Berger’s Duo for Cello and Piano (1951), called “diatonic Webern” by Milton Babbitt, focuses on C major and shows a synthesis of traits from the Quartet for Winds: large melodic leaps, Baroque rhythm and counterpoint, and a dance-like lilt (found in the second movement of both works). The Duo for Oboe and Clarinet (1952) intensifies these same traits. [Source]
[via Thomas Bjørnseth]
Lyric Suite is a six-movement work for string quartet written by Alban Berg between 1925 and 1926 using methods derived from Schoenberg’s twelve tone technique. Though publicly dedicated to Alexander von Zemlinsky (from whose Lyric Symphony it quotes), the work has recently been revealed to possess a ‘secret dedication’ and outline a ‘secret programme’. Berg himself arranged three of the movements for string orchestra.
From a Deutsche Grammophon recording released ca. 1976 by the Lasalle Quartet.
[via atonality.net]
Estonian composer René Eespere: “Triangulum” (2011) for piano, violin and cello
Marina Katarzhnova (Vn),
Petr Kondrashin (Cello)
Petr Aidu (Piano)
“Эстонские дни”, Tallinn, “Eesti musika paevad”
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Ritz Chamber Players in performance of Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson Movement for String Trio that was written from his deathbed. Kelly Hall-Tompkins, Amadi Azikiwe and Kenneth Law. Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson served as the first Composer-in-Residence for the Ritz Chamber Players in 2002.
Kevin Volans er Sydafrika’s mest berømte komponist, selvom han har boet det mest af sit liv i udlandet. Han er født i 1946 og har studeret hos Karlheinz Stockhausen og blev senere assistent for den tyske komponist.
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