New Releases

[Todd]

I don't know about the Hahn though.

It's hot off the presses.  The others are just being reissued or given refreshed dates.

[Brian]

With one exception, June/July on BIS will be a very contemporary month.



Pettersson artists:
Ulf Wallin, Sueye Park, Daniel Vlashi Lukaçi, German Tcakulov, Alexander Wollheim, Thomas Hoppe

[Que]

With one exception, June/July on BIS will be a very contemporary month.

The exception looks interesting! 

[Mandryka]

Fausto Romitelli inter alia

[Mandryka]

A piano realisation of Stockhausen's Plus Minus inter alia

[Mandryka]

A couple of French suites in the tense loud manner on the basis of five mins.

[Mandryka]

Seems quite interesting.

[Mandryka]

Pretentious? Moi?

An electroacoustic meditation on the afterlife as a kind of continually evolving sonic universe within which the spirit floats freely, carried along in the arms of the sound itself. Pape weaves a slowly evolving lullaby made of complex and ethereal timbral utterances. Each cry seems to stretch out into eternity, the extremely long release of each sound seems to reach toward a future that never arrives. The sound material is derived entirely from samples of a Waterphone, a remarkable instrument invented in the 1960s by american artist Richard Waters. The instrument functions on the principle of a steel resonator containing a small amount of water which is surrounded by a series of various sized bronze rods which can be struck or bowed, creating an arrangement of overtones. Commissioned to mark the occasion of the total solar eclipse on 29 March 2006, Heliophonie follows a strict temporal structure that is inspired by studies in astrophysies describing the various stages of the evolution of the sun. Both works are first recordings.

[Mandryka]

Just for @Que

[Mandryka]

As far as I'm concerned, if it's got The Rose Consort, I've got to hear it at least once.

[pjme]

beautiful, deeply felt and strong music!



It has been issued before  and included Eschers "Summer rites at noon" (completed and arr. Jan van Vlijmen).

mesmerizing, incantatory, lyrical, sad...tragic...

[vandermolen]

July. Looks like a must-purchase for me.

For me too!

[Todd]

[Roy Bland]

It seems better Naxos

[Brian]

JULY STUFF

[Holden]

The live recording from Lim of the Liszt TEs is fabulous. I have recordings by Trifonov, Ovchinnikov and Arrau and this matches all of them.

[Brian]

21 CDs
Die legendäre DG Avantgarde Vinylserie (1968-1971) wird 55 Jahre alt und erscheint zu diesem Anlass erstmals als 21 CD-Edition. Sie dient als historisches Dokument für eine Zeit des radikalen Wandels musikalischen Denkens und des Sprengens künstlerischer Grenzen. Mit der Frage ,,Was ist Musik?" konfrontierten sich viele der an der Serie beteiligten Komponisten und Musiker, und der antiautoritäre Geist der 60er und 70er Jahre war ein spürbarer Einfluss. Die Avantgarde Serie der Deutschen Grammophon spiegelt alle so entstandenen Strömungen ohne ästhetische Abgrenzungen genre- und besetzungsübergreifend wider: große Orchesterwerke stehen neben kammermusikalischen und solistischen Formen, elektronischer Musik und Improvisationen.
Präsentiert wird die Edition in ihren originalen farbenfrohen Designs des renommierten Grafikdesigners Holger Matthies. Ein 186-seitiges Booklet mit den originalen Kommentaren (EN, DE) von Komponisten und Spezialisten sowie Fotos der Künstler aus dem DG-Archiv begleiten die Aufnahmen.
Highlights umspannen Kanon-Werke György Ligetis wie sein Chorwerk ,,Lux aeterna", Luciano Berios ,,Sequenza V" mit Vinko Globokar an der Posaune, eine Simultaneinspielung dreier Werke John Cages und einige wegweisende und monumentale elektronische Werke, wie Luigi Nonos ,,Contrappunto dialettico alla mente" oder Leo Küppers ,,Automatismes sonores".

or as Google Translate would have us believe,

The legendary DG Avantgarde vinyl series (1968-1971) is 55 years old and is being released for the first time as a 21 CD edition. It serves as a historical document for a time of radical change in musical thinking and the blasting of artistic boundaries. The question "What is music?" confronted many of the composers and musicians involved in the series, and the anti-authoritarian spirit of the '60s and '70s was a noticeable influence. Deutsche Grammophon's avant-garde series reflects all of the currents that emerged in this way, without aesthetic distinctions, across genres and instrumentations: large orchestral works stand alongside chamber music and solo forms, electronic music and improvisations.
The edition is presented in its original colorful designs by the renowned graphic designer Holger Matthies. A 186-page booklet with the original comments (EN, DE) by composers and specialists as well as photos of the artists from the DG archive accompanies the recordings.
Highlights include canon works by György Ligeti such as his choral work Lux aeterna, Luciano Berio's Sequenza V with Vinko Globokar on trombone, a simultaneous recording of three works by John Cage and some seminal and monumental electronic works such as Luigi Nono's Contrappunto dialettico alla mente ' or Leo Küpper's 'Automatismes sonores'.

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For those of you who missed the previous Big Fricsay Boxes:





another random newcomer I spotted

[Bachtoven]

Looks great! A July release.

[Symphonic Addict]

[Symphonic Addict]

Sorry if these releases have been mentioned already: