Diptyque Jabès – Ramon Lazkano
Diptyque Jabèsworks by Ramon LazkanoNeue Vocalsolisten, L’Instant Donné Following his fascinating Odradek debut with Chalk Factory, Basque composer Ramon Lazkano returns with an album of world-premiere recordings featuring intimate original works for voices and ensemble. The album is unified by the enigmatic, elusive poetry of Edmond Jabès, a French writer of Egyptian origin. Lazkano sets […]
METTIS QUARTET
METTIS QUARTETBeethoven String Quartets Op. 18/4 & 130 Beethoven’s first set of string quartets, the six Op. 18 Quartets, were written when he was a young man and may even include material from his earliest years in Bonn. The fourth is full of purposeful energy, forthright and immediate, with a Hungarian-inspired finale that shows the […]
ENIGMAS
Armando Alfonso Complete Piano WorksJavier Negrín piano Spanish composer-conductor Armando Alfonso is a musical polymath who has worked as a pedagogue alongside his conducting career and compositional output, some of which was inspired by his father, another great Spanish musician, Javier Alfonso. As Armando Alfonso himself writes in the album booklet: “I am probably a […]
Liszt: Unrivalled – Michael Kaykov
Liszt: UnrivalledMichael Kaykov American pianist and scholar Michael Kaykov plays an array of Liszt’s most powerful piano pieces, including the Sonata in B minor, as well as two of Beethoven’s ‘Sechs geistliche Lieder von Gellert’ in transcriptions by Liszt. Of these Beethoven songs we hear Liszt’s arrangements of the noble, imposing ‘Gottes Macht und Vorsehung’ […]