Terje Rypdal, The Hilliard Ensemble, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies, Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra, Sebastian Perłowski
Melodic WarriorTwo live orchestral works by Terje Rypdal (electric guitar): Melodic Warrior with The Hilliard Ensemble and Bruckner Orchester Linz under Dennis Russell Davies (Linz, 2003), and op. 97 with the Wrocław Philharmonic (2009). CD, ECM 2006.
ChamberEvents
2005 release **
The works on this CD represent three different series of compositions, which I have been working on simultaneously in the last few years. Structurally, their individual parts resemble each other: all instruments play (rather) long sounds, each one followed by a pause.55 similar events plus two drummers drumming (1999) consists of two layers of events. On the one hand, seven instruments are organized ‘isophonically’ and with regular durations. Their sounds, each comprising the sam…
Songs And One Symphony
Michael Mantler's Ernst Meister settings, sung by Mona Larsen with the Chamber Music and Songs Ensemble (Copenhagen, 1993), and his One Symphony, played by the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt under Peter Rundel (Frankfurt, 1998). CD, 2000.
Folly Seeing All This
Michael Mantler's chamber pieces for trumpet, the Balanescu Quartet, guitar, alto flute, vibraphone and piano, ending with a setting of Samuel Beckett's last poem sung by Karen Mantler and Jack Bruce. Recorded June 1992, Angel Studios, London. ECM 1485, 1993.
Q.E.D.
Two concert works by Terje Rypdal for electric guitar and ensemble, Q.E.D. Opus 52 and Largo Opus 55, played by Rypdal with the Borealis Ensemble conducted by Christian Eggen. Recorded August and December 1991, Rainbow Studio, Oslo. ECM 1474, 1993.
Septet
Chick Corea's five-movement septet for string quartet, piano, flute and French horn, commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, plus The Temple of Isfahan. Recorded October 1984 at Mad Hatter Studios, Los Angeles, produced by Corea. ECM, 1985.
In memoriam Haydée / Játékok - Games and Transcriptions for piano solo and four hands
Concert film by Isabelle Soulard: Márta and György Kurtág play pieces from Játékok and Kurtág's Bach transcriptions for piano four hands, Cité de la musique, Paris, 22 September 2012, in memory of Haydée Charbagi.
Elegy of the Uprooting
Concert film of Eleni Karaindrou's 'scenic cantata' at the Megaron, Athens, 27 March 2005: music from 13 film and theatre scores with Maria Farantouri, the Camerata Orchestra under Alexandros Myrat and the ERT Choir.
Alvin Lucier
The work of Alvin Lucier needs little introduction. He is certainly one of the most innovative composers of his time, a pioneer and central figure in the world of experimental and electronic composition and performance. His early work, alone and in conjunction with Robert Ashley, David Berhman, Gordon Mumma and others in the Sonic Arts Union -- which Lucier helped found in 1966 -- is musically rich while simultaneously exploring the many physical and psychic effects of sound. Pieces such as I Am…
Ever Present
Five works by Alvin Lucier for solos and trios on beating tones and microtones: Piper for bagpipe, Fan for four kotos, 947 for flute, Silver Streetcar for triangle and Ever Present for flute, piano and alto saxophone.
Navigation for strings. Small waves
Two microtonal works by Alvin Lucier written for the performers: Navigations for Strings, played by the Arditti Quartet, and Small Waves for string quartet, trombone, piano and two water pourers, with Hildegard Kleeb and Roland Dahinden.
Still Lives
Three amazing works for pure waves and instruments. Lucier has pioneered in many areas of music composition and performance, including the notation of performers’ physical gestures, the use of brain waves in live performance, the generation of visual imagery by sound in vibrating media, and the evocation of room acoustics for musical purposes. His recent works include a series of sound installations and works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, and orchestra in which, by means of close tuni…
Theme
Theme features three works from Alvin Lucier. Music for Piano with Magnetic Strings is a work in which the strings of a piano sound by themselves. Several EBows (small electromagnets used primarily with electric guitars) which would cause the piano strings to vibrate and sound are placed on the strings of the piano. The pianist works from a prose score which describes the process and suggests she freely position and reposition five EBows on the piano strings, creating strands of sounds of v…
Clocker
Another classic Lucier catalog item, a 45-minute recording made in 1991 of this piece that he first conceived in 1978. The piece is for: amplified clock, performer with galvanic skin response sensor and digital delay system. The sounds that emanate are beautifully shifting patterns of tock-collage that reveal dramatic sonic detailings. "I wanted to make a work in which a performer could speed up and slow down time, stopping it, if possible, simply by thinking. I bought a Westclox Silver Bell Mon…
Horbare Okosysteme: Live elektronic compositions 1993-2005
Live electronic compositions from 1993-2005 by composer Agostino Di Scipio, using acoustic instruments and digital sound processing to create unusual and previously unheard sound worlds.
Paysages historiques
Live electronics from a composer born in Napoly in 1962. He also has a CD on EDition RZ. 'Roma. L'insieme Di Cantor' (1998). 'Paris. La Robotique des Lumiéres' (2003). 'Berlin. Bad Sampling' (2000). 'New York. Background MeDia Noise' (2005). 'Untitled (sound synthesis, October 01)' (2001). 'eBss (e-Book Sound Supplement)' (2002).
punctum contra punctum
Aldo Clementi marks out the distance with an absolute refusal to provide narratives, whether of tension resolved, or simply of that logically unending succession of states of being so dear to many of his contemporaries. His materials, whether gathered from a tonal past, generated as a jeu d'esprìt from the names of dedicatees, or produced by a purely abstract process, are projected into a rotational steady state that has no logical end or beginning. (David Osmond-Smith, 2005)
On the occasion of …
Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy
First recordings of James Tenney's Poem, Monody, Seegersong #1 and #2 and the Ergodos series for computer music, with string, instrumental and percussion responses, played by the Barton Workshop and soloists.
Fingering an idea
Disc 1: Dexter Music for highland bagpipes. Highland bagpipes: David Watson, Matthew Welch, Michael Mahoney, Brendan O'Rourke, Rob Brazius & Richard Baughman. Disc 2: Sinister - Music for acoustic and electric guitars performed by David Watson. " "Fingering an Idea" (a phrase pulled from a Chris Mann piece) resulted from a Phill Niblock invitation to make a double CD for bagpipe and guitar. A bagpipe CD is a particular challenge. A high beam spatial explorer, it is the kind of unstable ph…