Listening Room 03
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Sciarrino, Salvatore: Canzona di ringraziamento
Don't miss this solo piece: a beautiful gratitude song for the flute.
Romitelli, Fausto: Flowing down too slow
Nothing to add or remove from the title: 'Flowing Down Too Slow.'
Sánchez-Verdú, José M.: Paisajes del Placer y de la Culpa
Landscapes of Pleasure and Blame. VERY special atmosphere.
Bauckholt, Carola: Laufwerk
“Mechanical devices”: carefully constructing a coherent whole from essential parts.
Ligeti, György: Piano Concerto
A cavalcade of instruments? After a few listens, you'll feel that all the sounds are in the right place.
Feldman, Morton: Patterns in a Chromatic Field
Playing with musical memory, variation, and repetition...
Berio, Luciano: Sequenza II
Defying many stereotypes, exploring the timbral and expressive capabilities of the harp.
Berio, Luciano: Sequenza VI for viola
Unfortunately, the viola is often neglected in comparison to the violin. It’s a pity.
Sciarrino, Salvatore: Quaderno di strada
The unique sound of the Italian avant-garde, featuring a fantastic performance by bass-baritone Katzameier.
Scelsi, Giacinto: Divertimento No.4
Scelsi's often remarkably strange (and therefore unique) music, performed with elegance and naturalness.
Kagel, Mauricio: Tactil
Kagel’s experimental theater (yes, theater) piece: an innovative and creative use of instrumentation.
Hölszky, Adriana: Efeu und Lichtfeld
Pulsating sources of light. The unique interplay between the massive organ and the delicate violin.
Penderecki, Krzysztof: Capriccio for Violin and Orchestra
Listen to Penderecki's perfect sense of tranquility and tension.
Saariaho, Kaija: Maan Varjot for Organ and Orchestra
Earth's Shadows faithfully capture a less serene side of the world.
Mitterer, Wolfgang: inwendig losgelost, rasant
Modern Baroque music with electronics in Listening Room 03. No further explanation needed.
Vivier, Claude: Zipangu
Ligeti himself recommended Vivier’s music to the public. No better reference.
Nordgren, Pehr Henrik: Piano Concerto No. 3 for the Left Hand
Ritual music inspired by Japanese ghost stories... and a generous gesture.
Buene, Eivind: Lessons in Darkness
A unique piece of music from 2017: a fundamental lack of light, or rather, an exploration of blackness. Your lessons?
Nørgård, Per: Borderlines
Different tonalities: the fascinating coexistence of well-tempered scale and microtones.
