Point/Wave
Point/Wave represents a rare confluence of precision and open inquiry, as Catherine Lamb’s composition for Cristián Alvear translates the enigmatic condition of sound into tactile experience. Commissioned by Alvear and realized on Another Timbre, Lamb’s score meditates on her signature just intonation, deploying the Secondary Rainbow Synthesizer to generate four environmental chords that breathe around the guitar’s modally tuned strings. The electronics hum and fade - reflecting timbral shifts f…
Three Realizations For Ensembles
Three compositions written by Francisco Meirino for ensembles. Utilizing pitch and timbre of traditional acoustic instruments Meirino’s unique compositional voice speaks out. Guiding the listener through tension and decompression, unease and malaise. Performed with Ensemble Vortex and Ensemble Phoenix in Basel, recorded during 2016-2019.Born in Spain in 1975, Meirino is active since 1994 (as Phroq until 2009) in experimental music and live performance. His music explores the tension between pro…
Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series Vol. 5
Three discs, three distinct worlds - each one a landmark. Vol. 5 of Earle Brown's Contemporary Sound Series may be the most dramatically varied installment in the entire programme, arcing from the handmade electronic circuitry of four American mavericks to one of the great piano sonatas of the 20th century, and closing with the golden tone of the most celebrated flutist of the post-war avant-garde.
The first disc is Electric Sound, the only album the Sonic Arts Union ever released as a group. Or…
Works with Guitar
Aldo Clementi's works with guitar, the first complete CD devoted to them, played by Geoffrey Morris and the ELISION Ensemble: Serenata, Dodici Variazioni, Albumblatt, The Plaint and others, most of them first recordings.
Dream, American Music for Electric Guitar
Sergio Sorrentino plays American music for electric guitar by Cage, Feldman, Wolff, Lang, Vees, Sharp, Curran, Polansky and Stiefel, including the first CD release of Feldman's The Possibility of a New Work for Electric Guitar.
Gong Gongs
**Warehouse find, still sealed original copies 1987 edition** Gong action suported by catalan fussion percussionist Santi Arisa. Main attraction here is the percussions and electronics piece Secuencia I.
Complete Early Percussion Works
Karlheinz Stockhausen's early percussion works on two CDs: Zyklus, Kontakte for piano and percussion with tape, Mikrophonie for tam-tam, Refrain and Schlagtrio, with new transfers from the analog tapes.
A Cage of saxophones 1
Cage's late works for saxophones, Four5, Five4 and Hymnkus, with Ulrich Krieger's arrangements of Ryoanji and Five, played by Krieger and German new music performers. Volume 24 of the Complete John Cage Edition.
Ascension to Purgatory
Recent works by Gerard Pape, 1998-2004, for voices, percussion, computer, amplified strings and ensemble, with Roland Auzet, Rohan de Saram, Irvine Arditti and others, on his third monographic CD for Mode.
Music For High Winds
Giacinto Scelsi's music for high winds, solo and duo pieces for clarinet, flute, piccolo and oboe written between 1953 and 1970, played by Carol Robinson, Clara Novakova and Cathy Milliken. Volume 3 of Mode's Scelsi Edition.
Mexico: New Music For Strings
Six works by Mexican composers born between 1957 and 1977, for string quartet and solo violin, recorded in 2002 at the first Radar festival in Mexico City by the Arditti Quartet and Irvine Arditti.
Complete Music For Violin & Piano
Morton Feldman's complete music for violin and piano, from Piece for Violin and Piano (1950) to For John Cage (1982), which spans both discs, played by Marc Sabat and Stephen Clarke.
Music from the Ether
Original works for theremin from the 1920s "golden age" to the 1990s, all first recordings, by Schillinger, Grainger, Martinu, Achron, Antunes, Komarov and Lydia Kavina, played by Kavina with piano, string quartet and soprano.
The Orchestral Works 1: Hymnos, Hurqualia, Konx-Om-Pax
Volume 2 of Mode's Scelsi Edition: the orchestral works Hymnos, Hurqualia and Konx-Om-Pax, played by the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic and Concert Choir under Juan Pablo Izquierdo, interspersed with Canti del Capricorno sung by Pauline Vaillancourt and Douglas Ahlstedt.
The Number Pieces 2: Five³
John Cage's Five³ (1991), one of the late number pieces, for trombone and string quartet, played by Monique Buzzarté and the Arditti String Quartet. Cover etching by Cage, liner notes by James Pritchett.
String Quartet No. 1
Morton Feldman's String Quartet No. 1 in the longest recorded performance, with Structures and Three Pieces for String Quartet, played by the Flux Quartet. Two CDs plus a bonus DVD of the uninterrupted 90-minute audio.
Trio
Morton Feldman's Trio for violin, cello and piano, lasting one hour, 45 minutes, in a recording with Aki Takahashi, Marc Sabat and Rohan de Saram, two of whom worked closely with the composer.
The Works for Percussion 2
John Cage's early percussion chamber works from 1935-1942, including the three Constructions, Trio, Quartet and Living Room Music, played by Third Coast Percussion, with the first movement of Living Room Music recorded in the Ford House.
Music in 2 Dimensions – Works for Flute
The first complete CD of Bruno Maderna's music for flute, played by Roberto Fabbriciani for the 40th anniversary of the composer's death: works for flute and tape, piano and orchestra, and three first recorded arrangements.
Complete Early Works for Percussion
Karlheinz Stockhausen's early percussion works on DVD-Audio with surround sound: Zyklus, Kontakte for piano and percussion with tape, Mikrophonie for tam-tam, Refrain and Schlagtrio, from new transfers of the analog tapes.