Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter is continually creating something new – from concerti by Krzysztof Penderecki and Andre Previn to works by Sebastian Currier and Henri Dutilleux.
Mutter’s latest project is a recording of Sofia Gubaidulina’s In Tempus Praesens, written in 2006-07 and premiered with the Berlin Philharmonic in August 2007. Selke Harten-Strehk has more background here […]
Entries Tagged as 'Music Instruments'
Mutter Modern (An Interview with Anne-Sophie)
October 1st, 2008 · 3 Comments · CDs, Composers, Contemporary Classical, Music Instruments, Violin
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A click pick revisited
June 5th, 2007 · No Comments · Click Picks, Contemporary Classical, Experimental Music, Music Instruments
A few picks ago I introduced you to my new Houston friend, pedal-steel guitarist Susan Alcorn. She’s off to Argentina just now, but before she left she sent me a YouTube link to her performing in her studio just a week or two ago:
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Absolutely fascinating to see and hear.
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New music for prepared piano
April 11th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Contemporary Classical, Experimental Music, Festivals, Music Instruments, Piano, Strange
For the full story on the new aleatoric work seen being performed above on a Bösendorfer at the Two Moors Festival in the UK, take An Overgrown Path. Image credit BBC News
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Useless for shooting
October 21st, 2006 · 1 Comment · Classical Music, Critics, Music Instruments, Strange
From the entry on “Musical bow” (p. 351) in Sybil Marcuse, Musical Instruments: A Comprehensive Dictionary (New York: W.W. Norton, 1975).
“See also: adingili, adungu, aeolian bow, andobu, arpa-che, bagili, bajang kerek, balu, bandingba, barikendikendi, bawa, bazombe, bendukudu, benta, bentwa, berimbao de barriga, beta, bikefe, bobre, bogonga, bombo, bucumbumba, bumba-um, bum-bum, burum-bumba, busoi, caramba, carimba, chizambi, […]
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