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Salvatore Sciarrino - Musique de chambre (2005)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 08 May 2008 21:02:00 | Comments : 11
Sciarrino-Musique

Salvatore Sciarrino - Musique de chambre (2005)
Registered at IRCAM (Paris) on february 2005
Avant-Garde | EAC (APE + CUE) | booklet + artworks | 100MB + 63MB

“Salvatore Sciarrino is one of the greatest figures in contemporary European music.
Most of his music, which develops within a personal and very refined sound space that is immediately recognisable, is based on the relationship between sound and silence, which, though apparently contradictory, are indissociable. In each of his works both silence and sound play an essential part. This puts his music at the limits of the imperceptible and sometimes creates great dramatic tension; the listener is called upon to lend a very attentive ear to a multitude of 'muted breathings'. Sciarrino says: 'There is a sort of inversion in that sound in my works retains a trace of the silence from which it came and to which it will return - silence that is itself only a twittering of microscopic sounds.'
from the CD booklet
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Bruno Maderna - for strings / Arditti String Quartet (2002)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 02 May 2008 16:42:00 | Comments : 3
Maderna - for strings

Bruno Maderna - for strings(2002)
Arditti String Quartet
Contemporary | EAC (APE + CUE) | booklet + artworks | 2x100MB + 21MB

“A series of touching photographs, probably dating from around 1930, show the young Maderna, or Brunetto as he was called then, the child prodigy violinist. As a member of the Happy Grossato Company, he played mainly dance music in the coffee houses and restaurants of Venice. He also performed solo concertos with classical orchestras, and before long had exchanged his bow for the conductor's baton. In 1927, he directed the orchestra of La Scala for the first time, aged only seven.
from the CD booklet
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Bruno Maderna | quadrivium | aura | biogramma | Giuseppe Sinopoli (1980)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 30 Apr 2008 22:25:00 | Comments : 3
Maderna Quadrivium

Bruno Maderna - quadrivium - aura - biogramma (1980)
Sinfonieorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli
Contemporary | EAC (APE + CUE) | booklet + artworks | 2x100MB + 68MB

“In the 1950s and '60s composer-conductor-teacher Bruno Maderna (1920-1973) directed the chamber ensemble in Darmstadt, the leading international centre for contemporary music, and became one of the first Italians to produce electronic works. But it was not in technical progress that he saw music's future. Like his contemporaries, he also adopted 12-tone writing in the 1950s, yet Maderna remained an undogmatic and independent composer to the end of his life: "The worst thing in the world is consistency," he once said; "I hate to be consistent, because it's deadly."
from the CD booklet
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Luciano Berio - VOCI (2001)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 29 Apr 2008 21:41:00 | Comments : 10
Berio Voci

Luciano Berio - VOCI (2001)
Kim Kashkashian, viola; Robyn Schulkowsky, percussion
Contemporary | EAC (APE + CUE) | booklet + artworks | 3x100MB + 75MB

“By this point we have long since entered the worlds of the works on our CD, although they originated almost twenty years later than Folk Songs. Voci (Voices), for viola and two instrumental ensembles, was composed in 1984. The link with the Folk Songs of 1963/64 is directly stated in its subtitle: Folk Songs II. Berio's attention was directed by the music researcher Aldo Bennici to a large body of original recordings of Sicilian folk music: work songs, lullabies, love songs, all from different regions of the island. Once again Berio experienced the thrill of discovery. This time his arrangement was designed "to kindle a deeper interest in Sicilian folk art", a music that "surely stands alongside Sardinian folk music as the richest, most extensive, and most vibrant of our Mediterranean culture".
from the CD booklet
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FOLK SONGS arranged by Luciano Berio (for seven instruments) (1998)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 27 Apr 2008 13:31:00 | Comments : 3
Berio Folf Songs

FOLK SONGS arranged by Luciano Berio (for seven instruments) (1998)
Contemporary | EAC (FLAC + CUE) | booklet + artworks | 100+75 MB
Performed by Donella Del Monaco

“Sometimes the most innovative artists can strongly feel the charming of melodies and ritual songs coming from old traditions. Theese songs, often handed on orally through different generations shouldn't be considered only for their beauty, but as little precious mantras, filled with collective emotional energy, the energy of the people and the civilizations that have smiled and played along with them....
I thought the only worthy way to interpret them was forgetting every technics or school.
Just close my eyes and I be pervaded with the evocative strength of their melodies, let their message live inside me, a message still coming to us from remote places and times.
That's how they show us their truth: little, essential instants full of life we might join, receiving their gift of memories.
Donella Del Monaco		”
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