Philosophically inclined and fascinated by the accumulated knowledge of performers, Richard Karpen creates penetrating works for solo instruments in computer realizations that explore not only advanced technical possibilities, but go even deeper into aspects of performance practice. Touching on the concept of the noösphere -- the shared ...
Despite shifting trends and changing tastes in postmodern era contemporary music, Luciano Berio remains one of the most respected figures among composers active in the last half of the twentieth century. Berio's series of Sequenzas, however, are viewed as his main contribution to solo instrumental literature, sort of like Hindemith's instrumental ...
To say that Charles Villiers Stanford modeled his Piano Quintet of 1886 and his String Quintet of 1903 on Brahms is to state the obvious. From the layout of the movements to the details of the scoring, from the drive of the rhythms to the strength of the themes, Stanford clearly took Brahms as a model. Besides, who else was he supposed to model ...
The title of this ECM New Series album -- D'Amore -- comes from the principal instrument of interest: the viola d'amore. Despite its long existence, the viola d'amore is still largely an oddity, rarely appearing in any literature at all. Its appearance can be even more perplexing, seeming to have more strings than could ever possibly be bowed by a ...
Violist Garth Knox played with the Arditti Quartet and the Ensemble InterContemporain before branching out into a career as a soloist. This CD features a number of his works for ensembles for from two to five violas, as well as works including viola d'amore, clarinet, violin, cello, and tuba. His eight-movement Viola Spaces is a theme with ...
The versions of Leos Janácek's String Quartet No. 2, "Intimate Letters," heard here are both new. Neither quite delivers the "radical evolution in the character of the work" promised in the booklet (in French and English, with the Alpha label's usual wonderful art-historical essay by Denis Grenier), but both are intriguing. The version concluding ...
What the listener will hear on this release from Luxembourg (notes unfortunately are only in French, English, and German, not Luxembourgish) is the opening aria, the 10 canons, the quodlibet, and the aria da capo of Bach's Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, interspersed with contemporary compositions for various small ensembles, mostly including ...
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