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Kurtág: Signs, Messages, but no Games / Armchair Operas and Amusements 12. / Hungarian Holiday 4.
ECM has bundled crackerjack performances of 11 large-scale compositions, most with voices backed by orchestra or large ensembles.
Kurtág: Signs, Messages, but no Games / Armchair Operas and Amusements 12. / Hungarian Holiday 4.
ECM has bundled crackerjack performances of 11 large-scale compositions, most with voices backed by orchestra or large ensembles.
Homo PoMo
Clementi and Silvestrov represent the late 20th century in its Janus-visaged splendor, two chiselers making the most of a ravaged and desolate toolkit – disparate fellow travelers.
Homo PoMo
Clementi and Silvestrov represent the late 20th century in its Janus-visaged splendor, two chiselers making the most of a ravaged and desolate toolkit – disparate fellow travelers.
Pièces de Clavecin 11.
Bustijn is perhaps the best or most accessible example we have today of Dutch music in the Baroque era. It is said that Bach possessed a copy of these Suittes.
Pièces de Clavecin 11.
Bustijn is perhaps the best or most accessible example we have today of Dutch music in the Baroque era. It is said that Bach possessed a copy of these Suittes.
Pièces de Clavecin 10.
This profoundly satisfying program started with the instrument.
Pièces de Clavecin 10.
This profoundly satisfying program started with the instrument.
Used Bin Troll Tweets AA.
Ingólfsson stakes a claim near the site that Romitelli quarried. The agile and luscious instrumental textures would have pleased Boulez.
Used Bin Troll Tweets AA.
Ingólfsson stakes a claim near the site that Romitelli quarried. The agile and luscious instrumental textures would have pleased Boulez.
Ferrari Heteroclite and Obscure
It’s rare that a previously unheard work shakes up our conception: Journal Intime and Chantal can challenge an understanding of Ferrari’s worldview and work.
Ferrari Heteroclite and Obscure
It’s rare that a previously unheard work shakes up our conception: Journal Intime and Chantal can challenge an understanding of Ferrari’s worldview and work.
Élie Cohen and Georges Truc: Obscure Conductors
Each made significant recordings, important enough that the obscurity of their conductors is hard to understand.
Élie Cohen and Georges Truc: Obscure Conductors
Each made significant recordings, important enough that the obscurity of their conductors is hard to understand.
Flutes
Psenitsnikova takes us through four varied pieces, three requiring tape or tape delay, from Fritsch who founded the Feedback Studio in Cologne.
Flutes
Psenitsnikova takes us through four varied pieces, three requiring tape or tape delay, from Fritsch who founded the Feedback Studio in Cologne.
Piano Factory 22. / Italian Vacation 15.
If Tosatti is encountered today, it is perhaps as Scelsi’s transcriber who momentarily popped up to claim a greater share of attribution.
Piano Factory 22. / Italian Vacation 15.
If Tosatti is encountered today, it is perhaps as Scelsi’s transcriber who momentarily popped up to claim a greater share of attribution.
Piano Factory 21: Haydn and Busoni
Exercising a Stein fortepiano from 1799, Mitchell improvises brief thematic and harmonic transitions. These are mature Haydn sonatas, in which seemingly modest ideas are expertly probed.
Piano Factory 21: Haydn and Busoni
Exercising a Stein fortepiano from 1799, Mitchell improvises brief thematic and harmonic transitions. These are mature Haydn sonatas, in which seemingly modest ideas are expertly probed.
Piano Factory 20.
This portrait disc reveals a consistency across several decades, a witty composer who admired Prokofiev and Classical forms.
Piano Factory 20.
This portrait disc reveals a consistency across several decades, a witty composer who admired Prokofiev and Classical forms.
Used Bin Troll Tweets Z.
With an assured understanding of the music, Zhu Xiao-Mei’s second take is incredibly personal, perhaps too quirky and nutty for purists.
Used Bin Troll Tweets Z.
With an assured understanding of the music, Zhu Xiao-Mei’s second take is incredibly personal, perhaps too quirky and nutty for purists.