NCM channel on YouTube

After joining FaceBook and Twitter, we now inaugurate our New Consonant Music channel on YouTube.
Do not hesitate to share with us your NCM videos. We shall be happy to feature them on this brand new channel. Comments, feedbacks and appreciations are very welcome.

Penderecki and Lachert

KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI (b. 1933) : SONATA No. 2 for violin and piano (1999)

[1] Larghetto (3:48)
[2] Allegretto scherzando (3:58)
[3] Natturno (11:03)
[4] Allegro (9:07)
[5] Andante (3:24)


PIOTR LACHERT (b. 1938) : SONATA No. 9 for violin solo (1993)

[6] Inizio (6:23)
[7] Capriccio Primo (3:05)
[8] Capriccio Interrotto (4:29)
[9] Capriccio Terzo (2:07)
[10] Finale (0:18)

PIOTR LACHERT (b. 1938) : SONATA No. 17 for violin and piano (1998)

[11] One (3:48)
[12] Two (4:31)
[13] Three (5:04)
[14] Four (0:18)

by Hanna LACHERT, violin & Hélène JEANNEY, piano

Available on www.davidsegalviolins.com


Myriam Hrybynyk

Kalidisc

By the way, do you already know the Belgian label Kalidisc?

Josquin Records

A new label devoted to postmodern music is born!


Discover its first CD with works by Lysight, Devreese, Lachert, Tosic, Rubin, Owens, Woodward-Cooper, Tacuchian and Fernández-Vidal.

Long life to Josquin Records!

Alfama plays Devreese

Alfama Quartet signs the last Kalidisc CD [KA2009] with Frederic Devreese's works for string quartet. A fantastic recording of a wonderful program :

• Three Waltzes (First Waltz, Romantic Waltz, Valse Sacrée)
• James Ensor Suite (Sketches, Caricatures, Chorale, Masks)
• Prelude (La vie s’en va)
• Divertimenti (Introduction, Waltz, Café-Concert, March, Finale)
• Four Simple Waltzes
• Duo

A must-have by all lovers of this huge Belgian composer.

Soledad : Passage

La rencontre de Frédéric Devreese avec Soledad est de l'ordre du merveilleux. Le dernier CD du groupe, Passage [Virgin Classics 009463727532 0], en est une nouvelle confirmation.

Accueillant pour l'occasion un Philip Catherine au meilleur de sa forme, Soledad parcourt une cinquantaine d'année de compositions du compositeur : Passage à 6, sept passages de musiques de film (Belle, De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen, Evenepoel, Les nocves barbares, La partie d'échecs, Benvenuta : Dream et Tango), Gemini et Final Game IV.

Grand et jouissif.

Piano Brasileiro Contemporanêo III

Tribute to São Paulo’s 450th birthday, this new album features pieces by Sergio Igor Chnee, Gilberto Mendes, Aylton Escobar, Edson Zampronha, Paulo Gazzaneo and Pedro Caldas. The album is a delicious banquet of sounds with the most perfected and refined delicacies.

Free samples are downloadable on Sergio's brand new site.

Enigma

The Polish recording company Dux has just released Enigma, a great monographic CD [DUX0531A14979] devoted to Michel Lysight's works for clarinet(s) and piano :

• Septentrion for clarinet and piano ;
• Enigma for clarinet, bass clarinet and piano ;
• Labyrinthes for clarinet ;
• An Awakening for clarinet, bass clarinet and piano ;
• Palimpsestes for piano ;
• Trois Croquis for clarinet and piano ;
• Samarkand for clarinet and piano ;
• Homage to Fibonacci for 2 clarinets ;
• Soleil bleu for clarinet and piano.

The performers are Ronald Van Spaendonck (clarinet), Jean-Marc Fessard (clarinet and bass clarinet) and Éliane Reyes (piano) and, as usual, they did a wonderful job!