theory, at Het Apollohuis in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Under the direction of founders Paul...

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Release Date: August 01, 2011

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Calm and freedom are the greatest goods. The famous jazz musician Manfred Schoof (trumpet and flugelhorn) and Rainer Bruninghaus (piano, keyboards) like to interact with Beethoven. The music on this CD could be described as...

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Release Date: June 01, 1989

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Political music is often music of grief, commemoration, or warning. It recalls the numberless victims of wars, massacres, genocides. It stands athwart the sufferings inflicted on man by man. It struggles with artistic means against...

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Release Date: October 04, 2011