Category: Media

• Matthew Whiteside – Quartet No. 3 (2011)

  Feb 7

  Matthew Whiteside is in his final year of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland studying a Masters in Composition with Alistair MacDonald and David Fennessy with previous teachers including Piers Hellawell… more ›

• Iannis Xenakis: Complete Works for Cello

  Jan 28

  Iannis Xenakis composed just two pieces for solo cello, both fiercely remarkable in their own right. Nomos Alpha, from 1966, is an example of what he called symbolic music, in… more ›

• Terry Riley – Mescalin Mix (1960-62)

  Jan 12

  “Mescalin Mix” is a tape-loop recording from 1960-62, partly inspired by Terry Riley‘s experience with mescalin and the work he did with Richard Maxfield. For this recording, the tape-loops extended… more ›

• Graham Fitkin – Vamp – Angel Session edit (2012)

  Jan 12

  Inspired by the 1936 Post Office information film Night Mail by Benjamin Britten and W. H. Auden, the music is composed by Graham Fitkin (winner of British Composer Award 2009)… more ›

• Alexander Tcherepnin – Piano Sonata No. 2 Op. 94 (1961)

  Jan 8

  Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977) was a Russian born composer and pianist. Maria Kalamkaryan was an armenian pianist, her hometown was Tiflis (Tbilisi = the capital city of Georgia). She plays on… more ›

• Giacinto Scelsi – Aitsi for amplified piano (1974)

  Dec 29

  In 1974 Scelsi employed the piano for the last time when he created Aitsi for amplified piano and To the Master (two improvisations in collaboration with Victoria Parr) for cello… more ›

• Giacinto Scelsi – Trio for Strings (1951)

  Dec 25

  From the late 1970s, he met several leading interpreters who have promoted his music all over the world and gradually opened the gates to wider audiences, such as the Arditti… more ›

• George Crumb – Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) (1971)

  Dec 25

  Three masked players: electric flute, electric cello, and amplified piano. First performed by the New York Camerata at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. – 17 March 1972. Introduction… more ›

• Claude Debussy – Syrinx for solo flute (1913)

  Dec 21

  Syrinx is a piece of music for solo flute which Claude Debussy wrote in 1913. It was the first significant piece for solo flute after the Sonata in A min… more ›

• György Ligeti – Requiem (1935)

  Dec 20

  By Jeffrey Bryant Ligeti’s Requiem was made infamous by one man. Despite the success and the sales that this brought Ligeti, Stanley Kubrick was sued by his beneficiary. The reason… more ›