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In his second CD release with WERGO, Enrico Belli once more juxtaposes the American composer George Crumb with music from one of the predecessors who has influenced him most profoundly. Given that "Makrokosmos IV" was...

Format: CD

Release Date: May 02, 2008

$17.99

The percussionists Raibu Ayandokun, Tunji Beier, and Ron Reeves have formed a multicultural trio that loves to experiment and presents not just classical African, Indian, and Indonesian drum music on original instruments but also a...

Format: CD

Release Date: July 01, 1992

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The lute style can also be highly personal, as is demonstrated by the great technical virtuosity and unsurpassed intuitive talent of Muhamed El Amin, who influenced an entire generation of young musicians. Born in 1943...

Format: CD

Release Date: November 01, 1996

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Rodion Shchedrin's “Carmen Suite” is well-known in the world of theater und of the opera. Its popularity is altogether unique in the history of modern music – but only a small part of his multifaceted...

Format: CD

Release Date: June 01, 2007

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As late as the 1960s the cheerfully elated rhythms of mento would be found at every village festival. In the age of modern and Afro-American pop music, however, the most important and oldest folk tradition...

Format: CD

Release Date: April 01, 1993

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"The Metamorphoses of Dionysus", Mikis Theodorakis’s first opera, from 1985 — it was followed in 1990 by "Medea", in 1993 by "Elektra", in 1996 by "Antigone", and in 2001 by "Lysistrata" — is based on...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 20, 2006

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The relationship between Hans Werner Henze and Oliver Knussen was one of great mutual respect. The German composer admired the British conductor and composer for electrifying performances of Henze's own and other composers' works. Knussen...

Format: CD

Release Date: June 14, 2019

$26.99

The composer wrote the libretto for his opera "Antigone" himself. In it, he not only refers to Sophocles’ "Antigone", but also to other classical material such as "Oedipus At Colonus" by the same tragedian, Aeschylus’...

Format: CD

Release Date: July 01, 2003

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Giacinto Scelsi never saw himself as a traditional composer. In his later creative period he would sit at the piano, record his improvisations and then let others transcribe then. Scelsi's world view was grounded in...

Format: CD

Release Date: March 27, 2015

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I have always dreamed that my music would be heard in the places where unhappy people are gathered - in hospitals, prisons, overcrowded trams and buses... consoling and questioning. - Peteris Vasks. Peteris Vasks' main...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 28, 2016

$18.99

From Heaven to Hell" The music of the angels as a euphonious affair is a relatively recent notion. In the Old Testament, the polyphonic praise of God was imagined as an overpowering roar. Martin Smolka's...

Format: CD

Release Date: April 01, 2010

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These three prizewinning electronic compositions demonstrate the extraordinary possibilities of the synthesizer, from convincing imitations of the sound of a violin or piano to unheard-of sounds in unknown spaces and worlds.

Format: CD

Release Date: August 01, 1992

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When I was young, I heard Fumet just once play the organ. It was one of the most stunning emotional experiences in my life. I was struck, blown away as if by a maelstrom, emptied...

Format: CD

Release Date: November 01, 1999

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Morton Feldman's Patterns in a Chromatic Field is a major composition, not only in modern American music but in 20th-century music per se. The composer plays with the musical memory of his recipients and thus...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 11, 2019

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With this CD, Walter Tilgner presents some of the master singers of the bird world - Skylark, Nightingale, Thrush Nightingale, Song Thrush, Blackbird and Golden Oriole. Which of them has the loveliest song is a...

Format: CD

Release Date: May 01, 2000