Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Ensemble Ascolta, Basel Sinfonietta, Peter Rundel, Bas Wiegers – Gravity’s Rainbow (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Ensemble Ascolta, Basel Sinfonietta, Peter Rundel, Bas Wiegers – Gravity’s Rainbow (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:16:24 minutes | 720 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Kairos

A sound so overwhelmingly rich and manifold that it almost transcends the ensemble producing it; a wealth of colours bordering on the boundless; a swarm of teeming shapes that is too dense for our ears to unravel; a whole that is far more than its parts, yet does not swallow them. These may be some of the first impressions evoked by the music of Michael Pelzel. Pelzel himself uses the image of a river that takes all manner of things with it; taking up the metaphor, one could say that the place of Pelzel’s ideal listener is not on the shore, but in the midst of the current. This recording brings together a multitude of performers: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Ensemble ascolta, Peter Rundel, ensemble recherche, Ernesto Molinari, Basel Sinfonietta, Jetpack Bellerive, WDR Sinfonieorchester and Bas Wiegers.

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Basel Sinfonietta, Baldur Brönnimann, Simone Zgraggen – Dieter Ammann: Core – Turn – Boost & Unbalanced Stability (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Basel Sinfonietta, Baldur Brönnimann, Simone Zgraggen – Dieter Ammann: Core – Turn – Boost & Unbalanced Stability (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:25 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos

Dieter Ammann has won numerous international awards and is now one of the most renowned Swiss composers of his generation. The multilayered unbalanced instability is a concerto for violin and chamber orchestra that seeks unpredictability and shifting perspectives between solo and orchestra. Ammann’s slowly developed orchestral triptych reflects his meticulous working methods. Core reshapes and transcends its improvised origins, while the slowly unfolding Turn serves as an Adagio in the set. The irrepressible energy of Boost forms the kind of dramaturgy of tension and release that led Boulez to describe Ammann’s music as ‘artistic reflected spontaneity at the highest level’.

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