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• Josef Matthias Hauer: Romantische Phantasie op.37 (1925)

  Dec 17

  Josef Mattias Hauer (March 19, 1883 – September 22, 1959) was an Austrian composer and music theorist. He is most famous for developing, independent of and a year or two before Arnold… more ›

• Terry Riley – Chanting the Light of Foresight (2. Movement: The Pipes Of Medb / Medb’s Blues) (1987)

  Dec 16

  Chanting the Light of Foresight (imbas forasnai) is a 1987 composition by Terry Riley written for and commissioned by the Rova Saxophone Quartet, though during the course of the composition it was… more ›

• Olivier Messiaen – Oraison (1937)

  Dec 10

  Olivier Messian´s  “Oriason” is written for the early electronic instrument, the Ondes Martenot, a close relation of the theremin. Olivier Messiaen (December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer,… more ›

• Dubravko Detoni – Phonomorphia II (1967 – 1970)

  Dec 10

  From the album by the Croatian composer Dubravko Detoni: Jugoslav AvanGarde Music: Graphies I.II.III / Phonomorphia 1.2.3., written between 1967 – 1970 and released in 1970. Dubravko Detoni (born 1937 in Križevci, Croatia) is a composer, pianist and writer. Although active since… more ›

• Jonathan Harvey – Bhakti (1982)

  Dec 5

  Jonathan Harvey | Bhakti: for Chamber Ensemble + Quadrophonic Tape | Nouvel Ensemble Moderne | Conductor: Lorraine Vaillancourt | Montaigne | 1999. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWzJooDGa6c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dWZ3JVCw48 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tp5C-uGkdc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo7FtkIkHG4 [In memory of Jonathan… more ›

• Kronos Quartet, Kimmo Pohjonen And Samuli Kosminen – Kamala (2007)

  Dec 4

  From the album “Uniko”, commissioned by Kimmo Pohjonen & Samuli Kosminen for the Kronos Quartet. “Uniko” was composed over an eighteen-month period before its world premiere in Helsinki in September 2004.… more ›

• Luigi Nono: Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima (1979)

  Nov 30

  In 1979, after a three year long compositional crisis, Luigi Nono returned to composition with a series of works which seemed to be radically different from anything he had made… more ›

• Jerry Goldsmith – Freud: The Secret Passion (1962)

  Nov 30

  Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Music composed by Jerry Goldsmith Freud: The Secret Passion Freud: The Secret Passion, also known as Freud, is a 1962 American biographical film drama based on the life of… more ›

• Rhys Chatham – An Angel Moves Too Fast To See, Prelude (1971-1989)

  Nov 25

  From the album: Chatham, An Angel Moves Too Fast To See, for 100 electric guitars, electric bass and drums. Like the composer’s works Warehouse of Saints, Songs for Spies, and… more ›

• Arvo Pärt – Fratres (1984)

  Nov 14

  The 1984 ECM album Tabula Rasa was the vehicle that introduced the revolutionary music of Arvo Pärtto audiences outside Eastern Europe and initiated what was to become one of the most extraordinary… more ›