84 CDs by Pierre Boulez in Deutsche Grammophon
Deutsche Grammophon releases a box set with 84 CDs by the Pierre Boulez conductor. Although the centenary of Pierre Boulez’s birth will not be commemorated until 2025, Deutsche Grammophon did not want to wait any longer to pay tribute to what it considers “a passionate structuralist and exceptional conductor”, with…
Xenakis’ CD-book by Les Percussions de Strasbourg
«Persephassa / Péïades», de Xenakis, a cargo del conjunto Les Percussions de Strasbourg. 2022 marks both the centenary of the birth of Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis (Brăila, Romania, 1922-Paris, 2001) and the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of Les Percussions de Strasbourg, the contemporary music ensemble launched in 1959 by…
New version of “Schnee”, by Hans Abrahamsen
Danish Dacapo label publishes a new version of Hans Abrahamsen’s masterpiece “Schnee”. Born in 1952 in Copenhagen, Abrahamsen began his musical career by joining a group of young composers who reacted against what they saw as the excessive complexity of serial music and advocated the “New Simplicity”. He explored minimalism…
Francesco Tristano releases “On Early Music”
“On Early Music”, by Francesco Tristano. Francesco Tristano, the Luxembourg pianist based in Barcelona, has just released On Early Music, which is a way of referring to a huge time span covering medieval music (from 500 to 1400), renaissance music (from 1400 to 1600) and even baroque music (1600-1750). It is…
A box with Xenakis’ “Electroacoustic Works”
“Electroacoustic Works”, by Iannis Xenakis. Karl Records releases a box with 5 CD’s or LP’s. In anticipation of the centenary of the birth of Iannis Xenakis (29 May 2022), the German record label Karl Records has just released a five LP / CD box set entitled Electroacoustic Works which brings…
Schwarzer & Goldmann bring G. Scelsi back to life
“Sfera”, by Giacinto Scelsi, Stefan Goldmann and Jeremias Schwarzer. Among the forgotten pioneers of electronic music in the mid-20th century, Giancinto Scelsi (1905-1988) remains one of the least known creators. This Italian of aristocratic origin began composing music in the 1930s in the dodecaphonic style fashionable at the time. However,…
A new version of Ten Holt’s “Canto Ostinato”
“Canto Ostinato”, by Simeon Ten Holt, in a version by Jeroen and Sandra van Veen. The Dutch composer Simeon Ten Holt passed away in 2012. He was one of the most important composers of the Netherlands in the 20th century. Throughout his career he was involved in serialism, neoclassicism and…
Chick Corea’s covers by Maki Namekawa
“Children’s Songs”, by Maki Namekawa. The pianist Maki Namekawa is known in the world of minimalist music for her numerous live and recorded performances of the repertoire of her friend Philip Glass, but on this occasion, the Japanese musician releases on Supertrain Records a mini-album of just over ten minutes…
Sofiane Pamart launches his second solo album
“Letter”, by Sofiane Pamart. Classically trained, Sofiane Pamart is one of the most outstanding pianists of the moment, a star in the rap world, but also a virtuoso composer. If one looks at his image, he has nothing of the conventional classical pianist who won a gold medal from the…
“Ars Natura” by Tomás Florez
«Ars Natura» by Tomás Florez. “Ars Natura” is an ambient music project that builds on false field recordings generated artificially by processed guitar which try to emulate natural spaces from imaginary geographies. From this proyect comes the Naturescapes series, an audiovisual project built on actual field recordings of natural spaces which tries…
Terry Riley
“The Sands”, by Terry Riley. The Cleveland Museum of Art houses the longest-running concert series of any museum in North America and, consequently, an extraordinary archive of recordings of these performances, which, since the 1918 appearance of the New York Philharmonic, exceeds five thousand concerts over its first century of…
Arvo Pärt
“Lamentate / Nekrolog / Symphony NO. 3”, by Arvo Pärt The Filharmonie Brno has just released its third recording for its own label, featuring Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. The disc consists of three pieces – Nekrolog Op. 5, Symphony No. 3 and Lamentate – from very different periods of composition….