 | Elliot Carter: What Next?
Buy used from: $12.49 ELLIOTT CARTER (4 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) premiere recording of Carter's first opera, "What Next?", first performed in 2000. Also on the disc, the "Asko Concerto."
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 | Lauds and Lamentations: Music of Elliott Carter and Isang Yun - 2 CD BOXED SET
Buy new: $36.98 / Used from: $13.26 ELLIOTT CARTER (4 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW World-class virtuosos Heinz Holliger (oboe) and Thomas Zehetmair (violin) perform works by Elliott Carter in the year of his 95th birthday.
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 | Elliott Carter: Quintets and Voices
Buy used from: $49.99 ELLIOTT CARTER (4 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) Mode's 95th birthday present for Carter -- the Arditti Quartet & Ursula Oppens premiere the "Quintet for Piano & Strings" + more chamber music -- also on DVD
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 | Occasional Variations by Milton Babbitt
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $9.45 MILTON BABBITT (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) John Zorn's Tzadik label presents 2 of Babbitt's string quartets, plus a short electronic piece and a short guitar piece -- outstanding!
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 | Alban Berg: Lyric Suite by Kronos Quartet
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.99 ALBAN BERG (5 STARS) Kronos with the Grammy-winning version with Dawn Upshaw singing the suppressed lyric expressing Berg's love for a married woman
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 | Luciano Berio: The String Quartets by Luciano Berio
LUCIANO BERIO (5 STARS --SEE MY REVIEW) another great set from the Arditti Quartet -- Berio's quartets are not easy, but reward effort richly
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 | Britten & Walton: Violin & Viola Concertos; Maxim Vengerov by Maxim Vengerov
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $4.99 BENJAMIN BRITTEN) A Grammy-winner, this is a fantastic performance by Vengerov with Slava and the LSO. The Walton viola concerto isn't nearly as good a piece, but the performance is excellent.
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 | Dallapiccola: Ulisse by Luigi Dallapiccola
Buy new: $33.99 / Used from: $66.07 LUIGI DALLAPICCOLA) long-lost 1975 recording of Dallapiccola's opera, a fantastic serialist work, very somber
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 | Pascal Dusapin: Concertos - Watt, Galim, Celo
Buy used from: $34.50 PASCAL DUSAPIN (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) an excellent set of three concertos of trombone, flute and cello from the French composer of my age (born 1955)
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 | György Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages
Buy used from: $23.58 GYORGY KURTAG (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) 3 new compositions by Kurtag, featuring the baritone vocals of Kurt Widmer and texts from Samuel Beckett and Holderlin.
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 | Lachenmann: Nun/Notturno
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $13.49 HELMUT LACHENMANN (4 STARS) NUN is a 39-minute work featuring flute, trombone and orchestra -- fascinating
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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: $8.43 GYORGY LIGETI (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) fantastic! -- new recordings of the Cello and Violin Concertos, and premieres of 2 vocal works, one from 2000
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 | The Ligeti Project IV: Hamburg Concerto (Horn Concerto) / Double Concerto / Ramifications / Requiem by Gyorgy Ligeti
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $7.98 GYORGY LIGETI (4 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) premiere of the new "Hamburg Concerto" plus new recordings of "Double Concerto," "Ramifications," and "Requiem"
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 | Des Canyons Aux Etoiles by Messiaen
Buy new: $33.98 / Used from: $16.39 OLIVIER MESSIAEN (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) stunning recording of a beautiful, sprawling & unclassifiable work, more similar to a piano concerto than anything else
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 | Olivier Messiaen: Éclairs sur l'Au-delà
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $13.00 OLIVIER MESSIAEN) Messiaen's last major work, with Sylvain Cambreling conducting the SWR Sinfonieorchester
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 | La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura (Nostalgia for a Far Away Future Utopia) for Vi
Buy used from: $10.00 LUIGI NONO (4 STARS -- reissue -- SEE MY REVIEW) This is the original recording of "la Lontananza," one of Nono's late works, with Gidon Kremer, newly reissued in the DG 20/21 Echo series.
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 | Io, Frammento Da Prometeo/Das Atmende Klarsein
LUIGI NONO
2-disc set of late Nono
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 | Penderecki: Sextet; Clarinet Quartet
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $5.74 KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI) a set of Penderecki's chamber music, featuring the recent "Sextet" and the "Clarinet Quartet"
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 | Prokofiev: Complete Concertos by Sergey Prokofiev
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $12.94 SERGEI PROKOFIEV) Incredible bargain -- 3 discs with the 5 piano concertos by Ashkenazy/Previn, PLUS both violin concertos w. Joshua Bell, AND both cello concertos
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 | Rautavaara: Symphony No. 7 "Angel of Light" by Einojuhani Rautavaara
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $7.98 EINOJUHANI RAUTAVAARA (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) Superb recording of Rautavaara's popular 7th on Naxos, the bargain label.
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 | Rihm: Tutuguri
Buy new: $42.98 / Used from: $25.99 WOLFGANG RIHM (5 STARS) dark drama in this work for ballet based on Artaud's "Rite of the Black Sun"
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 | Rihm: Works for Violin & Piano by Rihm
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $38.81 WOLFGANG RIHM (5 STARS) excellent 1990s works along with early 1970s works, featuring the recent "Phantom & Escapade"
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 | Wolfgang Rihm: String Quartets, Volume 1 by Wolfgang Rihm
WOLFGANG RIHM) String Quartets 1 -- 4, the first of a 4-disc series on Col Legno, the complete Rihm string quartet cycle performed by the Minguet Quartett
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 | Maurizio Pollini Edition - Schoenberg: The Solo Piano Music, Piano Concerto; Webern: VAriations Op. 27 by Maurizio Pollini
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $9.73 ARNOLD SCHOENBERG (5 STARS -- reissue --SEE MY REVIEW) DG is breaking out new single discs from its massive "Maurizio Pollini Edition" -- here are AS's solo piano works & the Concerto together on one disc
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 | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7
Buy used from: $7.50 DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) not considered one of DSCH's best symphonies by the critics (banal, bombastic, too long), this is a fantastic performance that will win you over
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 | Shostakovich: Violin & Viola Sonatas
Buy used from: $19.95 DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) live 1985 perfornances by Oleg Kagan and Yuri Bashmet with Sviatoslav Richter on piano
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 | Shostakovich: String Quartets 1-13 by Dmitry Shostakovich
Buy new: $28.99 / Used from: $24.70 DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (5 STARS -- remastered reissue) the original Borodin Quartet, before #14 and 15 were written -- a great reissue from Chandos
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 | Erkki-Sven Tüür: Exodus
Buy used from: $9.21 ERKKI-SVEN TUUR (4 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) a violin concerto and two orchestral works from the young Estonian composer
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 | Peteris Vasks: String Quartet No. 4
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $3.98 PETERIS VASKS (4 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) A 30-minute quartet, a prayer for humanity that combines Shostakovich & Barber influences -- the 5th movement is an expression of COMPASSION.
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 | Webern: Chamber Music for Strings by Anton Webern
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $26.96 ANTON von WEBERN (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) great new set of Webern from the Schoenberg Quartet!
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 | Iannis Xenakis: Kraanerg by Composer: Iannis Xenakis
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $12.00 IANNIS XENAKIS (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW)
excellent recording of one of Xenakis's greatest works, now one of three available
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 | Iannis Xenakis: Anastenaria; Troorkh; Aïs
Buy new: $18.99 / Used from: $14.99 IANNIS XENAKIS (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW)
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 | Donaueschinger Musiktage 2001
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $20.96 DONAUESCHINGER MUSIKTAGE 2001) a 2-disc live set, with compositions by Furrer, Gadenstatter, Mitterer, Schnebel, van der Aa, and Widmann
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 | John Luther Adams - In the White Silence by Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble
Buy new: $17.99 JOHN LUTHER ADAMS) music from the American composer, originally from Mississippi, but long based in Alaska, the source of the imagery and mood
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 | The Music of Elliott Carter, Volume Five - Nine Compositions (1994-2002)
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $11.99 ELLIOTT CARTER) This looks to be an excellent collection of Carter's most recent chamber works, as he celebrates his 95th! Includes another recording of the "Oboe Quartet."
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 | In Vain
Buy used from: $13.49 GEORG FRIEDRICH HAAS) intriguing ensemble piece from Haas on the Kairos label, performed by the Klangforum Wien.
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![Rainbow Body [Hybrid SACD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418KECN0H3L._SL75_.jpg) | Rainbow Body [Hybrid SACD]
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $11.99 CHRIS THEOFANIDIS/JENNIFER HIGDON) two popular short works by young American composers, "Rainbow Body" by Theofanidis and "blue cathedral" by Higdon
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 | Ernst Toch: String Quartets Nos. 6 & 12 by Verdi Quartet
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $8.49 ERNST TOCH) The 11th & 13th in 2001, the 8th & 9th in 2002, and now the 6th, 7th, 10th and 12th finish the Toch cycle. (The first 5 he considered beginner's works.)
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 | Ernst Toch: String Quartets Nos. 7 & 10; Dedication
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $44.91 ERNST TOCH)
another pair of Toch's outstanding quartets appears in CPO's cycle
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 | Musik in Deutschland 1950-2000 Vol. 171/Var by Musik in Deutschland 1950-00
Buy new: $29.98 / Used from: $57.93 BOX 6 -- 7 CDs
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