ECM
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Special offer. Monk, M: Songs of Ascension
Ellen Fisher, Katie Geissinger, Ching Gonzalez, Meredith Monk, Bruce Rameker, Allison Sniffin (voices), Bohdan Hilash (woodwinds), John Hollenbeck (percussion), Allison Sniffin (violin), Todd Reynolds Quartet: Todd Reynolds (violin), Courtney Orlando (violin), Nadia Sirota (viola), Ha-Yang Kim (cello),...
this account, made at New York's Academy of Arts and Letters, has the pristine ambience typical of ECM. Those previously sceptical of Monk should certainly avail themselves of this thought-provoking... —
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Heiner Goebbels: Stifters Dinge
Heiner Goebbels (director), Hubert Machnik (programmer), Willi Bopp (programmer)
Without [the accompanying visuals] the music does sometimes seem thin. But the longeurs are outweighed by moments of sudden grandeur and drama, and a fascinating atmosphere of dark menace. —
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Erkki-Sven Tüür: Aeris
Christoph Eß (horn), Marc Gruber (horn), Stephan Schottstädt (horn), Timo Steiniger (horn), Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, german hornsound, Olari Elts
Elts expertly steers an excellent Estonian National Symphony Orchestra in cycles of constant development and renewal, the rich, dense textures at once driven and spacious as, Tüür notes, the... —
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The disc reflects a remarkably productive recent period in the composer's life...The music's broadly harmonic conception also takes the music occasionally into unexpected areas, including barbershop,... —
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…Kurtág's Kafka-Fragmente of 1985-86 seems the archetypal late 20th-century song-cycle. The musical language, reduced to shards and splinters, has roots from Bach to Webern, via Schumann…... —
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Arvo Pärt - Musica Selecta
A Sequence By Manfred Eicher
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Gidon Kremer (violin), Vladimir Mendelssohn (viola), Alexander Malter (piano), Keith Jarrett (piano), Vox Clamantis, Saulius Sondeckis (violin/conductor), Latvian Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Choir, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Alexei Lubimov (piano), Lynne Dawson...
For this excellent two-CD compendium, the producer Manfred Eicher has selected pieces from the recordings he has made over the past 30 years. It’s a perfect introduction to Pärt’s work, ranging... —
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Kashkashian's superbly engineered recording of the Bartók Viola Concerto bears witness to a total identification between performer and composer.
Even the tiny pause bridging the opening and... — -
