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EASTMAN, JULIUS	Femenine	2LP	FROZEN REEDS	FR 006LP
$41.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/14/2023 Double-LP version, black vinyl in gatefold sleeve -- on vinyl for the first time, in a revelatory new remaster by Jim O'Rourke. In 2016, Finnish label frozen reeds published the première release of Julius Eastman's Femenine, for chamber ensemble. Laying unheard for decades prior, the release documented a 1974 performance by the S.E.M. Ensemble with the composer himself on piano. Lauded in Pitchfork (awarded "Best New Music"), The New Yorker, and The New York Times, the first release of Femenine served as the catalyst that propelled Eastman's music into the mainstream. Articles on Eastman's music and its immediate disruptive impact on the classical canon began to appear in every major news organ in the English-speaking world and beyond. His music began to be programmed in major concerts and festivals, several of these entirely themed around his life and work. New recordings sprang up from a fresh generation of musicians engaging with his ideas and interpreting them for a modern audience hungry to hear more. But the raw, emotionally cascading spirit of the original performance continues to inspire listeners. Joyous, insistent, and immersive, Femenine bathes the listener in surges of tonal color from intertwining winds, piano, violin, pitched percussion, synthesizer, and -- uniquely -- the composer's own invention of mechanized sleigh bells, which provide the 72-minute piece with its characteristic pulse. Femenine was recorded live by Steve Cellum -- co-producer of Arthur Russell's World of Echo -- and the new vinyl reissue has been remastered from the original high-definition tape transfer by Jim O'Rourke at his Steamroom studio in the Japanese mountains. Illuminating sleeve notes are provided by composer and author Mary Jane Leach, key figure of the Eastman revival and co-editor of the Gay Guerrilla collection of essays on his life and music. Gatefold. "Eastman's stated aim with Femenine was to please listeners, saying of the piece that 'the end sounds like the angels opening up heaven . . . should we say euphoria?" --Mary Jane Leach

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LOWENBRUCK/FABIAN LOWENBRUCK, DANIEL	Das Lebacher Orgelwerk "Weihnachtsoratorium" (LWV 156)	CD	KRIM KRAM	KRIMKRAM 006CD
$17.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/17/2023 Recording of the premiere performance of the Weihnachtsoratorium (Christmas Oratorio), an organ concert composed and played by the four hands of Daniel Löwenbrück and Fabian Löwenbrück. Performed December 26th, 2006 at the Hugo Meyer organ of the Evangelische Kirche in Lebach, Germany. Published by Krim Kram, Cork (Ireland). Full color six-panel digipak; edition of 300.

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GLASS, PHILIP	Solo Piano	LP	CLASSICAL MUSIC ON VINYL	MOVCL 007LP
$37.00 NOT IN STOCK "With Solo Piano, Glass presents himself 'unplugged' -- no electronic keyboards or synthesizers, and no overdubs, either -- just solo piano. 'Metamorphosis' was written in 1988 and takes its name from a play based on Kafka's short story. Its second track, 'Metamorphosis Two', formed the basis of one of the main musical themes in the film The Hours. It is also the song that the American rock band Pearl Jam uses as their introduction music to concerts. 'Mad Rush' was written for the occasion of the Dalai Lama's first visit in New York City. 'Wichita Vortex Sutra' is the result of a chance meeting between two long-time friends, Glass and poet Allen Ginsberg, in a bookstore in the East Village. 'We decided on the spot to do something together, reached for one of Allen's books, and chose the poem 'Wichita Vortex Sutra'.'"

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WAGNER, VANESSA	Mirrored	CD	INFINE	IF 1077CD
$13.50 IN STOCK French pianist Vanessa Wagner collects solo piano studies of graceful minimalism and rare finesse for new album Mirrored. Quickly following March 2022's Study of the Invisible album (IF 1070CD/LP), Vanessa Wagner returns with a new collection of work that paints in many colors. The application of shadow in Mirrored evokes haunting poignancy; the care and delicateness of its negative space leaves room for undulating melodic motifs to ebb and flow; its bold splashes of luminescence are striking and rich. And while the album collates re-interpretations of works by composers as varied as Philip Glass, Nico Muhly, Moondog, Leo Ferré, and Camille Pepin, the potency and effect of the collection as a whole reflects only Vanessa Wagner and the extraordinary breadth of her abilities. Performing solo, exposed to timbre, tempo and clarity, many of the pieces here -- such as "Sea Horses" by (Vanessa's one-time mentor) Moondog or Philip Glass's "Etude 4" -- demand virtuosic abilities as a performer and interpreter. But in Vanessa Wagner's hands, they are not only made her own, but made mesmeric and magical by the sensitivity of her touch. Also features works composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Melaine Dalibert, and Sylvain Chauveau.

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WAGNER, VANESSA	Mirrored	LP	INFINE	IF 1077LP
$25.00 IN STOCK LP version. French pianist Vanessa Wagner collects solo piano studies of graceful minimalism and rare finesse for new album Mirrored. Quickly following March 2022's Study of the Invisible album (IF 1070CD/LP), Vanessa Wagner returns with a new collection of work that paints in many colors. The application of shadow in Mirrored evokes haunting poignancy; the care and delicateness of its negative space leaves room for undulating melodic motifs to ebb and flow; its bold splashes of luminescence are striking and rich. And while the album collates re-interpretations of works by composers as varied as Philip Glass, Nico Muhly, Moondog, Leo Ferré, and Camille Pepin, the potency and effect of the collection as a whole reflects only Vanessa Wagner and the extraordinary breadth of her abilities. Performing solo, exposed to timbre, tempo and clarity, many of the pieces here -- such as "Sea Horses" by (Vanessa's one-time mentor) Moondog or Philip Glass's "Etude 4" -- demand virtuosic abilities as a performer and interpreter. But in Vanessa Wagner's hands, they are not only made her own, but made mesmeric and magical by the sensitivity of her touch. Also features works composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Melaine Dalibert, and Sylvain Chauveau.

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MEIJER, LAVINIA	Are You Still Somewhere?	LP	CLASSICAL MUSIC ON VINYL	MOVCL 072LP
$35.00 LOW STOCK LEVEL "Lavinia Meijer is a pioneering and exciting musician and composer, and one of the most important harpists of her generation. Known for her passion in broadening the possibilities of the harp -- both in terms of sound and appeal -- she's garnered worldwide critical acclaim for her intelligent, inventive interpretations of both orchestral repertoire and more contemporary music, playing alongside the likes of Philip Glass and Ólafur Arnalds, and performing works by Radiohead in classical venues. Four years in the making, Are You Still Somewhere? sees Meijer combine original compositions with her long-stated dream of interpreting modern composers and musicians for harp. Works by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ólafur Arnalds, and Alexandra Streliski all feature, as do collaborations with Dutch pianist Pieter de Graaf and punk legend Iggy Pop. Are You Still Somewhere? concerns self-reflection and inner growth, topics that have come to the fore over the last couple of years. Family too; looking back, longing, and living with one's regrets are raked over in 'Mom & Dad', a track that features spoken word poetry from Iggy Pop. The 2022 Edison Award-winning album Are You Still Somewhere? includes a 4-page booklet."

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GLASS, PHILIP	Glassworks (Clear Vinyl)	LP	CLASSICAL MUSIC ON VINYL	MOVCL 008COL-LP
$35.00 LOW STOCK LEVEL Clear vinyl. "Philip Glass is an American composer. His music is considered to be minimal music, although he himself uses the term theater music. Glassworks was originally released in 1982. The album is a six-part chamber music work by Philip Glass. After his larger-scale concert and stage works, Glassworks was Philip Glass's successful attempt to create a more pop-oriented 'Walkman-appropriate' work, with significantly shorter and more accessible pieces written for the recording studio. In fact, the cover of the cassette release stated that it was 'mixed especially for your personal cassette player'."

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XENAKIS, IANNIS	Persepolis	LP	KARLRECORDS	KR 044LP
$24.00 IN STOCK Individual LP from the Electroacoustic Works boxset. After La Légende d'Eer in 2016 (KR 024LP), the Perihel series presents one of the milestones of electroacoustic music: Iannis Xenakis's mind-blowing, 54-minutes oeuvre Persepolis. Persepolis is the longest electroacoustic composition by Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) who ranks among the most influential 20th century avant-garde composers. Commissioned by the Persian Shah, the piece was part of a multimedia performance -- Xenakis's so-called "polytopes" -- which premiered in 1971 in Shiraz-Persepolis (Iran) as a performance including light-tracks, laser beams, groups of children walking around with torches, and 59 loudspeakers to project the music in an open-air situation. Xenakis had realized Persepolis on 8-track analog tape in the Studio Acusti in Paris and released a stereo reduction on vinyl in the famous Philips series "Prospective 21e Siècle" in 1972, adding the new subtitle "We bear the light of the earth", his most hymnal title ever. Out of print for decades now, the LP became -- especially the Japanese edition from 1974 -- one of the most expensive collector's item of electroacoustic music. There were some later CD versions with different durations -- too long due to a wrong sample rate, others shortened by three minutes due to other reasons. The Perihel series now presents a new version: mixed from the original master 8-track tapes by longtime zeitkratzer sound engineer Martin Wurmnest and mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin -- the same experts who had already taken care of the 2016 Karlrecords release of La Légende d'Eer, another milestone composition among the works of the Greek-French avant-garde composer. Previous releases in the Perihel series, curated by Reinhold Friedl: Guy Reibel's Douze Inventions en Six Modes de Jeu (KR 028LP, 2015); Iannis Xenakis's La Légende d'Eer (KR 024LP, 2016), John Cage's Complete Song Books (KR 029LP, 2016). 180 gram vinyl; Includes insert and download code.

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DE PRATO, OLIVIA	I, A.M. - Artist Mother Project	CD	NEW WORLD RECORDS	NW 80838CD
$15.00 LOW STOCK LEVEL "The inspiration and theme for these six new compositions is 'Artistry and Motherhood.' The perennial question of whether a woman can be both an artist and a mother has been on my mind for a few years, having started a family myself in 2016. Important as it is, this topic is not often discussed in modern society, especially not in the frenetic environment of New York City. How did this life-changing experience influence our artistic vision and creativity? How do we fit into a society that still believes women must choose between family and art? The women collaborating with me on this project have committed to be dedicated mothers while still pursuing their goals and dreams in music and art. The music stands alone on its own merits but invites listeners to examine the practical realities and societal position of the artist-mother. This project highlights the rich and diverse talent of each artist while giving us a platform to discuss how the challenges and benefits of motherhood shape our artistic endeavors." --Olivia De Prato

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XENAKIS, IANNIS	La Legende d'Eer	LP	KARLRECORDS	KR 024LP
$24.00 IN STOCK Individual LP from the Electroacoustic Works boxset. The second release in the Perihel series is one of the most famous electroacoustic compositions by Iannis Xenakis. When Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), who had fought against the occupation as part of the communist resistance, moved to Paris in 1947 it was the start of a highly creative and impressive career. Xenakis not only studied composition with Olivier Messiaen and became one of the most innovative composers of the 20th century, he also worked as assistant to Le Corbusier and realized a.o. the Philips Pavilion for the World Exhibition in Brussels, 1958. His compositions often are based on mathematical principles (in 1966 he founded the CEMAMu - Centre d'Etudes de Mathématique et Automatique Musicales), which give his music an unprecedented aesthetic and as The Guardian would say, a "shocking otherness". The most famous works of Xenakis, who won the Polar Music Prize (considered the unofficial Nobel Prize for music) in 1999, are his compositions for orchestra Metastasis, Pithoprakta and Terretektorh (where the 88 musicians are spread within the audience) and the electroacoustic compositions Persepolis, Concret PH, Bohor and La Légende d'Eer where Xenakis integrated his stochastic synthesis sounds for the first time. As legendary as this piece is, there is an impenetrable thicket of versions and stories around La Légende d'Eer, it exists in different releases, with wrong sample rates or digitized backwards. This version uses the 8-track-version that Xenakis himself presented at Darmstädter Ferienkurse in August of 1978. As the automatic spatialization is lost, this became the only original version of this composition and is presented here (mixed down to stereo by Martin Wurmnest who tried to preserve the spatial movements as perceptible as possible. La Légende d'Eer not only became a milestone of electroacoustic music but is also an important reference for noise and industrial musicians up to the present day. Mixed by Martin Wurmnest, mastered & cut by Rashad Becker. Includes insert with liner notes by Reinhold Friedl.

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BOLI GROUP	The Jutlandia Quartets	CD	HAUNTER RECORDS	HR 029CD
$21.50 IN STOCK The Jutlandia Quartets offers immersive subversions of the classical music genre. The new album from the Copenhagen-based instrumental ensemble Boli Group, presented by Haunter Records, is a collection of monochromatic uneasy pieces that manifests the negative emotions of a bad homecoming. A non-forced power play with the institutions of "classical music".

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DARVISHI, AFTAB	A Thousand Butterflies	CD	30M RECORDS	30M 004CD
$15.50 IN STOCK Aftab Darvishi: a distinctive voice that combines her classical music training with the diverse influences of her native Iran. A Thousand Butterflies is a portrait album that looks back on Darvishi's eleven-year journey as a composer and tells of a life -- hers -- that has crossed continents. "Each piece on this album tells a part of my life that has taken place in every corner of the world," shares Aftab Darvishi, whose music draws on a wide variety of styles. She presents works for a variety of instruments and electronics on her debut album. "When I compose, I don't think about style," Darvishi says. "It's not that logical, it's not very calculated. It's more by instinct. My music is not just Persian music -- it's much more than that: it's an approach to being." "Sahar" (Dawn) opens Darvishi's album; it is the most recent composition on the recording. Based on a traditional melody from the Kermanshah region, traditionally played at dawn as a morning wake-up call, Aftab Darvishi has written "Sahar", a work for cello that uses traditional Persian playing techniques. Originally, this melody was heard on the sorna -- later it was also played on the tanbur and mixed with vocals. A live recording of a performance by the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet in Stockholm during the Corona period follows: "Hidden Dream" is vivid, telling of journeys, hopes, dreams. The following work "A Thousand Butterflies", namesake of the album ties in with dreams and hopes: The piece for clarinet and piano is inspired by the experience of immigration, recalling those people who daily leave their homes forever: "In my imagination, thousands of men and women fly toward a better future," Aftab Darvishi says. In each of the three movements, she looks at immigration from a different perspective, conveying to listeners the diversity of experiences and feelings of immigrants. The earliest composition, "Forgetfulness", was recorded in Tehran, as was "Sahar", but before she went to the Netherlands to study composition. It has accompanied Aftab Darvishi on her travels ever since and is always a reminder of her origins. The album closes with the atmospheric "Plutone".

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QUELL, MICHAEL	Chamber Music Vol. 3	CD	NEOS	NEOS 12103CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/29/2022 Scientific thinking is part of Michael Quell's essence. When he talks about theoretical physics, it becomes clear that he really wants to get to the bottom of things. But he is a musician, and in the end his engagement with string theory or with dark energy is an artistic one through and through. The highly complex structure of his music discharges, in a way, into sensual sound. String I for oboe solo was recorded by Benjamin Fischer, who also premiered in 2013. The chamber music works are interpreted by the Munich ensemble der/gelbe/klang, which is presenting a brilliant debut album with this recording.

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CORNER, PHILIP	On Tape from the Judson Years	CD	ALGA MARGHEN	NMN 019CD
$19.50 IN STOCK 2022 repress. On tape from the Judson days. Remember? When you made these things at home, on the best equipment you or your other poor friends could find? Electronic music from the 1960s. And you had that Japanese tape recorder with built-in mike; indeed, that was the only piece of furniture on your tatami floor on the Lower East Side that summer of 1961. This compact disc presents tape music recorded between 1962 and 1963 for the friends meeting once a week in a loft in NYC. The first track, "Lucinda Pastime", was the soundtrack for a dance piece by Lucinda Childs: "the tape was made in the kitchen sink, with primitive equipment and all the different kinds of plates and bowls in the house. The enjoyment of listening to this musique liquid at night, in bed, and always finding it too short." "Memories: Performances": "Ah yes... yes! The principle of this tape is the recombining of recorded performances from the past, my past, this time. Because the idea, and practice, of collage was really around in that time." "From Thais", was made on request of Yvorine Rainer, "collaging mostly extracts from Massenet opera, mix after mix to get thrown around fragments of the opening until the thin, otherworldly quality of the ending." "Oracle, a Canata on Images of War", was commissioned by the Living Theatre: "All sounds in violent counterpoint, made by me at home... playing with real noises, with a deliberately pulverized reality made of over-recorded close-miked crashes which even blew the machine's circuitry. Mixed into the 'Darkest White Noise' ever made." "Flares" used dancers and musicians and slides and lights in a total-space multimedia; this is the only piece on this compact disc which uses purely generated tape sounds. "Circus Tape" was for "a whole evening of inspired crazy-fun, from burlesque to creaking doors." All previously unreleased works presented in a digipack CD with 16-page booklet.

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PLUS!	Works for Clarinet Duo and Accordion	CD	NEOS	NEOS 22003CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/29/2022 The title PLUS! stands for something that is of central importance in the repertoire of Das Klarinettenduo, Beate Zelinsky with David Smeyers: the interaction with other soloists or ensemble formations. The combination with the accordion (Krisztián Palágyi) is particularly attractive; it can merge with the sound of the clarinets to a perfect unity, but it can also emerge clearly perceptible from this composite sound. This prompted Nikolaus Brass to write a work for the three musicians: Songs and Melodies. It is here, as well as the compositions of Jukka Tiensuu, Younghi Pagh-Paan, and Georg Katzer, juxtaposed with music by Johann Sebastian Bach. Two-Part Inventions have been placed between the contemporary works -- in the versions of Max Reger/Karl Straube and Helmut Lachenmann, who each added a third voice. Another level for the idea of PLUS! in this extraordinary program.

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LANG, KLAUS	Linea Mundi. Weisse Farben.	LP	GOD RECORDS	GODREC 058LP
$26.00 IN STOCK 2020 release. Klaus Lang's involvement with GOD Records began with his cult, two-part release of stunning organ works. Famous for his heavy droning sound, Lang's new pieces are highly successful ensemble pieces. "linea mundi." and "weiße farben." were both premiered at the festival Wien Modern. Heavy textures, disturbing counterparts, slow progressions, threatening dynamics. Personnel: Bas Wiegers - conductor; Klangforum Wien - performer; oenm - Österreichisches Ensemble für Neue Musik - performer.

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FRANCK, CESAR	Pieces Pour Harmonium	CD	NEOS	NEOS 32001CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/29/2022 As early as 1858-66, César Franck had composed first an Offertoire and 5 Pièces for harmonium, then 44 further Petits pièces for organ or harmonium. More than two decades followed, before Franck, in the last two years of his life, began a project for harmonium that remained unfinished only because of his death: a cycle of harmonium pieces comprising 12 suites of seven pieces on all 12 pitches. The posthumous publication of the unfinished cycle of 59 pieces, to be performed on either organ or harmonium, is entitled L'Organiste, Pièces pour Orgue-Harmonium par César Franck. Doris Bertschinger on accordion. "In my interpretation, it is important for me to respect and point out the common features and similarities of the harmonium and accordion but also the differences between the two instruments. Already whilst studying for my degree, I was inspired by the Pièces pour harmonium, as Franck himself called them, and their interpretation on the accordion. With this recording, I would like to make César Franck's work as well as the classical accordion and its possibilities known to a wide audience." --Doris Bertschinger

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HEUSINGER, DETLEF	Lulu's Dream	CD	NEOS	NEOS 12107CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/29/2022 Three works by Detlef Heusinger come together in this CD, with the electric guitar playing a central role in each. Heusinger had learned classical guitar before he changed to electric guitar at age 14. But his, his duties as composer, conductor and later leader of the SWR Experimentalstudio would leave little room for playing the electric guitar. With the guitar concerto 2nd Anniversary of Zabriskie Point, however, Heusinger returned to his old love of the instrument. Admittedly, he came back to it with a totally changed perspective: he put the electric guitar in the historical context of electronic music and thus, in a manner of speaking, re-invented it as an instrument. As a solo instrument, the electric guitar conjures a modern version of the timeless Lulu; in the solo concerto it functions in what would seem to be a long-outdated genre; in chamber music it serves as a mediator for the whole history of electronic music from the theremin to today.

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KATZER, GEORG	Late Works	CD	NEOS	NEOS 12004CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/29/2022 Georg Katzer, one of the greats among the composers of the former GDR, died in 2019. This CD documents his late work: chamber and orchestral music, created from 2016, interpreted by the musicians for whom it was written. These include three cello pieces "postscriptum to B." that refer to Beethoven (Jörg Ulrich Krah, cello and Bernhard Parz, piano), a song cycle for the Elisabeth Trio, a percussion quartet (Bremer Schlagzeugensemble) and the ensemble work "La scuola dell'ascolto 5", whose interpreters quickly renamed themselves georg katzer ensemble Berlin after the world premiere. A special highlight is the world premiere recording of the orchestral work "dicorso" with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB) under Vladimir Jurowski. The conductor, who has been closely associated with Georg Katzer for a long time, also contributed a greeting to the CD, in which he noted: "What amazed me above all about his music -- this was not the typical music of an 83-year-old! In spirit, he remained a young man."

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EGGERT, MORITZ	Die Tiefe des Raumes. Ein Fussballoratorium	2CD	NEOS	NEOS 12009-10CD
$28.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/29/2022 Moritz Eggert's football oratorio Die Tiefe des Raumes was originally part of the cultural program for the 2006 World Cup. Now over 100 young musicians and singers have brought the work back on stage at the Philharminie in Munich under the direction of the composer. The live recording of this concert appears here as a double-CD. In a good 90 minutes -- two halves plus preliminary report and injury time -- Die Tiefe des Raumes deals with football, fans, and officials. "Of course, a topic like football is a great opportunity for a composer to reach an audience that you would not otherwise have for new music," said Moritz Eggert. The performance documented here was initiated by the Music Academy of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. Not only the choir and orchestra consist of current and former scholarship recipients, the soloists and the participating lecturers are also mostly alumni of the foundation.

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HEFTI, DAVID PHILIP	Light and Shade	CD	NEOS	NEOS 12101CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/29/2022 Three powerfully suggestive and image-rich titles come together in the program of this CD: An durchsichtigen Fäden, Concubia nocte, and Danse interstellaire. These works circle in the field of tensions between existential fatigue and existential courage, between light and shade, between grief and comfort. As such they are prime examples of the spirited experimentation and powerful expression of the composer David Philip Hefti (1975), who spans the full spectra between sound and noise, sensation and stillness, tension and release, with compositional virtuosity. The core of all three works is for string quartet. The Amaryllis Quartet* is complemented by the warm mezzo-soprano by Maria Riccarda Wesseling in the piece An durchsichtigen Fäden and by Bernhard Röthlisberger and his basset clarinet in Danse interstellaire.

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KAWAKAMI, NORIKO	Zwischen Immer und Nie	CD	NEOS	NEOS 12020CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/29/2022 Japanese composer Noriko Kawakami left her homeland over 30 years ago. However, her contact to Japan has remained close, and the spiritual bond with her cultural roots has increased even further due to the spatial distance. More recently, Kawakami has also incorporated traditional Japanese instruments; in "Im Traum, der das Chaos webt" (In the dream that chaos weaves) she searched for possibilities of merging koto and accordion. All six pieces on this CD were inspired by existential phenomena and literary sources -- they also and especially reflect the tracing of hidden mental processes as an essential drive for Kawakami. Noriko Kawakami (*1955) studied composition in Tokyo, Freiburg, and Essen. After a two-year stay in Paris, she now lives as a freelance composer in Cologne. Her works have been performed at numerous festivals and concert series around the world. As a guest lecturer, she was invited to the Akiyoshidai International Contemporary Music Seminar and Festival in Japan among others.

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ABLINGER, PETER	Orchesterstucke	LP	GOD RECORDS	GODREC 061LP
$26.00 IN STOCK 2020 release. Peter Ablinger is one of home composers of GOD Records. His cult releases Regenstücke 1 and 2 (GODREC 018LP) and Voices and Piano (GODREC 034LP) are part of every serious record collection around the globe. With Orchesterstücke, Ablinger finally delivers some of his remarkable orchestra pieces in last ten years. The release contains three of Ablinger's orchestra pieces: "Quartz", "Wachstum, Massenmord", and highly controversial piece "4 Weiss", for orchestra and white noise, the piece that caused utterly polarized reactions at its premiere on 2019 edition of festival Wien Modern. This LP documents notorious event in the best possible way -- stunning performance and angry audience reaction. Transparent red vinyl.

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UZOR, CHARLES	Mothertongue	2CD	NEOS	NEOS 12108-09CD
$28.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/29/2022 The work of the composer Charles Uzor (1961) reflects his African origins -- and with it the story of his emigration to Switzerland as a seven-year-old. This also and especially applies to the new double album entitled Mothertongue. Mothertongue is a five-part cycle for mezzo-soprano, tape and ensemble. Uzor is looking for the sounds of his own mother tongue, Igbo, which he lost as an adolescent. The overall program of the two CDs is a journey through Uzor's musical and spiritual cosmos. The works, created between 1989 and 2020, deal with the uprising on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, the fairy tale of the Princess of Samarkand, the negative theodicy of the Italian philosopher Sergio Quinzio, and the brutal murder of George Floyd* by the police in Minneapolis in 2020. Charles Uzor's topics are socially relevant. In this sense, this is a particularly haunting portrait of the Swiss-Nigerian composer.

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BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN	Goldberg-Variationen	CD	NEOS	NEOS 32101CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/29/2022 The question of tempi and, above all, the tempo relations in the Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach has puzzled generations of musicians. Here is an idiosyncratic and surprising interpretation, because it impressively does justice to the additional notes in the Bach autograph: In his recording, harpsichordist Albert-Jan Roelofs creates a multi-layered, captivating tempo concept that ensures an extraordinary listening experience of the Goldberg Variations. "It becomes clear," says Roelofs, "that a uniform pulse is recognizable in the various variations and time signatures, which is based on the quarter-note of the Aria and can thus be regarded as the starting point for the choice of tempo. The present recording draws precisely on this idea." Albert-Jan Roelofs studied harpsichord and organ in Amsterdam and Maastricht, among others with Gustav Leonhardt, Piet Kee, and Ton Koopman. His musicological knowledge has made him a proven specialist in keyboard music of the 17th and 18th centuries. Various CD recordings are considered exemplary, including J. S. Bach's The Art of Fugue (2006). Albert-Jan Roelofs is, next to an intensive international concert schedule, a regular guest at early music festivals in Europe, Azerbaijan, Australia, China, Brazil, New Zealand, and the USA.

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