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Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Editions Mego)

Caterina Barbieri

Fantas Variations

27,99 €*

2LP | 2020 | Original (Neue Meister)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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Fantas is the epic opening track on Caterina Barbieri’s acclaimed 2019 release Ecstatic Computation. The original Fantas laid out a magical path of patterns leading the listener on a journey into the sound itself. Fantas Variations maps out eight new potentials sprung from this initial path as constructed by a diverse mix of artists lending to a wide spectrum of new works extrapolated from the original work. For this project Barbieri invited friends and long time collaborators from a variety of musical backgrounds to create a more sustainable and inclusive landscape in terms of stylistic, geographical, gender and generational balance. The results are a diverse array of approaches and instrumentation which blur the boundaries between the acoustic and electronic.

Fantas Variations embraces a platform for mutual exchange and support between like-minded artists, where active and collective re-imagination is prioritised over the traditional model of remixes, which is often strategic, functional and more passive.

Longtime friend and collaborator Kali Malone rearranged Fantas to a slowed-down, austere and eerie version for two Organs. Evelyn Saylor created a piece for a vocal ensemble consisting of her, Lyra Pramuk, Stine Janvin and Annie Garlid, joining forces to express the choral, psychedelic and vitalistic nature of the piece. Barbieri’s former guitar professor at the Conservatory in Bologna, Walter Zanetti, composes Fantas for electric guitar, by translating every single gesture of the original electronic piece into a personal, nuanced and detailed interpretation. Bendik Giske’s reinterpretation for Saxophone and Voice captures the atmospheric essence of Fantas and its psychic meteorology. Longtime collaborator and along with Barbieri the other half of the outfit Punctum, Carlo Maria, resynthesizes Fantas for Tr808 and Mc202, bringing a more club-oriented dimension of the piece to life whilst unveiling the sonic continuum between rhythm and pitch through a sensitive timbral approach. Jay Mitta’s Singeli reinterpretation of Fantas transpires with pitched-up percussion and turbo-fast polyrhythmic patterns unleashing the frenetic, shifting, transformative matter within the piece to a higher plain of euphoric dance. Baseck’s variation is a rave fantasia, where the prismatic trance of the original is channeled into fierce, uncompromising hardcore, whilst Kara-Lis Coverdale’s take is a phantasmagoria for piano that gently, yet inexorably, captures the relentlessness chimerical qualities of the original, unveiling its spectral backbone.

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Ceeys

Hausmusik

Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Chailly Bollani Gewandhausorchester

George Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Decca)

53,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Ici D'Ailleurs)

Chapelier Fou

Ensemb7e

Charlemagne Palestine & Rrose

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Since his debut with the "Darling Darling Darling"track, immediately spotted by the media as well as by electronic music lovers, Louis Warynski has continued to evolve a world that belongs to him alone, over the last ten years and eight albums.Like Lewis Caroll's universe, Chapelier Fou's music is multiple, simple and complex, serious and light, classic and modern. Louis Warynski's work is woven on a classical basis, but it is constantly disrupted by subtle electronic arrangements and rhythms, thus taking the tracks outside of all convention.We find in Chapelier Fou the facetiousness of French composers such as Erik Satie, François de Roubaix or Robert Cohen Solal, not hesitating to blend pop and concrete music, but also this formidable capacity to make serious what is not serious, and vice versa of course. His music, very much at home on screen as well as on stage, has everything that makes up the trait of genius composers: accessible in appearance and adaptable in all forms.This is how Chapelier Fou has performed on stage as a soloist, juggling between violin, guitar, keyboards and pedals, in trio, quartet and even in orchestral formation with the Orchestre National of Metz. Often described as "electronic chamber music", it was expected that one day Chapelier Fou would offer us a version of his music without a single electronic or electrified part. It is now done with this Ensemb7e who performed on the stage of L'Arsenal de Metz, broadcasted by Arte Concert. Chapelier Fou Ensemb7e has received direct support from a wide audience, but also from venues programmers where the septet has been performing since June 2021. Ensemb7e stands for a mainly wooden septet: violin, viola, cello, piano, clarinet and drums accompany the multi-instrumentalist composer. It's hard to resist such musical enthusiasm! The magic happens immediately because the re-reading of these little jewels in pop format gives a touching and fulfilling dimension to Chapelier Fou's work: even more dreamy versions, sometimes more mis...

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The Goldennn Meeenn + Sheeenn

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Eaux)

A Stereo Spectacular: Symberj Zamchokian 200g Edition Works By Saint Saens

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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Charlemagne Palestine's majestic 1976 work The Golden Mean, originally performed by Palestine on two pianos, is revisited here as The Goldennn Meeenn + Sheeenn, a new collaboration between Palestine and enigmatic musician Rrose.
March 2018: the Festival Variations in Nantes commissions Charlemagne Palestine to reinvent The Golden Mean for two pianists. Palestine chose Rrose to join him in this new rendition of the work. Together, they performed The Goldennn Meeenn + Sheeenn onstage at the main opera house in Nantes -- the sumptuous Théâtre Graslin – with extraordinary results.
The concept of the 'golden mean' goes back to the roots of mathematics, and ancient Greek philosophy. It is an important work in the Palestine mythos, embodying his total immersion in the power of the interval. "It's probably his most systematic work . . . a step-by-step journey through the intervals of the octave," says Rrose. "When we rehearsed it, we were noticing how each interval is like a universe of its own -- with its own history, emotions, and sonic qualities all mixed up together. Every time you move from one interval to the next, it feels like moving into another world.
I love the interval," Palestine told me in a recent interview. "I love when it plays with itself. That's what I learned from organ musics too. You can just do an interval, and if they're just slightly out of tune with each other, then they shimmer . . . they play themselves. And it sounds like somebody's playing lots of notes. In your ear, it's like an aural phenomenon . . . that's my whole concept. I make something that then does itself somehow. It continues by itself. So I don't have to always be there. And that makes my music a little less egocentric. So there's more space. Also for the listener — the ear plays with these things, and you're not always being given orders. Your ear isn't given orders all the time of what to listen for."
Beautifully recorded, with mastering by Rashad Becker of Dubplates and Mastering, The Golden Mean + Sheeenn feels expansive, radiant and hypnotic, opening new ears to its enduring mystery.
Rrose adds this note to listeners: "Do not focus your attention on the notes being played, but on the ocean of overtones swimming, suspended, overhead, brushing against one another, kissing one another, melting into one another.

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Charles Munch

LP | 2014 | US | Reissue (Acoustic Sounds)

53,99 €*

Release: 2014 / US – Reissue

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Mental Groove)

Chris Korda

Passion For Numbers

Parallels: Shellac Reworks By Christian Löffler

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Chris Korda is an internationally renowned multimedia artist, whose work spans thirty years and includes electronic music, digital and video art, performance and conceptual art, and culture jamming. Chris pioneered the use of complex polymeter in electronic dance music, and invented a unique Midi sequencer in order to explore polymeter composition techniques. Chris composes and performs music in a variety of genres, and has released many albums on labels such as Perlon, Mental Groove, and Gigolo Records. Chris also worked as a computer programmer for thirty-five years.

Her new album "Passion For Numbers" is one of the very few album in the world entirely composed in complex polymeter, meaning that each pieces of music uses several prime meters simultaneously. A unique way to compose music with a new generation of musical algorithmic, inside which Korda injects the DNA of neo classical, ambient and jazz music.

This refreshing album will please you whether you are into complex musical composition, experimental music or just seeking for a beautiful, emotional and accessible musical moment. This is a "In your hearts not the charts" album, as Irdial Discs once said.

Pleases read an extract of Chris Korda's letter about Passion For Numbers, included as insert in its entirety in this vinyl release:

This is an album of piano music, but I wrote it without a piano. Not having a piano turned out to be constructive, because I had to rely on my brain instead of my fingers, and particularly on my imagination and inner hearing. The album belongs to a category called phase music, and it’s also algorithmic, or more precisely rules-based generative music.

I don’t write music in the usual sense of the word “write.” I build kinetic sculptures, and the sculptures generate my music. My sculptures are virtual, meaning they’re invisible machines that exist only as data within my home-grown software. My process is related to the work of a relatively obscure early 20th century artist named Thomas Wilfred. Like me, Wilfred was an engineer-artist, and built machines that generated art from phase shift.

My music is in complex polymeter, meaning it’s not just in odd time, but in multiple odd time signatures, and not one odd time signature after another sequentially, but all of them running concurrently. Most music isn’t constructed this way, which is why I needed to develop custom software in order to compose my music. My software is called The Polymeter Midi Sequencer, and you can easily find it on the Internet. I also use music set theory, change-ringing and gray code, explanations of which can be found in Wikipedia.

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Christian Löffler

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Deutsche Grammophon)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Christiane Karg / Malcolm Martineau

Heimliche Aufforderung-Lieder Von Richard Strauss

2LP | 2014 | EU | Original (Berlin Classics)

Release: 2014 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Christina Pluhar / Philippe Jaroussky / L'arpeggiata

Teatro D'amore

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Erato)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Christina Vantzou / Michael Harrison / John Also Bennett

LP | 2022 | CA | Original (Seance Centre)

34,99 €*

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 2022 / CA – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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A suite of raga-inspired compositions and improvisations that grew from a fertile collaboration between Christina Vantzou, Michael Harrison and John Also Bennett centered around a devotion to just intonation tuning, deep listening, and resonant spaces.

Michael Harrison is a composer and pianist who is a dedicated practitioner of just intonation and North Indian classical music. He was La Monte Young's protégé and piano tuner during The Well-Tuned Piano years and a disciple of Pandit Pran Nath, and has since developed his own customized tuning systems. Guided by conversations with Christina Vantzou, who provided structural frameworks for each piece and directed the sessions, the compositions drew from Harrison's daily raga practice, using its ancient forms as starting points from which the compositions could blossom and morph. A resonant backdrop of modular synthesizers played by John Also Bennett, who also contributed piano improvisations played on Harrison’s custom tuned Steinway concert grand, expanded the sessions into true collective praxis.

As noted by Parul Gupta, a conceptual artist based in New Delhi who contributed the stunning artwork for the album, “the songs feel like an extension of silence.” The notes from the piano emerge, resonate, and dissolve in measured and meditative sonic fields, allowing for a concentrated listening experience where every sound lives, breathes, and ultimately returns to silence. Contained within these aural ecologies are potentialities that emerge from a collective listening and improvising experience, and a resonant rebuttal of the standard equal tempered tuning system that has dominated Western music for centuries.

This release collects the verdant recordings from the trio’s 2019 Berlin sessions on two 45rpm records, accompanied by a risograph printed insert featuring track credits and Harrison’s handwritten tuning charts used on the album.

Artist Statement

An observer, a pianist and a synthesist form a triangle. The observer (Christina) is both witness and guide, the pianist (Michael) is precise and intuitive, and the synthesist (John) provides a palate of drones which offer increased resonance and a supportive framework. The piano has been carefully prepared to become a resonant body. This enhancement was achieved by tuning it to two of Michael’s just intonation tunings, based on his work, “Revelation,” and North Indian classical music, or ragas. These tunings maintain mathematically precise intervals. In place of voice, sitar or tabla, is the piano, and in place of the tanpura, is the synthesizer. Playing ragas is an ancient practice of structured improvisation. Time, knowledge and memory interplay in the body and mind of the practitioner and this is a large part of the raga practice. The raga combines with muscle memory and personal aesthetics to individuate results. Through the formation of a trio, multiple perspectives and timelines collapse and the raga mutates again. These twists and turns seem to only fall back on themselves as the raga shows us that there are multiple compositions already stored in our collective memory. They blossom, morph and spring forth like nature.

Nothing was written down to execute these recordings. The simplest forms were explored in the least complicated way. The first reflection of this process is what happens in the mind and body of the listener. The observer is always observing. Regions of sound tap into memory and imagination and the sound of the raga itself becomes a prismatic event.

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Christopher O'riley

True Love Waits

38,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Western Vinyl)

Christopher Tignor

The Art Of Surrender

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Decca)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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The Art of Surrender marks a return to life, sown from primalimpulses and hard-won emotional truths. Unrestrained melodicrapture soars above a relentless kick drum, speaking a needto move, to dance, to love. The music is as ambitious as itsorigins are personal. Tignor plays with scale, craftingmulti-movement epics along side one-miniute minita...

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City Of The Sun

Chapters I & II

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Decca)

City Of The Sun

Chapters III & IV

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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2LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Berlin Classics)

Claire Huangci

Sleeping Beauty

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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The Masterpieces Of Cleaude Debussy

Claude Debussy

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Wagram)

15,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Claudio Arrau / Carlo Maria Giulini / Pol

Klavierkonzert 1

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Warner Classics)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Clemens Christian Poetzsch

Clemens Christian Poetzsch Plays Sven Helbig

LP | 2020 | Original (Neue Meister)

Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Clemens Christian Poetzsch

Poetzsch:Remember Tomorrow

LP | 2019 | Original (Neue Meister)

Release: 2019 / Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Mercury Classics)

Clint Mansell

She Will

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Presents Sorrow - A Reimagining Of Gorecki's 3rd Symphony

Colin Stetson

2LP | 2016 | EU | Original (52Hz)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Berlin Classics)

Concerto Köln

Concertos 4 Violins

28,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Berlin Classics)

Concerto Köln

The Four Seasons

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Berlin Classics)

Concerto Köln

Wassermusik Sinfonias

37,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Berlin Classics)

Damian Marhulets

Constellation Machine

30,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Damrau / Renaudin / Rattle / Previn / Gheorghiu / +

Lenny:The Best Of Bernstein

LP | 2022 | EU (Warner Classics)

19,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2020 | US | Original (Village Green)

Dan Michaelson

Colourfield

21,74 €* 28,99 € -25%

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Deutsche Grammophon)

Daniel Barenboim

Encores

24,69 €* 25,99 € -5%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Warner Classics)

Daniel Barenboim

Klavierkonzert 5

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Mendelssohn-Lieder Ohne Worte

Daniel Barenboim

3LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Deutsche Grammophon)

47,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Daniel Barenboim, / Wiener Philharmoniker

Neujahrskonzert 2022

3LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sony Classical)

35,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Daniel Behle / Schnyder Trio

Mein Hamburg

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Berlin Classics)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Daniel Brandt, John Kameel Farah & Paul Frick

Live Im Haus Des Rundfunks

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Galerie)

Daniel Hope / Zürcher Kammerorchester

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop, Classical Music

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The story of six soulmate musicians meeting at the intersection of classical composition, pop, electronic and minimal music begins in 2016 with their celebrated performance at the Cologne Philharmonie. After follow-up performances at the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn as well as the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Gregor Schwellenbach, Daniel Brandt, John Kameel Farah, Paul Frick, Erol Sarp and Kai Schuhmacher made a guest appearance at the invitation of Radio Berlin Brandenburg in the iconic Haus des Rundfunks in Berlin's Westend on February 2, 2019. "Live im Haus des Rundfunks" documents the first half of this evening, in which the individual composer-pianists introduced themselves to the audience in solos, duos and trios. This carefully choreographed set served as an electrifying prelude to the grand finale, the 20-minute collective mantra of Steve Reich's 1973 composition Six Pianos, a studio recording of which has already been released on the 2016 record Steve Reich "Six Pianos" – Terry Riley "Keyboard Study #1" (FILM LP/CD 002).

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America

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Deutsche Grammophon)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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OST Spiderman: Into The Spider-Verse Original Score

Daniel Pemberton

2LP | 2018 | EU | Reissue (Sony Classical)

43,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2017 | EU | Original (RCO Live)

Daniele Gatti / Rco

Le Sacre Du Printemps

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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3LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Deutsche Grammophon)

Daniil Trifonov

Bach: The Art Of Life

42,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Deutsche Grammophon)

Daniil Trifonov

The Carnegie Recital

34,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Daniil Trifonov / Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Destination Rachmaninov: Departure

2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Deutsche Grammophon)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Movies In Concert

Box | 2023 | EU | Original (Euroarts)

75,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (ECM)

Danish String Quartet

Last Leaf

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Deutsche Grammophon)

David Garrett

Iconic

36,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Clearaudio)

David Garrett

Virtuoso

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Four Eight One)

David Julyan

Hireth

Ballads For Bass Clarinet

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Composer David Julyan has until now existed just beyond the image — soundtracking celluloid stories on film and television. Best known for his work with cinema auteur Christopher Nolan, his atmospheric and achingly beautiful scores have time again perfectly melded subtle orchestra with electronics — conjuring music in the post-classical genre.

More recently, away from the deadlines and drama of others, it was time to reflect and reconnect with his own musical voice. The result of this introspection is the album Hireth.

In film, the music is defined before you even find a note or melody. As David puts it: “I realised that film music is written back to front. When scoring a scene I know the length of the cue to the exact second; I know the emotions and journey of the piece. All this before I've played a single note.” With Hireth the approach is different: allowing the music to lead and evolve into a journey across this album landscape to somewhere new or unknown.

A swirl of drones, pulses and piano greets us with ‘Wires’ — setting the tone and framework for what is to follow. ‘Labyrinth of the Night’ continues with a palette of synthesisers before blending into the string quartet which features throughout the album — an unexpected but welcome transformation. When beginning the project, David decided to start with two recently-bought vintage analogue synthesisers: Roland Sh-2000 and Roland Vp-330. Like Brian Eno’s idea of working with limitations, the rule he gave himself was to only write using these two keyboards. Of course, as it was his own rule, he was free to stretch and bend it, and the project evolved into what you now hear: those synthesisers, plus a few others, along with piano and a string quartet.

‘Hireth’ is a Cornish word that has no direct translation, yet could describe a feeling of homesickness, of nostalgia, of longing. Or, perhaps, a beautiful melancholy — which perfectly describes David’s music. With this title track you hear the piano being woven into the fragile strings, resulting in his trademark tapestry of emotive melancholia.\

As the album continues, we ponder questions of science, physics and quantum mechanics in ‘An Uncertainty’; while ‘Forever Beyond Our Reach’ references the limits of our knowledge about the nature of the universe — the title coming from a line in the short film which accompanies the piece by writer and director Barbara Stapansky.

This album will not be confined to its studio origins and David will be performing it live accompanied by a string ensemble. As well as the album, performances will feature a new version of David’s score to Nolan's Memento: taking the original electronic score and reworking it with the quartet — a work that has already been performed at London's Union Chapel as part of the Daylight Music series.

The word Hireth has no direct translation, and the language or voice of the composer, likewise, can’t be placed in a box: it has its own timbre, depth - its own emotional weight - which is why this extraordinary album further reveals itself with repeated listens.

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David Murray

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (KoKo)

David Zinman / Dawn Upshaw / London Sinfonietta

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Another first-time-on-vinyl release from Koko, Ballads For Bass Clarinet (previously a Japan-only CD) comprises a couple of waltzes, a blues, a Monk-ish suite-like piece, a free-ish drums and clarinet interlude, and finally an elegy to civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer.

David Murray leads on bass clarinet, managing to go both deep and soaringly high; it sometimes sounds like two different instruments are being played. Backed by John Hicks (piano), Ray Drummond (bass) and Idris Muhammad (drums), Murray’s quartet is tight and the recording superb, with a warm and intimate sound.

Highly recommended.

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Henryk Gorecki: Symphony No. 3

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Nonesuch)

32,99 €*

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Debussy / Brahms / Bartok

Sonatas For Violin And PI 200g Edition

LP | 2016 | US | Reissue (Analogue Productions)

53,99 €*

Release: 2016 / US – Reissue

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Edit.Futurum)

Debussy

Nocturnes

27,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Motvind)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Meet the intoxicating, meditative sounds of Claude Debussy (1862-1918), one of the greatest innovators of Western music. The impressionist composer was inspired by the classical myth of the sirens, female sea-demons with such unearthly beautiful voices that they managed to lure all passing sailors into their deadly arms. In a similar way, Debussy wanted to enchant his listeners with his esoteric composition Trois nocturnes, inspired by the atmosphere of the night. In the first part, Nuages, one can hear silvery-lit clouds slide slowly past the moon. The second part, Fetes, depicts nocturnal festivities and blazing torches, and the third part is devoted to the mysteriously singing Sirens. Unlike his contemporaries, Debussy did not compose elaborate, bombastic symphonies, but rather dreamy, self-contained music that is still topical today, and breaths the free spirit of nature. It 'would resound through the open spaces and float joyfully over the tops of the trees.' The lucid performance of the Orchestre National De Lyon comes close to Debussy's ideal, and seduces the listener to lose himself in otherworldly dreams and mind-expanding fantasies. This beautiful recording of Nocturnes never been on vinyl before!! *Pre-order price*

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Dei Kjenslevare

Kjenslevarulv

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Sturmfreie Bude)

Deine Freunde

Das Weihnachtsalbum

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music, Childrens

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We Will Live On Black Vinyl Edition

Deru

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Friends Of Friends)

We Will Live On Milky Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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"We Will Live On" by Deru was made with a Disklavier (an acoustic piano outfitted with solenoids that allowed it to be digitally controlled) and custom made software to sequence it. This made the piano appear to play itself. Technology seemingly embedded with humanity.

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Deru

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Friends Of Friends)

27,99 €*

De-Formation: Piano Variations

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Diamanda Galás

LP | 2020 | Original (Intravenal Sound Operatio)

Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Adventskalender-Eine Schreckliche Bescherung

Die Drei ???

4LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Europa/Sony Music Family Entertainment)

46,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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The Brandenburg Concertos-Selected Works

Die Freitagsakademie

LP | 2016 | Original (Winter & Winter)

62,99 €*

Release: 2016 / Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2021 | EU (Evil Penguin)

Dionysos Now!

Adriano 1

14,29 €* 21,99 € -35%

Release: 2021 / EU

Genre: Classical Music

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Sony Classical)

Dirk Maassen

Echoes

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Sony)

Dirk Maassen

Ocean

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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A Wave From A Shore Bleeding Glacier Colored Vinyl Edition

Disassembler

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Western Vinyl)

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (FatCat)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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Via tape loops and synth motifs sent from LA to NY, sound artist Christopher Royal King has teamed with violinist and composer Christopher Tignor toward richly timbral, emotionally gripping works of spontaneity that unfurl immense details with each replay while marrying west coast outboard-ambient to studied east coast modern classical. The resulting debut album, A Wave From A Shore, exhibits both artists' sonic identifiers falling in and out of cooperation before binding into a new entity distinct from either's solitary palettes. A visual artist whose work includes album covers for Thrice and Deftones in addition to video bumps for Adult Swim, Christopher Royal King spent his teenage years cutting his teeth on heavy metal and punk before gravitating, quickly and perhaps unexpectedly, toward experimental composers like Philip Glass and Terry Riley. This unlikely seesaw of influences led directly to King forming the post-rock pillar This Will Destroy You with fellow San Antonio native Jeremy Galindo. Similar to his former band's output, King's solo meanderings impart a mood of buoyancy and contemplation while hinting at darker, more shadowy hues beneath the glimmer, making his music stand apart from the glut of New Age droners and modular-synth influencers. Where the genre at large is sometimes guilty of being the spiritual equivalent of a topical balm, King's aesthetic is more like a rigorous therapy session that's as healing as it is confronting. Christopher Tignor first crossed paths with King in the mid 2000s, lending string arrangements to This Will Destroy You releases, and sometimes touring as a live member of the group. Over the years, Tignor has mounted an impressive discography under his own name and with his groups Slow Six, and Wires Under Tension, all while completing Princeton's PhD program for music composition, and NYU's Masters of computer science program. He put the full power of his dual studies to use, arriving at the illusionist-like meld of sound design and physical performance that his current-day solo efforts portray. In his own words "I banned backing tracks, click tracks, and even live looping - anything that would enforce a strict grid. All sounds originate from me kicking a drum, playing the violin, or various natural percussion sources. I built software that lets me do all this. This offers an unprecedented amount of control over this music's elastic sense of time." King's own music follows parallel rivulets of happenstance, but in desktop form, his array of analog gadgets in perpetual dialogue with one another as he omnipotently guides and documents the chatter. Tignor's lucid string work frames King's impressionism, sharpening the focus while being softened by the textural overgrowth. Their debut A Wave From A Shore does its part to rescue ambient music from its purely anesthetic functionality, offering instead a profound, often ravaging emotional experience for listeners who wish to be moved and not just lulled.

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Dmitry Evgrafov

Surrender

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Modern)

Dobrawa Czocher

Dreamscapes

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Dudamel Los Angeles Philharmonic Lamc

Dante

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Nonesuch)

44,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Deutsche Grammophon)

Dustin O'Halloran

Silfur

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Edith Sitwell / William Walton

Façade Record Store Day 2020 Edition

10" | 2020 | EU | Original (Moochin About)

17,99 €*

Brahms, Sinigaglia Klavierst

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Record Store Day 2020 Release.
Limitation: 500 copies.

Edith Sitwell’s series of her most famous poems re- released on the 100th anniversary of the original transcripts. Includes the original ultra rare Jim Flora artwork, this beautiful package includes 26 page lyric booklet. Idolised by Smiths frontman Morrissey, Sitwell was like the Warhol of her day, publishing a mountain of essays and poems covering every aspect of the arts. The Scarborough-born poet-eccentric extraordinaire who had once publicly declared that her immense wisdom had been born of a long, unrequited love affair with the Russian painter, Pavel Ychelitchew (unrequited on the account of his homosexuality). Morrissey heavily featured Edith as his tour mascot on his Kill Uncle tour and used her image as his stage backdrop and on his T-shirts.

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Edoardo Turbil

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Da Vinci Classics)

16,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Eduardo De La Calle Aka Flexol, Acoustic Trauma & Dexual

Lobotomies And Other Psychosocial

12" | 2022 | UK | Original (Konsysttenzia)

12,99 €*

Eldbjorg Hemsing & Arctic Philharmonic

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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Eduardo De La Calle and crew return with 4 tracks of deep off kilter electro and idm Big tip if you're into Bitstream, Gosub and Silicon

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Arctic

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Sony Music)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Schubert: Impromptus D 899 & D 935

Elisabeth Leonskaja

2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Warner Classics)

24,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2021 | US | Original (Western Vinyl)

Elori Saxl

The Blue Of Distance

Emahoy Gebru Tsege Mariam

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Limited Edition Cloudy Clear Vinyl.Combining Processed Recordings Of Wind And Water With Analog Synthesizers And Chamber Orchestra, Elori Kramer's The Blue Of Distance Is An Audio Dissertation On The Role Technology Plays In Our Relationships To Geography And Nature, Unspoolinginto An Examination Of Memory And Longing Across Seven Sections That Layer Filmic Minimalism Over Churning Electronic Soundbeds. Half Of The Suite Was Written In The Adirondack Mountains During Summer Amid Lakes, Rivers, And Moss-Ladenforest Floors, While The Other Half Was Conceived On A Frozen Lake Superior Island In Deep Winter, Creating A Subtextual Dialogue Between The Two Extreme Settings. Kramer, Who Was Born In 1990 And Grew Up Alongside The Internet, Uses Her Musicto Explore Nature In The Actual And The Virtual World, Through Direct Experience And Facsimile Alike, Focussing And Blurring The Line Between The Two. "Looking Back At My Videos Of That Summer-- Which Is Where The Processed Audio Came From-- I Triedto Remember What It Had Felt Like To Be There," She Recalls, "Thinking About Questions Of Reality Versus Imagination; Physical Versus Digital; And The Ways In Which Memory Shifts Through Our Minds And Technology." The Title The Blue Ofdistance Was Derived From Rebecca Solnit's Book A Field Guide To Getting Lost, Referring To The Phenomenon Of Faraway Mountains Appearing Blue Due To Light Particles Getting Lost Over Distance. "If We Were To Go Up To The Mountains Thatappear Blue From Far Away, We Would See That They Weren't Actually That Color." She Says. "This Beauty Is Made Possible Because Of Their Distance," Much In The Same Way That The Splendor Of A Lush Season Is Only Fully Realized In The Throes Of A Bleak One, And The Joy Of An Event Can Only Be Felt When It Has Long Since Been Consigned To Remembrance.R.I.Y.L Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Josiah Steinbrick, Emily Sprague

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Jerusalem

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Mississippi)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Emika)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Newly remastered recordings pressed on 160gm black vinyl, heavy jacket with reproduction of the 1972 artwork, song notes by the artist. From beloved composer Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, a revelatory new album of piano pieces, unreleased or virtually inaccessible until now! Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru is a true original - an Ethiopian nun whose recordings have funded orphanages back home since the early '60s. Her compositions and unique playing style live somewhere between Erik Satie, Debussy, liturgical music of the Coptic Ethiopian Church, and Ethiopian traditional music. It is some of the most moving piano music you will ever hear.This is the first archival release of the great composer's recordings since the Éthiopiques series reintroduced her music to the world in 2006. Drawn from original master tapes and a nearly impossible-to-find vinyl release, Jerusalem unveils profound new facets of Emahoy Gebru's performance and compositions. The record picks up where the last two Mississippi releases left off, with tracks from her 1972 album Hymn of Jerusalem, of which only a handful of copies are known to exist. These include "Home of Beethoven," "Aurora," and a true masterpiece that stands amongst her greatest compositions, the moving "Jerusalem." "Quand La Mer Furieuse" is the first release featuring Emahoy's singing voice, forshadowing a vocalalbum planned for 2023. The B-Side brings us the artist'shome recordings - tracks like "Farewell Eve," "Woigaye Don't Cry Anymore," and "Famine Disaster 1974" mark a bridge from liturgical work to dark and intense classical material, a new mode. This album is released in celebration of Emahoy Gebru's 99th birthday on December 12, 2022. Mississippi is honored to work with the Emahoy Tsege Mariam Music Publisher to continue to introduce this visionary composer to the world.

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Emika

Klavirni Temna

17,99 €*

LP | 2020 | Original (Emika)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Following on from the hugely popular ‘Klavirni’ (Emika’s first solo piano album in 2015) her second installment of piano solos are a magical cluster of melodies, dreamy effects, obscure production mistakes with tape echo’s and other old analog gear.

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Emika

Klavirni Temna

Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Emika)

Emika

Melanfonie

15,99 €*

Emil Gilels, Amadeus Quartet & Rainer Zepperitz

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop, Classical Music

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The crossover between electronic music and classical composition has never been in more vibrant and dynamic health. Multifarious musician Emika explores this fertile ground on her ambitious new opus 'Melanfonie': her first orchestral composition, some four years in the making.
Funded by a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign that exceeded its target by an impressive €25,000.
While many rebel from their classical training never to return to it explicitly, Emika has always been attracted to the potential and freedoms offered by the symphony form. As well as taking inspiration from her electronic music background in composing the music itself, Emika also applied some of production and playback principles from that realm to create a piece whose every element has been carefully considered.
Emika is on a quest to try and change what we mean when we talk about ‘classical music’. For her, the magic of the ‘genre’ is about the instruments themselves and more importantly the people who play them; not the restricting traditions and conventions of the classical world itself. I want to change the face of classical music and give it a more honest and real image. It is time we had something other than pomp and circumstance and avant-garde squeaks and pops.”

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Schubert:Klavierquintett A-Dur Original Source

LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Deutsche Grammophon)

58,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Classical Music

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (The Lost Recordings)

Emil Gilels

The Unreleased Recital

75,99 €*

Emily D'angelo / Das Freie Orchester Berlin

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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»In June 2017, I was due to perform in Moscow when I met Kirill Gilels, the grandson of the famous pianist Emil Gilels. He listened to what our Phoenix Mastering® restoration process, can achieve, and made the decision to entrust us with the results of several years of research: he gave us a list of dates and places of the previously unreleased recordings of his grandfather. In Berlin, Moscow and Saint Petersburg, we came across a treasure trove, stunning in terms of both the quality and consistency of Emil Gilels’s playing. We were fully aware that he was one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century. It was in Amsterdam where at last, we succeeded in extracting this fabulous recital from 1976 at the Concertgebouw – recordings that had fallen into oblivion. We were allotted a studio where we listened to the tapes one by one, we did not utter a word, so overcome were we by the beauty of what we heard.« (F. D’Oria-Nicolas) Considered one of the most important pianists of the twentieth century, he was a pupil of H. Neuhaus. He wins the current Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels and takes on an international stature. In 1955, he was the first artist to be welcomed in the United States since the war: if the public, somewhat circumspect of Carnegie Hall, in New York, accompanies his entry on stage of a troubled silence, it is under a thunder of uninterrupted applause that he will refuse to leave the stage!

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Enargeia

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Deutsche Grammophon)

23,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Mirare)

Emmanuel Rossfelder

Carnets De Voyage

18,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Decca)

Ennio Morricone

Segreto

67,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music, Soundtracks

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (ZYX)

Enrico Caruso

Great Arias

17,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Ensemble Intercontemporain & Jackson, George

Reich / Richter

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Nonesuch)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Ensemble Minisym Plays Moondog

New Sound / Moondog Compositions

LP | 2017 | CH | Original (Les Disques Bongo Joe)

Ensemble Resonanz / Moses Sumney

Release: 2017 / CH – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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❝ J'aime écrire de la musique de chambre et des chorales, et particulièrement de la musique pour orchestres. Mais il n'est pas toujours simple de voir ces dernières jouées, l'orgue devient alors le meilleur moyen de donner au compositeur de vastes ressources ❞, écrivait Moondog en 1978 pour accompagner l’album Selected Works – confidentiel cousin américain de Moondog in Europe le premier disque enregistré en Allemagne.

Avec New Sound l’Ensemble Minisym fait le chemin inverse, emportant les pièces pour orgue(s) qui constituent l’album A New Sound of an Old Instrument (1979) – ainsi que des pièces composées en Europe durant cette même période – vers une instrumentation nouvelle et singulière. Le travail de l’Ensemble se base alors sur une grande connaissance de l’univers de Moondog qui a lui-même – et tout au long de sa vie – régulièrement donné de nouvelles couleurs à de mêmes compositions en changeant leurs instrumentations. Ce qui est d’ailleurs particulièrement manifeste au sein de l’album A New Sound of an Old Instrument dont la première face est constituée de pièces essentiellement composées aux milieu du tumulte des rues de New-York et marquée par une incroyable science du métissage (« Oasis », « Single Foot ») quand la seconde fait la part belle à de nouvelles compositions inspirées par ce sol européen que Moondog foule depuis peu et de manière désormais définitive (« Barn Dance », « Elf Dance », « Log in B »).
Empruntant des chemins de traverses les musiciens de Minisym déchiffrent par ailleurs des pièces jusque là inédites, parfois jamais jouées ni-même enregistrées par Moondog (« Logrundr in a », « Ground in d minor », « Marche Funèbre (Vercingétorix) », « Shneeflocken »).
Loin des académismes, c’est un monde que l’on rencontre ici, à l’ombre des instruments aussi rares que chers à Moondog. Ce disque, fruit d’un travail au long cours permet un souffle aussi fidèle qu’iconoclaste sur la musique d'un compositeur qui a passé sa vie entière à échafauder une oeuvre d'une naïveté toute particulière.

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Bryce Dessner: Tenebre

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Resonanz)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Weihnachtsoratorium Bwv 248

Ensemble Resonanz

2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Resonanz)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Decca)

Eric Whitacre

Home

38,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Erik Ensemble Cordevento Bosgraaf

Bach, J.S.: Concertos For Recorder

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Brilliant Classics)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Canto Ostinato (Simeon Ten Holt)

Erik Hall

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Western Vinyl))

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Canto Ostinato is the new volume of classical minimalism from musician and producer Erik Hall. Written for four pianos in 1979 by Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt, the piece is freshly framed as an intimate, hour-long solo performance consisting of multitracked grand pianos, electric piano, and organ. Modern yet warm, ethereal yet tangible, Hall's Canto Ostinato expertly bridges a revered piece of meditative concert repertoire with a tactile and highly personal studio setting. Chicago-born and Michigan-based, Erik Hall is known as a multi-instrumental pillar for the groups Nomo, Wild Belle, and his own songwriting moniker In Tall Buildings. He has composed music for feature films, and as a producer/engineer he has shaped records for Natalie Bergman and Western Vinyl labelmates Lean Year. In a 2020 creative pivot, he chose to reinvent composer Steve Reich's monumental contemporary classical masterpiece Music for 18 Musicians as a solo undertaking, applying the piece's score to the familiar keyboards, guitars, and synthesizers in his studio. "At the time I think I was working through my identity as a musician and an artist," Hall explains, "and on a level there was some sort of exorcism of a long held pop spirit." The album was celebrated for being "freshly thrilling" and "legible in history but assertive of the moment" (Pitchfork) and "beguiling, meditational, and magical" (Electronic Sound). It won the 2021 Libera Award for Best Classical Record, and it quickly joined the canon of the piece's quintessential recordings. "There is a pseudo-meditational benefit to working on a longform piece that's built on repetition," Hall says. "Every stage- from internalizing the music, to executing the performance, to editing and mixing the record- requires deep and sustained presence of mind. I've always been drawn to a hallucinatory combination of harmony and repetition, and I found the entire process addictive." An apt second chapter, Canto Ostinato is inherently vast, and its score gives great creative license to the performer. Comprising 106 sections, complete freedom is given to repeat each one as many or as few times as desired. Additional leeway is given with regard to dynamics, articulation, and even instrumentation. On the heels of his previous, rather maximal arrangement, Hall chose to limit this album's palette to three foundational keyboards of his studio: a 1962 Hammond M-101 organ, a 1978 Rhodes Mark I electric piano, and his family-heirloom 1910 Steinway grand piano. "This particular piece brought the added challenge of rekindling my dexterity as a pianist, something I haven't maintained in earnest since I was a teenager," he admits. The ensuing five-note rhythmic motif- the piece's primary building block- is steady and workmanlike, forgoing virtuosic flare for depth, texture, and resonance, and eventually giving way to the stunning gratification of a gorgeously lyrical left turn. As with Music for 18 Musicians, Hall employed no loops nor quantization nor any programmed or sequenced instruments of any kind. Every part was performed live in a room and captured with microphones, one at a time, each informed by, and reacting to the last. In this way the record breathes with interplay and an organic humanity, complete with flaws, noise, and the faint sound of turning pages. The recording quality is nonetheless toneful and saturated, characteristic of Hall's production style and straying from the usual transparency of classical albums by using gear with tubes, transformers, and various stages of compression in the signal path. Always there is unmistakable realism and the feeling of being present in the room, sitting among the keys, hammers, and tines. Ten Holt said: "Time, patience and discipline are the prerequisites for making a genetic code productive." His landmark composition provides Hall once again with a wondrous space in which to reverently embody this sentiment and deftly convey the elegant beauty of this music.

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Erik Satie

The Masterpieces Of

16,99 €*