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...
Christos Hatzis: Flute concertos
In "Overscript" Hatzis uses the technique of "sound slices", that is the technique in which the original theme music is joined to the composer's derivate composition, as in different slides that go back and...
Toshio Hosokawa: Orchestral works vol. 1
"In the paranatural world of Hosokawa we find the suspensive instinct of a part of the artistic personality of Ligeti and Xenasis combined with Eastern religious sense and a distorted lens of the classicism...
Frederic Rzewski: Piano Music
"...However the composition for piano remains (for quantity), the more externalized music of American composer: in this brief compilation dedicated to the pianist, that provides a brief and sintetic project about the composer, the...
Bright Sheng: Blazing Mirage / The Song and Dance of Tears / Colors of...
".....Sheng features three orchestral compositions that move in the same perspective, namely to drag you into a stylistic and geographical whirlwind, without any physical and consequential movement. The romantic strings with Mahler's charismatic smell...
David Robert Coleman: Starry Night
Coleman's Zwiegespräch, for solo viola, with an excellent performance by Felix Schwartz, provides a musical "habitat" that suggests the Dorian Gray's dialogues in front of his bad image embodied in the painting: a perfect...
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...
Jan Van der Roost: Sinfonia Hungarica/From Ancient Times
"......Van der Roost teaches us how the idea of the poverty of the wind band's sounds (due to the lack of an official string section) is an unreal and absurd dogma. "From Ancient Times"...
Áskell Masson: Kammersinfónia / Elja / Ymni / Maes Howe
"....Masson is very special composer who uses the general principles of atonality and twelve-tone series by injecting into writing powerful doses of Icelandic folklore: this mixture generates an unique mosaic of sound, with powerful...
Gao Ping: Piano Quintet “Mei Lan Zhu Ju” / The Mountain / 12-Hour Bridge
".....The musical style of Ping and of his composition "The Mountain" are hidden in the filosofy of the travels of Xingjian, reflecting meetings and habits of a people......it is a musical spirit that is...
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Calvino, le città invisibili, l’Istantanea Ensemble
Continuano le celebrazioni del centenario di Italo Calvino. Il 19 aprile prossimo l’ulteriore omaggio al grande autore arriverà dal Teatro Comunale di Ferrara grazie all’Istantanea Ensemble,...
