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Ensemble LINKS, Rémi Durupt – Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians (2020) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]

January 9, 2024 0 Comment

Music for 18 Musicians is approximately 55 min utes long. The first sketches were made for it in May 1974 and it was completed in March 1976. Although its steady pulse and rhythmic energy re- late to many of my earlier works, its instrumentation, structure and harmony are new.

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Eunho Chang – Eunho Chang: Sensational Bliss (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]

January 8, 2024 0 Comment

Eunho Chang’s passion is to express, with contemporary techniques, the various spontaneous timbres, patterns and gestures originating from traditional Korean music. Also, emulating the aesthetic lines of oriental painting, he tries to express musically the freedom and autonomy of each painted brush stroke. This is the conceptual core of his works.

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Ensemble musikFabrik – Ming Tsao: Triode Variations (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]

January 8, 2024 0 Comment

The composer Ming Tsao writes music with a sensuality that arises out of a focus on the inherent qualities of sound – what the composer calls its “materiality” – coupled to an extreme formal rigour and a highly precise, finely-crafted compositional style. In the foreground of his music is a contemporary conception of musical lyricism, which is fractured, multifaceted and problematised to reflect the modern experience.

Many of Ming Tsao’s works are the result of a critical and deep-thinking examination of the Western classical tradition as well as his serious engagement with Chinese traditional music. Increasingly, opera is the forum where Ming Tsao brings these interests together.

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Ex Novo Ensemble – Claudio Ambrosini: Chamber Music (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]

January 8, 2024 0 Comment

In this anthology, which is a portrait of his compositional tendencies, Claudio Ambrosini is actually one of the most daring creators of utopian virtuosity. It is a virtuosity which is grounded in the invention of multi-formal, luminous, permutable, nocturnal sound, giving prerogative to an exasperation of extremes and matured in the workshop of the Ex Novo Ensemble, a permanently active workshop of constantly renewed research. It is also a dream of a liminal avantgarde that favours torrential energy but at times opens up into a voluble undercurrent of song: a furtive shadow of Maderna appears.

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Alfonso Gomez – Olivier Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus (2021) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]

December 2, 2023 0 Comment

”The mystery of incarnation is the most beautiful aspect of divinity – and it is the reason why I am a Christian. I do not consider the differences between Orthodox, Protestant or Catholic: a Christian is someone who understands that God has come.”” (Olivier Messiaen). From the point of view of music history, Vingt Regards is a milestone of 20th century piano literature; spiritually it is an offering of Christmas “spiritual piano exercises” in 20 contemplations. Olivier Messiaen summarizes it as follows: “More than in any of my previous work I sought a language of mystical love that is multifaceted, powerful and tender; sometimes even terrifying. All with the greatest vividness possible.” Alfonso Gomez, one of the most eminent specialists for 20th and 21st century piano music, offers his new reading of this masterpiece by Olivier Messiaen.

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Aleph Guitar Quartet – Martin Smolka: Moon on the Sea – Sea in the Moon (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]

December 2, 2023 0 Comment

The four musicians of the Aleph Guitar Quartet are enthusiastically committed to the music of our time. In intensive cooperation with composers, sound engineers and acousticians, they have been working since the founding of the quartet in 1994 to improve the musical language and playing techniques of the

to advance the 20th and 21st centuries.

In the meantime, an extensive, new and future-oriented repertoire for classical guitar has been created. This is constantly being expanded by a number of renowned and young composers.