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Bruno Maderna [1920 Venezia - 1973 Darmstadt] Oboe Concertos (2006)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 25 Mar 2010 20:21:44 | Comments : 5
Maderna - Oboe

Bruno Maderna [1920 Venezia - 1973 Darmstadt] Oboe Concertos (2006)
Avant-Garde | EAC (ape, cue, log) | Radio-Symphonieorchester Saabuchen, Michael Stern - Fabian Menzel, oboe | Artworks
col legno WWE 1CD 20037 | CD 55:52 | rar + 3% recovery record | 260 MB | RS.com

“"While working out the piece I was constantly aware that music already existed, that it had always existed, even the music that I was writing. It is merely necessary to trust what you hear around you and in you, and to realize it in a score. 'Fixed form' and 'open' are the same thing".
Bruno Maderna wrote that of his "Third Oboe Concerto", the last work he wrote before dying on November 13, 1973.
from the booklet attached
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Luciano Berio [1925–2003] The String Quartets (2002)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 24 Mar 2010 19:48:03 | Comments : 10
Berio - String

Luciano Berio [1925–2003] The String Quartets (2002)
Avant-Garde | EAC (ape, cue, log) | Arditti String Quartet| Artworks
Montaigne MO 782155 | CD 58:29 | rar + 3% recovery record | 259 MB | RS.com

“It is significant that it was in the 1950s, exactly when experimental fervour was at its height at the Studio di Fonologia in Milan, that Luciano Berio also decided to tackle the quartet, almost as if he wished to counterbalance, with this structural discipline, the disorientating wealth of possibilities of the new electronic experimentation. As Berio himself has declared, "the serial experiment meant for me, above all, an objective broadening of musical means and the possibility of examining a more extensive musical domain whilst respecting, indeed taking pleasure in, its premisses."
from the attached booklet
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Luciano Berio [1925–2003] Violin Works (2006)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 24 Mar 2010 18:36:58 | Comments : 6
Berio-Violin_Works

Luciano Berio [1925–2003] Violin Works (2006)
Avant-Garde | EAC (ape, cue, log) | Francesco D'Orazio, violin | Artworks
Decca 476 3111 | CD 58:29 | rar + 3% recovery record | 259 MB | RS.com

“Studying Berio's works, one realises how it is essential to progressively abandon the instruments of the past dialectic and mostly those relationships "cause - effect" upon which any deduction approach is grounded. Each of his works is based on the concept of multipolarity, i.e. on a boundless and continuous proliferation of linguistic correlations".
Enzo Restagno: "Luciano Berio" Torino 1995
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Niccolò Castiglioni (1932-1996) - Complete Works for Oboe (2009)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 24 Mar 2010 14:29:46 | Comments : 6
Castiglioni-Oboe

Niccolò Castiglioni (1932-1996) - Complete Works for Oboe (2009)
Avant-Garde | EAC (ape, cue, log) | Omar Zoboli, oboe | Booklet 600dpi
Divox CDX-20802 (2009) | CD 73:24 | rar + 3% recovery record | 219 MB | RS.com

“Among the most important contemporary composers Niccolò Castiglioni is one who, through his spontaneous experiencing of the musical material, personifies the romantic concept of genius at its best: he is the one, who through his simplicity, sincerity and merriment, sings praises of the wonders of an enchanted and fairytale like nature, which the lay person with deeply-felt humanity and mystical devotion can participate in.
Renzo Cresti: "Il linguaggio musicale di Niccolò Castiglioni". Milano/Guido Miano Publishers, 1991
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Niccolò Castiglioni (1932-1996) - Cangianti (2007)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 09 Mar 2010 16:53:24 | Comments : 8
Castiglioni - Cangianti

Niccolò Castiglioni (1932-1996) - Complete Piano Works (2007)
Avant-Garde | (ape, cue, log) | Alfonso Alberti, piano | Booklet 600dpi
col legno 20274 | CD 63:57 | rar + 3% recovery record | 219 MB | RS.com

“... these recordings enable us to establish contact with one of the most unusual musical poetics of the late 20th century. ... but what matters most is that anyone stepping into this world returns a child and look ahead at the objects of life with the eyes of a child
Alfonso Alberti, from booklet notes
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Somei Satoh - Litania (Margaret Leng Tan, 1986)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 27 Feb 2010 21:52:45 | Comments : 8
Satoh - Litania

Litania - Margaret Leng Tan plays Somei Satoh (1986)
Avant-Garde | EAC (ape, cue, log) | rar + 3% recovery record | 195 MB | RS.com
New Albion Records| CD NAR 008 62:52 | Cover + Info

“I would like it if the listener could abandon all previous conceptions of time and experience a new sense of time presented in this music as if eternal time can be lived in a single moment.
Margaret Leng Tan, pianist, from the attached leaflet
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Alfredo Casella (1883-1947) - Orchestral Works (1994)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 15 Feb 2010 00:20:48 | Comments : 3
Casella Orchestral Works

Alfredo Casella (1883-1947) - Orchestral Works (1994)
Modern-Classic | EAC (ape, cue, log) | Haydn Orchestra Bolzano e Trento conducted by Alun Francis | Booklet 600dpi
CPO Records 999 195 | CD 68:47 | rar + 3% recovery record | 313 MB | RS.com

“The temptation to call Casella's music »charming« may be great, but perhaps such a label will not do anything to take away from it. But with such a diminutive of perception one will in no way do justice to the high standards of his music and their virtuoso realization in a manner which has been recognized as having been unique along the paths leading to New Music.
Andreas K. W. Meyer, from the attached booklet
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Wolfgang Rihm - 3 Lieder (2006)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 10 Feb 2010 19:29:34 | Comments : 5
Rihm-Lieder

Wolfgang Rihm - 3 Lieder (2006)
Avant-Garde | (ape, cue, log) | Christoph Prégardien, tenor - Siegfried Mauser, piano | Booklet
col legno WWE 20228 | CD 74:32 | rar + 3% recovery record | 228 MB | RS.com

“The traditional mode of composition for texts was violated in many ways in the twentieth century. Especially in the latter half of the century, one finds strategies for demolishing the text that are either intended to obtain syllables or phonemes as elementary elements of a related musical setting - a procedure that certainly reveals a certain proximity to the deconstructionist aesthetic - or that use collages and montages to produce intertextualities that go beyond the integral stock of a genre of text, a type of text, or even a single literary sketch. This broadening perspective, like the deconstructive techniques, permitted completely new compositional procedures for adapting texts. Such trends are found in numerous works by Wolfgang Rihm...
Siegfried Mauser, from the attached booklet
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Alvin Curran - Living Room Music (2009)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 09 Feb 2010 18:18:00 | Comments : 4
Curran-Living Room Music

Alvin Curran - Living Room Music [live version 2010]
Rai Radio 3 | 75:00 + 68:34 | rar + 3% recovery record | 600 MB | RS.com
Avant-Garde | Digital-radio satellite broadcast | PCM 44,100Hz, 16 Bit | ape, no log | Info

“Living Room Music was also the title of a 1940 Cage's composition, not to speaking of Satie's "Musique d'ameublement": Alvin variant was to invite at his Roma house, between december 2008 and june 2009, fellowship traveling musicists, let them freely create and then using each recording, sometimes with street sounds trespassing from the living room windows, as "raw matter" for a radio broadcasting composition commissioned by Berlin's Deutschlandradio Kultur, broadcasted on September 2009. This is the concert version, recorded on January 2010.”
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Morton Feldman - The Late Piano Works Vol. 2 (Steffen Schleiermacher) 2009

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 06 Feb 2010 08:32:34 | Comments : 3
Feldman The LPW 2

Morton Feldman - The Late Piano Works Vol. 2 (2009)
Avant-Garde | (ape, cue, log) | Steffen Schleiermacher, piano | Cover
MDG Scene MDG 6131522 | CD 71:48 | rar + 3% recovery record | 116 MB | RS.com

“The concentration with wich in this piece Steffen Schleiermacher dedicates himself to the interpretation of Feldman's work is stunning and shoul have model character... the character of his playing, creating the impression of floating, always groping forward, make this recording one of the best.
klassic.com
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Wolfgang Rihm - Etude d'après Séraphin (1998) [by request]

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 26 Jan 2010 22:58:42 | Comments : 8
Etude d'après Séraphin

Wolfgang Rihm - Etude d'après Séraphin (1998)
Avant-Garde | (ape, cue, log) | Ensemble 13 conducted by Manfred Reichert | Booklet
wergo 282 055-2 | CD 45:31 | rar + 3% recovery record | 200 MB | RS.com

“In this piece, which should actually carry the title "Levels of Memory", I worked for the first time electronically formed material. ... I attempt, step by step, to enter into instinctive, atavistic regions... Leviathan? Titanic? We will not escape.
Wolfgang Rihm
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Wolfgang Rihm - Chiffre-Zyklus (2006) [by request]

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 24 Jan 2010 17:35:36 | Comments : 9
Rihm - Chiffre-Zyklus

Wolfgang Rihm - Chiffre-Zyklus (2006)
Avant-Garde | (ape, cue, log) | Ulrich Loffler, piano - MusikFabrik conducted by Stefan Asbury | Covers
CPO Records 777169 | 2CD 51:25 - 37:10 | rar + 3% recovery record | 330 MB | RS.com

“.. attempts to find a musical language free of prescribed sequential and elaborative procedures. What is involved is the free setting of the individual event, not caused, without consequence in the stricter sense -- the free procreation of an imagination space; the quest for sound objects, for sound signs, a sound writing.
Wolfgang Rihm
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Between the Keys (1992)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 23 Jan 2010 19:17:16 | Comments : 8
BETWEEN_KEYS

Microtonal Masterpieces of the 20th Century (1992)
Avant-Garde | EAC ape | rar + 3% recovery record | 290 MB | RS.com
Newport Classic Premier NPO 85526 | CD 70:54 | Leaflet Scan 600dpi

“Each composer represented in this recording faced a critical moment, a point where the conventional tuning of twelve equally divided notes per octave was no longer adequate. American composers Charles Ives, Harry Partch, John Cage, and international citizen Ivan Wyschnegradsky, each embraced his own distinctive new tuning approach.
from the attached leaflet
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Karlheinz Stockhausen - Opus 1970 (1969)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 21 Jan 2010 19:44:04 | Comments : 16
KS_Opus 70

"Stockhoven-Beethause" 1968-69
Avant-Garde | Analog to Digital Rip (ape) | rar + 3% recovery record | 140 MB | RS.com
Deutsche Grammophon DG 139 461 | Vinyl LP 28:24 + 25:07 | Full Sleeve Scans

“Created during a production between the 10th and 14th December 1969 in the Godorf/Cologne Studio
Based formally on the composition of "Kurzwellen": material is obtained from a regulating system (radio short waves), selected freely by the player and immediately developed. By "developed" is meant: spread, condensed, extended, shortened, differently coloured, more or less articulated, transposed, modulated, multiplied, synchronized.
Stockhausen, from the attached sleeve text
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Stockhausen - Mantra (1971)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 05 Dec 2009 22:31:06 | Comments : 14
Mantra

Stockhausen - Mantra (1971)
IAlfons and Aloys Kontarsky, piano
Avant-Garde | Analog to Digital Rip (ape) | rar 3% recovery record | 161 MB | RS.com
Deutsche Grammophon 2530 208 | 1 Vinyl LP | Full Sleeve Scans

“Naturally, the unified construction of MANTRA is a musical miniature of the unified macrostructure of the cosmos, just as it is a magnification into the acoustic time-field of the unified micro-structure of the harmonic vibrations in notes themselves
Stockhausen, from the attached sleeve text
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