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Listening Room 04

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Gander, Bernhard: Dirty Angel

Failed takeoffs with accordion and flugelhorn.

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Haas, Georg Friedrich: Limited approximations

Desert island music featuring six (!) microtonally tuned pianos.

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Brown, Earle: From Folio

Digging deep.

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Ligeti, György: Requiem

Ligeti’s Requiem... Death: Pain, Fear, Kyrie.

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Ivičević, Mirela: Baby Magnify / Lilith's New Toy

Seductive games - definitely not for children...

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Nordin, Jesper: Calm Like A Bomb

No, this is not the song of the rock band Rage Against the Machine. Which music has more punch?

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Coates, Gloria: String Quartet No. 7

The organ and string quartet can intertwine in amazing harmony. Exceptional music.

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Czernowin, Chaya : Anea Crystal

Music-crystals modeled after ionic crystals.

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Ligeti, György: Volumina

Can’t read sheet music? No problem — Ligeti drew his idea. How does it sound?

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Dillon, James: Birl

The wonderfully pleasant baroque harpsichord in Listening Room 04 — it's possible."

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Xenakis, Iannis: Mikka / Mikka "S"

Continuous slide.

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Lorentzen, Bent: Cruor

Extremely serious and somber organ music, showcasing the full power of the instrument. Substantial energy.

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Radulescu, Horatiu: String Quartet No.5

Plasmatic music: an endless ocean of vibrations.

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Krauze, Zygmunt: Stone Music

Tuning the piano with real stones? Why not?

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Johnston, Ben: String Quartet No.8

A milestone for the string quartet, introducing new harmonies.

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Lang, Bernhard: Monadologie XIII

Rethinking the symphony - using two orchestral groups.

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Penderecki, Krzysztof: Polymorphia

Many – shocking – forms of sound.

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Oehring, Helmut - Schiphorst, Iris ter: Prae-Senz

Turn-of-the-century ballet music: know-how and state-of-the-art technology, full of inventions.

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Sciarrino, Salvatore: Macbeth

Sciarrino’s aspiring singers are novel and fantastic. Macbeth, like you’ve probably never heard before.

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Wyschnegradsky, Ivan: Les Arc-en-ciel

Twelfth-tone music: uncovering modern harmonies.

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Clementi, Aldo: Passacaglia

Acoustic illusions - for flute...

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Scelsi, Giacinto: Uaxuctum: I.

The end of a civilization, expressed through Scelsi’s painful colors. An overwhelming portrayal of instinctive fear.

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Penderecki, Krzysztof: Threnody

If you feel why Penderecki composed his work this way, no other music in this Listening Room will seem unusual.

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Norgard, Per: Nuit des Hommes

Opera(torio): the descent into madness of a couple.

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Pape, Gerard: Le Fleuve du Désir IV

A chaotic-sounding composition for 8 (!) solo violins.

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Holliger, Heinz: Fünf Stücke

Sometimes, there’s no doubt about the listening category of a piece of music ... perpetuum mobile for organ and electronics.

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Geisse, Gunnar: Piano Concerto

Development of musical instruments...

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Henry, Pierre: Paysage

Isn’t this music shocking enough? How about Etranglement on the same album?

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