Heeeeere's Keith (from the Classical department)...
I'm a refugee from Sydney who has lived here and worked at Marbecks for three years now. Trained in Philosophy and Fine Arts at Sydney University, I've had a varied career -- from lecturing in design, to researching at APRA, to contract management at the ABC, to here! These days I am fairly busy as a painter, with three exhibitions in Auckland so far.
My musical taste ranges from the very old to the very new -- my favourite composers are Gesualdo, Machaut, Agricola, Ockeghem, Dufay, Mahler, Haydn, Mozart, Webern, Monteverdi, Handel, Reich, Ligeti, Messiaen, Feldman, Nancarrow, Carter, Xenakis and of course the 5 Bs -- Brahms, Boulez, Beethoven, Birtwistle, Bruckner and most of all, Bach.
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J.S. BACH Partitas BWV825-BWV830 Andras Schiff (piano) |
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[ ECM Records / 2 CD ] Release Date: Wednesday, 1 April, 2009
Following last year's completion of his highly-praised Beethoven cycle András Schiff returns to Bach with a superb interpretation of the six "Partitas", recorded live in September 2007 at Neumarkt Reitstadl one of the best piano music venues in Europe. |
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MESSIAEN Saint Francois D'Assise (complete opera recorded at the Netherlands Opera in 2008) Rod Gilfry / Camillia Tilling / Hague Philharmonic / Ingo Metzmacher |
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[ Opus Arte / 3 DVD ] Release Date: Monday, 1 June, 2009
Olivier Messiaen considered his only opera to be the summation of his life's work. |
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BRAHMS Symphony No 3 in F major / Nänie von Friedrich Schiller, Op. 82 / Gesang der Parzen, Op. 89/ etc Monteverdi Choir / Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique / John Eliot Gardiner |
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[ Soli Deo Gloria / CD ] Release Date: Saturday, 10 October, 2009
Soli Deo Gloria is proud to release the third instalment in the successful Brahms Symphony series which sees John Eliot Gardiner and his Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique explore the music of Johannes Brahms. |
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NANCARROW Studies for Player Piano CALEFAX Reed Quintet / Ivo Janssen (piano) |
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[ MDG / CD ] Release Date: Thursday, 16 April, 2009 The Calefax Reed Quintet, along with composer Raff Hekkema, present 17 studies for player piano by the American composer Conlon Nancarrow arranged for solo piano and a quintet comprising oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone and bassoon. This recording brings out the debt Nancarrow owed to the boogie-woogie piano, jazz and big-band tradition whilst ensuring... |
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LUIGI NONO Prometeo, tragedia dell'ascolto Soloistenchor Freiburg / Ensemble Recherche / Andre Richard / Peter Hirsch / Kwame Ryan |
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[ COL LEGNO / 2 Hybrid SACD ] Release Date: Tuesday, 1 September, 2009
At last a new recording of Luigi Nono's late, great masterpiece. Comes complete with a specially produced "listening score" to guide the listener through the dense network of texts set by the composer. This is one of the most important and challenging works of the late 20th century. |
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MOZART / BRAHMS Clarinet Quintets Eric Hoeprich (clarinet) / London Haydn Quartet |
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[ Glossa / CD ] Release Date: Friday, 20 November, 2009
Eric Hoeprich returns to Glossa on splendid form with two pillars of the chamber music repertory in the Clarinet Quintets of Mozart and Brahms. For this release - recorded in the tranquil English surroundings of St Martin's Church, East Woodhay in Hampshire, Hoeprich is joined by the recently-established and much-lauded London Haydn Quartet. |
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