New music by: Peter Ablinger, Mark André, PeterRuzicka, Olga Neuwirth, Vinko Globokar, Andreas Dohmen, ChrisNewman, Pierluigi Billone, Martin Smolka, Stefano Gervasoni, & Manos Tsangaris.
Various Artists.
The annual collegno offering from the Donaueschingen Music Festival, for the millennium year2000, runs to 4 CDs and just under 5 hours of new music, for combinationsranging from a straightforward string trio, to 4 soloists, 4 ensembles, andlive electronics! All the works areperformed 'live', and all are world première performances, so that this set,with its illuminating notes by each of the 11 composers, constitutes aninvaluable historical document. |
