hat[now]ART
Contemporary composition and new music.
The contemporary classical division of hatOLOGY records of Switzerland is known for its distinctive cover art, authoritative liner notes, and pioneering collection of music by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Charles Ives, Australian composer Liza Lim, Cornelius Cardew and other 20th and 21st-century heavyweights. hat [now] ART is the finest European label devoted to musical composition of the here and now, ideal for listeners who relish the challenge and shock of the new.
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In Fraser’s performance, space opens up between your ears and the recorded environment, terrain into which the music unfolds —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Heard here in an outstanding performance by the Ives Ensemble, Feldman’s Trio (1980) is deliciously confounding, full of formal ambiguity and a certain elusive playfulness. —
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Special offer. Michael Finnissy: Choralvorspiele & Andersen-Liederkreis
Mark Knoop (piano), Juliet Fraser (soprano)
The piano-writing [in Choralvorspiele] ranges from manic to stark: from the note-spinning of the fifth movement, reminiscent of the ‘High’ Baroque at its most obsessive, to, at the other extreme,... —
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...as broodingly monumental as any Wagnerian myth...The libretto is delivered by soprano Sarah Leonard either in monotone individual syllables, or elided up and down the scale. The effect is... —
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Special offer. Cornelius Cardew - Material
Jim Baker, Carrie Biolo, Jeb Bishop, Michael Cameron, Guillermo Gregorio, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Lou Mallozi, Jeff Parker, Jen Paulson, Warren Po, Amy Williams, Art Lange
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Special offer. Ustvolskaya: Trio For Violin, Clarinet And Piano
Reinbert De Leeuw (piano), Vera Beths (violin) & Harmen De Boer (clarinet)
De Leeuw and his fellow musicians give forceful and precise performances in this first recording of this deeply courageous and unrelentingly sombre music to be made outside Russia. —
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Its exploration not just of sound but, as it were, the intelligence of sonority (acoustics becoming poetry), seems ideal mood music, but one can’t stop listening. —
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Pi-hsien Chen is an accomplished pianist, steeped in 18th and 20th century repertoires, and she knows how to treat their different sounds with the appropriate respect —
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