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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Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Singer Pur & Peter Rundel – Klaus Ospald: Más raíz, menos criatura & Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Singer Pur & Peter Rundel – Klaus Ospald: Más raíz, menos criatura & Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:22:46 minutes | 707 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BR-Klassik

Born in Münster / Westphalia in 1956, Klaus Ospald is one of the most renowned German composers of contemporary music. He studied composition in Detmold and Würzburg, and also as a master student with Helmut Lachenmann. His works are performed by internationally renowned performers and orchestras. Important organizers and festivals of contemporary music arrange premieres of his works. Klaus Ospald has received numerous awards, most recently the International Hanns Eisler Scholarship of the City of Leipzig 2022. – The BR-KLASSIK CD presents Ospald’s “Más raíz, menos criatura” in a live recording of a performance on November 22, 2019 in a musica viva concert in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residence and his “Quintett von den entlegenen Feldern” recorded on May 25, 2019 in the Laboratory for Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machines of Coburg University.

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WDR Sinfonieorchester & Peter Rundel – Hans Abrahamsen: Left, Alone (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

WDR Sinfonieorchester & Peter Rundel – Hans Abrahamsen: Left, Alone (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 48:38 minutes | 484 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Winter & Winter

Hans Abrahamsen is one of the most important contemporary composers. Numerous productions have already been published by Winter & Winter and have attracted great attention from the public and the press. “Let me tell you” is one of the greatest worldwide successes in contemporary music. With the WDR production “Left, alone” Winter & Winter continues its canon with Hans Abrahamsen. Ten Sinfonias, Left, alone and Two Pieces in Slow Time can be heard on this album. Ten Sinfonias, recorded under the direction of Peter Rundel, Left, alone under Mariano Chiacchiarini with Tamara Stefanovich on piano and Two Pieces in Slow Time with soloists from the WDR Symphony Orchestra, form an exciting and multi-layered album with important key works by Hans Abrahamsen. A production with the WDR Symphony Orchestra.

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Ernesto Molinari, Thomas Demenga, Marino Formenti, Peter Rundel, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln – Jarrell: …mais les images restent… (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Ernesto Molinari, Thomas Demenga, Marino Formenti, Peter Rundel, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln – Jarrell: …mais les images restent… (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:02:33 minutes | 559 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Aeon

Michael Jarrell claims for himself the status of a craftsman. Well aware that mastery of his art is acquired in the long term, he has often felt the need to return to the same object, considered from a different angle, when he judges that he now possesses more efficient tools and can express his musical ideas with greater precision. Although he says he is fascinated by artists who constantly work at the same idea, he does not seek a reduction of this kind for himself, but rather moves from one work to another through a process of reactions. That attitude is illustrated by this new album in which works and performers intersect; and the artists here are the composer’s most loyal supporters. The arborescences and ruptures, the profundity of the multiple levels of interpretation we can perceive in the pieces on the programme of this disc, make us conscious of the multiplicity of the levels of meaning present in his music. Michael Jarrell’s training as a visual artist has probably honed his sensitivity to forms still further. The impact on him of Paul Klee’s ideas, notably concerning the relationships between forms and movements, is doubtless not foreign to the way he animates the materials with which he composes.

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