Cellist Frances-Marie Uitti formed both professional and personal ties with composer and mystic Giacinto Scelsi, and as a student of his in yoga and metaphysics, she became a spiritual disciple as well. It is natural, then, that she would champion his rarefied and esoteric music, especially his work for solo cello, Trilogy -- The Three Ages of Man ...
Silvestrov wrote the pieces recorded here, scored for piano solo, string orchestra, and piano and strings, between 1996 and 2005, and they are all representative of his late, meditative, song-like style. After an early career as an experimentalist, Silvestrov embraced the radical simplicity -- a style of tonal, melodic, and rhythmic transparency - ...
Although some composers in Germany do not hold the music of Harald Genzmer in high regard, all agree that as a human being he is truly one of the great figures in German music, helping rebuild the concert scene AND musical education in Germany in the wake of the tragic wastes of World War II. Still active in June 2007, Genzmer was 98 years old and ...
The Munich Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of its new (as of the 2006-2007 season) director Alexander Liebreich, set out on a brave new mission. Their goal: to produce entire seasons of music under one unifying theme and include the music of Haydn in each of these themes. Impossible? Not if this album, entitled Farewell, on the ECM label is ...
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