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• Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Vrioon (2002)

  Jul 8

  Vrioon is the debut collaboration album between Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto, released in 2002 [source] Music By – Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto Piano – Ryuichi Sakamoto / Sounds… more ›

• Hanns Eisler – 14 Arten den Regen zu beschreiben (14 Ways To Describe The Rain), Op. 70 (1941)

  Feb 22

  In 1941, Eisler wrote music for the 1929 black-and-white documentary Rain by legendary Dutch director Joris Ivens. The Ivens website describes the film as “a very poetic film with changing… more ›

• Pascal Dusapin – Aufgang (2012)

  Jan 15

  l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Conductor: Osmo Vänskä Violin: Renaud Capuçon Victoria Hall de Genève (Jan. 2014). Kindly recorded and presented by RTS.ch This composition was commissioned by Renaud Capuçon.… more ›

• Ravi Shankar with Philip Glass – Passages (1990)

  Jan 14

  Passages is a collaborative chamber music studio album co-composed by Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass, released in 1990 through Atlantic Records. The album’s content is a hybrid of Hindustani classical… more ›

• Terry Riley – A Rainbow in Curved Air (1969)

  Jan 4

  “Rainbow in Curved Air” demonstrates the straightforward pattern technique but also has Riley improvising with the patterns, making gorgeous timbre changes on the synthesizers and organs, and presenting contrasting sections… more ›

• György Ligeti – String Quartet No. 2 Cello (1968)

  Jun 28

  Recorded at Henry Wood Hall, Trinity Church Square, London on July 13-15, 1994. Performed by Arditti String Quartet: Rohan de Saram – Cello / Garth Knox – Viola / David… more ›

• Steve Reich and Musicians – Drumming (1971)

  Dec 28

  Recorded January 1974 in Hamburg Germany. Original Deutsche Grammophon Studio Recording. From the  3 × Vinyl, LP  Box Set : Steve Reich ‎– Drumming / Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices And Organ / Six… more ›

• Egon Wellesz – Idyllen, op. 21 (1917)

  Nov 30

  Egon Wellesz was undoubtedly one of Vienna’s modernist masters, lost to the city and posterity after exile in 1938. He, along with Alban Berg and Anton Webern made up the… more ›

• John Cage – Music of Changes (1951)

  Nov 27

  Music of Changes is a piece for solo piano by John Cage. Composed in 1951 for pianist and friend David Tudor, it is Cage’s earliest fully indeterminate instrumental work. Music… more ›

• Rued Langgaard – String Quartet no. 5 (1925)

  Nov 22

  String Quartet no. 5  is composed by the danish composer Rued Langgaard. Here played by Kontra Kvartetten: Peter Fabricius – Bratsch Anton Kontra – Violin Boris Samsing – Violin Morten Zeuthen… more ›