Finnissy, Michael

Gloria Coates: String Quartets Nos. 1-9 / Kreutzer Quartet

3 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2012-08-28

Works: Gloria Coates: Quartet for Strings no 5; Quartet for Strings no 1; Quartet for Strings no 6; Quartet for Strings no 7 for Quartet for Strings & organ ("Angels"); Quartet for Strings no 2; Quartet for...
Performers: Adams, Philip; Chadwick, Roderick; Heyde, Neil; Skaerved, Peter Sheppard
Conductors: ; Finnissy, Michael
Ensemble: ; Kreutzer String Quartet

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At long last, the aural equivalent to Salvador Dali's melted watches! Gloria Coates (b. 1939)...continue...

Darmstadt Aural Documents Box 1: Composers - Conductors

6 CD / Neos Production / 2010-11-05

Works: Spoken Word: Introductory speech by Earle Brown; Earle Brown: Available Forms I for 18 instruments; René Leibowitz: Kammersymphonie, for 12 instruments, Op. 16; Wolfgang Fortner: Mitte des Leb...
Performers: Appenheimer, Yoma; Arden, David; Assmann, Klaus; Bauer, Adam; Blum, Eberhard; Bottner, Karlheinz; Brown, Earle [Composer]; Caskel, Christoph; Cazauran, Jacques; Clapperton, James; Deinzer, Hans; Dier...
Conductors: Brown, Earle [Composer]; Leibowitz, René; Fortner, Wolfgang; Krenek, Ernst; Maderna, Bruno; Stockhausen, Karlheinz; Otte, Hans; Pousseur, Henri; Kagel, Mauricio; Boulez, Pierre; Brün, Her...
Ensemble: ; Ensemble Köln; Internationales Kammerensemble Darmstadt; Ixion Ensemble; Klangforum Wien; MusikFabrik; Mutare Ensemble; Ungarisches Kammerensemble Budapest

We do not ordinarily associate the terms "cultural heritage" or "cultural legacy" with works, objects and materials of recent vintage, but rather with things unearthed...continue...

American Classics - Coates: String Quartets Vol 2

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2004-01-01

Works: Gloria Coates: Quartet for Strings no 7 for Quartet for Strings & organ ("Angels"); Quartet for Strings no 2; Quartet for Strings no 8; Quartet for Strings no 4; Quartet for Strings no 3
Performers: Adams, Philip
Conductors: Finnissy, Michael
Ensemble: Kreutzer String Quartet

"No one is writing music quite like this!" - Detroit Free Press...continue...

Finnissy: Mars + Venus, etc / Finnissy, Mutter, Ixion

1 CD / NMC Classics / 1999-02-04

Works: Michael Finnissy: Traum des Sängers; WAM; Enek; Mars and Venus
Performers: Mutter, Charles
Conductors: Finnissy, Michael
Ensemble: Ixion Ensemble