The vina is one of the most important musical instruments used in Carnatic music, which today is still a living musical art and an essential cultural aspect of South India. Rajeswari Padmanabhan and K...
La Cubana is (nothing but) a vaudeville, and the music for it makes no contribution to the problem of worker's music: from a certain point of view it is 'élitist' (cum grano salis). The standpoint fro...
Koechlin's inner preoccupation with the theme of light - the changes between light and dark, sun and moon, day and night, month and season - is revealed in all his creative periods and often makes its...
Mantra, composed in 1970 and premiered in Donaueschingen, was Karlheinz Stockhausen's first composition following the orchestral work Carré to return to a largely traditional style of notation and to...
Sounds, not pitches, are the crux of Widmann's musical philosophy, and he takes them to extremes. The musicians are often made to play in 'as high as possible' or 'as low as possible.' Not only are co...
What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one and the same thing (Steve Reich, 1968). Minimal music, which numbers Steve Reich among its founders and as one of it...
What we call silence is for me comparable to a dense knot of noise, frequencies, and sounds,' says Rebecca Saunders. 'From this surface of apparent silence I try to draw out and mould sound and colour...
This CD is dedicated to early works by the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov: 'Avant-garde is an attempt to break out of an enclosed space into a more open one. [...] In the attempt to break out...
