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A guide to Helmut Lachenmann's music
Frankfurt :: Germany | 11 months ago
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Try opening your ears to the virtuosity of Lachenmann's music All articles in this series Extreme, focused and explosive ... composer Helmut Lachenmann. Photograph: Graziano Arici/Graziano Arici/eyevine Ok team, hold on to your hats: how's this for a
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Birtwistle: Nine Movements; The Tree of Strings – review
London :: United Kingdom | 1 year ago
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These two works, completed in 1996 and 2007, are Harrison Birtwistle's only pieces for string quartet to date. The earlier Nine Movements began as one element in the meditations on Paul Celan, Pulse Shadows, an interlocking sequence of vocal and
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Conlon Nancarrow: Impossible Brilliance – review
Mexico City :: Mexico | 1 year ago
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It's only in the last 20 years or so that Conlon Nancarrow has been installed in the pantheon of 20th-century American music, and because his achievement is founded upon the 50-plus studies he composed for an almost forgotten instrument, the player
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Music Review: JACK Quartet in Pop Up! Concert at Miller Theater
Neuilly :: France | over 1 year ago
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It is not often that audience members entering a classical music concert are carded at the door. But late on Tuesday afternoon, as people lined up to attend the kickoff program of Pop Up!, the Miller Theater s new series of free, informal hourlong
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Rihm at 60 – review
London :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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Wolfgang Rihm has composed so much over 400 scores and counting that there is always a huge backlog still to be heard in Britain. So the London Sinfonietta could include three UK premieres in its 60th-birthday tribute to the German composer, all
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Iannis Xenakis: sites and sounds
Athens :: Greece | over 1 year ago
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Ulf Andersen/Getty Images Death is a difficult career move in the arts. Without the living presence of the artist whether that presence was compelling, tiresome, benign or objectionable their work changes its meaning and there's nothing they can do
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Arditti Quartet – review
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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Following Edinburgh's emphasis this year on things east of Suez, the Arditti Quartet devoted the first half of their morning recital entirely to works by Japanese composers. Toru Takemitsu's A Way a Lone was the nearest among them to a contemporary
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Prom 16: BBCNOW/Fischer – review
London :: United Kingdom | almost 2 years ago
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There are premieres of one sort or another in every one of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales 's Proms this year. Their first appearance under principal conductor Thierry Fischer included the second work by Pascal Dusapin to be played in the Albert
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BBC Proms 16/17: BBC NOW/Fischer/Arditti/World Routes Academy, Royal Albert Hall (3/5, 4/5)
Athens :: Greece | almost 2 years ago
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Pascal Dusapin's String Quartet No 6' is scored for the unusual combination of string quartet plus orchestra, and has two subtitles: Hinterland', and Hapax' (ancient Greek for once'). Its UK premiere came supported by programme-notes which threw
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Arditti Quartet – review
London :: United Kingdom | 2 years ago
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Arditti Quartet review Queen Elizabeth Hall, London It has been a long time since a major work by Robert Saxton received its first performance in London. Saxton has spent much of the last decade working on his radio opera The Wandering Jew , which
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