Betsy Jolas was born in Paris in 1926. Resident in the United States from 1940 until 1946, she studied composition with Paul Boepple and piano with Helen Schnabel. On her return to France she continued her studies with Simone Plé-Caussade, Darius Milhaud and Olivier Messiaen at the Conservatoire national supérieur de Musique in Paris. She combined avantgardism with a lyrical impulse, leading her to write much vocal music.
[via Atonality.net via John11inch (sic!]
This is a live performance of composer Geoffrey Gordon’s Meditation and Allegro for Viola and Ensemble, featuring soloist Moshe Aharonov and Ensemble Meitar, conducted by Ilan Volkov–5 February 2011, Einav Culture Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Meditation and Allegro for Viola and Ensemble by Geoffrey Gordon Composer
Robert Preston, piano, Erick Friedman, violin and James Kreger, cello play Arensky Trio in D Minor, Op. 32.
You can listen to this music for free in the Berliner Philharmonie’s Foyer tomorrow!
Wolfgang Rihm’s Chiffre I, from the larger cycle Chiffre-Zyklus, for variable ensemble of 13 instruments and piano.
Most of the elements common to the entire cycle are set out in “Chiffre I” (1982): a piercing rising interval, hammering cadences on the piano mainly at high register, and a little cello gesture. While Rihm mainly writes in a neo-expressionist vein, constantly flowing and full of rich instability, the elements he sets own here show him approaching the musique concrete instrumentale of Helmut Lachenmann.
[Dedicated to Eriko Makimura]
Steven Honigberg, cello
Kathryn Brake, piano
from Albany Records TROY082 (1992)
[Dedicated to Eriko Makimura and Keiko Gomi]