Joan Tower: String quartets nos.3-5
Joan Tower's string quartets claim a special versatility within 20th century chamber music: homages and the tributes to friends, artists or specific events are developed with a new centre of gravity and the score...
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...
Ana Sokolovic: Folklore imaginaire
A challenging stylistic structure is found in the music of Ana Sokolovic. The idiosyncrasies of Berio or Cage live alongside the Balkan popular tradition and give us the perspective of a reversal of the...
Philip Glass: String Quartet No. 5
The fifth string quartet by Philip Glass, which he wrote in 1991, has a more varied configuration than the previous quartets; with a fatalistic impression, typical of post-modern music, "String Quartet No. 5" flies...
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...
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...
Lei Liang: Verge – Tremors of a memory chord
L'approccio di Lei Liang alla musica contemporanea è strabiliante: chiarita una volta per tutte la sua non appartenenza a quella categoria di compositori che fa uso della tradizione in maniera troppo semplicistica (così...
Paul Moravec: Violin concerto
In Moravec's violin concerto the score given to the violinist Maria Bachmann is long and essential, and much of the pathos of the concert is determined by her skills; revised in 2013, the Violin...
Alan Hovhaness: Symphony no. 48
Hovhaness gave to his symphonies a face perpetually fresh, where the tradition of post-romantic Western music (with his best weapon, the melody) was violated by the intrusion of Byzantine polyphony, the modality of classical...
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...
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Festival Archipel 2025
Inutile ribadire come l'Archipel, uno dei principali festival di musica in Svizzera che si tiene a Ginevra, abbia modificato le sue vesti nel tempo....
