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MDG 6131520CD
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Music by Kurtag, Gubaidulina, Lachenmann and Schleiermacher. Performed by Stefan Schleiermacher (piano). "If you are looking for music for children that is off the beaten path Steffen Scheliermacher has gathered it all together on one CD. Some of the most famous and bold composers of recent history have contributed music for this compilation, including Scheliermacher himself. Seventy one minutes of music made up of a series of sixty three separate miniatures. Steffen Scheleiermacher has risen to prominence by performing almost exclusively modern music."
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MDG 6131522CD
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Performed by Steffen Schleiermacher (piano). "With volume two of Feldman's late piano works, the recording is devoted to one piece dedicated to the former student and close colleague Bunita Marcus. Feldman's music never is opulent but spare and sparse with few notes that sometimes are stretched over periods of silence. Pianist Steffen Schleiermacher is a specialist in modern music for piano both as a composer and performer. His MDG recordings have garnered an amazing amount of praise."
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MDG 6131510CD
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Performed by Mike Svobda (trombone) and Steffen Schleiermacher (piano). "The entirety of music for the trombone by maverick composer John Cage is on this one CD. Michael Svoboda was born 1960 on the island of Guam and grew up in Chicago. After winning several prizes (BMI Award to young composers 1982), he came to Europe. He has collaborated with Karlheinz Stockhausen, performing the role of Luzlfer as trombone soloist in Stockhausen's opera cycle Licht, and in many more works by that composer. Svoboda performs regularly at major festivals throughout the world and as soloist with major European orchestras. In addition, he performs his own works and plays in various jazz settings. He collaborated with Frank Zappa on a project with Ensemble Modern on Zappa's Yellow Shark project. For nearly 20 years, Mike Svoboda has committed himself to expanding his instrument's repertoire and has premiered over 300 works for trombone in various settings from composers such as Wolfgang Rihm, Sandeep Baghwatl, Toshio Howokawa, Martin Smolka, Peter Eotvos and Helmut Lachenmann."
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MDG 6451404CD
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Original compositions for player piano from the 1920s. Features works by Stravinsky, Hindemith, Haass, Toch, Munch, Lopatnikoff, Casella, Malipiero, Duchamp, Antheil. Furious glissandi, monumental chords, breathtaking velocities, most highly complicated rhythms compounded by multilayered meters, note cascades of hurricane force together with puffy little musical clouds innocently drifting by the dawn of the 20th century brought with it the fully automatic player piano and revolutionized the keyboard world. Stravinsky, Hindemith, Toch, Antheil, Casella, and Malipiero all discovered this instrument and between 1915 and 1927 wrote the original compositions featured on Vol. 4 of MDG Player Piano series. Previously these impressive documents of 'machine aesthetics' have been available only here and there and in unsatisfactory sound quality. After many years of work, Jurgen Hooker is now finally able to fill in this discographic gap. This player piano enthusiasm has collected original perforated ribbons from throughout Europe and lovingly and meticulously prepared them for performance on the Ampico-Bosendorfer player piano stored by him for this purpose."
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MDG 6131428CD
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Performed by Steffen Schleiermacher on organ & piano. "Steffen Schleiermacher, MDG's resident modern music keyboard specialist, has discovered new nuances in the music of Philip Glass. 'Dances' was a collaboration with choreographer Lucinda Childs dating from 1979. 'Trilogy Sonata' is made from music originally heard in Glass' operas Einstein on the Beach, Satyagraha and Akhnaten. Glass composed this sonata in 2000."
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