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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Pierre Boulez conducts Berg & Mozart
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez Vienna's eighteenth- and twentieth-century musical worlds meet: Pierre Boulez leads one of the world's finest pianists in Berg's Kammerkonzert and conducts Mozart's exquisite chamber work for wind, the Gran Partita. "Glowing with a mastery and conviction known to very few pianists, her performances brim over with zest, sheer style and assurance" Gramophone "Boulez brings clarity to every sound strand, colour and dynamic…you hear nuances that many performances sweep under the carpet" The Times Two great intellectual and musical minds meet for a new collaboration as the First Viennese School meets the Second. The concept is the pairing of two pieces which are in fact related more closely than one might at first think. Twelve-tone twentieth-century composition meets and draws inspiration from eighteenth-century classical form; Berg, like Mozart in the Gran Partita, used 13 wind instruments for his chamber work, and also looked to the musical structures used by Mozart and his contemporaries. Uchida and Boulez's previous collaboration, of piano works by Schoenberg, Berg and Webern, won both a Gramophone Award, and an Edison award in the Netherlands. “…there's a sense of fun, of genial affection for the music. Whether in the fluid lines of the tender Adagio or the yearning Andante, or in the bustling, concise finale, where everything - in the true spirit of opera buffa - seems to come right, Boulez makes plain his relish for the work [Mozart Gran Partita]. Berg's Chamber Concerto was also written for an auspicious event - the 50th birthday of his friend and mentor Arnold Schoenberg. ...what makes Mitsuko Uchida and Christian Tetzlaff outstanding is their feeling for the piece's inherent theatricality. ...Urchida brings to the opening variation set a breathtaking rhapsody... the Rondo ritmico, begins with a swirling cadenza. The freedom of the two players here is extraordinary, undoubtedly helped by the fact that they toured the work before taking it into the studio.” Gramophone Magazine, December 2008 “The Berg is superbly played… Christian Tetzlaff plays the solo violin part with breathtaking technical mastery…” BBC Music Magazine, December 2008 ***** | 
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| |  | Stravinsky: | Pulcinella Ann Murray, Antony Rolfe-Johnson, Simon Estes Ensemble Intercontemporain Le Chant du Rossignol Patrice Fontanarosa (violin), Patrick Gallois (flute), Bertrand Grenat (oboe) & Yves Couëffe (trumpet) Orchestre National de France |
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Ensemble Intercontemporain All pieces are world premiere recordings "...an intricate microtonal web of sound that whisked us smartly through various emotional states" - The Times | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (Piano), Sophie Cherrier (Flute), Alain Damiens (Clarinet) Ensemble InterContemporain | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Julie Moffat, Lorraine Gwynne New London Chamber Chorus, Ensemble InterContemporain, Hans Zender | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Ensemble Intercontemporain, Susanna Malkki “Luca Francesconi, born in 1956, has emerged as one of the leading Italian composers of the generation after Berio and Nono. A pupil of Berio and Stockhausen, Francesconi is less well known in the UK than, for instance, Salvatore Sciarrino, who is nine years older, but as this collection of ensemble pieces shows, he has a genuinely distinctive musical personality, and the knack of creating sonorities of real immediacy and dramatic power. With the exception of Da Capo, for nine instruments, from 1986, the pieces here date from the mid-1990s. The biggest, most ambitious and most memorable of those is Etymo, which takes a collection of fragments from Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, sets and atomises them for a soprano soloist and enmeshes the voice in teeming, febrile textures spun from an instrumental ensemble with real-time digital processing. Animus is an electronics-based piece too, with a solo trombone caught in a sound web of its reflections, while A Fuoco pits a solo guitar against an ensemble in a study of musical memory. The sounds are haunting, seductive, intensely vivid; it's a shame that the accompanying notes don't match the clarity of the music.” The Guardian, 30th May 2008 *** | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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Ensemble Intercontemporain, Susanna Malkki Contemporary composer Bruno Mantovani (b. 1974) presents a programme of his own music, all
recorded in 2007. Mantovanni uses a classical string ensemble and computer mixed sound to
create his highly striking and individual sound. | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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Jean-Guihen Queyras & Hae-Sun Kang Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Benny Sluchin, Pierre Strauch, Elisabeth Chojnacka Ensemble InterContemporain, Pierre Boulez & Iannis Xenakis | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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Accentus, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Laurence Equilbey, Jonathan Nott | | | Unfortunately, as of December 3rd 2008 the UK distributor for this label is in administration. Although an agreement has already been signed with a new distributor, we expect some delay before stock is available again. You may order this item now but please be aware that it may be early 2009 before we are able to despatch it. |
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