SACD, Neos (label)
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Musica Viva 22
RecommendedPierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, George Benjamin
This is special. Three utterly captivating, ear-tickling pieces by composers from successive generations in superlative performances…the centrepiece of the disc is the world premiere performance... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Contemporary
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Only the first of these discs is newly recorded but the other two have been remastered to convey the precision and panache of Sturmer’s pianist with impressive clarity…This set is cordially... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Pierre Boulez: Anthemes 1 & 2, Dialogue de l'Ombre Double
Carolin Widmann (violin), Jorg Widmann (clarinet), SWR Experimentalstudio
Carolin Widmann gives glistening performances of these texturally fascinating works, while her brother, Jörg, delivers an equally alluring reading of the theatrical Dialogue de l’ombre double... —
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Salzburg Biennale
Festival for New Music 2009
Hsin-Huei Huang (piano), Arcángel (flamenco singer), Nicolas Hodges (piano), Piroska Molnár (alto), Miki Skuta, Nora Sukta (pianos), Florian Birsak (harpsichord), Mayumi Miyata (shō), Arabella Hirner (conches), Noriko Shiozaki (piano), Luigi Gaggero (cimbalom), Frank Stadler (violin)
stadler...
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Designed as a meditation on the Passion story, it's an austere, rather forbidding piece: the style of the motets...harks back to Renaissance polyphony...while the sonatas are far more dramatic...Altogether,... —
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Bruno Maderna: Complete Works for Orchestra Vol. 3
Carole Sidney Louis (soprano), Thaddeus Watson (flute) & Michael Sieg (oboe)
HR-Sinfonieorchester & Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Tamayo
Tamayo's ear for how the fragments inform the whole is on the button, and those glowing strings, and the soulful extended cor anglais solo, mean this is the Biogramma of choice —
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Musica Viva 24
Lachenmann: Speaker - ...Zwei Gefühle ..., Musik Mit Leonardo
Helmut Lachenmann (speaker)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Peter Eötvös, Susanna Mälkki
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Experimentalstudio 40 Years Anthology Vol. 1
Helene Fauchere (soprano), Martin Fahlenbock (bass)
ENSEMBLE EXPERIMENTAL des SWR, Collegium Novum Zürich, Detfel Heusinger
