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ID: KAI0012702 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraStadler Quartett:
Frank Stadler, violin / Izso Bajusz, violin / Predrag Katanic, viola / Peter Sigl, cello
The stadler quartet was founded in Salzburg in 1992 by the Mozarteum Orchestra´s current concert master, Frank Stadler. The quartet´s members (Frank Stadler, Izso Bajusz, Predrag Katanic, and Peter Sigl) are also members of the renowned Österreichisches Ensemble für Neue Musik (oenm, or Austrian Ensemble for Contemporary Music).
Together, they form the core of the versatile ensemble, which performs a wide range of music but is particularly committed to contemporary music. The stadler quartet has likewise made it their goal to devote themselves to the preparation and study of contemporary works, including the most recent compositions. Since its founding they premiered around 150 works, many dedicated to them.
The repertoire also includes the key works and the standard repertoire of the 20th-century. However, the basis of their music-making remains the great works of the classical and romantic string-quartet tradition. This diversity has earned the quartet an excellent reputation on the concert stage, well beyond specialist circles.
The quartet greatly values their on-going collaboration with contemporary composers, including George Crumb, Helmut Lachenmann, György Kurtág, Johannes Kalitzke, Peter Ruzicka, Jörg Widmann and Chaya Czernowin. The quartet´s appearance in the Salzburger Festival and their numerous concerts and concert series in Salzburg ("ASPEKTE" festival, among others) serve to demonstrate yet again the quality of the quartet and their esteem in the eyes of the public and music circles.
One of the highpoints in the stadler quartet's career was their spectacular execution of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet in the Salzburg Festival.
The Four have toured Holland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Slovenia, Norway, Italy, Japan, Korea and Brasil.
The stadler quartet received the prize for "Neues Hören" or "New Listening" from the International Summer Academy of the Mozarteum .
In 2005, the stadler quartet interpretated (in image and sound) Steve Reich´s work "Different Trains" for a documentary film about Betty Freeman.
The “Four Islands of the Dead” are musical “over-paintings” of “Four Serious Songs” by Johannes Brahms; a work of his later years, songs of consolation for the growing certainty, increasingly personal, of his insight into the transient nature of earthly existence. These songs are like places on a shore made safe by biblical texts, from which one glimpses a dark space, the space of the here-and-now. The idea of a hereafter in the course of modern history, with its progressive centuries-long tendency to secularisation, has become more and more diffuse, so that the phenomenon of death at present is often now entirely repressed; a facade of outwardly life-affirming diversions displaces the view to that area outside one‘s personal experience of time. Böcklin‘s “Islands of the Dead” is a suitable comparison here: what lies hidden beyond the shores of the island, behind silence and darkness, is no longer a question of faith, but has come much more a matter of imagination, of fantasy. The essential subject-matter is invisible.
Includes booklet with text by Johannes Kalitzke |
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ID: KAI0013122 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: String instrumentsIn his String Quartets Rueda exhibits, his special capacity for inextricably bringing together an array of compositional techniques and results, structure and instinctive feeling, a latent capacity for development and communication. The quartets of Jesús Rueda act as a renewal of the heartfelt consciousness to sense and feel music, something to which we have always been getting closer to. (Javier Arias Bal)
Includes booklet with texts by Javier Arias Bal |
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ID: PTC5186176 CDs: 1 Type: SACD |
Subcollection: String instrumentsMultichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD
Quartetto ItalianoPaolo Borciani - 1st violinElisa Pegreffi - 2nd violinPiero Farulli - violaFranco Rossi - cello |
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ID: PTC5186175 CDs: 1 Type: SACD |
Subcollection: String instrumentsMultichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD
Quartetto ItalianoPaolo Borciani - 1st violinElisa Pegreffi - 2nd violinPiero Farulli - violaFranco Rossi - cello |
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ID: PTC5186189 CDs: 1 Type: SACD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: QuartetMultichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD |
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ID: NMCD187 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: QuartetColin Currie percussion
Pavel Haas Quartet
Clarinet Quintet
The Nash Ensemble |
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ID: NEOS40708 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: String instruments1 -Michigo Yagi, 17-string koto/Yumiko Tanaka, futozao shamisenYoshiko Fujio, hosozao shamisen/Zeena Parkins, troubador harpMakoto Nomura, piano/Tamiki Sawa, violin/Mio Abe, violinHiromichi Sakamoto, cello/Masaaki Kikuchi, contrabass/Kenji Ito, percussion /Guam Kumada, percussion/ Elliott Sharp, conductor
Recorded live at Music Merge Festival, Tokyo, October 5, 1996Live-Sound and DAT-Recording by Fujimura Yasuo @ Shinjuku Pit Inn
2 - Soldier String Quartet:Laura Seaton, violin/David Soldier, violin/Ron Lawrence, viola/Mary Wooten, cello/ Ratzo B. Harris, contrabass
Recorded at B.C. Studio, Brooklyn, NYC Engineered by Martin Bisi, June 7, 1986 |
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ID: NMCD006 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: QuartetCommissioned by the Bingham String Quartet, Cashian's intricate rhythmic patterning contrasts with Butler's atmospheric Songs & Dances from a Haunted Place.
Philip Cashian - String Quartet No.1
Martin Butler - Songs & Dances from a Haunted Place - 1
Songs & Dances from a Haunted Place - 2
David Nicholls- String Quartet |
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ID: NMCD103 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: QuartetTo mark the centenary of Tippett's birth in 2005, this disc presents for the first time on CD three premiere recordings of his music from the 1940s: the Concerto for Double String Orchestra (recorded 1943) conducted by Walter Goehr; the Fantasy Sonata for Piano, performed in 1941 by Phyllis Sellick; and the String Quartet No.2, recorded in 1947 by the Zorian Quartet. Also included is the first recording of Tallis's 40-part motet Spem in alium, recorded in 1948 with Tippett himself conducting the choir of Morley College, London. |
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ID: NMCD109 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: ClarinetA powerful and original symphonist, Robert Simpson (1921-1997) gave new life to the form at a time when the avant garde was enthusiastically declaring its death. His Symphony No 3 is dedicated to his friend and fellow composer Havergal Brian. It is a work of dramatic contrasts and irrepressible energy; Robert Simpson described the second of its two movements as “a huge composed accelerando”. The London Symphony Orchestra is heard here under legendary Russian conductor Jascha Horenstein. |
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