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Wolfgang Rihm's compositions for string quartet are as extensive as they are varied. So far, there are thirteen quartets, as well as ten other compositions for or with a string quartet. A selection of these...

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Release Date: February 01, 2013

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Wilhelm Killmayer was born in Munich on 21 August 1927. He spent his early childhood in Mitterndorf near Dachau, but subsequently moved to Munich with his family on the death of his father. Killmayer received...

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Release Date: September 01, 2000

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Together with John Cage, Earle Brown and Christian Wolff, Morton Feldman is a member of the New York School of contemporary music. Feldman's music is characterized by minimalist structures - although he was never close...

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Release Date: October 01, 2012

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Conlon Nancarrow is doubtless one of the most original figures in the history of music. In the late 1940s, he turned to the instrument that later became inseparable from his name: the player piano. But...

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Release Date: September 03, 2007

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Frederic Rzewski's work "The People United Will Never Be Defeated" is based on the Chilean protest song, "�El pueblo unido jam�s ser� vencido!," written by Sergio Ortega a few months before Pinochet's military coup in...

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Release Date: November 02, 2009

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Hans Werner Henze has always had a strong connection to literature, most particularly Friedrich Holderlin and Georg Trakl - poets that represent individuality, complexity, the sensitive exploration of feeling and vulnerability to the utmost degree....

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Release Date: September 03, 2012

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Stalin's cultural ideologues planned to deploy the music of the Yiddish-speaking Jews of the Soviet Union as a building block for the new Soviet music, whereas the Jewish religion with it's traditional way of life...

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Release Date: November 01, 2005

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John Cage's importance for a comprehensive aesthetic reorientation of New Music after the Second World War can hardly be overestimated. His self-discovery and compositional articulation took place particularly in the field of piano music: in...

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Release Date: January 10, 2025

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The music of Iranian composer Elnaz Seyedi challenges the listener to discover multi-layered and subtle sounds, often at the limit of perception. According to Dirk Wieschollek in the booklet text, Seyedi's compositions are characterized by...

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Release Date: October 18, 2024

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Vladimir Guicheff Bogacz's music thrives on surprises. Behind every note, there are unexpected twists and turns, which in turn lead to an exuberant sea of sound. Genre boundaries are deliberately crossed or not recognised at...

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Release Date: February 09, 2024

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Awankana is the somewhat "mythical" pseudonym of the founder and head of a genuine, spiritually and holistically orientated Educational Center and meeting place of the Ashkay Foundation, in the countryside near Buenos Aires. Awankana -...

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Release Date: December 01, 1991

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Live report or music-theatre production? In the piece "Im Bau" Michel Roth plays with studio sounds and live recordings and cannot be tied down to a certain genre. Swiss composer Michel Roth adapted the text...

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Release Date: January 24, 2020

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Big Data – the title reveals the defining themes of this recording! The Decoder Ensemble considers the possibilities and consequences of the limitless availability of media in the digital age. All of the pieces here...

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Release Date: January 24, 2020

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Don't expect anything simpler from me! - Emmanuel Nunes (1941-2012) was an artist of almost intimidating ability and self-confident stubbornness - much like his teachers Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez. Apart from early works and...

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Release Date: February 08, 2019

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John Cage approached the music from Japan from its roots in Zen Buddhism and its intent to imitate nature. One important element in this context is the interpretational freedom of the performers, who can adjust...

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Release Date: November 17, 2017