Benedikta Bonitz / Il Flauto Dolce
Street Date July 27 10
Benedikta Bonitz
“Il Flauto Dolce”
An album of unusual early baroque and contemporary music for recorder solo accompanied by cello and harpsichord
Baroque and contemporary music from Italy, France, England, Japan, Germany and New York performed by an outstanding virtuosa of the recorder noted for her powers of musical articulation and expression. Included in the program: A series of Italian works, mostly from the period just after 1600, and considered to be among the earliest published music specifically designed for instrumental performance. Also on the program are a set of variations on Greensleeves from seventeenth-century England and modern works by Walter Steffens, Somei Satoh and Heiner Stadler.
Walter Steffens / Guernica and Other Paintings
Street Date May 25 10
Labor Records latest release Guernica and Other Paintings: Picasso, Munch, Bosch, Chagall explores German composer Walter Steffens’ labyrinthine worlds of sound and image and his extraordinary project that stretches and deepens a tradition that began with musical paraphrases of pictures. Steffens’ interest in “transposing” visual impressions into music arises from his life-long occupation as a composer for theatre, operas, and ballets. His compositions are not simply “paraphrases of pictures,” rather Steffens draws upon his extensive musical vocabulary and his uncommonly strong emotional response to art to produce a musical statement on this recording ranging from the orchestral grandeur inspired by Picasso’s “Guernica” to the large scale symphony for organ after Mark Chagall.
Jean-Claude Kuner - The Broken Promise (Blood Feud in Albania)
A Radio Documentary
Street Date May 25 10
The centuries-old custom of blood feuds - responsible for thousands of Albanian deaths in the past - has started blighting lives in the Balkan nation again in recent years. The Broken Promise (Blood Feud in Albania) is both a guided tour and a kind of audio or media poem that takes us through the horrific modern revival of the Kanun, the ancient tribal code dating back to the fifteenth century.
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