 | Boulez: Sur Incises/Messagesquisse/Anthèms 2
Buy used from: $7.50 PIERRE BOULEZ (4 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) These are still the most recent Boulez compositions to be recorded.
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 | Alban Berg: Streichquartet Op. 3; Lyrische Suite
Buy used from: $40.28 ALBAN BERG (5 STARS) The Arditti Quartet with Berg's "String Quartet," an early atonal work, and his "Lyric Suite," the 12-tone piece with the famous secret lyrics.
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 | Carter: Chamber Music (5th String Quartet, 90+, Sonata for Cello and Piano, Figment for Cello Alone, Duo for Violin and Piano, Fragment for String Quartet) by Elliott Carter
Buy used from: $52.99 ELLIOTT CARTER (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) With the only recording of the 5th String Quartet.
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 | Feldman: Piano and Orchestra; Flute and Orchestra; Oboe and Orchestra; Cello and Orchestra by Morton Feldman
Buy new: $12.97 / Used from: $9.49 MORTON FELDMAN (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) Fantastic set of Feldman's "still-life" works.
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 | Feldman: Neither by Morton Feldman
Buy new: $19.98 MORTON FELDMAN (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) Not really an opera, but a soprano and the words of Samuel Beckett, written at Feldman's insistent request.
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 | Morton Feldman: For Samuel Beckett by Morton Feldman
Buy used from: $48.70 MORTON FELDMAN (3 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) One of three recordings of this work, Feldman's last from 1987, this version is taken much too slow. The 1991 recording on hatART, though, is fantastic!
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 | Goldmann: Piano Concerto/Symphony No.4
Buy used from: $13.57 FRIEDRICH GOLDMANN (5 STARS) great stuff from a composer who spent most of his career in the DDR (East Germany)
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 | Hartmann: Symphonies Nos. 1-8
Buy new: $49.98 KARL AMADEUS HARTMANN (5 STARS) excellent symphonic cycle from a major German composer who deserves to be better known elsewhere
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 | Bhakti
JONATHAN HARVEY (3 STARS) a large-scale work for chamber orchestra and quadrophonic tape by Jonathan Harvey, a British "spectralist" who writes sacred music
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 | Magnus Lindberg: Aura - In Memoriam Witold Lutoslawski (1993-94) / Engine (1996) - Oliver Knussen / London Sinfonietta by Magnus Lindberg
Buy used from: $34.95 MAGNUS LINDBERG (4 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) Powerful orchestral music.
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 | Penderecki: Orchestral Works, Vol. 03
Buy new: $6.97 / Used from: $4.40 KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI (4 STARS) Symphonies 2 and 4 from the Polish composer, landmarks of his return to tonality
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 | Coconino...A Shattered Landscape by Roger Reynolds
ROGER REYNOLDS (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) Mind-boggling complexity and virtuosity.
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 | Wolfgang Rihm: Ins Offene...; Sphere
Buy new: $22.98 WOLFGANG RIHM (4 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) an orchestral work and a piano concerto, both 1990s compositions -- excellent, some of the best Rihm I've heard (this is a 1995 release, apparently restocked in 2000 by Amazon)
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 | Rihm: Musik für drei Streicher
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $11.99 WOLFGANG RIHM) the explosive, expressionist 1970s work from the young Rihm
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 | Giacinto Scelsi
Buy used from: $32.00 GIACINTO SCELSI (3 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) One brilliant piece, "Anahit," for violin & ensemble, but the rest, not so much. Try either of the 2 discs called NATURA RENOVATUR for strings instead!
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 | Schnittke: Symphony No.7/Cello Concerto No.1
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $11.91 ALFRED SCHNITTKE (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) Schnittke's strange 7th Symphony, excellently presented by Polyansky & Chandos, plus Ivashkin with a great Cello Concerto 1.
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 | Alfred Schnittke: Complete Violin Concertos (1-4) - Gidon Kremer / Christoph Eschenbach by Alfred Schnittke
Buy used from: $48.65 ALFRED SCHNITTKE (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) The complete violin concertos with the amazing Gidon Kremer.
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 | Schoenberg: String Quartets 1-4 by Arnold Schoenberg
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG (5 STARS -- reissue -- SEE MY REVIEW) Brilliant renditions of the classic Schoenberg quartets with Dawn Upshaw on the Second.
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 | Complete String Quartets by Dmitry Shostakovich
Buy new: $84.98 / Used from: $29.99 DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH) the Emerson Quartet's Grammy-winning Shostokovich, with precision and speed (this set was reissued in 2006 at a budget price for the Shostakovich Centenary)
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 | Webern: Complete String Trios and Quartets by Anton Webern
ANTON WEBERN (5 STARS) great electric performances -- it took me years to track down a used copy of this disc, but it was worth it!
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 | Xenakis: Large Orchestra Works, Vol. 1 by Iannis Xenakis
Buy new: $22.98 / Used from: $17.28 IANNIS XENAKIS (5 STARS) The first of three discs of Xenakis compositions for large orchestra from Arturo Tamayo and the Luxembourg Philharmonic.
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 | Xenakis: Orchestral Works & Chamber Music by Iannis Xenakis
Buy used from: $72.99 IANNIS XENAKIS (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW) The Xenakis entry in Col Legno's "Collage" series -- great introduction to Xenakis.
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 | Zimmerman: Cello Concerto; Impromptu; Antiphonen; Photoptosis
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $12.38 BERND ALOIS ZIMMERMAN (5 STARS) fantastic set -- the highlight is "Antiphonen"
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| Musik in Deutschland 1950-2000 Vol.156:/Var
Buy new: $29.98 MUSIK IN DEUTSCHLAND 1950-2000
BOX 1, 6 CDs
Symphonic Music, "Portraits" (special theme topics)
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| Musik in Deutschland 1950-2000 Vol. 157:/Var
Buy new: $29.98 MUSIK IN DEUTSCHLAND 1950-2000
BOX 2, 6 CDs
Symphonic Music, "Series" (chronological by decade)
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 | George Crumb 70th Birthday Album
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $11.00 GEORGE CRUMB) Grammy-winner for the massive "Star Child"
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 | James Dillon: East 11 Street 10003 NYC
Buy new: $22.98 / Used from: $14.55 JAMES DILLON) Dillon, the Scottish proponent of the New Complexity (and spectralism)
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 | Dusapin: Requiem(s) by Pascal Dusapin
Buy used from: $19.96 PASCAL DUSAPIN) Choral works from Pascal Dusapin, a French composer of my generation.
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 | Morton Feldman: Orchestral Works & Chamber Music by Morton Feldman
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $12.64 MORTON FELDMAN) Col Legno's COLLAGE series
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 | Brian Ferneyhough: La Chúte d'Icare; Superscriptio; Intermedio alla Ciaccona' etc. (Etudes Trancendantales; Mnemosyne)
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH) chamber works
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 | Heiner Goebbels: Surrogate Cities
Buy used from: $22.95 HEINER GOEBBELS) a set of typically innovative mixed forms including vocals invoking the urban world
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 | Gubaidulina: Orchestral Works & Chamber Music by Sofia Gubaidulina
Buy used from: $12.64 SOFIA GUBAIDULINA) Col Legno's COLLAGE series
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 | Jonathan Harvey: Song Offerings; Madonna of Winter and Spring
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $11.74 JONATHAN HARVEY) electro-acoustic sacred music from Harvey, associated with the French spectralists (Grisey, Murail), and also with IRCAM
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 | Mauricio Kagel: Les Idées Fixes, Rondo for Orchestra / Music for Keyboard Instruments & Orchestra / Opus 1.991, Concert Piece for Orchestra by Mauricio Kagel
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $12.64 MAURICIO KAGEL) Col Legno's COLLAGE series
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 | Ligeti & Nørgård: Violin Concertos
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $13.22 GYORGY LIGETI/PER NORGARD) violin concertos performed by Christina Astrand and the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra
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 | Nono: Orchestral works & chamber music by Luigi Nono
Buy new: $13.98 LUIGI NONO) Col Legno's COLLAGE series
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 | Penderecki: Credo
Buy new: $17.97 / Used from: $3.00 KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI) Grammy-winning choral work
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 | Rihm: Orchestral Works & Chamber Music by Wolfgang Rihm
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $12.64 WOLFGANG RIHM) Col Legno's COLLAGE series
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 | Kaija Saariaho: New Gates
KAIJA SAARIAHO) Saariaho, a distinctive voice from Finland, influenced by the French spectralists, IRCAM and electroacoustics
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 | Complete Webern by Anton von Webern
Buy new: $71.98 / Used from: $57.07 ANTON von WEBERN) Boulez revisits Webern on DG -- this box includes not only the official works (Op. 1-31 as on the Sony COMPLETE WORKS), but also the unpublished works, mainly early ones.
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