Par VAN NUETEN GUY. Light the fire, James. We'll take our digestive by the crackling of the hearth. Such were the thoughts that came to mind as I started listening to Guy Van Nueten's new record. Because, yes, there is a certain aristocracy to this music. There's the feeling of autumn and you immediately long to warm yourself on the sounds that issue from Van Nueten's bony fingers. But it could ju…

June Armstrong's Puffin Island contains eleven miniatures for solo Piano, inspired by the Irish island of Rathlin.'Rathlin is an island lying off the north coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland, where puffins come to breed annually and can be seen from May to August. The island is remote and beautiful and is home to much wild life. Our day on 'Puffin Island' starts with a breezy trip from the m…

Par CHYRZYNSKI MARCEL. In 2017, after my monographic concert organised by the Polish Music Center in Los Angeles, I hired a car and drove to Las Vegas. However, I didn’t take the interstate highway, the quickest and most used road, but followed an acquaintance’s advice and headed up the picturesque old route through the Mojave Desert formed partly by the famous Route 66. The Mojave Desert made an …

Tango Guitar Duets. Par GARDEL CARLOS. Gardel's tangos remain classics, which no performer who aspires to be taken seriously can ignore. For this album Argentinian Tango specialist Diego selected some of Gardel's most popular tangos and arranged them for two guitars. The timbre of this instrument is exceptionally well suited to evoking in sound the musical riches of an impoverished community of im…

Par KRZANOWSKI ANDRZEJ. Relief VII (1988) is a composition in which we can hear echoes of phrases contained in Programme no. 6 and Relief IV. This time they are evoked by tubular bells in secundal-tritonal motifs and, in general, by other percussion instruments. The accordion part is dominated by the narrative of unrestrained repetition, often based on broken ninth structures, ending with four sil…

Par CURNOW JAMES. Captivated by the rolling hills, majestic horse farms and beautiful horses of the Central Kentucky Bluegrass region, James Curnow has named this exciting overture after one of the most scenic areas near his home. After a fanfare opening, the Percussion section provides high energy for the main theme. A contrasting middle section showcases the expressive abilities of your ensemble…

Parmi les toutes premières pièces écrites par Paul Paray, encore adolescent, figure le Scherzetto pour piano de 1903, une oeuvre qui fit tant d'impression sur le célèbre organiste parisien Henri Dallier, alors en vacances dans la cité balnéaire du Tréport, ville natale du jeune compositeur, qu'il décida de le prendre sous son aile et persuada ses parents de l'envoyer au Conservatoire de Paris pour…

Lorsque Elsa de Lacerda et Pierre Solot m'ont commandé une pièce pour violon et piano qui devait s'inspirer de chants protestataires ou révolutionnaires, j'ai d'abord pensé à écrire des variations sur l'un des gospels célébrant la lutte pour l'émancipation de la communauté afro-américaine. Cependant, j'ai finalement choisi Untemationale comme matériau de base, matériau qui m'a paru d'autant plus r…

TWV 42:c5 for oboe (violin), viola & b. c., edited after the source in Darmstadt by Klaus Hofmann. The particularly beautiful trio sonata in the rare combination oboe and viola is for the first time edited in a source-critical urtext edition. Series Magdeburger Telemann Edition

Par STAMITZ CARL. 2. Darmstädter Konzert/ Répertoire / Clarinette et Orchestre

Weber a laissé une gamme incroyable de compositions dans sa relativement courte, mais la vie toutes les courses looser. Une grande partie est encore à découvrir. Ceux-ci incluent certainement ses six Sonates pour violon Op. 10 (b), composé à Darmstadt en 1810. Les dossiers individuels sont conservés assez courte et pas trop difficile de même dans leurs exigences techniques. Pour cela, la musique e…

Graupner-Werke-Verzeichnis (Gwv). Instrumentalmusik. Christoph Graupner [1683–1760], Hofkapellmeister in Darmstadt, gehörte zu den bekanntesten Komponisten des 18. Jahrhunderts. Die große Anzahl der Werke stand bisher einer Erfassung in einem thematischen Werkverzeichnis im Wege; das 2005 erschienene Graupner-Werke-Verzeichnis [Instrumentalmusik] stellt deswegen eine Pioniertat in der Graupner-For…