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Alexander Goehr: Colossos or Panic; The Deluge; etc. / Hilary Summers, Clair Booth

1 CD / NMC Classics / 2012-05-29

Works: Alexander Goehr: Colossos or Panic, for orchestra; The Deluge, cantata for 2 voices & orchestra, Op. 7; Little Symphony, Op. 15
Performers: Booth, Claire
Conductors: Knussen, Oliver
Ensemble: ASKO Ensemble; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; Schoenberg Ensemble

To celebrate Alexander Goehr's 80th birthday this year, BBC Radio 3 commissioned a new orchestral work which was premiered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra on...continue...
Recording information: CBSO Centre, Birmingham (01/31/2010); Grote Zaal, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (01/31/2010); Studio 1, BBC Maida Vale, London, England (01/31/2010); CBSO Centre, Birmingham (04/22/2...continue...

Gorecki: Kleines Requiem; Lerchenmusik

1 CD / Newton Classics / 2011-05-31

Works: Henryk Mikolaj Górecki: Kleines Requiem for a Polka (for piano and 13 instruments), Op. 66; Lerchenmusik for clarinet, cello & piano, Op. 53 ("Recitatives & Ariosos")
Performers: Boer, Harmen de; Groeneveld, Larissa; Leeuw, Reinbert de
Conductors: Leeuw, Reinbert de
Ensemble: Schoenberg Ensemble

Gorecki (1933 - 2010) became best known for his Symphony No.3, the 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs' that became a hit in the 1990s, tapping into...continue...
Recording information: Amsterdam (11/1993)....continue...

Donaueschinger Musiktage 2006, Vol. 4 [Hybrid SACD]

1 Super Audio CD / Neos Production Import / 2010-03-23

Works: Mauricio Kagel: Divertimento?, a farce for ensemble; Alberto Posadas: Anamorfosis, for large ensemble
Conductors: Leeuw, Reinbert de
Ensemble: Schoenberg Ensemble

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Holnd Fstvl - A Dutch Miracle - Fifty Years - 1947-1997

7 CD / Globe / 2009-09-01

Works: Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola; Il barbiere di Siviglia; Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera; Ernani; Falstaff; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492...
Performers: Alva, Luigi; Ameling, Elly; Andreolli, Florindo; Andriessen, Louis; Arnaud, Claudine; Barbieri, Fedora; Barick, David; Barwahser, Hubert; Beekman, Marcel; Benschop, Yvonne; Berberian, Cathy; Beretty,...
Conductors: Giulini, Carlo Maria; Molinari-Pradelli, F.; Rescigno, Nicola; Abbado, Claudio; Maderna, Bruno; De Waart, Edo; Berio, Luciano; Britten, Benjamin; Alldis, John; Duffalo, Richard; Friesen, Heinz; Leeuw...
Ensemble: American Wind Orchestra; ASKO Ensemble; Bologna Teatro Comunale Chorus; Danzi Woodwind Quintet; English Opera Group; Ensemble InterContemporain; Ensemble Modern; Hague Residentie Orchestra; Instrumen...

Leeuw: Im wunderschönen Monat Mai / Sukowa, et al

1 CD / Winter & Winter / 2007-10-09

Works: Reinbert de Leeuw: Im wunderschönen Monat Mai
Performers: Leeuw, Reinbert de; Sukowa, Barbara
Conductors:
Ensemble: Schoenberg Ensemble

Conductor and pianist Reinbert de Leeuw based his composition, Im wunderschonen Monat Mai, on German romantic songs by Schubert and Schumann. Barbara Sukowa and the...continue...

Klaas de Vries: A King, Riding [Hybrid SACD]

2 Super Audio CD / Composers' Voice Import / 2007-04-03

Works: Klaas de Vries: A King, Riding, scenic oratorio
Performers: Hardy, Rosemary; Kale, Stuart [Tenor Vocal]; Rameker, Bruce; Saffer, Lisa; van der Kamp, Harry; Vries, Gerrie de
Conductors: Leeuw, Reinbert de
Ensemble: ASKO Ensemble; Schoenberg Ensemble

Kagel: Quirinus' Liebeskuss, Serenade, Doppelsextett

1 CD / Winter & Winter / 2007-03-13

Works: Mauricio Kagel: Quirinus' Liebeskuss; Serenade, for 3 players; Doppelsextett, for ensemble
Performers: Jurriaanse, Govert; Utrecht, Paul Van
Conductors: Leeuw, Reinbert de
Ensemble: Schoenberg Ensemble

On December 24, 2006, great contemporary composer Mauricio Kagel celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. For this event, Winter & Winter produced The Mauricio Kagel Edtion-a limited,...continue...

Andriessen: Writing to Vermeer

2 CD / Warner Classics / 2006-04-11

Works: Louis Andriessen: Writing to Vermeer
Performers: Bickley, Susan; Duijkeren, Brenda van; Epen, Wendy van; Greve, Melanie; Hannigan, Barbara; Kistemaker, Jan; Makuuchi, Tomoko; Narucki, Susan; Niels, Marjolein; Noorduyn, Violet Serena; Schroevers, Ja...
Conductors: Leeuw, Reinbert de
Ensemble: ASKO Ensemble; Schoenberg Ensemble

Writing To Vermeer is the sixth Nonesuch release from Louis Andriessen, the most highly regarded contemporary composer working in the Netherlands today, an influential and...continue...

Kagel: Die Stücke der Windrose / Leeuw, Schönberg Ensemble

1 CD / Winter & Winter / 2005-02-01

Works: Mauricio Kagel: Die Stücke der Windrose (The Compass Pieces), for salon orchestra
Conductors: Leeuw, Reinbert de
Ensemble: Schoenberg Ensemble

"No contemporary composer is more skilled at suggesting magical vistas and social, ethnic perspectives without any hint of mawkishness than Mauricio Kagel... these are vividly...continue...

Andriessen: Rosa - The Death of a Composer

2 CD / Warner Classics / 2000-05-16

Works: Louis Andriessen: Rosa
Performers: Andriessen, Louis; Angel, Marie; Gillett, Christopher; Kralingen, Miranda van
Conductors: Leeuw, Reinbert de
Ensemble: ASKO Ensemble; Schoenberg Ensemble

Right from the first notes of the overture, "Rosa" has an urgency you won't find in most new operas. We hear a tenor saxophone, sounding...continue...
REVIEWS:

New York Times (Publisher) (7/9/00, p.23) - "...[Andriessen's] music is as strongly pulsed, short-phrased and repetitive as Philip Glass's, but it comes out of a sourer and darker harm...continue...

Andriessen: De Materie / De Leeuw, Schoenberg Ensemble

2 CD / Warner Classics / 1996-09-24

Works: Louis Andriessen: De Materie, opera
Performers: Doing, James; Narucki, Susan
Conductors: Leeuw, Reinbert de
Ensemble: Schoenberg Ensemble

"De Materie (Matter) is a four-part musical-theatre work written 1984-88 by Dutch composer Louis Andriessen...Much of this music is based on blocks of repetitive chordal...continue...

Andriessen: De Stijl, M is for Man Music Mozart / De Leeuw

1 CD / Warner Classics / 1994-08-09

Works: Louis Andriessen: De Stijl; M is for Man, Music, Mozart, for voice & orchestra
Performers: Seriese, Astrid; Thoma, Gertrude
Conductors: Leeuw, Reinbert de; Hempel, Jurgen
Ensemble: ; Schoenberg Ensemble