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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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!"
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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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"Prizewinning young German composer Matthias Pintscher is going to be a force to be reckoned with in the musical world of the new century. The contrast between subtle introspection and massive outburst are key, especially in 'Choc' (Antiphon for Large Ensemble). The title, literally translated as 'shock', is inspired by a line from French symbolist poet Rimbaud: 'Music, veering from the abyss and the shock of icicles against the stars.' This image of contrast and conflict is apt for such a bold work. The five part structure of his 'Orchestral Piece' draws the listener's attention to the relationships of each movement, while still developing and metamorphosing organically." Limited stock.
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