Launched in 2007, NEOS is a German label with a focus on compositions from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, many of which are world premiere recordings. In order to achieve a high level of artistic and editorial quality, great value is placed on selecting the performers and collaborating exclusively with renowned ensembles and cultural institutions. NEOS (Greek for "new") is the responsibility of Wulf Weinmann, who was previously the owner and label manager of col legno. Varied in his interests, Weinmann is constantly seeking out discoveries in the wilds of New Music. He considers himself particularly fortunate to have arranged future collaborations with long-standing partners such as the Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt (IMD), the Donaueschingen festival of the SWR, musica viva (Bayerischer Rundfunk), and the Salzburg Festival. As a confessed lover of the arts Weinmann places great importance on the technical quality of the recordings and their visual presentation. All of the productions are released in attractive digipacks with extensive textual information. Many releases are Stereo/5.1 multichannel hybrid CD/Super Audio CD formats that can be played on any CD player.
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Contemporary music is a central component of conservatory training today and is practiced at the University of the Arts Bern at the highest level, as this recording attests. When they were written (between 1983 and 1995), these three pieces would have been neither technically nor logistically possible to play at a music conservatory. Each work poses its own challenges. In "Ryoanji" by John Cage it is the unusual structure, which is based partially on chance and requires the interpreters to go beyond merely executing the notation. In his "Two men meet, each presuming the other to be from a distant planet", James Wood employs electronics in a way that exhausted the capabilities of the equipment in the 1980s such that it is necessary to perform the work using these "historical" electronic devices to get the proper sound today. In terms of its instrumental technique, Brian Ferneyhough's "La Chute d'Icare" is music of an almost absurd difficulty.
"Two men meet, each presuming the other to be from a distant planet (1995)" performed by: Brian Archinal - percussion; Ensemble VERTIGO der Hochschule der Künste Bern; Lennart Dohms - conductor. "Ryoanji (1983-1985)" performed by Livia Schönbächler - flute; Ensemble VERTIGO der Hochschule der Künste Bern; Lennart Dohms, conductor. "La Chute d'Icare (1988)" performed by Shuyue Zhao - clarinet; Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain; Lennart Dohms - conductor.
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Since its founding in 1993, Collegium Novum Zürich has advanced to become one of the leading international ensembles for contemporary music. Just in time for their 25th anniversary, NEOS is releasing an exclusive collection of live recordings that represent the ensemble's programmatic identity. When selecting these works, preference was given to world premieres and first performances. Works by Vinko Globokar, Martin Jaggi, Sascha Janko Dragićević, and Marko Nikodijevic.
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In recent years, Maja Mijatović has tirelessly commissioned new compositions for her instrument, the harpsichord. This album contains the works of eight composers who not only come from different generations, but also strongly contrasting cultural backgrounds. This has resulted in a collection of pieces that demonstrate the great potential for discovery that the harpsichord still has to offer to new music. Features works by: Margareta Ferek-Petrić, Rafael Nassif, Christian Diendorfer, Sylvie Lacroix, Peter Jakober, Tamara Friebel, Manuela Kerer, and Hannes Dufek.
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The music of Wolfgang Jacobi is worth (re)discovering. Born in 1894 on the island of Rügen in Germany, he pursued university studies and worked in Berlin until his music was banned by the Nazis. Following a brief exile in Italy he resettled in Munich in 1935 where he played a significant role in the public music scene of the post-war era. Jacobi had a pronounced affinity for instruments considered unusual at the time such as the harpsichord, saxophone, and especially the accordion, his use of which is pioneering in contemporary music. In 2018, the Megève Festival Savoy Truffle dedicated a series of performances to Jacobi's music using prominent musicians. These performances, which include a world premiere recording of Jacobi's string quartet by the Arditti Quartet, are now being released on NEOS to commemorate his 125th birthday.
"Concerto for Harpsichord and Orchestra Op. 31 (1927/1947)" performed by: Andreas Skouras - harpsichord; Orchestre des Pays de Savoie; Sándor Károlyi - conductor; "Italian Songs for Soprano and Piano (1954)" performed by: Marion Grange - soprano; Ambroise de Rancourt - piano; "String Quartet (1948)" performed by Arditti Quartet (Irvine Arditti and Ashot Sarkissjan - violins; Ralf Ehlers - viola; Lucas Fels - violoncello); "Serenade and Allegro (1958)" performed by: Dimitri Bouclier - accordion; Union Accordéoniste Mixte Genève; Pierre-André Krummenacher - conductor.
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Ataç Sezer draws inspiration for his compositions from highly varied sources: the 24 different tonal systems of Turkish makam music, for which he has developed new forms of notation, and also from microtonality and electronic music. He likes to experiment with new playing techniques and loves combining Western and Eastern instruments. Ataç Sezer studied piano and musicology as well as the ney, the traditional flute of Ottoman court music. On Simultaneity, a portrait CD which offers an exclusive selection of chamber, ensemble and orchestral works, it becomes clear how present the influences of two musical traditions are in Sezer's work.
"mirror-reversed" performed by: Sercan Halili - kemençe; Young Euro Classic Festival Orchestra Turkey-Germany; Cem Mansur - conductor; "relativity of simultaneity" performed by: Soloists of Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; TrioCoriolis; "infinitimal" performed by Studio Musikfabrik; Peter Veale - conductor; "Toned Melisma" Münchener Kammerorchester; Alexander Liebreich - conductor; "time loop" performed by Johannes Öllinger - electric guitar; MGNM Festival Ensemble; Peter Hirsch - conductor; "A-Circle" performed by Stefanie Schumacher - accordion; TrioCoriolis.
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With his new CD, Quiet Stone, Laurie Altman abducts the listener into a musical world that is completely different to that of his previous three NEOS recordings. In a certain sense, his background as a jazz pianist shines through; Instead of large, fully composed works he offers miniatures with some improvised passages. The recordings are strongly characterized by the presence of a 13-string guitar belonging to Laurie Altman's stage partner of many years, Anders Miolin.
Performers includes: Andreas Kühnrich - cello; Laurie Altman - piano; Nedyalko Petkov - clarinet; Anders Miolin - 13-string guitar; Isabel Pfefferkorn - mezzo-soprano; Matthias Mueller - clarinet.
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The Slovenian clarinetist Uros Rojko and his compatriot, accordionist Luka Juhart, are performing composers -- as well as composing performers. They are both quite determined to leave this issue undetermined. They have known each other for many years, and, over time, a deep friendship has grown, which is documented on this CD. Their ensemble playing has a natural ease, but also a great intensity. They know and enjoy not only their own works, but those of the other. The program on this CD is supplemented with miniatures by Iris ter Schiphorst that currently belong to the standard repertoire for this special instrumentation. Personnel: Uros Rojko - clarinet; Luka Juhart - accordion.
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The organs that Hans Eugen Frischknecht plays on this CD are extraordinary, one-of-a-kind instruments. He wrote his compositions precisely for these instruments, turning each one's characteristic sound and capabilities into a main feature of each piece. Among these "special organs" are two quartertone organs, one is tuned in meantone temperament with split sharps and two prototypes from the INOV-ORGAN-UM research project. On these latter organs it is possible to adjust the air pressure, even after pressing the keys, to cause variations in the loudness and even pitch of the notes. Hans Eugen Frischknecht has traveled to many countries as an organist, often performing his own works. He studied with Boris Blacher and Michael Schneider, and later also with Olivier Messiaen in Paris.
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Stefan Schulzki is known for his especially creative implementation of live electronics. While this can be heard on Chamber Music, the program offers a much more comprehensive overview of Schulzki's work. The recording features chamber works with various instrumentations, from a simple piano song (a new setting of Goethe's "Erlkönig") to a piano concerto with chamber ensemble and electronics written in 2018, from the bitterly ironic Politisches Lied 2011 to the lyrically expressive theater music Die Zeit und das Zimmer (Botho Strauss). All of the recordings were studio productions except for the piano concerto, which is a live recording of the première.
"Piano Concerto (2018)" performed by: JU[MB]LE (Jugendensemble für Neue Musik Bayern); Vincent Neeb - piano; Stefan Schulzki - electronics; Johannes X. Schachtner - conductor. "Politisches Lied 2011 (2011)", with text by Norbert Niemann, performed by: Salome Kammer - mezzo-soprano; Alexander von Hagke - tenor saxophone; Claus-Dieter Jäkel - trombone; Johannes Öllinger - electric guitar; Stefan Schulzki - piano; Walter Bittner - percussion; Kai Wangler - accordion; Yasuka Morizono - violin; Uli Fiedler - double bass. "Widerschein II - fragment / auskopplung -- another place (2009)" performed by: Evgeni Orkin - soprano saxophone; Stefan Schulzki - Hammond organ and electronics. Erlkönig (2012) (4:45), with text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, performed by: Peter Schöne - baritone; Stefan Schulzki - piano. "Drei Epigramme nach Bertolt Brecht (2014)" performed by Beatrice Ottmann - soprano; Stefan Schulzki - electronics and piano. "Die Zeit und das Zimmer (2001)" performed by Aaron Dan - flute; Andrej Makiy - viola; Simonetta Ginelli - harp.
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The "mimicri" cycle is a central piece by the composer Charles Uzor, in many respects the quintessence of his work since the mid-2010s. Uzor, who was born in Nigeria and moved to Switzerland (where he now lives) at the age of 57, has engaged since 1995 with the music of Machaut and methods of defamiliarization using fixed media. "The phenomenon of concealment strikes me as a survival strategy", says Uzor, transferring the principles of disguise and mimicry as found in nature to his music. He not only takes nature as a formal model, but also borrows sounds from it and changes them, for example birdsong, which he electronically pitch shifts down eight octaves. The main part of the cycle, "Nri/ mimicri", is scored for Ondes Martenot, percussion quartet, and fixed media, with additional parts for piano and fixed media or only the latter. The world premiere recordings on this CD also include vocal music and chamber music in a variety of instrumentations. All in all, this double-CD offers a multi-faceted overview of Charles Uzor's work from the 2000s on. Performers: Caroline Ehret - Ondes Martenot; Ute Gareis - piano; Isabel Pfefferkorn - soprano; Elena Zhunke - violin; Illya Buyalskyy - piano; Percussion Art Ensemble Bern; Ensemble La Notte; SWR Vokalensemble, Rupert Huber - conductor.
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Intensity and precision of expression alongside brevity of form are particular sources of fascination for the soprano Katrin Frauchiger and the pianist Katharina Weber when it comes to the composition and interpretation of songs. Here they come together with Jürg Wyttenbach. With their rather simple character, his eight duettini are not entirely typical of his work, but in these pieces, all of which last between 34 and 71 seconds, he reveals himself once again as a master of concentrated theatrical effect. His cycle "Drei kurze Gebete an die japanische Göttin der Barmherzigkeit Kannon Bosatsu" ("Three Short Prayers to the Japanese Goddess of Compassion Kannon Bosatsu") is tailor-made for the Frauchiger-Weber duo and dedicated to them. Aside from Wyttenbach's songs, the CD also includes works by the two performers, as well as rarely-performed longs by Hanns Eisler and Alban Berg's "Seven Early Songs", rounding off the selection with musical contrasts. Songs by Jürg Wyttenbach, Katrin Frauchiger, Katharina Weber, Hanns Eisler, and Alban Berg. Personnel: Katrin Frauchiger - soprano; Katharina Weber - piano.
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"I build a house of time proportions and sounds, and hope that the music moves into it" says Erhard Grosskopf, "not like substance into a form, but rather like the spirit into the soul." The approach to time and proportions is such a central theme in Grosskopf's music because he usually eschews traditional formal structures. This CD features two large, roughly half-hour orchestral works laid out in very different ways, played by renowned performers: the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester conducted by Johannes Kalitzke, and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin conducted by Vykintas Baltakas. Also features Ursula Oppens on piano.
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The compositions gathered on Winternachtmusik feature piano and violoncello as solo instruments as well as in combination; they all were written during the last 25 years. They are all related and can be performed next to each other or, in some cases, even simultaneously. All these pieces are character pieces, they develop an individual, very precise atmosphere, and all of them describe a development: sometimes linearly, sometimes with interruptions; at times, with vehemence and like an explosion, at other times, tentatively and barely noticeable. The duo composition "Stücke über den Tod" (Pieces about Death) dates from a period where Martin Herchenröder's music openly commented on political and social issues. Personnel: Friedrich Gauwerky - violoncello; Severin von Eckardstein - piano.
Martin Herchenröder, composer, organist, and musicologist, is a professor at the University of Siegen. His compositions have been performed in Europe, Asia, and America by renowned artists. Besides concert tours as an organist his teaching activities brought him to almost all continents.
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The Donaueschingen Festival has been documented regularly by NEOS for many years. In the 2017 edition, the premiere of "Un calendrier révolu for 14 instruments" by Emmanuel Nunes is a particular highlight. Nunes, who composed the extensive work in 1968/69, only authorized its performance shortly before his death in 2012. Of course, the winner of the 2017 orchestral prize is also included: "Ez-tér (Es-Raum)" by Márton Illés.
Compositions featured: Emmanuel Nunes - "Un calendrier révolu" (1968/1969); Eivind Buene - "Lessons in Darkness" (2017); Andreas Dohmen - "a doppio movimento" (2016/2017); Márton Illés - "Ez-tér (Es-Raum)" (2014/2017); Chaya Czernowin - Guardian (2017).
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The music of Guillaume de Machaut and Philippe de Vitry was radically new over 650 years ago; Vitry himself coined the term "ars nova" for it. Now, Helge Slaatto (violin) and Frank Reinecke (double bass) show how closely the power of this music was connected to the common intonation system of the time, based on pure perfect fifths, which lead to highly tense thirds. Wolfgang Schweinitz examined this system for a long time and became one of the pioneers of just intonation. "Plain Sound Study I" can be considered the quintessential result of this work. Using the tiniest microtonal distinctions, for which he even developed his own notation system, he creates a music consisting purely of intervals derived from the harmonic series. The Slaatto-Reinecke duo, who have been specialists in just intonation for many years, draw a fascinating line from the Ars Nova of the 14th century to the new music of our time. Personnel: Helge Slaatto - violin; Frank Reinecke - double bass.
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Elisabeth Weinzierl and Edmund Wächter have been active "on the frontlines" of contemporary flute literature for decades. They have commissioned countless new works and premiered them in various formations, whether as the Munich Flute Duo, in a trio with piano, or as part of a larger group (Munich Flute Ensemble), using a whole range of instruments from piccolo to contrabass flute. This double-CD offers a unique view of the two musicians' work. The first CD features flute duos from the 20th century, from Hindemith to Cage to Isang Yun. The second CD, bearing the title "dedicated to...", contains works with varying instrumentation that were written for and dedicated to them.
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The long-anticipated premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's Requiem-Strophen (Requiem Verses) in March of 2017 was also a special debut, that of Mariss Jansons, principal conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducting his orchestra for the first time at the musica viva concert series. The live recording of this concert is being released as a co-production with BR Klassik, musica viva and NEOS. Rihm extends the liturgical Requiem text with, among others, three sonnets by Michelangelo and verses by Hans Sahl. Tradition is of considerable significance to Rihm, but in the sense of assimilating it, advancing it, and developing it. In this sense, Rihm's Requiem-Strophen are a highly personal approach to the Requiem genre by one of the most influential composers of our times. Personnel: Mojca Erdmann - soprano; Anna Prohaska - soprano; Hanno Müller-Brachmann - bass baritone; Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Mariss Jansons, conductor).
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Together with the outstanding Australian oboist Peter Veale, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf spent years working systematically on music for oboe, its playing techniques and tonal possibilities. The result is the 1994 method book, "The Techniques of Oboe Playing", which has become an authoritative work for oboists throughout the world. Mahnkopf has profound knowledge of this instrument and more than 25 years of experience with it. Vol. 7 of the NEOS Mahnkopf Edition is thus devoted to his compositions for oboe. The recorded works range from "Gorgoneion" for solo oboe from 1990 to the "Homage au hautbois" of 2013, which pays tribute not only to the oboe but also to Mahnkopf's longtime friend Peter Veale.
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The status Philipp Maintz has earned among composers of the younger generation is notable not least through the way the conductor Christoph Eschenbach advocates his music. In this edition, Eschenbach conducts two top orchestras: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Munich Philharmonic, in live recordings of premiere performances.
The 26-minute "tríptico vertical" for soprano and large orchestra was already recorded in Munich in 2014 -- with the excellent American soprano Marisol Montalvo (the work is dedicated to her and Eschenbach). The premiere of "hängende gärten (hanging gardens)" for large orchestra followed in Berlin in the summer of 2017. The title refers to one of the Seven Wonders of the World: the legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon of Assyrian Queen Semiramis. "hängende gärten" for large orchestra, is performed here by: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; Christoph Eschenbach - conductor. "tríptico vertical", music for soprano and large orchestra on poems by Roberto Juarroz is performed here by: Marisol Montalvo - soprano; Münchner Philharmoniker; Christoph Eschenbach - conductor.
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The Forum neuerMusik at Deutschlandfunk has been engaged in a cooperation with Cologne Academy of Music and Dance since 2009. At the center of focus is the formation of students called ensemble 20/21, led by Professor David Smeyers. Each year the ensemble participates at a special theme concert orientated on the issues of the festival. Frequently composition commissions were granted, often to students and graduates of the Cologne composition classes. But new works by long-established composers where also premiered at these concerts. This double-CD provides a representative selection of the world premieres since 2009 -- an impressive document of a pedagogical cooperation with the Academy which has attained great significance for Deutschland-funk. Features works composed by Niklas Seidl, Myunghoon Park, Lisa Streich, Georg Katzer, Julián Quintero Silva, Hirofumi Matsuzawa, Atli Ingólfsson, Daniel Cueto, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Samir Odeh-Tamimi, and Damian Scholl.
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Between 1989 and 2013, Swiss composer Andreas Pflüger composed a series of works for violin and piano that are highly divergent in style. These works are brought together in this recording and range from a virtuoso piece "... Steine ... (Stones)", which exhausts virtually all possibilities of violin playing, to the "Sonata 1993", in which the composer applies the sonata form in direct and pure tonal language, and also includes his most recent work, "Fünf Stücke (Five Pieces)" for two violins and piano. In each of them, complex musical sequences develop from motivic cells, or "nuclei" in a certain sense. Several of the works on this CD are dedicated to violinist Katharina Schamböck, who recorded them here.
Born in Basel in 1941, Andreas Pflüger made a name for himself internationally not least as a composer for the stage (with seven operas and two ballets), although he has also composed numerous works for orchestra and chamber music ensembles, as well as about 120 film scores. He has been invited as a composer and guest lecturer to many European countries, Japan, South America, and the US.
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In this unusual recording Andreas Skouras demonstrates the tremendous range of tonal and expressive possibilities offered by the harpsichord. The program is highly personal but also dramaturgically cogent: A selection from the sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti is juxtaposed with four works from the 20th century which could hardly be more different. People do not actually associate Ysang Yun with the harpsichord -- this makes the way he works with the instrument in "Shao Yang Yin" from 1966 all the more surprising. The Finnish composer Jukka Tiensuu on the other hand is an excellent harpsichordist himself, and his "Etudes" display his profound knowledge of the instrument. Also featured on this CD: The suite from the opera "Capriccio" by Richard Strauss as well as Minas Borboudakis's "Hommage à Picasso", which he composed for his countryman Andreas Skouras in 2003.
Andreas Skouras, born in 1972 in Salonica (Greece), studied piano with Professor Franz Massinger and harpsichord with Professor Lars Ulrik Mortensen and Professor Ketil Haugsand at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts. Concert appearances, CD, radio, and television productions as pianist and harpsichordist with orchestra or solo, in chamber music and Lied recitals regularly lead him throughout Europe to festivals such as Early Music in London, Festival Aix-en-Provence, Gidon Kremer's Lockenhaus, les muséiques in Basel, Sacrum Profanum in Krakow, Bluval Festival, Summer Concerts between Danube and Altmühl, MDR Music Summer as well as to the United States, where among others he has performed in New York's Carnegie Recital Hall. Andreas Skouras teaches harpsichord at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts. He was awarded the music scholarship of the City of Munich and the Bavarian Arts Prize.
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On the tenth anniversary of Horațiu Rădulescu's death on September 25th 2018, NEOS present a comprehensive document of a wonderful artistic friendship will be released: the complete recording of Rădulescu's piano music, featuring the pianist Ortwin Stürmer. Horațiu Rădulescu, born in Bucharest on January 7th, lived in French exile from 1969 and became one of the leading exponents of spectralism; nonetheless, his music also has unmistakable roots in his home country of Romania. He was considered a sonic magician, a "philosopher of sound". One of his decisive encounters, in 1990, was with Ortwin Stürmer; it was for him that Rădulescu composed the second, third, and fourth of the Zen-inspired Lao tzu Sonatas, as well as the large-scale piano concerto "The Quest". It would have been wrong not to include the latter in this SACD box set -- with the same musicians as the premiere, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Lother Zagrosek.
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Clemens von Reusner creates acousmatic worlds in which natural and synthetic objects exist side by side. He uses different programs that make free work possible in the realm of sounds, where samples, synthesis and resynthesis work together, develop accelerate and slow each other down, always with great determination. He works with sounds that he disjects, puts back together and places in rooms out of which they flow or into which they grow. "Anamorphosis", "Definierte Lastbedingung", "KRIT"m and "Topos Concrete" are genuine eight-channel productions. Attention to compositional sense and sonic transparency is always maintained in the stereo versions, even though the ambiance of the sound movements achieved by the ambisonic procedure only opens up completely in the five-channel versions of the SACD, and especially in the eight-channel concert version. "HO", "Dry Friction", and "Sphären der Untätigkeit" are originally mixed in two channel stereo. The SACD multichannel layer therefore also features these mixes in two channel stereo.
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"In my ears, there is a potential musicality in any sound appearing in our everyday reality, and my method is to develop them into resilient actions performed by instruments and acoustic objects", says Malin Bång, Swedish composer and a founding member of the Curious Chamber Players (that can be heard on this CD). Her close connection with the musicians allows intense experimentation. She creates a spectrum of unpredictable and contrasting actions, ranging from the intimate and barely audible to the harsh and obstinate. In her work, she often incorporates acoustic objects to expand the sound world and to suggest that a musical content can be shaped by anything valuable to the artistic purpose. Malin Bång resides in Stockholm. Her work includes music for instrumental ensembles, orchestra, electronic music based on field recordings, and instrumental performance pieces. Lately she has specifically explored the mixed, amplified instrumental ensemble extended with acoustic objects in collaboration with the members of Curious Chamber Players. Her works are performed worldwide. She is regular visiting professor and lecturer at the composition faculty of the Göteborg University. "structures of molten light" features alto flute, bass clarinet, percussion/radio, piano/radio, guitar, violin, cello as performed by Curious Chamber Players; "arching" features amplified cello and amplified tools (wooden plank, rasp, saw, file, marker), as well as electronics, as performed by UmeDuo; "palinode" features amplified ensemble of bass flute, bass clarinet, cello and three objects: metal sculpture, vase and swing, as performed by Curious Chamber Players; "purfling" features amplified violin and electronics, performed by: Karin Hellqvist - violin; "jasmonate" features amplified ensemble of piccolo flute, bass clarinet, percussion/writing pad, inside piano/typewriter, tabletop guitar, violin, cello, and two hour glasses, as performed by Curious Chamber Players.
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