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ISANG YUN / ELLIOTT CARTER
Lauds and Lamentations: Music of Elliott Carter and Isang Yun Heinz Holliger (oboe) / Thomas Zehetmair (violin) / Ruth Killius (viola) / Thomas Demenga (cello) [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] The peerless artistry of Heinz Holliger - unchallenged as the world's greatest oboist - and of his immensely gifted colleagues Thomas Zehetmair, Thomas Demenga and Ruth Killius, is applied to the music of two of the greatest composers of modern... |
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JEAN BARRAQUE
Sonate pour piano (Sonata for piano) Herbert Henck (piano) [ ECM Records / CD - released 28/Jun/2008 ] Herbert Henck is a committed advocate of 20th century music |
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JOHN CAGE
Locations: Sonatas and Interludes Herbert Henck (piano) [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "As well as being a superb technician," wrote The Guardian, "Herbert Henck always puts together his discs with great thoughtfulness." "Locations" gives the most complete indication of Henck's musical range yet. He is heard, once again, as an... |
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JOHANN LUDWIG TREPULKA / NORBERT von HANNENHEIM
Piano Sonatas Herbert Henck (piano) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 26/May/2007 ] In this new recording Herbert Henck plays music by two little known twelve-note composers, one a pupil of Josef Matthias Hauer, the other a Schoenberg pupil. The works date from the 1920s, but they sound almost diametrically opposed. |
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ARVO PART
Musica Selecta: from the legendary premiere recordings The Hilliard Ensemble, Alexei Lubimov (piano), Alexander Malter (piano), Gidon Kremer (violin) , Latvian Radio Choir, etc [ ECM / 2 CD - released 12/Sep/2015 ] Composer Arvo Pärt and producer Manfred Eicher have maintained their creative partnership for more than 30 years. Eicher launched ECM New Series in 1984 as a platform for Pärt's music, bringing the Estonian composer to the world's attention with... |
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ARVO PART
Part: Lamentate The Hilliard Ensemble / Alexei Lubimov (piano) / SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrey Boreyko (conductor) [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 13/Nov/2005 ] "Pärt's moving lament for the living brings from him rarely heard power" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Nov 2005 |
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ARVO PART
Litany / Psalom / Trisagion The Hilliard Ensemble / David James (countertenor) / Tallinn Chamber Orchestra [ ECM Records / CD - released 6/May/2001 ] The world premiere recording of Arvo Pärt's 'Litany' |
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ARVO PART
Arbos, Summa, An den Wassern zu Babel, Stabat Mater The Hilliard Ensemble, Gidon Kremer (violin) / Vladimir Mendelssohn, viola [ ECM Records / CD - released 6/May/2001 ] Recorded 1986 - 1987 |
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GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT
Transkriptionen The Hilliard Ensemble, Heinz Holliger [ ECM / CD - released 2/Oct/2015 ] Swiss composer Heinz Holliger's Machaut-Transkriptionen is comprised of a spacious cycle of pieces written over a ten year period beginning in 2001. An imaginative re-investigation of the work of the great 14th century French composer-poet Guillaume... |
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The Hilliard Ensemble
A Hilliard Songbook: New Music For Voices (MacMillian, Part, Casken, etc) [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] The Hilliard Ensemble interpret new works for vocal ensemble. |
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ARCADELT / MARSH / PISANO
Il Cor Tristo The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Nov/2013 ] One of the world's finest vocal chamber groups, the Hilliard Ensemble, is unrivalled for its formidable reputation in the fields of both early and new music. The programme featured here - released to mark the beginning of the Hilliard Ensemble's 40th... |
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VICTORIA / PALESTRINA
In Paradisum: Music of Victoria and Palestrina The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] "In Paradisum" combines music from three sources: the Officium Defunctorum of Victoria, polyphony by Palestrina and Gregorian chant from a 17th century manuscript. Placing the work of the Spanish and Italian religious composers in a historically... |
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THOMAS TALLIS
The Lamentations Of Jeremiah The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM Records / CD - released 28/Aug/2001 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (Pre 1700) - "The Hilliard Ensemble have Thomas Tallis's Lamentations in their blood" (Gramophone) |
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ORLANDE de LASSUS
Missa pro defunctis / Prophetiae sibyllarum The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Feb/2001 ] Europe's foremost vocal ensemble performs the music of Lassus |
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ARVO PART
Miserere The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM Records / CD - released 2/May/2001 ] Spiritually moving, sublimely austere, and eloquently expressive, Arvo Pärt's "Miserere" is among the Estonian composer's most profound statements within his growing liturgical canon. |
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NICOLAS GOMBERT
Missa Media Vita In Morte Sumus The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM Records / CD - released 12/Mar/2006 ] By highlighting Nicolas Gombert The Hilliard Ensemble continues its explorations of medieval and renaissance polyphony which have lead to unanimously acclaimed ECM-recordings of major works by Perotin, Tallis, Orlando di Lasso, Gesualdo and a... |
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MACHAUT
Motets The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM Records / CD - released 7/May/2004 ] "Most of Machaut's motets, in his own order, performed with marvelous refinement by musicians of now incomparable experience" Editor's Choice (Gramophone Magazine May 2004) |
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J.S. BACH
Motetten The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM New Series / CD - released 26/May/2007 ] "With just one singer assigned to each part, the Hilliard Ensemble take a minimalist approach to these extraordinary works...this disc is a natural successor to the Hilliard's previous excursions into pre-baroque music, supremely musical and... |
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GESUALDO
Quinto Libro di Madrigali The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Apr/2012 ] "The Hilliard Ensemble captures perfectly the neurotic frenzy, pathologically dislocated harmonies, mental turmoil and nihilism of these extraordinary works, which can still shock the ear and chill the soul. Wisely, the Hilliards don't over-egg the... |
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CARLO GESUALDO
Gesualdo: Tenebrae The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Vocal ensemble performance doesn't get any more technically polished or musically affecting than this offering from the Hilliard Ensemble--an example of what happens when a group of individual singers performs as a spiritual entity. Of course, the... |