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The piano works of Mark Andre are founded on his intensive examination of the fleeting phenomenon of sound reverberation and decay. His fading sounds can take numerous forms; there might be a thick...

Mark Andre's music is introverted and fragile, but it speaks to the listener with a shy intensity: hij! This is the title given by the German-French composer to a pair of pieces recorded for this...

Mark Andre's compositions "... auf... " are three independent orchestral pieces. Taken together, they can be heard as a cycle or as a triptych, like a three-part altarpiece. Though they are related,...

Aperghis / Trio Accanto Funambules CD1. Trio Funambule 2. Basar Aleppo Oder Die Strae Nach Tyros 3. Sina?a 1916 4. Mirror Box (Flesh + Prosthesis No. 3)

Mark Barden's music attends to the thresholds of our perception. Subtle deviations, ephemeral swarms of detail, and sustained sonic textures predominate on this portrait recording, as Paul Griffiths'...

Bauckholt / Chapman / Pomarico / Deroyer / Creed Schlamm CD1. Finis Terrae - Exaudi Vocal Ensemble/Ensemble Musikfabrik 2. The Ocean of Yes and No 3. Schlammflocke 4. Gonzales the Earth Eater -...

Nicolas Hodges occupies a unique position among the world's most distinguished piano soloists. His ability to perfectly perform unconventional, hyper-complex works of extreme technical difficulty is...

Beil / Ensemble Musikfabrik / Brutscher Sterben CD1. Finito Ogni Gesto - Musikfabrik 2. Black Jack - Musikfabrik 3. I. Andantino 4. II. Moderato 5. III. Andantino 6. IV. Poco Meno Mosso 7. V...

Circles is one of Berio's most captivating, intriguing and fascinating works, a piece based on the poetry of e. e. cummings, wonderfully interpreted by the "Callas" of New Music, Cathy Berberian. The...

The compositions on this album are about crashing, decaying and failing. The individual downfalls have very different qualities and consequences: Brian Ferneyhough's La Chute d'Icare is an...

Michael Blake is South African composition's most important link to the American and British experimental traditions of the second half of the 20th century. It is a connection that derives as much...

The opera Bluthochzeit (Bloodwedding) by Wolfgang Fortner is based upon the lyric tragedy of the same name by Federico Garcia Lorca. The premonition of a crime yet to be committed pervades the story...