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CLASSICAL AUDIO
MELCD1002432 | 4600317124329
2 CD | SRP
US
$29.99
CA
$35.99
MELODIYA
COMPOSER: Leonid Desyatnikov
ARTIST: Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
· Alexander Vedernikov
(conductor)
LEONID DESYATNIKOV
THE CHILDREN OF
ROSENTHAL
MSV28559 | 809730855924
1 CD | SRP
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$18.99
CA
$22.99
METIER
COMPOSER: James Weeks
ARTIST: Plus-Minus Ensemble ·
Marcus Barcham Stevens · Daniel
Pioro (violin) · Maxine Moore
(viola) · Oliver Coates (cello) ·
Mark Knoop (piano) · Alastair
Putt (guitar) · Andrew Sparling
(clarinet)
JAMES WEEKS
SIGNS OF OCCUPATION
NV6053 | 896931003537
1 CD | SRP
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$14.99
CA
$17.99
NAVONA
COMPOSER: Robert Casadesus ·
Henri Dutilleux
ARTIST: Cicilia Yudha (piano)
CASADESUS & DUTILLEUX
SELECTED PIANO WORKS
NV6054 | 896931003544
1 CD | SRP
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$14.99
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$17.99
NAVONA
COMPOSER: Laura Kaminsky ·
Libby Larsen
ARTIST: Fry Street Quartet
FRY STREET QUARTET
THE CROSSROADS PROJECT
· It wouldn't be an overstatement to
say that the premiere of the opera,
The Children of Rosenthal, became
one of the most significant events of
Russian musical culture of the 21st
century. It was the first time when
the Bolshoi Theatre commissed a
new opera from a contemporary
composer.
·
Leonid Desyatnikov has showed his
worth in very different genres and yet
his style can hardly be defined and
arbitrarily forced into a Procrustean
bed of stylistic designations unless
he doesn't mind the term "post-
modernism."
· Composer James Weeks is on the
cutting edge of contemporary music.
His works have been performed and
broadcast all over the globe. This new
release features all world premiere
recordings of his work.
·
Typically, Weeks focuses on small
ensembles and soloists, trimming
his music to a bare landscape and
utilizing modalism, microtonality
and other techniques in total clarity.
These works are indeed sparse,
tonally based, and minimalist. The
repetitive but nevertheless evolving
phrases develop over time, which is
one of Weeks' key inspirations.
· Pianist, chamber musician, and
educator Cicilia Yudha presents her
Navona Records release SELECTED
PIANO WORKS BY ROBERT
CASADESUS AND HENRI DUTILLEUX,
featuring her expertise as a solo
pianist, as well as the exploration
of the compositions of Robert
Casadesus.
·
Yudha's skillful approach is
demonstrated in the opening piece,
Sonata No. 3, Op. 44, which has an
energetic and rhythmically exciting
first movement followed by a vibrant
second movement, which exhibits a
slow and reflective texture.
· In collaboration with educator and
physicist Dr. Robert Davies, the
Fry Street Quartet two composers,
Libby Larsen and Laura Kaminsky,
to create musical landscapes which
speak to the crisis of an imminently
unsustainable human world
and move the listener toward a
meaningful response.
·
Kaminsky's CROSSROADS | Rising Tide
unfolds in a series of four vignettes,
titled H20, Bios, Forage, and Societas,
together forming a meditative space
for audiences to explore connections
between the human world we've
created and the natural world we
inhabit.
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