Eleanor Cory: Things Are, String quartet n. 3 and other compositions

An invitation to rediscover the compositions of Eleanor Cory arises from the consideration of the beauty of her musical interlockings: she emphasizes the essential role of the instruments used in the composition, she builds...

Roberto Sierra: Sinfonia n. 4/Fandangos/Carnaval

"...the skill of Sierra lies in the fact that his stylistic formula is a attractive condensation of music, not rhetorical, tending to the exaltation of some timbral colors (the usual good combinations of sounds...

Katrin Zenz: Cage’s Works for flute vol. 1

Katrin Zenz is enamored of the pragmatism of sounds. She teaches and plays flute in Greece and after many experiences with the Greek classical tradition and the Wandelweiser group she realized that it was...

Ursula Mamlok: String quartet No.1/Polyphony I/Confluences and others

      Naxos will publish the first monographic cd of Ursula Mamlok in the American Classics' series, that focuses on a beautiful concert at Kammermusicsalle Berlin in February 2013, in which almost all of the best...

Sofia Gubaidulina: Complete Guitar Works

        The first collection in cd of compositions by Sofia Gubaidulina devoted entirely to works for guitar contains older and solo compositions for the acoustic guitar plus new compositions that unfold in combination with other...

Margaret Brouwer: Shattered

"...the idea of ​​Brouwer was to kill any discussion about the style; the importance attributed to the type of writing was overwhelmed by the concept of "development" of the compositional themes. In this aspect...

Lyell Cresswell: Landscapes of the Soul / Piano Concerto / Concerto for Orchestra and...

  "Landscapes of the Soul" is programmatic, it was composed for a project that involved the Italian painter Maurizio Bottarelli in which the aim was to find common ground between music and painting. A sure point...

John Corigliano: Conjurer/Vocalise

"....in "Conjurer" we feel alternately mysterious marimbas (the movement Wood), insightful bells, resonating gongs and telepathic drums (the movements Cadence), vibraphones that swallow the time (the movement of metal), compelling mix of membranes and...

Zhou Long/Chen Yi: Symphony “Humen 1839”

The orchestral side of Zhou's composition is naturally his strong point, along with his chamber music for strings and percussion, and Zhou has repeatedly demonstrated an enviable competence in areas which discover Stravinsky in...

José Luis Greco: Geografias del silencio

  Geografias del silencio contains some of José Luis Greco's finest compositions, since you can see in them that vital process that follows the composition with all its trappings and influences. Forget Cage's silence (the...

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La Biennale musicale 2025: Anteprima a Berlino

Qui di seguito pubblichiamo il comunicato stampa ricevuto dall'Ufficio Stampa della Biennale di Venezia, in merito all'anteprima speciale della 69° edizione del festival svoltasi...

Mike Ratledge