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Harrison Birtwistle - Cortege for 14 Musicians - Ensemble ACJW

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Ferneyhough - Adagissimo for String Quartet (1983) (with score)

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Carter - Flute Concerto (2008) (piano reduction)

15:31

Xenakis - Medea-Senecae (1967) (with score)

24:45

Brian Ferneyhough - Cassandra's Dream Song (1970) (with score)

8:29

Henze - Venus und Adonis (1993-95)

1:09:18

Birtwistle - Hector's Dawn (1987) (with score)

A short piano piece by Harrison Birtwistle with the dedication "For Hector Snowman on the occasion of his 1st birthday".
Richard Shaw - Piano

Відео

Harrison Birtwistle - Cortege for 14 Musicians - Ensemble ACJW

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Harrison Birtwistle - Cortege for 14 Musicians - Ensemble ACJW

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In Cortege Birtwistle creates a piece of music theatre for 14 unconducted musicians, 10 of whom take it in turns to walk out to the front and perform as a soloist. As each player gets to the end of their solo passage they overlap with the next player - passing on the solo line in a seamless thread. The musicians sit in a horseshoe with each of the 10 soloists opposite the one who plays after th...

Ferneyhough - Adagissimo for String Quartet (1983) (with score)

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Ferneyhough - Adagissimo for String Quartet (1983) (with score)

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"Composed in November 1983 as an eightieth birthday tribute to Sir Michael Tippett, this brief movement employs an array of prolational canonic techniques applied to the rhythmic structure of a five-measure passage for four horns extracted from my orchestral work "La Terre est un Homme". The discourse is divided into two concurrent processual strata clearly distinguished by timbral and textual ...

Carter - Flute Concerto (2008) (piano reduction)

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Carter - Flute Concerto (2008) (piano reduction)

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Commissioned by Elena Bashkirova for the Jerusalem international Chamber Music Festival, this is one of Elliott Carter's most sublime late works. Originally not attracted to the flute's mellifluous tones, Carter seems to have become completely seduced by it, particular in the intensely lyrical slow central section. In the composer's own words: "For many years flutists have been asking for a flu...

Xenakis - Medea-Senecae (1967) (with score)

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Xenakis - Medea-Senecae (1967) (with score)

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Iannis Xenakis .... captures better than anybody the madness, terror and ‘ecstatic dream world’ that Nietzsche defines as characterising Greek tragedy. In 1967, Xenakis was commissioned by the Theatre de France to write the music for a production of Seneca’s Medea. Xenakis scholar Nouritza Matossian (an Armenian from Cyprus) says: ‘Xenakis had often wondered how the music of ancient Greek theat...

Brian Ferneyhough - Cassandra's Dream Song (1970) (with score)

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Brian Ferneyhough - Cassandra's Dream Song (1970) (with score)

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Cassandra's Dream Song is famous among flautists all over the world for its combination of painstaking detail, carefree gestures, amazing virtuosity, and a narrative of betrayal and mistrust that pushes the musician to the emotional and physical brink during each performance.... Cassandra’s Dream Song conjures up old Greek tales of Cassandra and Apollo whose love was rattled with jealousy, dish...

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Henze - Venus und Adonis (1993-95)

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Henze's late one-act opera is based on Shakespeare's poem and includes both singers and dancers. "The work is divided into 17 sections. The first 16 sections fall into only three categories madrigal, recitative, and bolero and dance-song with the 17th as a lament and epilogue. There are only three characters in the opera, all playing opera singers rehearsing roles for an opera based on the stor...

Brian Ferneyhough - Unity Capsule for solo flute (1976) (with score)

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Brian Ferneyhough - Unity Capsule for solo flute (1976) (with score)

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Of Brian Ferneyhough's several hypervirtuosic solo works written during the 1970s, Unity Capsule for flute solo (1973-76) may be the most extreme example, and therefore in one sense the most pure of intent. In many ways a continuation of the Time and Motions Study series, Unity Capsule examines as one of its main premises the potential (musical and psychological) energy of a soloist faced with ...

Jonathan Harvey - Chant (1994) (with score)

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Jonathan Harvey - Chant (1994) (with score)

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The title of this short work by Jonathan Harvey implies a liturgical or ritualistic incantation. Based on a drone and with a ceremonial character, it is here performed in its original version for solo viola. There is also a version transcribed for cello. Performer: Scott Dickinson

Brian Ferneyhough - String Quartet No. 6 (2010) (with score)

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Brian Ferneyhough - String Quartet No. 6 (2010) (with score)

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The Sixth String Quartet in particular explores different ‘characters’, for example violin I’s lively solos, and the cello’s expansive opening gestures contrast with violin II’s ostinato as well as the viola’s emphasis on regular pulses. Thanks to the combination of surprisingly basic defining characteristics of material at the local level and the furtherance of the principle initiated with the...

Jonathan Harvey - String Quartet No. 3 (1995) (with score)

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Jonathan Harvey - String Quartet No. 3 (1995) (with score)

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In Harvey's 3rd quartet written in collaboration with the Arditti Quartet the players produce transformations of sounds similar to those that might otherwise be achieved electronically: “an immense variety of special playing techniques... inflect basic sounds through different tunings, harmonics, types of vibrato and playing positions, and even orchestrate the breathing of the players at one po...

Ferneyhough - String Quartet No.4 (1989-90) (with score)

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Ferneyhough - String Quartet No.4 (1989-90) (with score)

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As in Brian Ferneyhough's Sonatas for String Quartet, which alludes (albeit obliquely) to Henry Purcell, and his Lemma-Icon-Epigram, which references Schoenberg's Opus 23 piano pieces, Ferneyhough's Fourth String Quartet (1989-90) contains within it a reaction to and consideration of an existing musical work. The work in question is again by Schoenberg, his String Quartet No. 2, Opus 10. Like S...

Jonathan Harvey - Curve with Plateaux (1982) (with score)

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Jonathan Harvey - Curve with Plateaux (1982) (with score)

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Cello: Arne Deforce Jonathan Harvey’s Curve with Plateaux takes as its inspiration the idea of the human quality of the cello’s voice. A ceaselessly inventive work lasting around 12 minutes, it is one of Harvey’s finest works for the instrument that he himself played professionally for a number of years. ‘A piece that opens tortuously at the bottom of the instrument and becomes ever more impass...

Ferneyhough - String Quartet No. 3 (1987) (with score)

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Ferneyhough - String Quartet No. 3 (1987) (with score)

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The Third String Quartet is in two movements, the first a patchwork of gestures and textures arranged according to a predetermined order, and the second a linear exploration of long-term processes and transformations. Yet both movements originate from the same pre-compositional grid (including metric and rhythmic patterns). The quartet was originally envisaged as having three movements, but a p...