H OMAGE TO ISTANBUL WINTER&WINTER Fazil Say composes for Ferhan & Ferzan Önder the Sonata for At the heart of our recommendation of new publications and im- two pianos, which has its world premiere in January 2019. This portant recording works stands the dialogue, not in the sense of is the missing piece of the mosaic to realize this album. Ferhan controversy or debate, but of listening, understanding, accepting, & Ferzan Önder are closely connected with Fazil Say for exchanging and respecting. Both Mauricio Kagel and Uri Caine decades. Already in 2013 they are playing the world premiere of are in dialogue with Ludwig van Beethoven. Through Christophe Wintermorgen in Istanbul. The Double Concerto op. 48 is also Desjardin's viola, Domenico Gabrielli communicates with the written for them. During its creation in May 2013, the Gezi Park three hundred years younger composer Ivan Fedele. At the sug- protests shook Turkey. The Önder twins: » He asked us what we gestion of Teodoro Anzellotti, baroque artist Jean-Philipe Rameau would think if he would rename the double concerto 'Gezi meets important contemporary colleagues such as Eun-Hwa Cho, Park', which was very exciting news for us! With this work we Xavier Dayer, Fabio Nieder, Brice Pauset, Johannes Schöllhorn and hope to contribute something to a peaceful, human, free and Nadir Vassena. Exaudi, the unique vocal ensemble of today's democratic world.« music, exchanges ideas with Carlo Gesualdo. The jazz geniuses Honoured as CD OF THE MONTH — Magazine STEREO Masabumi Kikuchi, Gary Peacock and Paul Motian dedicate them- selves to Kurt Weill. Jazz pianist Loran Witteveen has chosen no- body less to converse with than Albert Einstein. Fazil Say listens to the concerns of the people in Istanbul and gives them a voice through Ferhan & Ferzan Önder. Man and nature, one of the most important themes of our time, is the subject of »Adventa« (see below) with Joachim Badenhorst & Mógil, but also Hans Abraham- sen and Fumio Yasuda let themselves be inspired by nature. Every single work is a jewel in its own right! F ERHAN & FERZAN ÖNDER Wish you a lot of enjoyment while discovering »Play Fazil Say« M ARIKO TAKAHASHI & STEFAN WINTER Nº 910 255-2 [CD] M AN AND NATURE J APANESE SOUND PICTURES The empathetic sounds of this album are inspired by the Icelandic Until the 19th century, Japan was able to protect itself from Western in- classic »Aðventa« by Gunnar Gunnarsson, a saga about friendship, fluences, and it was only under pressure from the United States that reliability, trust and harmony with nature. the country opened up. Today we are connected and discover each Every year in the dark and icy December, the farmhand Benedict, other's history, science, architecture, culture and music. Fumio Yasuda his dog Leó and the leading mutton Eitill wander through the Ice- comes from Modern Japan, which has been opening up without losing landic highlands to find lost sheep and save them from death by its integrity. He studies classical music in Tokyo with a predilection for frost or starvation. Karl Amadeus Hartmann, grows up with Western pop and jazz music Joachim Badenhorst & Mógil create a musical audio film about and is nevertheless deeply rooted in the Japanese tradition. Time, space Nordic ice landscapes, snow, isolation, winds, forces of nature, and eternity play an important role in his music of composition and finiteness, but also intimacy, friendship, warmth, silence, hope and improvisation. Yasuda works in deep musical understanding with dreams. Mógil is an Icelandic-Belgian ensemble whose music Joachim Badenhorst, Nobuyoshi Ino and Akimuse. In his score there blends contemporary music, folk, jazz, minimal and post-rock into are no pauses, but signs of silence. Lyrical and epic tones tell of its own universe. Japanese landscapes, rain, fog, forests, longing and eternity. F UMIO YASUDA WITH AKIMUSE J OACHIM BADENHORST J OACHIM BADENHORST & MÓGIL N OBUYOSHI INO »Adventa« »Forest« Nº 910 260-2 [CD] Nº 910 253-2 [CD] G RANDIOSE VOCAL ART I NNER JOURNEY EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble presents 18 Madrigals of Gesualdo from the »On a journey from Palermo to Taormina I am accompanied by V. and VI. Book. »Four hundred years after his death, Carlo Gesualdo, the sounds of Domenico Gabrielli’s Ricercari, the oldest compo- Prince of Venosa, remains the most tantalising of musicians, the sition for cello solo, and I experience — fascinated by the ge- most alluring of myths. We are drawn back to the dark flame of this nius of this music — the Sicilian landscape. Soon afterwards I strange, obsessive music like moths to the candle, like lovers who begin to transcribe and to interpret the pieces for viola. The can’t let go. At the heart of his work we sense a mystery, an inward- wish arises to ask my Italian artist friend Ivan Fedele to com- turning, a kind of silence: its extreme chromatic harmonies and wild pose reflections to these Baroque works. He explores Gabrielli's polarities no mere artifice or exoticism, but emanating from a soul gestures and figures and imagines a further journey between whose nature is other, lying apart from us, outside our cosmology, Ricercari [ from ricercare 'to seek'] and Ritrovari [ from orbiting a different sun.« — JAMES WEEKS »I adore ‘ExAuDI’, there ritrovare 'to find'] by creating the sensations of an inner jour- is a quality of innocent (but intellectually informed) adventuring in ney through his creative power.« — CHRISTOPHE DESJARDINS the way they sing, and it was as if the ink was still wet on Don Carlo Sound experience from the Villla Medici-Giulini, a place created for di Venosa’s pages. Very exciting!« — MICHAEL FINNISSY music, where also Ghielmi & Pianca, as well as La Gaia Scienza record. E XAUDI VOCAL ENSEMBLE C HRISTOPHE DESJARDINS »Gesualdo: Madrigali« »Ricercari & Ritrovari« Nº 910 259-2 [CD] Nº 910 256-2 [CD] I CE CRYSTALLINE BEAUTY D IALOG WITH RAMEAU » The idea of the cycle grew out of some arrangements of canons The accordion virtuoso Teodoro Anzellotti - a brilliant interpreter of by Bach that Abrahamsen had made a decade earlier, but the contemporary music - meets Jean-Philipe Rameau, one of the most ex- ways in which he extends the principles of canonic writing to traordinary composers of the Baroque, born in 1683 when men of high generate music of such crystalline beauty and fragile intensity rank in France wore grey mottled curly wigs. Just as Desjardins insti- is quite breathtaking. He calls it 'a representation of snow and gates a dialogue with the past, Anzellotti also encourages contempo- white polyphony', hence the title, and from an ensemble of rary composers to engage (in this case) with Rameau. The result is six three strings, three wind, two pianos and percussion, and with contemporary accordion miniatures in reflection with 21 works by the use of microtonal tuning, he creates a unique sound world, Rameau's Baroque art. totally unlike any other music I know.« »There are always surprises ... never before have I seen such music, — THE GUARDIAN (Five Stars) not even by Scarlatti, such turns, such surprises ... that you dare to The ensemble rechereche creates a masterpiece of contemporary art do it ... that someone in the 18th century had the courage ... the 40 with breathtaking sound images. year old Rameau was an avant-garde musician in his time ... he was — GERMAN RECORD CRITICS' AWARD a revolutionary!« — TEODORO ANZELLOTTI H ANS ABRAHAMSEN E NSEMBLE RECHERCHE T EODORO ANZELLOTTI »Schnee« »Tourbillons de Rameau« Nº 910 159-2 [CD] Nº 910 254-2 [CD] M ASTERPIECE OF SERIAL MUSIC A LIEN SCHUBERT This is a voyage of discovery through the piano works of Jean Bar- »Every classical music fan knows his first Piano Trio. Nevertheless, raqué: The Piano Sonata (1950/1952), masterpiece and experiment at the recording of the trio La Gaia Scienza, playing on historical in- the same time, recorded here for the first time in the corrected new struments, is astounding: only few early music makers dare to ap- version, demands of us that we go beyond all boundaries as far as our proach Schubert in such a wild, consistent and disrespectful way - conception of tempo, dynamics or agogics is concerned, that we create and still are able to succeed.« — SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG and explore new imaginary spaces. The deeper you go back in time, »... the result was never more convincing than in the case of the trio the more mysterious and dark the early pieces (1947 to 1949) become, La Gaia Scienza. The Italian trio captivates not only with its mastery all of which are released here for the first time on CD. The prelude to of the historical aesthetics of sound speech. What often seems to be un- the third act of Tristan (Richard Wagner), like a ghostly and fragile skilled in chamber music has free momentum here, and the joyful sci- motto (of the young Barraqué), casts its pale, nebulous light on the ence does not stand in the way of exploring abysmal sadness in the whole programme. The French pianist Jean-Pierre Collot, who lives in slow movement. This positive impression is decisively influenced by Munich, presents all the piano works of Barraqué, one of the most im- the beautiful sounding fortepiano and the fabulous room acoustics of Villa portant composers of serial music. Medici-Giulini, situated between Como and Milan.« — HANDELSBLATT J EAN-PIERRE COLLOT »Jean Barraqué: L A GAIA SCIENZA Espaces Imaginaires »Franz Schubert Œuvres pour piano « Piano Trios I & II« Nº 910 257-2 [CD] Nº 910 018-2 [2 CD-Set] S OUNDS FROM THE COURT OF THE SUN KING H IDDEN JEWEL Vittorio Ghielmi and Luca Pianca are among the most exciting This album presents two of Clara Schumann's favourite works, composed musicians of Renaissance and Baroque music.