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Orkest de Volharding is one of the longest established European new music ensembles, created in 1972 by composers Louis Andriessen and Willem Breuker to perform one work, Andriessen's piece De Volharding. Its sister ensemble, Hoketus, has long fallen by the wayside, but Orkest de Volharding (literally the Perseverance Orchestra) presses on in a prodigious outpouring of concerts and recordings. They remain little known in the United States, despite having recorded works of Andriessen, Julia Wolfe, and Michael Torke for major labels distributed in America.

The latest CD from composer Jay Cloidt features the premiere studio recordings of two ambitious and diverse works for string quartet, Spectral Evidence and eleven windows, performed by the Cypress String Quartet. Spectral Evidence begins with a straightforward performance of the first two minutes of the Mozart quartet (No. 14 in G, K. 387).

Eve Beglarian - Overstepping (1998) {OODiscs OO33}
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Classical / Experimental / Postminimalism / Avant-Garde / Post Classical

High-tech samples with poetic and intelligent New Narrative-type texts, a fresh outlook and the occasional patterns suggesting floating big-city dreaminess inhabit much of this highly listenable CD. Selections include: "No Man's Land" (1995), "The Garden of Cyrus" (1984-86), "Preciosilla (1990), "Disappearance Act" (1993), and the title piece "Overstepping" (1991).