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If you want downloads, please email info(at)anothertimbre.com and we will send you the music.
Files cost £6 per disc, or £11 for a double CD.
New CD releases, May 2019
Downloads
at135 ‘Beissel’
A collaboration between Austrian composer Klaus Lang and the ensemble Golden Fur (Samuel Dunscombe. Judith Hamann & James Rushford), using some music by Johann Conrad Beissel (1691 - 1768), a devout Baptist leader whose music has been described as an early precursor of serialism.
at136 ‘Dethick’
Music made by Angharad Davies, Rie Nakajima and Alice Purton across two days in August 2018 at the church at Dethick, a tiny hamlet near Matlock, Derbyshire.
at137 Julius Eastman - ‘Femenine’
Apartment House perform Julius Eastman’s extraordinary ensemble piece from 1974. Selling out fast, so don’t delay.
at138 Magnus Granberg & Skogen
‘Nun, es wird nicht weit mehr gehn’
A composition by Magnus Granberg from 2017 performed by Skogen:
Anna Lindal, Angharad Davies, Leo Svensson Sander, Erik Carlsson, John Eriksson, Henrik Olsson, Pettter Wästberg, d’incise & Magnus Granberg
at131x2 Viola Torros
Double CD featuring two pieces by
Viola Torros youtube extract
and ensemble works by
Catherine Lamb youtube extract
and Johnny Chang youtube extract
Special offer till 30th June: any 5 CDs for the price of 4.
£39 inc. postage - email info@anothertimbre(dot)com letting us know which five discs you want.
Recent CD releases
at133 Mark R Taylor
‘Aftermaths’ Ten works for solo piano
played by Teodora Stepančić
at132 Ferran Fages
‘Un lloc entre dos records’
Solo composition for guitar and sinewaves
at134 ‘lines and tracings’
Two beautiful pieces for ensemble by
Morgan Evans-Weiler youtube extract
and Michael Pisaro youtube extract
Concerts & Upcoming Releases
There are a lot of concerts coming up that relate to Another Timbre CD releases.
First of all on Friday 26th April at Cafe OTO
in London, there is a launch concert for the
recent Julius Eastman CD ‘Femenine’.
Apartment House will play the piece,
which is a pretty exhilarating experience.
More details and tickets on the Cafe OTO
website here
Then in May Apartment House come to Cafe OTO again, for a three-day residency with a fantastic programme featuring music by Laurence Crane, Jürg Frey, Linda Catlin Smith, Olivier Messiaen, Alvin Lucier, Ryoko Akama, Maya Verlaak, Joseph Kudirka and others.
The residency is from Monday 20th May till Wednesday 22nd May
Monday is the launch concert for an
upcoming Another Timbre CD with
Apartment House playing Messiaen’s
‘Quatuor pour la fin du temps’ and
Linda Catlin Smith’s ‘Among the
Tarnished Stars’.
Tuesday has Jürg Frey as a special
guest, and includes world premieres
of two new pieces by Jurg.
Wednesday has the brilliant Chilean
guitarist Cristian Alvear playing with
Apartment House for the first time,
featuring music and guest appearances
by Laurence Crane, Maya Verlaak and
Ryoko Akama.
Full programme and tickets on the
Cafe OTO website here
But that’s not all….
On Saturday 25th May in St Paul’s Hall at Huddersfield University, there will be another launch concert for another new Another Timbre CD, by the young Italian composer Federico Pozzer, at which two of Federico’s pieces will be played, and Cristian Alvear will also perform Jürg Frey’s beautiful solo piece ‘guitarist, alone’.
Prompt 7.30pm start, with a £5 donation on the door.
Then finally on Monday 27th May it’s back to Cafe OTO for a mouth-watering concert featuring Cristian Alvear again and Rie Nakajima.
Cristian will be launching his new CD of Catherine Lamb’s ‘Point/Wave’ for solo guitar and electronics. There will also be a solo set by Rie, and then Cristian and Rie will perform a new work specially written for the concert by Sarah Hughes. Unmissable again.
Tickets and more details from the Cafe OTO website here
From the Canadian Composers Series
2018 saw the completion of Another Timbre’s highly-acclaimed Canadian Composers Series, with the release of a second batch of five exceptional CDs.
For more details on the series go here
at130 Linda Catlin Smith - ‘Wanderer’
Apartment House perform eight ensemble works by the Toronto-based composer. Described in The Guardian as “quietly unassuming and entrancingly beautiful Feldman-esque music”
at129 Cassandra Miller - ‘Just So’
Quatuor Bozzini play four string quartets by Cassandra Miller: ‘Just So’, ‘Warblework’, ‘Leaving’ and ‘About Bach’
“Sumptuous music….an excellent disc”,
Marc Medwin in Dusted
at126 Cassandra Miller - ‘O Zomer!’
Two solo works, and two pieces for ensemble
‘O Zomer!’ Apartment House,
‘Philip the Wanderer’ Philip Thomas
‘For Mira’ Mira Benjamin
‘Duet for Cello and Orchestra’ Charles Curtis & BBCSSO
“Strange but profoundly haunting music”, The Guardian
at127 Alex Jang - ‘momentary encounters’
Four pieces, two solos and two for small ensemble:
‘momentary encounters 5’ Heather Roche
‘any three players’ & ‘distributed tourism’ Apartment House
‘a gray bent interior horizon’ Cristian Alvear
“A fantastic CD” Dirk Serries
at128 Lance Austin Olsen ‘Dark Heart’
Sonic collaborations, using graphic scores, instruments, field recordings and found audio. With Terje Paulsen, Gil Sanson, Ryoko Akama, Isaiah Ceccarelli, Katelyn Clark, Mira Benjamin, John Lely and Anton Lukoszevieze
“The big new discovery in this set of discs”
Ben Harper
Huge Price Reduction for Early Another Timbre CDs
We have substantially reduced the cost of the early Another Timbre CD and CDR releases. From now on releases from the first four years of the label’s existence are available for only £5 (CDs) and £4 (CDRs). This is all of the CDs that were released in plastic jewel cases, at01 to at46. The one exception is ‘Lost Daylight’ (at10), which was re-pressed as a card cover, and will still cost £9.
Some of the discs are close to selling out, but lots of bargains to be had.
For more details, go here
at143 Apartment House play Olivier Messiaen’s ‘Quatuor pour la fin du temps’ and Linda Catlin Smith’s ‘Among the Tarnished Stars’
Youtube extract (Linda Catlin Smith)
at139 James Weeks - ‘windfell’
A hauntingly beautiful, hour-long piece for violin and voice, composed by James Weeks for Another Timbre’s other favourite violinist, Mira Benjamin.
at140 ‘awirë’
A live set from Cafe OTO in October 2018, when the Tse trio (Cyril Bondi, Christoph Schiller & Pierre-Yves Martel) played for the first time with violinist and Another Timbre favourite Angharad Davies.
at141 Federico Pozzer - ‘Breaths’
Three fresh and vital compositions by a young composer who uses the breathing patterns of the performers to structure his music.
at142 Catherine Lamb - ‘Point / Wave’
First work for solo guitar + electronics by one of the world’s most interesting composers. Wonderfully performed by Cristian Alvear
