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In complex layers of sound, Sarah Nemtsov creates a polydimensional utopian vision of urban life - confusing, energetic, and sometimes nerve-wracking: "It has to do with the tension between consequence and chaos." In "Zimmer I-III",...

Format: CD

Release Date: March 16, 2018

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Clarity and structure. These are the terms that first come to mind with Tom Sora's music. The compositions of this Romanian composer from Bucharest seem vivid and literally graspable. The music radiates a kind of...

Format: CD

Release Date: April 14, 2017

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Songs and Poems is a title that promises quite a lot: there are neither songs nor poems in the usual sense among these five instrumental compositions for the Trio Accanto: there is no singing in...

Format: CD

Release Date: June 08, 2018

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When it was first heard in 1962, Mauricio Kagel’s organ piece Improvisation Ajoutée created a scandal. The cause was clearly the sounds the organist and his two assistants were required to produce in addition to...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 28, 2016

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Stormy sounds of widely varying "wind quality" blow through the pieces on the new release by Edition Musikfabrik. In Steffen Schleiermacher's Das Tosen des staunenden Echos (The roar of the amazed echo) the paradox of...

Format: CD

Release Date: May 24, 2019

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Wilhelm Killmayer has written songs since the beginning of his career as a composer, and they are a prominent and essential part of his oeuvre. In the case of Killmayer’s songs, one can clearly see...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 13, 2017

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Shaped equally by her roots in China as well as European influences, Ying Wang, with her struggle for an individual musical language, embodies in an exemplary way the challenges of finding a point of balance...

Format: CD

Release Date: March 17, 2017

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I need a musical discourse, Holliger once said. This is a good description of his characteristic way of composing. Unlike Boulez, he does not base his works on charts and tables, but neither does he...

Format: CD

Release Date: April 13, 2018

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The compositions on this album are about crashing, decaying and failing. The individual downfalls have very different qualities and consequences: Brian Ferneyhough's La Chute d'Icare is an allegorical fall: the divine punishment for the exuberant...

Format: CD

Release Date: July 19, 2019

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A cycle of unaccompanied songs for solo voice, framed between two orchestral pieces, this release celebrates the 80th birthday of Aribert Remann. Remann rewrote this cycle of poems for orchestra without the voice, which resulted...

Format: CD

Release Date: September 30, 2016

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Surging sounds of the sea, over them the whistling or even the calling of birds - or so it might seem. An instant later, we only hear the ebb and flow of choral sounds, with...

Format: SACD

Release Date: September 30, 2016

$37.99

The final volume in Wergo's acclaimed series of recordings, Earle Brown - a Life in Music, completes the label's reissue of the eighteen LPs of Earle Brown's legendary Contemporary Sound Series, recorded between 1960 and...

Format: CD

Release Date: March 01, 2012

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These piano works by Cowell and Cage cover the period from 1912-1948 and document not only the emergence of experimental American music, but also their teacher-student relationship. Before John Cage began his brief and informal...

Format: CD

Release Date: July 29, 2016

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Zender has worked to give the central category of “harmony” a special “oppositional” character. Out of his growing dissatisfaction with the equal tempered tuning system, he pushed the treatment of microintonation to the point of...

Format: CD

Release Date: January 27, 2017

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Giacinto Scelsi (1905–1988) is one of the most unusual composers of the twentieth century, a unique figure whose importance was only fully recognized and celebrated after his death. During his lifetime, he was often dismissed,...

Format: CD

Release Date: November 13, 2020