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Contemporary composition and new music.
The contemporary classical division of hatOLOGY records of Switzerland is known for its distinctive cover art, authoritative liner notes, and pioneering collection of music by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Charles Ives, Australian composer Liza Lim, Cornelius Cardew and other 20th and 21st-century heavyweights. hat [now] ART is the finest European label devoted to musical composition of the here and now, ideal for listeners who relish the challenge and shock of the new.
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...as broodingly monumental as any Wagnerian myth...The libretto is delivered by soprano Sarah Leonard either in monotone individual syllables, or elided up and down the scale. The effect is... —
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In Fraser’s performance, space opens up between your ears and the recorded environment, terrain into which the music unfolds —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Ustvolskaya: Trio For Violin, Clarinet And Piano
Reinbert De Leeuw (piano), Vera Beths (violin) & Harmen De Boer (clarinet)
De Leeuw and his fellow musicians give forceful and precise performances in this first recording of this deeply courageous and unrelentingly sombre music to be made outside Russia. —
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Michael Finnissy: Choralvorspiele & Andersen-Liederkreis
Mark Knoop (piano), Juliet Fraser (soprano)
The piano-writing [in Choralvorspiele] ranges from manic to stark: from the note-spinning of the fifth movement, reminiscent of the ‘High’ Baroque at its most obsessive, to, at the other extreme,... —
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Fox is skilled at using systematic processes flexibly, to overtly expressive ends. His music establishes textures that convey emotion through materials that are not obviously traditional…The... —
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Pi-hsien Chen is an accomplished pianist, steeped in 18th and 20th century repertoires, and she knows how to treat their different sounds with the appropriate respect —
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