Ensemble InterContemporain, Matthias Pintscher – New York (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Ensemble InterContemporain, Matthias Pintscher – New York (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:44:47 minutes | 1,65 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

Here is the third release in the collaboration between the Ensemble Intercontemporain and Alpha.

This time the musicians of the ensemble and their conductor Matthias Pintscher focus on American music: Intégrales by Edgar Varèse (1924), Music for Wind Instruments by John Cage (1938), Instruments I for six instruments by Morton Feldman (1974), Elliott Carter’s Concerto for clarinet and ensemble (1996), Steve Reich’s WTC 9/11 for string quartet (2009-10), Sean Shepherd’s Blur (2011), and David Fulmer’s Within his bending sickle’s compass come for solo horn and ensemble (2014-15). More than ninety years of creativity and musical profusion at the heart of the global city that the Ensemble Intercontemporain celebrates today.

This double album is released to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the EIC: forty years of discoveries and of promotion of contemporary music at the highest level of performance.

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Ensemble InterContemporain, Matthias Pintscher – Bartók & Ligeti (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Ensemble InterContemporain, Matthias Pintscher - Bartók & Ligeti (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz] Download

Ensemble InterContemporain, Matthias Pintscher – Bartók & Ligeti (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:48:49 minutes | 1,67 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

Alpha is launching a collaboration with the Ensemble Intercontemporain and its new artistic director, composer-conductor Matthias Pintscher.

This new series will alternate 20th-century landmarks and new works, providing an opportunity to show to advantage the great quality of the EIC musicians in the major masterpieces of the last century and to discover scores by composers of the 21st century.
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Arditti Quartet, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stephan Heuberger & Matthias Pintscher – Musica viva, Vol. 37: Mark Andre (Live) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Arditti Quartet, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stephan Heuberger & Matthias Pintscher – Musica viva, Vol. 37: Mark Andre (Live) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:06:51 minutes | 589 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BR-Klassik

The German-French composer Mark Andre (b.1964) is one of the most important representatives of New Music. His twelve “Miniatures” for string quartet were composed in 2014/17 as a commission from the Arditti Quartet, Bavarian Radio’s “musica viva”, the Festival d’Automne à Paris and the ProQuartet-CEMC, funded by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. Andre created his organ work “Himmelfahrt” (Ascension), funded by the Siemens Music Foundation, in 2018 on behalf of the Evangelical Church in Germany. The orchestral work woher…wohin was written between 2015 and 2017 as a composition commission by BR’s “musica viva” in conjunction with the Happy New Ears prize for composition from the Hans and Gertrud Zender Foundation. The live recordings of all three works are now being released in the CD edition of Bavarian Radio’s “musica viva” concert series on BR-KLASSIK.

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