Wergo
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This composer obviously feels things deeply and believes in traditional “expression.” But the sort of frenetic jagged eruptions one hears in the first movement are at least as much a fruit of... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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The trio admirably presenting itself here is the unusual combination of piano (Nicolas Hodges), sax (Marcus Weiss) and percussion (Christian Dierstein), and the stylistic orientation is European... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Manoury: lab.oratorium
Rinnat Moriah (soprano), Tora Augestad (mezzo-soprano), Patrycia Ziolkowska, Sebastian Rudolph (actor), SWR Vokalensemble, lab.chor, IRCAM, Nicolas Stemann, Gurzenich-Orchester Koln, Francois-Xavier Roth
As a j’accuse aimed at the arrogance of European governments and attitudes, lab.oratorium hits home with force and a certain nervous tension between deeply felt aesthetic and moral imperatives. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Contemporary
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Worth hearing, but no real challenge to earlier recensions of Mahler’s sketches —
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Fall: Edition Musikfabrik, Vol. 16
Carl Rosman (clarinet)
Ensemble Musikfabrik, Diego Masson, Clement Power, Emilio Pomarico
Though couched in a complex style and flaunting intellectual subtexts (its cover reproducing a Gerhard Richter abstract), these works — the others being Stephan Winkler’s Von der Gewissensnot... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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Schneider: Orbe Rotundo
Münchner MotettenChor, Sandra Moon, Robert Sellier, Todd Boyce, Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Hayko Siemens
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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New. Hübner: Crunch
Spółdzielnia Muzyczna Contemporary Ensemble, AuditivVokal Dresden, Leonhard Garms, Olaf Katzer
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Cvijović: Vida
Sebastian Berweck, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Trio Splitsignals Berlin, Enno Poppe, Gregor A. Mayrhofer
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Reimann: Ein Traumspiel / Denn Bleiben ist nirgends
Hofer Symphoniker, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Walter E. Gugerbauer, Manuel Nawri
Overall, these are skilled, diligent performances of both of Reimann's scores, made by two orchestras with different conductors in 2018 and 2014 respectively. Indeed, the orchestral writing... —
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