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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Perspectives Henry Wong Doe (piano) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 10/Nov/2023 ] An album of recent commissions for solo piano featuring works by Gemma Peacocke, Leila Adu-Gilmore, Alex Taylor, Poulima Salima, Leonie Holmes, and Penelope Axtens. "This album celebrates the artistry of six New Zealand composers. The recent... |
DYLAN LARDELLI
Two Bells Ensemble Klangrauschen featuring Peter Veale [ Rattle Records / CD - released 3/Nov/2023 ] Music for flutes, piccolo, viola, double bass, piano, oboe and English horn, composed by Dylan Lardelli and performed by Ensemble Klangrauschen and special guest Peter Veale. Elizabeth Farrell (flute, piccolo, alto and bass flute) Marie Yamanaka... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Violin Sonatas Bella Hristova (violin), Michael Houstoun (piano) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 4/Sep/2023 ] The Brahms Violin Sonatas are at the core of the violin and piano duo repertoire. From the exquisitely flowing melodies of the G major sonata to the warm-heartedness of the A major sonata and finally to the vast and turbulent D minor sonata, the music... |
ANTHONY RITCHIE
Ritchie: Symphony No. 6 New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Hamish McKeich [ Rattle Records / CD - released 1/Sep/2023 ] Symphony No. 6 is a meditation on love, death, and the afterlife. From the plaintive saxophone solo at the start to the mysterious flights of spirits in the third movement and the grieving of the finale, this symphony takes the listener on an... |
Peter Hobbs
Tomo [ Rattle Records / CD - released 18/Aug/2023 ] "The compositions on this album were performed on keyboards, modular synths, drums, trumpet, pūtōrino, ocarina and cello. They are also fused with ambient field recordings from the tracks composed in the caves of the Waitakere Ranges. The music was... |
WILLIAM BOLCOM
The Complete Cabaret Songs of William Bolcom Stephanie Acraman & Liam Wooding [ Rattle Records / CD - released 18/Aug/2023 ] The musical collaboration between composer William Bolcom and lyricist Arnold Weinstein began in the 1960s, but the witty, highly-successful four-volume cycle of cabaret songs they wrote between 1977 and 1996 is regarded as the pinnacle of their... |
Alan Brown
Ondulation [ Rattle Records / CD - released 11/Aug/2023 ] These contemplations and improvisations were partly inspired by an instrument called an Ondomo - a recreation by Naoyuki Omo of the Ondes Martenot, one of the earliest electronic instruments developed in 1928 by Maurice Martenot (Ondes Martenot... |
TANIA GIANNOULI
Solo Tania Giannouli (piano) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 8/Jun/2023 ] Tania's fifth album for Rattle is a beautifully conceived set of expressive piano improvisations, 24 concentrated, deeply personal works full of vulnerability and searching honesty. Solo is an artistically fearless, profoundly musical album, a work... |
DAVID LONG
I'll hum the first few bars David Long, Hamish McKeich (conductor) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 31/Mar/2023 ] The title track for this album, I'll Hum the First Few Bars, is a piece for chamber orchestra, electric guitar and mechatronics. Commissioned by Orchestra Wellington, the work was recorded with Stroma under the ever-reliable baton of Hamish McKeich.... |
Guy Wishart
Where The Water Runs Through [ Rattle Records / CD - released 31/Mar/2023 ] Where the Water Runs Through originated before the 2020 pandemic restrictions kicked in. I had three key premises for these recordings: classical guitar would be the central instrument (a bit like early Leonard Cohen albums); the songs would have... |
Justin DeHart
Percussion Spheres [ Rattle Records / CD - released 31/Mar/2023 ] This constellation of works was selected from my recent solo performances as part of the International Society of Contemporary Music (ISCM) World New Music Days, and Asian Composers League Festivals held for two weeks in Aotearoa, New Zealand. It was... |
Justin DeHart
Ring: Bergamo solo percussion works [ Rattle Records / CD - released 31/Mar/2023 ] "I first encountered Bergamo's music as an undergraduate studying percussion at CSU Sacramento with Daniel Kennedy in 1998. Kennedy studied with Bergamo at the California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts) some years before and shared many inspiring... |
Peter Hobbs
Luminescence [ Rattle Records / CD - released 25/Mar/2023 ] Luminescence documents Peter's exploration of both synthesis and the natural world. Most of the works were improvised from melodic and rhythmic seeds, while others were spontaneously written on location in the wild. "Connecting more with nature,... |
Hannah Griffin, Thomas Voyce, Norman Meehan
Wahine [ Rattle Records / CD - released 25/Feb/2023 ] An album of poems set to music by Hannah Griffin, Thomas Voyce and Norman Meehan. The poets are Hinemoana Baker, Cilla McQueen, and Janet Frame. The album design features artwork by Viky Garden. Hannah Griffin (voice) Thomas Voyce (bass, guitar,... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Complete Intermezzi Michael Houstoun (piano) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 21/Oct/2022 ] The Brahms Intermezzi are among the finest works ever written for solo piano, and it is our very great pleasure to release this wonderful album to mark the occasion of Michael's 70th birthday. |
BELA BARTOK
Bartók: Works for Violin and Piano Monique Lapins (violin), Jian Liu (piano) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 22/Jul/2022 ] An album of newly recorded works composed by Béla Bartók featuring Monique Lapins (violin) and Jian Liu (piano). |
Jack Woodbury, Peter Liley
Unfathomed Waters [ Rattle Records / CD - released 15/Jul/2022 ] Unfathomed Waters is a collection of collaborative works by Peter Liley and Jack Woodbury. Composed between 2020 and 2022, the album draws inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft's short story The Temple. Compositionally, the pieces employ ambient... |
Brett Adams
Black Clouds In Stereo [ Rattle Records / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] An album of instrumentals featuring electric guitar, composed, performed and recorded by Brett Adams. Guitarist Brett Adams started his musical journey with 80s pop-rock icons, The Mockers, who regularly featured on the NZ music charts at the... |
David Long
Ash And Bone [ Rattle Records / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] This new recording by David Long defies easy generic tags. Acoustic electronica, alt-folk, alt-chamber music or experimental instrumental are vaguely in the ballpark, but as David says, his music makes a constellation of these musical styles but... |
ISAAC ALBENIZ / JOHN CAGE / DOUGLAS LILBURN / PETER SCULTHORPE / CARLO DOMENICONI
Flower Of The Sea Gunter Herbig (electric guitar) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] A collection of works transcribed for electric guitar. Gunter writes: "This project started out with the rather angular working title Electric Landscapes. Poetic ideas don't always start under poetic circumstances. At the beginning of 2020, the land |
