Various Artists - Berlin Classics Junior: Funny Stories - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Trio Accanto's unconventional instrumentation of saxophone, piano, and percussion fascinates composers and inspires them to look beyond their usual musical horizons. This is confirmed by the collection of pieces on this recording, which documents the ensemble's challenging yet accessible repertoire. Helmut Lachenmann describes his InchMarche fataleInch as a kind of musical InchderailmentInch. It is a highly virtuoso and brilliantly constructed march in which the master of unconventional playing techniques and noise-like instrumental sounds surprises listeners with his mastery of major/minor tonality, something still shunned in certain avant-garde circles. Lachenmann's InchSakura-VariationenInch [Cherry Blossom Variations], on the other hand, are anything but noise-like. These melodic postmodern collages appear in three different versions on this . Works by four other composers are also included in this collection. Martin Schüttler's InchxeroxInch plays with the InchtrashyInch aesthetic of our everyday electronic environment, presenting glittering metallic sounds that turn out to be the noises of a copy machine. InchIn BetweenInch by Yu Kawabara offers an abstract scenario of contrasting sound characters and gliding wave motions. Martin Smolka's Inchfff (Fortissimo feroce Fittipaldi)Inch is short, wild, and extreme it depicts a Formula One race with legendary Brazilian driver Emerson Fittipaldi. Michael Finnissy's InchOpera of the NobilityInch has a clear, symmetrical architecture. With original material as well as quotations from works performed by the historical London opera company of the same name, Finnissy creates a web of relationships where there is no separation between history and the present tense, the private and political spheres, or the music's inner life and extra-musical reality. Album Tracks 1. Sakura mit Berliner Luft für Altsaxofon, Klavie

Album Tracks 1. Old Folks at Home 2. Oh ! Susanna 3. Old Black Joe 4. Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair 5. My Old Kentucky Home 6. Old Folks at Home 7. Camptown Races 8. Massa's in de Cold, Cold Ground 9. Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming 10. Beautiful Dreamer 11. The Stars and Stripes Forever 12. The Crusader 13. Offenbach La Vie Parisienne 14. The Belle of Chicago 15. The Gladiator 16. Semper Fidelis 17. Washington Post 18. High School Cadets 19. The Thunderer 20. Semper Fidelis 21. Washington Post 22. Hands Across the Sea 23. El Capitan 24. Stars and Stripes Forever 25. Semper Fidelis 26. Washington Post March 27. The Thunderer 28. High School Cadets 29. El Capitan

The album InchMidnight StoriesInch contains Polish contemporary music, which consists of completely new works of Polish composers of the young generation, specially created for the band Art'n'Voices. These different compositions combine the theme of the night common to all songs. These are compositions in different languages, including Polish, English, German, Latin and Kashubian, performed by the a cappella band. The vocal band Art'n'Voices was formed in 2010. It consists of musicians who have been associated with the choral scene of the Tri-City and Wejherowo and the Academy of Music in Gdansk for years. The band's official seat is the Kashubian-Pomeranian Literature and Music Museum in Wejherowo. The octet specializes in performing a cappella music. In his repertoire he has music of different periods from the Renaissance, however, it is dominated by compositions of contemporary music, a significant part of which was written especially for the band. Album Tracks 1. Peace (2018) 2. Bibi, Synku, Bi - Parafraza Koledy Kaszubskiej Witoslawy Frankowskiej (2014) 3. The Ackerman Steppe (2019) 4. Te Lucis Ante Terminum (2018) 5. Ballada (2019) 6. In Danzig (2019) 7. Rosemary's Baby (2019) 8. Evening Star (2013) 9. The Midnight Song (2019) 10. I Dreamt a Dream (2019) 11. A Lullaby for the Night (2019) 12. Szczesliwa Nocy (1985 / Rev. 2010)