Ars Antiqua Austria - Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Vesperae a 32 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Violinist Jennifer Koh's Limitless, based on her groundbreaking recital project of the same name, bridges the modern divide between composer and instrumentalist, celebrates artistic collaboration, and revives the grand tradition of composers performing their own music. The album features world-premiere recordings of Koh-commissioned duets by a diverse roster of highly accomplished contemporary composers, which she performs with the composers themselves. Premieres include Quasim Naqvi's The Banquet for violin and modular synthesizer, exploring a convergence between acoustic string and electronic sound worlds; Lisa Bielawa's Sanctuary Songs for violin and voice, three settings of texts by American women poets of the 1920s; Du Yun's give me back my fingerprints for violin and voice, representative of what The New York Times calls her Inchadventurously eclecticInch style; and Tyshawn Sorey's In Memoriam Muhal Richard Abrams, dedicated to Sorey's beloved mentor, the avant-garde pianist, composer, and founding president of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Limitless also offers the first recording of Nina C. Young's Sun Propeller for violin and electronics, inspired by traditional Tuvan throat-singing; Wang Lu's Her Latitude for violin and electronics, with a quasi-improvised piano part and electronically processed sounds of Buddhist chants and old Korean pop songs; and jazz luminary Vijay Iyer's The Diamond for violin and piano, inspired by an early Buddhist text. The album concludes with Missy Mazzoli's A Thousand Tongues for violin, piano, and electronics, an intense response to a line in a Stephen Crane poem; and Vespers for violin and electronics, Inchdeliciously disorientingInch (National Public Radio) with a soaring solo violin.

This remarkable album marks the recording debut of German violinist Julia Fischer as well as the beginning of her extraordinary partnership with Russian-born conductor Yakov Kreizberg, which would result in numerous Pentatone releases before the conductor's untimely death in 2011. Together they tackle three Russian violin concertos (by Khachaturian, Prokofiev and Glazunov) which have been tragically overlooked, shedding new light on these masterpieces. After releases on SACD and vinyl, this iconic album now returns in an affordable stereo version.

Hailing from Trondheim in Norway, Arabs in Aspic has been mid-Norway's flagship of 70s inspired progressive rock and proto-hardrock for the past 15 years. They've been described as a sweet mixture of loud, heavy guitars and drums, 12 string acoustics, funky bass and percussion, screaming Hammond organs, soft Rhodes, Mellotrons and 70s Synths, topped with plentiful vocal harmonies.The bands first effort was the mini-album InchProgeriaInch, which was released in 2003 on CD only. In their humble start, the band can be described as a mixture of the psychedelic space rock akin to Hawkwind and the heaviness and darkness of early Black Sabbath. At the time of , they had done a lot of demos and were very active as a live band in the Trondheim area. Their rehearsal space was located at the club house of Hells Angels in Trondheim, which the police didn't like as several of the members was semi-pro ski jumping athletes, and sport and Hells Angels wasn't a good mix.1. Progeria2. Silver Storm3. Shelob's Cave / The Great Shelob / Wizard in White4. Megalodon