An authoritative account of a twentieth century classic, this 2002 reissue is one of the most prestigious titles in EMI's Encore series and merits a permanent place in the catalog. Perhaps more immediately accessible and moving than any other work by Olivier Messiaen, the Quartet for the End of Time (1941) holds a prominent place in his oeuvre, ...
It was quite popular, in the Baroque era, to use numbers and equations for riddles and the hiding of messages; and the study of J.S. Bach's work has revealed that he used numbers symbolic of notes in the major and minor scales formulated into equations and then composed his works around these equations. It was with one such series of equations ...
Cellist Frances-Marie Uitti formed both professional and personal ties with composer and mystic Giacinto Scelsi, and as a student of his in yoga and metaphysics, she became a spiritual disciple as well. It is natural, then, that she would champion his rarefied and esoteric music, especially his work for solo cello, Trilogy -- The Three Ages of Man ...
Silvestrov wrote the pieces recorded here, scored for piano solo, string orchestra, and piano and strings, between 1996 and 2005, and they are all representative of his late, meditative, song-like style. After an early career as an experimentalist, Silvestrov embraced the radical simplicity -- a style of tonal, melodic, and rhythmic transparency - ...
The four chamber works by Austrian Thomas Larcher recorded here show that's he's a composer to watch out for. His compositional voice is strikingly unencumbered by adherence to any orthodoxy, and his work is direct in its emotional and intellectual communication. My Illness Is the Medicine I Need, for soprano, violin, cello, and piano, is ...
This gargantuan 14-disc EMI set is admirable for its inclusiveness, but the quality of the individual performances is hit and miss. To be sure, there are some performances here that are definitive for all intents and purposes, the composer's own luminous performances of La Nativité du Seigneur, Les Corps glorieux, and especially L'Ascension among ...
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