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Sciarrino: Le Stagioni artificiali; Centauro marino / Gloger: contraltist; Longobardi: piano; Rogliano, violin

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2012-04-10

Works: Salvatore Sciarrino: Le stagioni artificiali, for violin, flute, clarinet, piano, viola, cello, piano & percussion; Centauro marino, for fortepiano, flute, clarinet, piano, violin, viola, cello & per...
Performers: Caroli, Mario; Cesari, Matteo; Dimitriou, Chrissy; Faralli, Jonathan; Gloger, Daniel; Longobardi, Ciro; Murakami, Keiko; Rogliano, Marco
Conductors: Angius, Marco
Ensemble: Ensemble Algoritmo; Lost Cloud Quartet

A new monographic album devoted to the great Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino, including a new version of "Studi per l'intonazione del mare."...continue...

East Travel: Antonio Carlos Jobim

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2011-06-14

Works: Norman Gimbel: How Insensitive; Antonio Carlos Jobim: Cancâo De Amor Demais; Wave, song; Por causa de voce; A Felicidade; Sabi; Corcovado, song; Triste; Look to the Sky; Chega de Saudade; Garota...
Performers: Gurtu, Trilok; Marzi, Mario; Sanesi, Federico; Zanchini, Simone

A fascinating voyage dedicated to A. C. Jobim, the "poet of music" who was among the first to create a universal musical language starting from...continue...
Recording information: Digitubestudio, Mantova, Italy (04/2010).

The packaging of the CD version of this little Italian release gives no information about how it came about, other than the fact...continue...

Child Of Tree

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2010-09-14

Works: Salvatore Sciarrino: Il legno e la parola, for marimba; John Cage: Child of Tree, for percussionist & amplified plants; Branches, for amplified plants and any number of players; Recorded Sound: Silen...
Performers: Mancuso, Simone

This record is entirely devoted to wood percussion, of which Simone Mancuso is a leading specialist....continue...

Giulio Castagnoli: Missa Sancti Evasii

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2010-08-10

Works: Giulio Castagnoli: Missa Sancti Evasii, for solo voices, chorus & orchestra; Cantico Notturno, for 12 voices, percussion & electronics; Canti Pisani (3), for 6 voices, percussion & electronics; Madri...
Performers: Balbinutti, Riccardo; Hein, Folkmar; Omar, Maurizio Ben; Prati, Walter
Conductors: Chiavazza, Claudio; Jais, Ruben; Pavese, Carlo; Peelman, Roland
Ensemble: ; Hong Kong Virtuosi; Syrin Ensemble, Stockholm

This new release from Stradivarius includes one of Castagnoli's newest masterpieces, the Missa Sancti Evasii (2007), in which he melts together an ecstatic religious, joyous...continue...
Recording information: Studioclassic di Emilio Borsoi....continue...

Chamber Music

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2010-01-12

Works: Salvatore Sciarrino: Lo spazio inverso (Inverse Space), for flute, clarinet, violin, cello & celesta; Claudio Ambrosini: De vulgari eloquentia, for piano, flute, clarinet, violin, viola & cello; Aldo...
Performers: Bussotti, Sylvano; Dellisanti, Annunziata; Miotto, Carlo; Paladin, Mario
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ex Novo Ensemble

Memory, recall, discovery, and visions of the future run through this CD. Over a 30-year period, this ensemble has portrayed and inspired the continuation and...continue...

Toshio Hosokawa: Tabi-bito, Sen no 6, Die Lotosblume / Takaseki, Nakamura, Cologne WDR SO, et al

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2008-11-11

Works: Toshio Hosokawa: Tabi-bito "Wanderer"; Sen no 6; Die Lotosblume
Performers: Nakamura, Isao
Conductors: Takeseki, Ken; Huber, Rupert

These world premiere recordings are of major works by a prominent composer: Toshio Hosokawa. A new Stradivarius co-production with the prestigious WDR3 radio channel....continue...

Percussion Masterpieces - Reich, Stockhausen, Cage, etc / Rivolta, I Percussionisti della Scala

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2008-09-09

Works: Steve Reich: Drumming, for 2 female voices, piccolo, 4 pairs of bongos, 3 marimbas & 3 glockenspiels; Carlos Chávez: Tambuco for Six Percussion Players; Karlheinz Stockhausen: Zyklus; John Cage:...
Performers: Omar, Maurizio Ben
Conductors: Rivolta, Renato
Ensemble: La Scala Theater Percussionists

This collection of percussion masterpieces composed between 1931 and 1971, are performed by the best group of percussionists in Italy....continue...

Casale: Studio 1 for Horn, Studio 2a for Bass Recorder, etc

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2008-01-08

Works: Emanuele Casale: 9, for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano & percussion; Studio 2a, for flute; Studio 1, for horn; Composition for 5 instruments, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello & piano;...
Performers: Caggiano, Antonio; Caroli, Mario; Clementi, Anna; Gallois, Pascal; Garmark, Maria Sook; Melbye, Svend; Persia, Maurizio; Politano, Antonio; Polo, Angelo
Conductors: Bernasconi, Giorgio;
Ensemble: Ex Novo Ensemble; Icarus Ensemble

A portrait of a shining star among young Italian composers! The chamber music of Emanuele Casale is full of frantic microevents and hit-and-run playful counterpoints....continue...

Scelsi Collection Vol 1 - Maknongan, etc / Fabbriciani

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2007-10-09

Works: Giacinto Scelsi: Maknongan; Quartet for Strings no 2; Riti "Ritual March", version for Achilles, for 4 percussionists; Illustrazione (4), for piano; Riti "Ritual March", version for Charlemagne, for ...
Performers: Dillon, Francesco; Fabbriciani, Roberto; Ottaviucci, Fabrizio; Ricevuto, Fulvia
Conductors: Cocco, Enrico

The first in a series of recordings devoted to the music of Giacinto Scelsi, devised by Stradivarius in conjunction with the Isabella Scelsi Foundation. The...continue...

Elements - Nicola Sani / Fabbriciani, Nakamura, Pizzo

2 CD / Stradivarius / 2007-06-12

Works: Nicola Sani: Wassererinnerungen, for bass flute & electronics; Windstille, for double-bass flute, organ & electronics; Terra, for percussion & electronics; Con Fuoco, for hyperbass flute & electronics
Performers: Fabbriciani, Roberto; Nakamura, Isao; Pizzo, Oscar; Sani, Nicola

Contemporary Italian composer Nicola Sani produced this work for the Acoustic Art Studio of West German Radio. The four movements represent the traditional four elements...continue...

Henze: El Cimarrón / Isherwood, Andersson, Caroli, Rossi

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2007-05-08

Works: Hans Werner Henze: El Cimarron
Performers: Andersson, Magnus; Caroli, Mario; Rossi, Rodolfo

Rare complete recording of Henze's 1972 "recital for four musicians," El Cimarron, which means "runaway slave." This dramatic piece features a baritone portraying the real-life...continue...

Ferneyhough: Funérailles / Vis, Ensemble Recherche, Arditti

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2006-09-12

Works: Brian Ferneyhough: Funérailles (Version 1) for string sextet, double bass, and harp; Bone Alphabet, for percussion; Unsichtbare Farben, for violin; Funérailles (Version 2) for 7 strings & h...
Performers: Arditti, Irvine; Dierstein, Christian
Conductors: Vis, Lucas
Ensemble: Ensemble Recherche; Recherche Ensemble

Born in 1943, Brian Ferneyhough is a renowned British composer of mostly orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works that have been performed throughout the...continue...

Battistelli: Experimentum Mundi

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2006-05-09

Works: Giorgio Battistelli: Experimentum Mundi, opera di musica immaginistica
Performers: Calcagni, Paola; Raffone, Nicola; Sannibale, Ida; Severini, Annarita; Tamburri, Elvira

The works of Giorgio Battistelli (b. 1953) are often linked to the theater, and even his instrumental works are highly dramatic, with various instruments and...continue...

Willy Merz: Dépaysements / Perl, et al

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2006-01-10

Works: Willy Merz: Maftir, for viola da gamba; Mizmor, for piano; Le Divan oriental-occidental, 4 chansons for voice & piano; Dhil, for double bass; Pardes, for solo percussion; Dung, for bassoon; Reng, for...
Performers: Barbuti, Cristina; Campanella, Linda; Chenna, Diego; Merz, Willy; Miroglio, Thierry; Perl, Hille; Rossi, Danilo

'Depaysements' is a cycle of pieces expressing abandonment and loss between one scenic image and another. It also explores contrasts between 'high-brow' Western music and...continue...