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KAI 22302CD
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RELEASE DATE: 7/18/2025
"Olivier Messiaen saw birds as his greatest teachers, capturing their songs with passion and precision. His piano works, especially 'Catalogue d'oiseaux' and 'Petites esquisses d'oiseaux,' translate birdsong into rich, colorful music. Messiaen's fascination with rhythm, color, and nature shaped his compositions, blending ornithology with spirituality. Pianist Alfonso Gómez delivers an astonishing interpretation on this recording, adding to his acclaimed discography for this label. As Messiaen himself said: 'Nature, birdsong! These are my passions. They are also my refuge.'"
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KAI 22048CD
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"This compelling album presents works by Israeli composer Chaya Czernowin, exploring the fragile balance between destruction and communication, control and surrender. 'Seltene Erde' transforms the double bass and ensemble into a shifting landscape of illusion and resonance, evoking the invisible forces shaping our world. 'Atara,' born from the isolation of 2020, is a powerful orchestral lament, where vast sonic masses collide with the delicate voices of two singers, lost yet luminous. Through these works, Czernowin crafts a deeply visceral experience -- where sound becomes both raw material and fleeting shadow, revealing the unseen forces that shape existence."
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KAI 22055CD
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RELEASE DATE: 7/11/2025
"Clarinetist Michele Marelli channels the visionary spirit of Karlheinz Stockhausen in this electrifying album of works for clarinet, bass clarinet, and basset horn. From the hypnotic textures of Harmonien to the cosmic transformations of Bassetsu and the dialogic expressivity of In Freundschaft, Marelli embodies the restless Harlequin Stockhausen saw in him. The album also features the luminous zodiac cycle Tierkreis, which is masterfully interpreted by Marelli and the celebrated pianist Gianluca Cascioli. More than performers, they become vessels -- rendering Stockhausen's cosmic spirituality and intricate structures with clarity, devotion, and otherworldly intensity."
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KAI 15116CD
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Performed by Talea Ensemble & Harlem Chamber Players. "Femenine stages Eastman's shaping and building of the black queer masculine form -- caught not necessarily between two poles of gender, but with his work constantly driving his own self-making. He was an inventor and sculptor, reminiscent of Jean Tinguely and Harry Bertoia. Clanging, noisy, joyful, and playful in turn, the sound sculpture emerges from these primary elements, moulding and pressing, jiggering and jolleying, through a linear flow of sound and insistent chordal punctuations. The continuous hum of the prime motive as a bed of sound against the softness of the texture and the fierceness of the accented major triads takes flight into a dreamscape, making possible new ways of listening, knowing, and being." --Ellie M. Hisama and Isaac Jean-François
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KAI 22012CD
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"With this album, Yoshiko Shimizu presents a second outstanding recording of works for amplified piano(s) by American composer George Crumb, being the only pianist who has created 'solo' realizations of his compositions Celestial Mechanics (Makrokosmos IV), Zeitgeist and Otherworldly Resonances. George Crumb praised her superb 2018 KAIROS release, declaring, 'I consider her to be one of my very finest interpreters. Bravissima!'"
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KAI 15066CD
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"In the works of Martón Illés from the early 2000s, physically perceptible energy, gestural force, and visual conceptions of the sonic are already present. After 2010 the composer drew further implications from these for his work: since then, his musical thinking has no longer been based on fixed pitches, but rather on sounds -- either as acoustic manifestations of imagined lines or as gestures modeled on the physical. The way he actually implements this by means of instruments is impressively demonstrated in his series of works entitled Three Watercolors and Psychograms." Performed by: Ensemble Recherche
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KAI 15091CD
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"I first met Stefano Scodanibbio in 1986. What first impressed me about him and his music was that he seemed a determined young man, equally proficient on the double bass or as composer, a rare breed in the world of music of those days. His style was a very individual one, not following traditional avant-garde trends but exploring his own very special world of string harmonics. As a composer, Stefano was an individual voice in our new music world. He was a friend and fellow musician, who is sorely missed by us and all that knew him." --Irvine Arditti Performed by: Arditti Quartet
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KAI 15063CD
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"Giacinto Scelsi is one of the most original Italian composers of the twentieth century. The symbolic choice of Rome as his home represented Scelsi's own cultural, artistic and spiritual interests. His fascination for Eastern philosophies, Yoga and Zen meditation are combined with a insightful knowledge of Christian, Greek, Egyptian and Mesopotamian mythologies; Scelsi's library and collection of recordings displays his cultural interests, his curiosity and openness to the intricacies of the mind and his lifelong quest for a dialogue between different expressions of human spirituality. Marco Fusi, one of the leading performers of contemporary music, presents his readings of some of Scelsi's intriguing works for violin and for viola solo. For the listener, this is a journey into a futuristic vision from a past era."
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KAI 15100CD
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"Friedrich Cerha, whose monumental Spiegel cycle and his completion of Alban Berg's Lulu have secured him a place amongst the most eminent composers of our time, celebrates his 95th birthday on 17 February 2021. This album presents two of his lesser known very typical Viennese works, featuring chansonnier HK Gruber. While somehow in the tradition of the local music played at the Heurigen, both pieces dig deep into the musical and spiritual soul of Vienna's folk and art music. This extraordinary album celebrates an extraordinary composer who has been a KAIROS artist since the label's beginning. The album also marks the 100th release since KAIROS joined the paladino label group, thus making it a double Viennese celebration." Performed by: HK Gruber & Ensemble die reihe, Friedrich Cerha
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KAI 15092CD
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"For me, the flute is the instrument which can most deeply realize my musical ideal. The flute can produce a sound by means of the breath, and can be a vehicle by which the breath transmits the sound's life-power" --Toshio Hosokawa "The six flute compositions on this CD, rendered impressively and with intense devotion by Yoshie Ueno, each show a way of experiencing the music intended by Toshio Hosokawa as a profound art of expression." Performed by: Yoshie Ueno, & Mayumi Miyata, Ken'ichi Nakagawa.
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KAI 15089CD
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"The work of Austrian composer Bernhard Lang (b. 1957) is difficult to fit into any one musical category. His oeuvre references a wide variety of musical styles and genres, ranging from free jazz and improvisation to hip hop and DJ culture. The three works on this release showcase an enormous amount of virtuosity. The incessant and rapid repetition of complex musical cells pushes the performers to the edge of their technical abilities. This makes for a highly concentrated and intimate experience for both the performers and their audiences." Performed by: Manuel Zurria, Dario Calderone.
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KAI 15084CD
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"In this anthology, which is a portrait of his compositional tendencies, Claudio Ambrosini is actually one of the most daring creators of utopian virtuosity; a virtuosity which is grounded in the invention of multi-formal, luminous, permutable, nocturnal sound, giving prerogative to an exasperation of extremes and matured in the workshop of the Ex Novo Ensemble, a permanently active workshop of constantly renewed research. It is also a dream of a liminal avantgarde that favors torrential energy but at times opens up into a voluble undercurrent of song: a furtive shadow of Maderna appears." Performed by: Sonia Visentin, Ex Novo Ensemble
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KAI 15099CD
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"I always have this mental image of a small, imaginary theatre. When I compose music, however, I don't think of the musicians' bodies and their movements. I simply think of the music. I compose sound-gestures, not bodily gestures." --Georges Aperghis "In accordance with his line of thinking, he sets sound gestures to music in his instrumental pieces, proceeding from linguistic units - even in pieces which have absolutely no textual source. One might be able to describe his works for solo instruments as literally inventing a new sound language, as 'speaking music'. This album is part of Klangforum Wien's Solo five-CD series of recordings of pieces for one performer, which is the ensemble's response to the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic." Performed by: Klangforum Wien.
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KAI 15079CD
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"I know that the arts won't change anything, but art can point towards what has become ossified and reveal the desolate state of society and politics. I refuse to be yodelled away." --Olga Neuwirth "... and so she produces continuously changing musical textures, incessantly posing questions, boldly and impetuously combining the most contrasting elements. This album is part of Klangforum Wien's Solo five-CD series of recordings of pieces for one performer, which is the ensemble's response to the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic." Performed by: Klangforum Wien.
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KAI 15098CD
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"Everything is already here. I simply provide a frame, a context. The world is so saturated with noise. To filter out the nuances, or to exclude certain fragments, stands at the beginning of my work process. But it's not the beginning of a piece." --Rebecca Saunders "Solo pieces occupy an important place in Rebecca Saunders' oeuvre, since at least during the preparation period, the composer's solitude is transformed into a dialogue with the soloists with whom she seeks a close collaboration; the sheer physicality of their playing providing a source of lasting inspiration to the composer. She deeply explores the world of the sounds, offering a declaration of love to the respective instrument, soloist or to music in general. This album is part of Klangforum Wien's Solo five-CD series of recordings of pieces for one performer, which is the ensemble's response to the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic."
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KAI 15096CD
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"Salvatore Sciarrino's oeuvre is the preserve of silence. It can be encountered in the sound spaces of night, in nocturnal trickles, creaks, creepings and wings; filigree sounds disappear into silence and re-appear abruptly and in short bursts, in large, irregular forms. The soundscapes of his music continually probe the thin line between life and death, recollection and oblivion, light and dark, growth and decay. In these transitory realms, the scans of a magical originality find their very own space. This album is part of Klangforum Wien's Solo five-CD series of recordings of pieces for one performer, which is the ensemble's response to the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic." Performed by: Klangforum Wien.
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KAI 15095CD
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"Toshio Hosokawa, Japan's pre-eminent living composer, creates his distinctive musical language from the fascinating relationship between Western avant-garde art and traditional Japanese culture. His music is strongly connected to the aesthetic and spiritual roots of the Japanese arts (such as calligraphy), as well as to those of Japanese court music (such as Gagaku). He gives musical expression to notions of beauty rooted in transience: 'We hear the individual notes and appreciate, at the same time, the process of how the notes are born and die: a sound landscape of continual 'becoming' that is animated in itself.' This album is part of Klangforum Wien's Solo five-CD series of recordings of pieces for one performer, which is the ensemble's response to the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic." Performed by: Klangforum Wien
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KAI 15086CD
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"Thirty years after Nono's death, La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura has not lost anything of its fascination. In this new recording, violinist Marco Fusi and composer Pierluigi Billone offer a new reading of Nono's manuscript, revealing their personal view on what has become a contemporary classic in a carefully designed spatial sound concept with two rings of speakers. For buyers of the CD, a free download of the binaural version is included." Performed by: Marco Fusi, Pierluigi Billone.
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KAI 15030CD
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"In the project Scelsi Revisited Scelsi's legendary tape material is for the first time reflected in the medium of art: seven composers (Ragnhild Berståd, Georg Friedrich Haas, Fabien Lévy, Tristan Murail, Michael Pelzel, Michel Roth, Nicola Sani) were commissioned by Klangforum Wien to create new works from Scelsi's tape music. The results on this album are quite heterogeneous: they range from the meticulous analysis of the source material and its transfer into the emerging composition to free artistic commentaries. Scelsi Revisited is a conceptual extension of the historical collective working method, thereby accentuating the plural: Scelsi, c'est nous!" Composers: Ragnhild Berstad, Uli Fussenegger, Georg Friedrich Haas, Fabien Lévy, Tristan Murail, Michael Pelzel, Michel Roth, Nicola Sani. Performed by: Klangforum Wien, Sylvain Cambreling, Sian Edwards, Johannes Kalitzke, Emilio Pomàrico.
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KAI 1212
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"This survey of the recent piano music of Wolfgang Rihm exhibits the love/hate relationship that the composer had with the piano. From ridiculous to sublime Rihm covers all aspects of his compositional style and the piano's capabilities." Limited stock.
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