Aleksandra Orbeck Nilssen

The Symphony of Sirens. In 1922 Arseni Avraamov composed and conducted a visionary public sound event, activating the entire port city of Baku: its factory sirens, the ships horns of the entire Caspian flotilla, two batteries of artillery, several full infantry regiments, trucks, seaplanes, 25 steam locomotives, an array of pitched whistles and several massive choirs. Constantly referenced but forever lost, this extraordinary event is here painstakingly reconstructed and spatialised to approximate the original experience.

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Steven Brown & Blaine L. Reininger - Croatian Variations (1992)
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Croatian Variations - MATERIALI SONORI - 1992

Compositions for the Croatian Dance Theatre directed by Aleksandra Turja and recorded in Zagreb. A musical portrait of a unique and poignat place and period in European history and one of the finest works to date from Blaine L. Reininger and Steven Brown.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart authored his 1768 one-act singspiel Bastien und Bastienne at age 12, at the behest of Dr. Anton Mesmer; Thomas Reichert staged and directed a production of the work at the Salzburger Marionettentheater, which was filmed live and now appears in this home video release. Alfred Kleinheinz, Radu Cojocariu, Bernhard Berchtold, Evmorfia Metaxaki and Aleksandra Zamojska perform the story of the two titular lovers, driven apart by petty jealousies and romantic rivalries but reunited by the machinations of the soothsayer Colas. Salzburg's Jung Philharmonie, under the baton of maestro Elisabeth Fuchs, provides musical accompaniment. Nathan Southern, Rovi