Nuit
Philippe Manoury – Fragments pour un portrait (1998): 4. Nuit Ensemble Intercontemporain / Susanna Mälkki, conductor / IRCAM Click here to read extended notes about the piece by the composer itself. Potrebbero interessarti anche: Non ancora…
Philippe Manoury – Fragments pour un portrait (1998): 4. Nuit Ensemble Intercontemporain / Susanna Mälkki, conductor / IRCAM Click here to read extended notes about the piece by the composer itself. Potrebbero interessarti anche: Non ancora…
K. Stockhausen, Ypsilon for a melodic instrument with micro-tones (1989, flute version). Notes at Stockhausen Edition no. 28 by Sonoloco “Ypsilon” is a Greek letter symbolically used to indicate variable quantity. Stockhausen’s composition with the same name from 1989 is scored for “a melody instrument with micro-tones”. The composition can […]
Robert Wyatt sings John Cage’s The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs for voice and piano. The piano stay closed and is used as a percussion instrument. The song was commissioned by singer Janet Fairbank, who later became known for pioneering contemporary music. Cage chose to set a passage from page […]
The viola d’amore is a beautiful instrument with an infinite numbers of possible sound worlds. It has six or seven main strings, bowed, and an equal number of sympathetic strings (click the image to enlarge). In this album for the Sksh’s netlabel, Garth Knox explore this instrument using different tunings […]
Conlon Nancarrow (October 27, 1912 – August 10, 1997) was born in the USA, but he lived in Mexico from 1940 to his death in 1997 because of his membership in the communist party. It was in Mexico that Nancarrow did the work he is best known for today. He […]
In C continues to receive numerous performances every year, by professionals, students, and amateurs. It has had repeated recordings since its 1968 LP premiere, and most are still in print. It welcomes performers from a vast range of practices and traditions, from classical to rock to jazz to non-Western. Recordings […]
Tristan Murail – Vampyr! for electric guitar, from Random Access Memory (1984), Wiek Hijmans electric guitar. To be honest, I know little about this piece. It’s the sixth track from Random Access Memory, a cycle that includes a set of solo pieces for various instruments and a gold dust in […]
Iannis Xenakis – Terretektorh (1965/66), for large orchestra of 88 players scattered among the audience Potrebbero interessarti anche: Non ancora…
Vache Sharafyan (Վաչե Շարաֆյան): Devotion No. 2 (1999) for Tar, Kemanche, Dhol, Tam-Tam, Piano and string quartet. Tar, Kemanche, Dhol are musical instruments adopted by various middle eastern cultures like Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia to the Indian subcontinent. Click the names to read details from wikipedia. Potrebbero interessarti anche: Non […]
Solo for Viola d’Amore by Georg Friedrich Haas performed live by Garth Knox in Graz. This is the second half of the piece. In the final section, the sympathetic strings are plucked and bowed directly, an unusual and striking effect. These are the second set of strings on the viola […]