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Artist:	MADERNA, BRUNO
Title:	Complete Works For Orchestra Vol. 1
Label:	NEOS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD/SACD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	NEOS 10933CD

Featured works: Composizione No. 1 for orchestra (1948-1949); Composizione No. 2 for orchestra (1950); Studi per "Il Processo" di Franz Kafka for speaker, soprano and orchestra (1950); Improvvisazione No. 1 for orchestra (1952); Improvvisazione No. 2 for orchestra (1953). Performed by Michael Quast, speaker; Claudia Barainsky, soprano; hr-Sinfonieorchester/Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra/Arturo Tamayo. "Everything must be looked at again: Bruno Maderna followed this post-war maxim in his choice of simple 'work-shop' titles. Composition, practice, improvisation -- this meant the greatest amount of freedom possible, but it was also his way of recognizing how to realize polyphony, logic and flexibility of thought. Towards floating and transparent forms, which move beyond their own boundaries and question themselves. On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of its foundation, the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, along with the conductor Arturo Tamayo, has recorded the entire orchestral music of Bruno Maderna. Amongst the early works is a vocal composition, one which was valued highly by Maderna's friend and pupil Luigi Nono: a study on the 'Process' fragment by Franz Kafka, in the present recording with the characteristic voices of Michael Quast and Claudia Barainsky." Stereo/multichannel hybrid SACD that can be played on any CD player.

Artist:	MADERNA, BRUNO
Title:	Complete Works For Orchestra Vol. 2
Label:	NEOS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD/SACD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	NEOS 10934CD

Featured works: Composizione in tre tempi (1954), Concerto per flauto e orchestre (1954) performed by Thaddeus Watson, flute; Aria for soprano, flute and orchestra (1964) Claudia Barainsky, soprano; Sebastian Wittiber, flute. Dimensioni III for flute and orchestra (1962-1963) performed by Clara Andrada de la Calle, flute/piccolo. Stele per Diotima for orchestra (1966) performed by Alejandro Rutkauskas, violin; Jochen Tschabrun, clarinet; Ulrich Büsing, bass clarinet; John MacDonald, horn; hr-Sinfonieorchester/Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra/Arturo Tamayo. "At the centre of the second part of our Maderna edition are concertante works, many of which formed the building blocks for the opera 'Hyperion.' Conductor Arturo Tamayo was able to draw all instrumental soloists from the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra: in the Hölderlin 'aria' and flute concertos with Thaddeus Watson, Sebastian Wittiber and Clara Andrada de la Calle, in the 'Stele per Diotima' with concert master Alejandro Rutkauskas as well as Jochen Tschabrun (clarinet), Ulrich Büsing (bass clarinet) and John MacDonald (horn). One main theme of the works remains the way the individual is torn between rebellion and resigna-tion, reflected in the words from the 'Thalia' fragment, sung here by Claudia Barainsky: 'I question the stars...the day, and the night, but they do not answer...'." Stereo/multichannel hybrid SACD that can be played on any CD player.

Artist:	MADERNA, BRUNO
Title:	Complete Works For Orchestra Vol. 3
Label:	NEOS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD/SACD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	NEOS 10935CD

Featured works: Ausstrahlung (1971) for female voice, flute, oboe, large orchestra and tape; Biogramma (1972) for large orchestra; Grande Aulodia (1970) for flute, oboe and orchestra. "Of the leading figures of Europe's postwar avant-garde, Bruno Maderna was the embodiment of the free spirit. More than any other, he was at once a visionary and a pragmatist and referred to his music with modest understatement as 'conductor's music.' The truth was that, being an expressive and highly sensitive conductor with no patience for arid sobriety, he knew more about the orchestra and bestrode a more spacious music-historical terrain than his colleagues. His repertoire, which included early music as well as the great symphonic masterpieces, reads like a lexicon of advanced modernism. He had a low opinion of the rigorous radicalism championed by Boulez, Stockhausen and Nono, and compared rigid ideological stances with the religious wars of the Reformation and Counter- Reformation. His music represents a fruitful interaction between tradition and the new and unknown; he considered the idea of stylistic hermeticism to be a dead end incompatible with human nature." Stereo/multichannel hybrid SACD that can be played on any CD player.

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