 | Bach Violin Concertos & Gubaidulina In Tempus Praesens' by Anne-Sophie Mutter
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $10.12 SOFIA GUBAIDULINA (RUSSIA/TATAR) 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
a powerful new violin concerto from Sofia Gubaidulina, written for and performed by Anne-Sophie Mutter
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 | In Principio by Arvo Part
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.97 ARVO PART (ESTONIA)
New disc featuring four new choral and orchestral compositions, timed to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Part's ECM debut.
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 | "Schnittke: Symphony No. 9; Raskatov: Nunc Dimittis" by The Hilliard Ensemble
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $10.63 ALFRED SCHNITTKE (RUSSIA)
The long-awaited 9th Symphony, left uncompleted at Schnittke's death. Alexander Raskatov reconstructed the existing three movements, and wrote a piece that serves as epilogue/4th movement featuring the Hilliard Ensemble. Dennis Russel Davies leads the Dresden Philharmonic. (ECM)
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 | Giya Kancheli: Little Imber
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $7.49 GIYA KANCHELI (GEORGIA)
The latest ECM Kancheli disc, two choral anti-war works.
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 | Kurtág: 80
GYORGY KURTAG (HUNGARY)
This 2-disc set of the latest Kurtag compositions includes a stunningly beautiful violin solo piece.
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 | Lutoslawski: Lutoslawski by W. Lutoslawski
Buy new: $18.99 / Used from: $14.39 WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI (POLAND)
This 3-disc Brilliant box of Lutoslawski conducting his own orchestral works contains exactly the same recordings as the 3-disc EMI set below.
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 | Lutoslawski: Orchestral Music
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $12.76 WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI (POLAND)
This 3-disc compilation from EMI contains exactly the same recordings as the Brilliant box above.
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 | Krzysztof Meyer: String Quartets Nos 5, 6 & 8
Buy new: $9.98 KRZYSZTOF MEYER (POLAND) SEPTEMBER 29
Born in 1943, Meyer has composed an entire cycle of string quartets influenced by Bartok. (Naxos)
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 | Krzysztof Penderecki: Works for Cellos and Orchestra
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $5.74 KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI (POLAND)
cello concertos
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 | Peter Eötvös: Chinese Opera; Shadows; Steine
Buy used from: $22.50 PETER EOTVOS (HUNGARY)
Eotvos is a very active conductor who studied and worked with Stockhausen for many years. Despite the title this is not an opera but a disc with three works for orchestra and chamber ensemble. (Kairos)
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 | Górecki: Life Journey
HENRYK GORECKI (POLAND)
Premiere recordings of chamber works for the Polish composer's 75th birthday.
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 | Henryk Gorecki: Symphony 3 "Sorrowful Songs"
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $2.99 HENRYK GORECKI (POLAND)
This is one of the best-known and most popular of contemporary works, a tragic symphony with the soprano voice of Dawn Upshaw.
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 | Gubaidulina: Offertorium; Hommage à T.S. Eliot
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $9.01 SOFIA GUBAIDULINA (RUSSIA/TATAR) 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
Gidon Kremer on violin
See also my 12 Best Late 20th Century Composers list and my Sofia Gubaidulina: A Listener's Guide list.
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 | Sofia Gubaidulina: 'Stimmen... Verstummen', Symphony in 12 movements; Stufen by Sofia Gubaidulina
Buy used from: $33.43 SOFIA GUBAIDULINA (RUSSIA/TATAR) 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
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 | Gubaidulina - The Canticle of the Sun · Music for Flute Strings and Percussion / Pahud · LSO · London Voices · Rostropovich by Sofia Gubaidulina
Buy used from: $13.75 SOFIA GUBAIDULINA (RUSSIA/TATAR) 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW Mstislav Rostropovich on cello, Emmanuel Pahud on flute
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 | Schnittke: Konzert für Viola und Orchester / Kancheli: Vom Winde beweint (liturgy)
Buy used from: $4.50 GIYA KANCHELI (GEORGIA)
Kim Kashkashian on viola
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 | Musik Fur Streichinstrumente
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $39.36 GYORGY KURTAG (HUNGARY) 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
See also my The 12 Best and 30 of the Best Late 20th Century Composers lists
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 | György Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages
Buy used from: $36.24 GYORGY KURTAG (HUNGARY) 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
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 | The Matchstick Man / The Seventh Door - Two films on Gyorgy Kurtag and Peter Eotvos
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $19.96 GYORGY KURTAG (HUNGARY)
Two films about contemporary Hungarian composers, the first about Gyorgy Kurtag, and the second about the younger Peter Eotvos.
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 | The Ligeti Project I: Melodien / Chamber Concerto / Piano Concerto / Mysteries of the Macabre - Schönberg Ensemble / ASKO Ensemble / Reinbert de Leeuw by Reinbert De Leeuw
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $6.64 GYORGY LIGETI (HUNGARY) 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
See also see my 3 Best and 12 Best lists of Late 20th Century Composers, as well as my Gyorgy Ligeti: A Listener's Guide list
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 | The Ligeti Project II: Lontano / Atmosphères / Apparitions / San Francisco Polyphony / Concert Românesc - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Jonathan Nott by Gyorgy Ligeti
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $34.05 GYORGI LIGETI (HUNGARY) 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
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 | The Ligeti Project III: Cello Concerto / Clocks & Clouds / Violin Concerto / Síppal, Dobbal, Nádihegedüvel by Gyorgy Ligeti
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $8.14 GYORGY LIGETI (HUNGARY) 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
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 | The Essential Lutoslawski
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $48.28 WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI (POLAND) 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
See also see my 30 of the Best Late 20th Century Compoers list
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 | Lutoslawski: Orchestral Works; Songs; String Quartet
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.95 WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI (POLAND) 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
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 | Tabula Rasa by Arvo Pärt
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.13 ARVO PART (ESTONIA)
This is the recording that launched Part and the whole "holy minimalist" trend. See also my 30 of the Best Late 20th Century Composers List.
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 | Lamentate by Andrey Boreyko
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $10.63 ARVO PART (ESTONIA) 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
A short choral work and a somber, dramatic piano concerto with uncharacteristic crashes of dissonance.
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 | Arvo Pärt: Da Pacem by Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $12.99 ARVO PART (ESTONIA)
award-winning choral music from Part
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 | Pärt: Stabat Mater; I Sümfoonia; Miissa Syllabica; 7 Magnificat Antiphons
Buy new: $12.98 / Used from: $29.48 ARVO PART (ESTONIA)
2-disc Part entry in EMI's 20th Century Classics series
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 | Arvo Part: 24 Preludes for a Fugue
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $16.46 ARVO PART (ESTONIA)
This is the Part entry in the Juxtapositions film series.
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 | Penderecki: Cello Concerto; Partita; Symphony; Threnody
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.67 KRYZYSZTOF PENDERECKI (POLAND) 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW See also my 30 of the Best Late 20th Century Composers list
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 | Krzysztof Penderecki: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra No. 2 "Metamorphosen" (1992-95) / Béla Bartók: Sonata for Violin & Piano No. 2, Sz 76 (1922) - Anne-Sophie Mutter / London Symphony Orchestra / Krzysztof Penderecki / Lambert Orkis by Anne-Sophie Mutter
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $2.98 KRYZYSZTOF PENDERECKI (POLAND) 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
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 | Penderecki: Symphony 8 - Dies Irae / Aus Den Psalmen Davids by Kryzysztof Penderecki
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Penderecki's 8th Symphony features vocals, a la Mahler's "Song of the Earth"
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 | Schnittke: Symphony 6 / Concerto Grosso 2 / Polyansky by Tatiana Gridenko
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $8.69 ALFRED SCHNITTKE (RUSSIA) 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
See also my The 12 Best Late 20th Century Composers List and my Schnittke: A Listener's Guide list
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 | Alfred Schnittke: Concerti Grossi 1 & 5; Quasi una sonata
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.99 ALFRED SCHNITTKE (RUSSIA) 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
Gidon Kremer on violin
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 | Schnittke: Complete String Quartets by Alfred Schnittke
Buy new: $33.98 / Used from: $21.00 ALFRED SCHNITTKE (RUSSIA) 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
Kronos Quartet
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 | Valentin Silvestrov: Symphony No. 6
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $10.64 VALENTIN SILVESTROV (UKRAINE)
Silvestrov's long-delayed 6th Symphony from ECM, no surprises if you've heard the 5th.
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 | Silvestrov: Dedication; Post scriptum
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $6.33 VALENTIN SILVESTROV (UKRAINE)
Gidon Kremer plays "Dedication," Silvestrov's violin concerto, with the Munich Philharmonic, & "Post scriptum" for violin and piano. (Apex reissue)
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 | Erkki-Sven Tüür: Exodus
Buy used from: $8.99 ERKKI-SVEN TUUR (ESTONIA) 4 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
Tuur attempts to synthesize post-serialism and post-modernism.
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 | Peteris Vasks: String Quartet No. 4
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $3.98 PETERIS VASKS (LATVIA) 4 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
Kronos Quartet with the premiere of this new work
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![Peteris Vasks: Symphony No. 3; Cello Concerto [Hybrid SACD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HATGXbgUL._SL75_.jpg) | Peteris Vasks: Symphony No. 3; Cello Concerto [Hybrid SACD]
Buy used from: $9.90 PETERIS VASKS (LATVIA)
Vasks's latest symphony from the Finnish Ondine label
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