Kevin Volans

Kronos Quartet - Kevin Volans - Hunting: Gathering (1991)  Music

Posted by Designol at April 15, 2022
Kronos Quartet - Kevin Volans - Hunting: Gathering (1991)

Kronos Quartet - Kevin Volans - Hunting: Gathering (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 108 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 82 Mb | Scans included
Contemporary Classical, Minimalism | Label: Electra Nonesuch | # 7559-79253-2 | 00:21:26

During the rehearsals for the string quartet version of "White Man Sleeps," a strong artistic bond developed between the work's performers, the renowned Kronos Quartet, and its composer, Kevin Volans. This led Kronos to commission a second-string quartet from Volans, especially written for the musicians. Like "White Man Sleeps," it is a stunning piece of music, recommended to every world music lover who wants to cross the bridge to contemporary, modern music. The work comes in three movements, each one with a different character. Most remarkably are the Ethiopian influences in the beginning bars of the first movement (compare this motive with the vocal style of the distinguished Ethiopian singer Aster Aweke) and the joyous Southern African dance-like motive featuring after the more contemplative opening of the second movement. The slightly melancholic song-like structure of the short third movement draws the work to a close.

Jill Richards & Kevin Volans - Études (2022)  Music

Posted by delpotro at July 2, 2023
Jill Richards & Kevin Volans - Études (2022)

Jill Richards & Kevin Volans - Études (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 195 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 165 Mb | 01:11:55
Classical | Label: Diatribe Recordings

Kevin Volans is probably most famous for the 1984 Kronos reworking of White Man Sleeps. His beginnings in South Africa to the Neue Einfacheit (in English, New Simplicity) of West Germany with the theorist Karlheinz Stockhausen, whose seminal sine-waves and soundscapes shaped the landscape we understand in electronic music today, are well-documented. The Man With Footsoles of Wind, an opera about the enterprise of the influential poet Arthur Rimbaud in Ethiopia, remains very much on my ‘listening wishlist’. Volans is obviously a musicologist. He is undoubtedly a modernist. This is 2022. He has offered us Études, a collection of his own previously unreleased solo piano works performed by Jill Richards and a second-half where he performs Liszt. The listener has been invited into “a sound world” with “extremely complex and challenging arrangements”.

Kronos Quartet - Pieces of Africa (1992) (Repost)  Music

Posted by Domestos at Sept. 12, 2017
Kronos Quartet - Pieces of Africa (1992) (Repost)

Kronos Quartet - Pieces of Africa (1992)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue, log) ~ 272.28 Mb | 1:07:13 | Cover
Classical | Label: Elektra Nonesuch

When released, Pieces of Africa was subject to some of the same "cultural imperialist" criticism that had been more successfully leveled at performers like David Byrne and Paul Simon. The album consists of commissions from African composers working at varying distances from European conventions. But whereas Byrne and Simon arguably used the music of Brazil or South Africa as backgrounds over which to display their own egos, the Kronos Quartet's members managed to sublimate themselves in service to the compositions, never giving the listener any sense of condescension.

Kronos Quartet: 25 Years (1998) (10 CD Box Set) REPOST  Music

Posted by murena at March 6, 2018
Kronos Quartet: 25 Years (1998) (10 CD Box Set) REPOST

Kronos Quartet: 25 Years (1998) (10 CD Box Set)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks+.cue, log) | 2,42 Gb | Scans -> 14,8 mb
MP3 320 kbps | 10 CDs, 10:32:57 min | 1,43 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Nonesuch

The 20th century has not been kind to most standard classical music forms. The piano sonata, the concerto, the symphony – none of them have disappeared entirely, but none remain in a state that could be called even remotely healthy. The same was true of the string quartet until 1973, when violinist David Harrington got some friends together to play contemporary music and offered his old high-school composition teacher a bag of donuts if he'd write a piece for them…

Kronos Quartet - White Man Sleeps (1987)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Sept. 12, 2022
Kronos Quartet - White Man Sleeps (1987)

Kronos Quartet - White Man Sleeps (1987)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 309 MB | 01:06:00
Genre: Classical | Label: Nonesuch

This album features the original version of "White Man Sleeps," written in 1982, and "Mbira" from 1980. If you think landmark European 17th/18th century baroque instruments and African musical structures are irreconcilable opposites and you are open enough to change your mind, this is the album for you. These pieces of Kevin Volans belong indeed to the most exciting developments in contemporary music.
Jeroen van Veen & Friends - Minimal Piano Collection, Vol. X-XX (2010) 11 CD Box Set

Jeroen van Veen & Friends - Minimal Piano Collection, Vol. X-XX (2010) 11 CD Box Set
John Adams, Jurriaan Andriessen, Louis Andriessen, Marcel Bergmann, William Duckworth
Wim Mertens, Julius Eastman, Douwe Eisenga, Morton Feldman, Graham Fitkin, Joep Franssens
Philip Glass, Gabriel Jackson, Tom Johnson, Simeon ten Holt, David Lang, Colin McPhee, Kyle Gann
Arvo Pärt, Chiel Meijering, John Metcalf, Carlos Michans, Alexander Rabinovitch, Jacob ter Veldhuis
Steve Reich, Michael Parsons, Meredith Monk, Frederic Rzewski, Tim Seddon, Kevin Volans

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 2.73 Gb | Scans included + CD-ROM Data | Time: 14:15:40
Classical, Minimalism, Contemporary | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 9171

The Minimal Piano Collection for one piano (BC8551) ended with “In C” by Terry Riley. Many of the composers on this new 11 Cd box have stated that this particular piece was a starting point for them to compose in a new way, exploring the ways that were created, the spaces between the notes, the emptiness, the freedom. Elizabeth Bergmann & Marcel Bergmann, Tamara Rumiantsev and Sandra van Veen & Jeroen van Veen recorded 83 compositions. From two pianos up to six pianos, from Steve Reich ‘standard’ Pianophase to Six Pianos. On the included Cd-ROM you can find all the biographies, background information and some sheet music. Van Veen recorded many pieces on his own using multi track technique.
Pumeza Matshikiza - Voice Of Hope (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Pumeza Matshikiza - Voice Of Hope (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 44:25 minutes | 916 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Lyric soprano Pumeza Matshikiza is introduced in a unique album which tells her incredible and inspirational story in music: from her childhood in the townships of South Africa to the stage of Europe’s great opera houses with classic South African songs including Miriam Makeba’s greatest hits: Pata Pata and The Click Song, and arias by Puccini and Mozart.
Benedikt Schiefer - Invisible Life (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2019)

Benedikt Schiefer - Invisible Life (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2019)
FLAC tracks | 43:06 | 147 Mb
Genre: Soundtrack / Label: Milan

Benedikt Wolfgang Schiefer studierte von 1998 bis 2004 Komposition bei Wilfried Hiller am Richard-Strauss-Konservatorium München. Von 2006 bis 2009 studierte er bei Georg Friedrich Haas und Erik Oña an der Hochschule für Musik in Basel und absolvierte Meisterkurse bei Kevin Volans und Beat Furrer. Neben mehreren Auszeichnungen und Stipendien trat Schiefer seit dem Jahr 2000 auch mit seinen klassischen Kompositionen und seiner Elektronikmusik auf mehreren Musikfestivals auf. Seine erste Filmmusik für einen Langspielfilm komponierte er für das von Christoph Hochhäusler inszenierte deutsch-polnische Filmdrama Milchwald. Für seine Musik an Unter dir die Stadt wurde er 2011 mit dem Preis der deutschen Filmkritik ausgezeichnet.

Quatuor Béla & Moriba Koïta - Impressions d'Afrique (2019)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Jan. 25, 2020
Quatuor Béla & Moriba Koïta - Impressions d'Afrique (2019)

Quatuor Béla & Moriba Koïta - Impressions d'Afrique (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 316 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 169 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:09:36
Classical | Label: Clarthe

This album is the fruit of our fascination for African music. The pieces recorded here are the result of a journey lasting a number of years. For us, musicians of a string quartet, Africa appears as a continent far removed from the artistic traditions of our lands. And yet…
Quatuor Béla & Moriba Koïta - Impressions d'Afrique (2019) [Official Digital Download]

Quatuor Béla & Moriba Koïta - Impressions d'Afrique (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Time - 69:30 minutes | 648 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

This disc is the fruit of our fascination for African music. The pieces recorded here are the result of a journey lasting a number of years. For us, musicians of a string quartet, Africa appears as a continent far removed from the artistic traditions of our lands. And yet…