Download, Stockhausen (composer)
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A turning point for composer and contemporary music alike, Stimmung merges the serialist's rigour with the minimalist's empiricism. Barely tangible shifts between timbres, thythms, meters and... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th December 2007
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2007, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Award for Technical Excellence in Recording
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Special offer. La Fauvette Passerinette
A Messiaen premiere with birds, landscapes and homages
Peter Hill (piano)
Hill places the new work within an exceptionally well-crafted recital in which Messiaen's music is a recurrent thread in a span of resonances, influences and affinities...Whether in Dutilleux... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2014, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2014, Editor's Choice
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Stockhausen: Gruppen, etc.
RecommendedJürgen Ruck (guitar)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, Marcus Creed, Friedrich Goldmann
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th December 2007
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There is plenty of lovely piano-playing here, from a fleet-footed Bach Chromatic Fantasy to an architecturally conceived Isolde’s Liebestod, which is my personal highlight. The choices of repertoire... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2019
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Stockhausen: Mantra
Pestova/Meyer Piano Duo: Xenia Pestova and Pascal Meyer (pianos) & Jan Panis (electronics)
If 1950s modernism brings you out in spots, there's nothing to fear from Mantra. The relatively conventional push-pull of Stockhausen's expressive arcs mixes with what I find, personally, a... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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The wider influence of these pieces has yet to be fully considered…Whether or not at least some of them could yet enter the standard repertoire, the intrinsic qualities as music can no longer... — More…
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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The New Music - Penderecki, Stockhausen, Brown, Posseur
Bruno Maderna, Frederic Rzewski (piano), Members of The Rome Symphony Orchestra, Rome Symphony Orchestra
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The documentary value of this historic first recording is huge: Stockhausen's Klavierstucke V-XI were all dedicated to Tudor...He captures perfectly the crystalline pointillism of Stockhausen's... — More…
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Stockhausen: Zyklus für einen Schlagzeuger & Klavierstück X
Christoph Caskel (percussion), Max Neuhaus (percussion), Frederic Rzewski (piano), Christoph Caskel (percussion) & Max Neuhaus (percussion)
The prodigious Klavierstück X, a swarm of glissandoed clusters and abrupt silences, is made by the composer and pianist Frederic Rzewski as captivating, poetic and authoritative as a piece by... — More…
