Armenian piano music
Mikael Ayrapetyan is an Armenian pianist with a specific goal: to deliver hidden gems of the Armenian classical repertoire. In this collection, he plays a series of beautiful compositions for solo piano, in chronological...
Askell Masson: Music for clarinet
One of the particularities highlighted by Askell Masson has been to combine modern techniques for the clarinet with impressionistic writing. Naxos Records is releasing an exciting and almost complete volume of recordings in which...
Nicolas Bacri
Uno dei migliori e più interessanti frutti del polistilismo contemporaneo è il compositore francese Nicolas Bacri (1961): partito da studi seriali riflessi nelle sue prime opere, Bacri ad un certo punto ha abbandonato la...
Thierry Miroglio: World of Percussion
Thierry Miroglio's musical exuberance is the driver for some modern compositions for percussion that cover a wide span of time in which flows a part of the history of contemporary percussion. With the support...
Argentum et aurum: Musical treasures from the Early Habsburg Renaissance
Taking as inspiration the long persistence of the influential power of the Habsburgs, the musician and conductor of the Ensemble Leones, Marc Lewon, unfolds the full potential of musical research pertaining to the Germanic...
Andrew Staniland: Talking down the tiger and other compositions
Andrew Staniland is among the heirs of the best Canadian electroacoustic music. He is a composer particularly stimulated by developments of the old classical composition, as well as by the new doctrines of electronics....
Katrin Zenz: Cage – Complete works for flute vol. 2
In the second volume of works for flute dedicated to Cage, flutist Katrin Zenz confronts solo themes and especially those for the dynamics of the flute with three or more elements. Dealing with the...
Lawrence Dillon: Violin music
Tra le migliori proposte in quartetto d'archi, nell'ambito dei compositori americani delle nuove generazioni, c'è sicuramente quella di Lawrence Dillon, classe 1959: oltre ad essere molto richiesto dai musicisti statunitensi a caccia di autori...
Xu Shuya: Nirvana & other compositions
The noble attempt to work out difficult textures and conceptual music is the aim of Xu Shuya. He takes advantage of the musical proximity between Western contemporary orchestras and Eastern orchestras, which allows the...
Elements Eternal: Gryphon Trio plays Canadian composers
Even if today it is truly difficult to scandalize with certain methods, it is also true that the process of renovation of classical music might know no pause: the compositions given by Canadian composers...