Kairos
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Liza Lim: Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus
Sophie Schafleitner (violin), Lorelei Dowling (bassoon), Klangforum Wien, Peter Rundel, Stefan Asbury
This portrait disc is a primer on Lim’s music. At 40 minutes, Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus is the centrepiece. Lim draws connections between enormous gyres of plastic rubbish swirling in... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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Peter Jakober: Substantie
Michael Moser (cello), Annelie Gahl (violin)
Asasello Quartet & Klangforum Wien, Bas Wiegers
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Toshio Hosokawa
Kyoko Kawamura (voice), Asako Urushihara (violin), Johannes Ernst (saxophone)
musikFabrik, Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
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Friedrich Cerha: Nacht & Drei Orchesterstücke
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln & WR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Emilio Pomárico & Jukka-Pekka Saraste
The SWR Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden and Freiburg, is in fine form, from delicately tolling tubular bells via Bergen woodwind lyricism to immense brass chords —
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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Lachenmann: Salut für Caudwell, Les Consolations & Concertini
Wilhelm Bruck (guitar) & Theodor Ross (guitar), Schola Heidelberg, WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln
Klangforum Wien, Johannes Kalitze
The orchestra or large ensemble (or, one might say, Lachenmann's consummate mastery of it) is the very subject of the most recent piece here, Concertini...It's difficult to over-praise the commitment... —
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Olga Neuwirth: Miramondo Multiplo
Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet), Antoine Tamestit (viola)
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Wiener Philharmoniker, Ingo Metzmacher, Susanna Mälkki, Daniel Harding
As Neuwirth’s stock rises, her Viennese lineage is more visible...Composed with Neuwirth’s characteristic attention to linking small-scale detail and large-scale development, Remnants of Songs... —
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...one of the most important European contributions to the genre in the last 30 years. ...The quartet writing is wonderfully varied in its textures and colours, while its harmonic world, constantly... —
