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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Salzburg Biennale: Festival for New Music 2009
Hosokawa: | Silent Flowers Quatuor Diotima In Ajimano Kyôko Kawamura (koto/voice), Peter Sigl (cello) oenm . oesterreichisches ensemble für neue musik, Toshio Hosokawa | Huber, K: | Die Erde dreht sich auf den Hornern eines Stieres Hasan Altnji (sufi singer), Julien Jalâl Eddine Weiss (qânun/artistic director), Ziad Kadi Amin (ney), Adel Shams El Din (riqq), Predrag Katanic (viola), Manuel de Roo (guitar) EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO des SWR, tape, Klaus Huber (sound director) Ecce Homines Sergey Malov (viola) stadler quartett | Kengyô, Yatsuhashi: | Rokudan no Shirabe Kyôko Kawamura (koto) | Lachenmann: | temA Irmgard Messin (flute), Anna Maria Pammer (voice), Peter Sigl (cello) | Reich: | City Life oenm . oesterreichisches ensemble für neue musik, Johannes Kalitze Music for 18 Musicians oenm . oesterreichisches ensemble für neue musik, Via Nova Percussion Group,
Synergy Vocals | Sotelo: | Cripta - Musica para Luigi Nono Arcángel (flamenco singer) Salzburger Bachchor, oenm . oesterreichisches ensemble für neue musik, Beat Furrer | Webern: | Six Bagatelles for String Quartet, Op. 9 (1911-1913) Quatuor Diotima Five movements for String Quartet, Op. 5 (1909) Quatuor Diotima |
plus flamenco, Gamelan music from Bali, traditional Japanese music for shakuhachi and koto, and interviews with Toshio Hosokawa, Beat Furrer and Klaus Huber
This 2DVD set includes a wide range of contemporary compositions: Sotelo’s Cripta. Música par Luigi Nono, Reich’s City Life, Lachenmann’s temA, Hosakawa’s Silent flowers and others. Also included is traditional Japanese music for Koto and Shakuhachi and Gamelan Music from Bali. The set includes the DVDs in both PAL and NTSC formats. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Hagen Quartet 30
This year the Hagen Quartet celebrates its 30th anniversary and begins a new collaboration with Myrios Classics. Three members of the quartet are siblings and the ensemble has developed and retained a distinctive character. They will be performing at the Wigmore Hall and Queens Hall Edinburgh in March. “Much the best performances here the expressionist miniatures by Webern. They find the Hagen Quartet meticulously accurate in every detail, without ever sounding in the least bit dry, and it's hard to imagine them better or more warmly played.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2011 *****/** “Beethoven's Op. 59 No. 2 opens with bite and powerful commitment...Mozart's K428 has both elegance and depth...[the Bagatelles] are marvellously played and totally spontaneous. The recording throughout is first-class - forwardly balanced and full of presence. Altogether this is a triptych of considerable achievement.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2011 “These players give a direct and dramatic reading of Beethoven's Op. 59 No. 2 - more notable for its strong impact than for subtle shading in the faster movements but certainly catching the rather angry, edgy mood of the piece...These miraculous short [Webern] pieces are well done by the Hagen Quartet.” International Record Review, May 2011 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Schoenberg, Webern, Berg: The String Quartet and the Voice
Sandrine Piau (soprano) & Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto) Quatuor Diotima: Yun-Peng Zhao (violin I & II), Naaman Sluchin (violin I & II), Franck Chevalier (viola) & Pierre Morlet (cello) For the first time all the music written for the unusual combination of string quartet and voice by the three most important composers of the Second Viennese School, Schoenberg, Webern and Berg appears together on a single CD. The music is performed by one of the best young ensembles of recent years, the Quatuor Diotima, with important contributions from the distinguished singers Sandrine Piau and Marie-Nicole Lemieux. Founded by graduates of the Paris and Lyon conservatoires, the Diotima Quartet is a favoured partner of many contemporary composers, including Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough, and Toshio Hosokawa. It regularly commissions new pieces from such composers as Emmanuel Nunes and James Dillon, but it by no means neglects the classic string quartet repertoire, paying particular attention to the late quartets of Beethoven, French music, and the music of the early 20th century. Only the first of the three works recorded here, Schoenberg’s Quartet op.10, has been regularly published since 1912. The second, a Bagatelle by Webern for string quartet with voice, was abandoned by its composer and remained unpublished. It was premiered only twenty years after his death. Berg’s Lyric Suite was published in 1927 in the form of a purely instrumental suite for string quartet. Its initial conception however contains a ‘private’ encrypted version, the existence of which was revealed only in 1977. This arrangement includes a soprano voice doubling the principal line of the last movement set to the words of a poem from Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal, ‘De Profundis Clamavi’, translated by Stefan George. “The Diotima are perfectly at home in this music, cooler than some quartets in the Schoenberg and Berg but wonderful at realising all the teeming detail in both works, and the microscopic gestures of the Webern.” The Guardian, 4th March 2011 **** “[Lemieux] is darkly eloquent with the long-suppressed Baudelaire text embedded in the extraordinary finale of Berg’s Lyric Suite.” Sunday Times, 6th March 2011 *** “I certainly wouldn't argue for the vocal version [of the Lyric Suite] as a permanent replacement...But in a performance of the whole work as richly characterised and technically assured as this one by the Quatuor Diotima, I'm happy to make an exception. The quartets by Webern and Schoenberg are done with equal flair, and in Schoenberg's Second there's a rare chance to hear the peerless Sandrine Piau in post-Wagnerian vein” Gramophone Magazine, August 2011 “The extreme refinement and minutely focused intensity, in recordings to match, make the Webern a singularly beautiful, if somewhat unsettling experience...Marie-Nicole Lemieux's voluptuous pianissimo is perfect for this paradoxically remote-revealing music. She also makes a good case for the vocal version of the finale of Berg's Lyric Suite...as for the Schoenberg: it's good to be reminded how much beauty there is in this astonishing score.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2011 *****/*** | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Scenes De Quatuor - Strings Attached2 films by Bruno Monsaingeon
+Bonus Extra 56 mins: A concert filmed by multicameras on 8 April 2001 at The Bouffes du Nord in Paris. Beethoven's Great Fugue was filmed during this concert but is shown in the documentary only. The Artemis Quartet appeared in a motion picture early in its career, playing in an EMI production in 1996 as guests of the Alban Berg Quartet in Bruno Monsaingeon's feature-length documentary named after Schubert's quartet of the same name – Death and the Maiden. Five years later the Artemis Quartet once again performed in another film by the renowned director. Monsaingeon's 2001 documentary on Beethoven's Grosse Fuge Op.133: Strings Attached is at the same time an impressive portrait of the Artemis Quartet and illustrates how the Quartet live and work together. At the 2008 Gramophone Awards, the Artemis Quartet were awarded the Chamber Award for their recording of the Piano Quintets by Brahms and Schumann with Leif Ove Andsnes. “Contemporary music used to be a Cinderella at the Wigmore Hall, cropping up only when a particular performer had an enthusiasm for it. But the management now clearly wants to put the Wigmore on the map as a place to hear new music. The boldest initiative so far has been to build a series of five concerts round the music of the young German composer Jörg Widmann, who's barely known in this country. On the evidence of Wednesday night's concert, given by the Artemis Quartet, they've picked a winner…After the interval they returned for Schubert's Death and the Maiden quartet. Some quartets try to capture this piece's tragic quality by being utterly unbending. These players wisely went the other way. By letting the music breathe in the first three movements, they made the grim fateful onrush of the finale seem all the more electrifying.” Rating **** The Daily Telegraph Region Code: NTSC 0 Subtitles: F, E Booklet: F, GB, D Disc Format: 1 DVD 9 No of Discs: 1 Run Time: 56 mins + 56 mins Bonus Released: 2009-01-01 “We see them discussing Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, Op. 133, the most flabbergasting music he ever wrote, and for the last quarter-hour we see them give a public performance of it, hair-raising in its difficulty and eternal modernity. Watching it played close up adds to the force of the work, at the same time as it makes it almost unendurable in its frenetic, disruptive energy. ...an absorbing disc.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2009 **** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Webern: Chamber Music
Webern: | Five movements for String Quartet, Op. 5 (1909) Four pieces for violin & piano, Op. 7 (1910) Six Bagatelles for String Quartet, Op. 9 (1911-1913) Cello Sonata, Op. post. (1914) Three Little Pieces for Cello and Piano, Op. 11 (1914) String Trio, Op. 20 (1927) Quartet, Op. 22 for violin, clarinet, tenor saxophone and piano String Quartet, Op. 28 (1937-38) |
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| |  | Juilliard String Quartet
Recorded 1960 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Haydn & Webern - String Quartets
Quatuor Elysée: Christophe Giovaninetti, Marc Vieillefon (violins), Dimitri Khlebtsevitch (viola), Igor Kiritchenko (cello) “The players take an appropriately spacious view of the Sunrise Quartet's serene opening bars, and provide a deeply felt account of the wonderful F sharp major slow movement from Op. 76/5. They offer, too, an intensely dramatic performance of the first movement of the D minor Fifths Quartet, and manage to find a striking change of colour for the minor sections of Op. 76/5's opening movement.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2004 *** | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Webern: | Langsamer Satz, (slow movement), Op. post. (1905) String Quartet, Op. post. (1905) Rondo, Op. post. (1906) Five movements for String Quartet, Op. 5 (1909) Four pieces for violin & piano, Op. 7 (1910) Six Bagatelles for String Quartet, Op. 9 (1911-1913) Drei Stücke (three pieces), Op. post. (1913) Cello Sonata, Op. post. (1914) Three Little Pieces for Cello and Piano, Op. 11 (1914) Movement for string trio, Op. post, (1925) String Trio, Op. 20 (1927) String Quartet, Op. 28 (1937-38) |
Susan Narucki (soprano), Sepp Groetenhuis (piano) Schoenberg Quartet | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Webern: Complete Works Vol. 1
Webern: | Passacaglia for Orchestra, Op. 1 Entflieht, Op. 2 Fünf Lieder, Op. 3 from “Der siebente Ring” Fünf Lieder, Op. 4 Five movements for String Quartet, Op. 5 (1909) Six Pieces for Orchestra Op. 6 Four pieces for violin & piano, Op. 7 (1910) Zwei Lieder, Op. 8 Six Bagatelles for String Quartet, Op. 9 (1911-1913) Five Pieces for Orchestra Op. 10 Three Little Pieces for Cello and Piano, Op. 11 (1914) Vier Lieder, Op. 12 Four Songs Op. 13 |
Leonard Stein (piano), Marni Nixon (soprano), Milton Thomas (viola), Dorothy Wade (violin), Ward Fenley (violin), Emmet Sargeant (cello), Ralph Schaeffer (violin), Grace-Lynn Martin (soprano), William Ulyate (bass clarinet), James Decker (horn), Morris Boltuch (trumpet), Barbara Shik (harp), Cecil Figelski (viola), Robert Sushel (violin), Arthur Gleghorn (flute), Hugo Raimondi (clarinet), Lloyd Ulyate (trombone), Ann Dragonette (glockenspiel), Magdalena Rivera (double bass), Leonard Stein (celesta) Robert Craft | |
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| |  | Winter Was Hard
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