Ifukube / Sejourne / Wave Quartet / Mandeal - Lauda Concertata - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Fortepianist Keiko Shichijo presents a radically fresh view of Mozart's keyboard music. Neal Peres Da Costa, Professor of Historical Performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music writes InchKeiko Shichijo has been inspired to reimagine a Mozart that is highly expressive, rhetorical, and even occasionally volatile.Inch Shichijo's brilliant Mozart was recorded on an original Frère et Soeur Stein d'Augsbourg à Vienne dated 1802. Mr. Da Costa calls the instrument Inchabsolutely ravishing in sound, with a clarity, crispness, and resonance that is ideally suited to Mozart's piano writing.Inch Keiko Shichijo is a special voice in both the Classical and new music worlds. Her traditional Japanese sensibilities combined with her knowledge of European historical performance practices shape her unique vision, and this is reflected in her feeling for the music, the instruments and the story behind them.

L. Boccherini - Guitar Quintets 1 [COMPACT DISCS] date 02/15/1994

Whether the subject is geology, oceanography, meteorology, or sociology, a stratum is a layer that is distinguished in some way from the layers below and above it... Tim Rutherford-Johnson - on Strata. The Laefer Quartet's debut album, Strata, presents a body of previously unrecorded music which explores the different ways we interact, intertwine, and impose on the natural world around us. A collaborative ethos has formed a central part of the album's creation, which features six commissioned pieces alongside visual artworks based on a synaesthetic response to the music. The album guides listeners upwards across various 'strata' starting from the rumblings of the New York subway, moving through various natural, mechanical and political phenomena that form the stratum we, as humans, typically occupy, into the skies we fly through and the stars we gaze upon, before finally bursting into the ethereal and beyond, all the while exploring the varied and exciting sonic possibilities the saxophone quartet has to offer. Featuring works by Charlotte Harding, Michael Cryne, Benjamin Oliver, Clare Loveday, Anna Appleby, Denise Ondishko, and Howard Skempton.