classical music: Rohan de Saram

classical music: Rohan de Saram

classical music:

Rohan de Saram

Arditti 2 - Béla Bartók: String Quartet No. 4 / Sofia Gubaidulina: String Quartet No. 3 / Alfred Schnittke: ...

Arditti String Quartet, Bela Bartok, ...

Gramavision, 1992

Three superb modern string quartets
Doing a little research, I had forgotten that this recording was nominated for a Grammy in 1991 for "Best Chamber Music Performance" - an accolade it certainly deserved. (FYI for the curious: the winners that year were Ax, Laredo, Ma, and Stern doing Brahms quartets.) ...

Wolfgang Rihm: String Quartets - Im Innersten (Third String Quartet, in 6 Movements) / Eighth String Quartet ...

Wolfgang Rihm, David Alberman

Disques Montaigne, 1994

Not my favorite Rihm,great Arditti playing,balanced storms
Germany has always had a plurality of artisitic styles and musical languages. It is only now with the advent postmodernity that these different expressive strains are being encouraged. And Rihm represents the reactionary trend away from the vigours of modernity ...

Matthias Pintscher: Figura I-V; 4 Qaurtetto d'archi "Ritratto di Gesualdo"; Dernier espace avec introspecteur

Matthias Pintscher

Winter & Winter, 2004

Scintillating Sound
2004 marks the 30th Anniversary of the Arditti String Quartet, which once again demonstrates its commitment to the advancement of New Music--this time by the young German Matthias Pintscher (b. 1971). For the discerning listener of New Music, this disc offers ...

John Cage: The Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2

Rohan de Saram, John Cage, ...

Mode, 1993

It doesn't hurt!
For years I found the mere thought of Cage's music intimidating. I'd heard about the 4 minutes of silence, and some of the prepared piano music, but was unprepared for the simple beauty of these pieces. I hope they re-issue it soon. These wonderful things are easy to ...

Iannis Xenakis: Chamber Music, 1955 - 90

Rohan de Saram, Iannis Xenakis, ...

Disques Montaigne, 2000

amazing performance
There's something which really arises in listening to this double CD set, and that is Xenakis as the "romantic soul." That is NOT to say someone gushing, overflowing with emotions; what I mean is, Xenakis is in some ways the solitary visionary, working arduously to ...

Dillon: Traumwerk; String Quartet No. 2; Parjunya
James Dillon

Disques Montaigne, 2001

Berio: The Complete Sequenzas, Alternate Sequenzas & Works for Solo Instruments

Luciano Berio, Edoardo Sanguineti, ...

Mode, 2006

Wonderful music, well played
This is an incredible collection of pieces from an important modern composer...played by an incredible collection of performers. Some of them are famous, others deserve to be. The variety of sounds, the skillful use of different instruments and voices, and the ...

Betty Olivero: Der Golem
Rohan de Saram, Giora Feidman, ...

Plane, 1997

György Ligeti Edition 1: String Quartets and Duets - Arditti String Quartet

Gyorgy Ligeti, David Alberman, ...

Sony, 1997

String works, includes his must-have glorious Second Quartet
Sony's "Gyorgy Ligeti Edition 1: String Quartets and Duos" is the first disc of the 13-volume series--continued after the 8th installment by Teldec's "The Ligeti Project"---of Gyorgy Ligeti's collected works in performances overseen by the composer itself. It collects ...

Iannis Xenakis: Chamber Music, 1955 - 90

Rohan de Saram, Iannis Xenakis, ...

Disques Montaigne, 2000

Simply Exceptional!
This two-disks CD contains key chamber works, including all three string quartets. The Arditi quartet, paired with Claude Helffer, performs to perfection. Sound engineering is also very good.

Rubbra: Symphony No. 6; Symphony No. 8; Soliloquy
Rohan de Saram, Edmund Rubbra, ...

Lyrita, 2007

Henri Dutilleux / Pascal Dusapin (Arditti Quartet Edition 16)

Rohan de Saram, Pascal Dusapin, ...

Disques Montaigne, 1994

mysteries of the night, place,time and space explored
Dutilleux's music has a deep brooding at times narrative to fulfill. His creativity is magnitized towards the unmentionable, that abstract phanthom that Sartre once said we can only reach with phanthom hands. "Ainsi la nuit" involves, engages the deep mysteries, the ...

Rubbra: Symphonies 6 & 8, Soliloquy

Edmund Rubbra, Norman Del Mar, ...

Lyrita, 1993

Wonderul music. 20th century English music at its best.
This disc will reward anyone with a taste for high quality music which only reveals it's many rewards afer a number of hearings, and which one never tires of. No6 is a marvellous symphony, containing some of the most beautiful passages in twentieth century English ...