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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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Zakir Hussain
A chi non è in grado di cogliere le sfumature importanti della tabla opporrei di approfondire sull'antefatto e la lecture di Zakir Hussein ad...
