The Naxos label diverges from its usual plain graphic design with this attempt to create the idea of an "alternative classical" genre, an idea that has paid big dividends when applied to rock and country music. Most of the selections are drawn from existing Naxos releases, with a few taken from discs by Denmark's Da Capo and Germany's CPO labels. ...
Nearly contemporary with his acclaimed masterpiece Ancient Voices of Children (1970), George Crumb's Songs, Drones, and Refrains of Death (1968) bears many similarities with it and may be considered as cut from the same cloth, since both cycles are part of Crumb's larger concentration on setting the poetry of Federico García Lorca. Along with ...
Aside from a 2003 release on New World of recordings from the legendary ONCE Festival, George Cacioppo's imaginative music was under-represented on CD until the release of this exceptional album from Mode. Thanks to the efforts of friends and associates, Cacioppo's aleatoric and graphically notated pieces have received fresh interpretations; with ...
A professor of neurology at the University of Florence and one of Italy's foremost experimental composers, Diego Minciacchi creates fascinating music from raw scientific data and appends cryptic titles to his pieces that give them something of a whimsical, if not philosophical or mystical, context. The Aforesaid, Minciacchi's 2001 release on Col ...
Naxos' bargain-priced compilation of three of its previously released discs of music by Philip Glass is especially valuable because it consists entirely of works for orchestra, a genre in which he is not especially well represented on recordings. (Many of his film scores are written for orchestra, but his absolute music -- symphonies and concertos ...
The second volume of Stradivarius' collection of live performances from the Scelsi Festival presents seven pieces that are typical in their highly varied instrumentation, unpredictable styles, and quasi-mystical expressive qualities. Much of what makes this music attractive, especially for newcomers who otherwise might have little interest in ...
The fact that bass Nicholas Isherwood is an amateur ethnomusicologist, a passionate advocate for new music, and a political leftist makes him an ideal candidate to perform Henze's El Cimarrón, a "recital for four musicians," recounting the struggles of a freed West Indian slave. To research the part, Isherwood traveled deep into the jungles of ...
Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart commissioned four composers -- Sofia Gubaidulina, Tan Dun, Osvaldo Golijov, and Wolfgang Rihm -- to write Passion settings based on each of the Gospels for its 2000 commemoration of the 250th anniversary of J.S. Bach's death. Gubaidulina's St. John Passion was originally in Russian, but in 2006 she wrote a ...
Any percussionists or devotees of percussion owe it to themselves to investigate this remarkable collection of works performed by French virtuoso Roland Auzet. The set includes three CDs with 13 substantial pieces, about half of them recorded for the first time, as well as a DVD of Auzet playing two Xenakis solos, Psappha and Rebonds. Those two ...
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