Obermuller / Ensemble Musikfabrik - Karola Obermuller - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. I. Overture 2. II. Bouree 3. III. La Paix 4. IV. La Rejouissance 5. V. Menuet, Trio, Da Capo, Trio, Da Capo 6. I. [Allegro] 7. II. Adagio 8. III. Allegro 9. IV. Menuetto - Trio I - Polacca - Trio II 10. Canon in D Major 11. I. Vivace - Grave 12. II. Allegro 13. III. Adagio - Allegro - Adagio 14. IV. Vivace 15. V. Allegro 16. VI. Pastorale Ad Libitum Largo 17. I. Allegro Ma Non Presto 18. II. Siciliano Poco Vivace 19. III. Allegro 20. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2 When I Am Laid in Earth, Dido's Lament (Arr. L. Stokowski for Orchestra) 21. Solomon, HWV 67 Arrival of the Queen of Sheba 1. Adagio in G minor (Attrib. to Albinoni) 2. I. Allegro 3. II. Adagio Molto 4. III. Allegro 5. I. Allegro 6. II. Andante 7. III. Presto 8. I. Adagio 9. II. Allegro 10. III. Grave 11. IV. Allegro 12. I. Overture 13. II. Allegro Lento 14. III. Air Lento 15. IV. Allegro 16. V. Allegro 17. VI. Allegro Moderato 18. I. Overture 19. II. Bourree I - II 20. III. Gavotte 21. IV. Menuet I - II 22. V. Rejouissance

Collecting two 1950s-era works, one composition from the early 1960s, and a final, extended work from 1989, this CD brilliantly captures Luigi Nono's meditations on form, silence, and tone. Ensemble United Berlin's performance is aptly hushed throughout the early whispers of InchPolifonica-Monodia-Ritmica,Inch and then the group grapples with the halts and drops and lurches as if it, too, saw the precipice Nono seemed to find on every side of him. Drums drop in and vanish, reeds dust the surface. InchCanti per 13,Inch too, incites the same dialogues, with silence, multiplicity, and timbral extremity; notes are played with singular gestures, their pointillism arresting the ear. Then Angelika Luz's soprano blasts through with InchCanciones a Guiomar,Inch streaking the air with quickened leaps and then molten lines that thread themselves from mere instrumental hints. The violin piece that closes the set is amazing for it's extreme registers and rushes of grated timbres, each of which-again-comes and goes in a flash (recalling the Arditti Quartet's fascinating string quartet recording and Irvine Arditti's La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura on Auvidis Montaigne). Nothing is fluid or uninterrupted in Nono's sound world, and this a great glimpse at the history of how he composed his interruptive works over several decades. Album Tracks 1. Polifonica-Monodia-Ritmica - Klaus Schopp/Christian Balcke/Bernhard Nusser/Johannes Ernst/Uwe Holjewilken/Yoriko Ikeya 2. Canti Per 13 - Klaus Schopp/Birgit Schmieder/Christian Balcke/Bernhard Nusser/Johannes Ernst/Reinhard Bastian 3. Canciones a Guiomar - Angelika Luz/United Voices/Franz Bauer/Wolfgang Eger/Volker Frischling 4. 'Hay Que Caminar' Sonando Erster Teil 5. 'Hay Que Caminar' Sonando Zweiter 6. 'Hay Que Caminar' Sonando Dritter Teil

Elena Kuschernova was the last pianistic discovery of Harold Schonberg, music critic for the New York Times and prolific author on great performers. After listening to her debut album, he dubbed her a InchPianist who grabs the imagination,Inch and he lauded her Scriabin album as Inchthe best recorded performances I am familiar with.Inch Elena has performed at many important festivals such as the Gustav Mahler Music Festival in Toblach, the Bach Festival in Ansbach, the Festival of Rarities of the Piano Music in Husum, and others. She is also internationally recognized as a piano professor, giving master classes in Germany, Japan, Korea, Sweden, and the USA. Since 2006 she has been guest professor at the Elisabeth University of Music in Hiroshima, and has been a Steinway Artist since 2002. She resides in Baden-Baden and Manhattan.