Kaija Saariaho - Notes on Light, Orion, Mirage (2008)

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Max Richter - Elle s'appelait Sarah OST (2010)

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Igor Stravinsky - Le sacre du printemps

In this 1960 recording, Stravinsky conducts his very own masterpiece, Le sacre (premiered for the first time in 1913, in Paris). I think it is the best version there is, full of excitement and mind-blowing energy. Bernstein's NYPO 1958 recording is also notable, but this is what you must feed your ears with. You will not fail to notice, The Rite of Spring is very much ahead of its time.

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Moondog - Self Titled (1969)

«Within a moment's time the final grain of sand will drop.
Upend your hour-glass, old man, or the universe will stop.»
—Moondog

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Julia Kent - Green and Grey (2011)

«Düş. Düş. Düş. Düş. Ve uyku.» —Haydar Ergülen

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Ingram Marshall - Evensongs (1996)

«The string quartet, 'Evensongs', is really a collection of pieces, hymnodic meditations, concerning the crepuscular.» —Ingram Marshall

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Various Artists - Death is Just One's Own

This is an album that I prepared for my friends some time ago, selecting 20 pieces I like. They are mostly ambient or/and contemporary classical.

The track list is as follows:

1. Nils Økland - mønster

2. Harmaa - saapuminen

3. Daniel Bjarnason - sorrow conquers happiness

4. Akira Rabelais - 1390 gower conf. ii. 20 i can noght thanne unethes spelle that i wende altherbest have rad

5. Eric Enocksson - i. nox egoque soli

6. Edward Artemiev - train

7. Jóhann Jóhannsson - the rocket builder (lo pan!)

8. Swod - Nein

9. Ben Woods - A crowded corridor

10. Akira Rabelais - 1559 w. cuningham cosmogr. glasse 125 within which draw an other circle, a finger bredth distant

11. Asher - untitled

12. Jóhann Jóhannsson - salfraedingur

13. Max Richter - Andras 1

14. A Journey Down The Well - good bye, i couldn’t buy you flowers when you were alive

15. Colleen - Sea of tranquility

16. Zbigniew Preisner - dekalog iv

17. Hildur Guðnadóttir - into warmer air

18. Ludovico Einaudi - eyes closed

19. Erik Satie - sports et divertissements, le yachting

20. Library Tapes - feelings for something lost in two parts (pt. 2)

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John Adams - Road Movies (2004)

«What's your road, man? — holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.» Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (1976)

1998 recording of Reich's minimalist masterpiece, Music for 18 Musicians (1974-1976)

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Vassilis Tsabropoulos - The Promise (2009)

The promise of sheer musical beauty, perhaps?

*dipsizkuyu'ya teşekkürler.

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Ben Woods - A Collection of Thoughts (2008)

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John Luther Adams - The Light That Fills the World (2002)

«Brilliant, crystalline waves of sound...
Adams' music is never less than spellbinding.» – Sequenza 21

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Jacaszek - Treny (2008)

A fascinating journey: Max Richter kidnapped by Brian Eno.

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Akira Rabelais - Spellewauerynsherde (2004)

he music on spellewauerynsherde is as unusual as its title which, redefined, reads ‘spell.wavering.shard.’―‘spell’ alluding to the effect cast by its hypnotic incantatory voices, ‘wavering’ their shivering quality once filtered through Rabelais’ Argeïphontes Lyre software and ‘shard’ their fragmentary character. After Rabelais discovered forgotten tape recordings of traditional Icelandic a cappella singing, he found himself so transfixed by the female voices’ heartbreaking sound that he decided to digitally weave them into pulsating drones. By exhuming these phantom, siren-like voices and digitally reconfiguring them, Rabelais’ haunting recording straddles medieval and modern eras. Don’t think that he smothers the remnants with distracting treatments, though. His approach is far subtler; in some cases, voices seemingly stand unadorned of any added embellishment. (source)

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Pierre Boulez Conducts Edgard Varèse (2001)

Pierre Boulez and Edgard Varèse. Need one say more? A whole new (?) classical music experience for the ears. An expedition carried out by two strange Frenchmen to the boundaries of music.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pierre Boulez

Amériques for large orchestra (1918–1921; revised 1927)
Arcana for large orchestra (1925–1927)
Déserts for wind, percussion and electronic tape (1950–1954)
Ionisation for 13 percussion players (1929–1931)

* Türkçe not: Bakalım, Amériques'in tekrar eden melodisini daha önce nerede duymuş olduğunuzu hatırlayabilecek misiniz?

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Alan Hovhaness - Concerto for Two Pianos, etc. (1944-1954)

Martin Berkofsky, Globalis Symphony Orchestra, Konstantin Krimets

01 - Concerto for two pianos & orchestra - I. Andante
02 - Concerto for two pianos & orchestra - II. Largo
03 - Concerto for two pianos & orchestra - III. Moderato
04 - Mihr, for two pianos, Op. 60
05 - Ko-ola -u, for two pianos, Op. 136
06 - Vijag, for 2 pianos, Op. 37
07 - Lousadzak, for piano & strings, Op. 48

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Luc Ferrari - Interrupteur-Tautologos 3 (1970)

01 - Interrupteur (For Ten Instruments, 1967) Pt.1
02 - Interrupteur (For Ten Instruments, 1967) Pt.2
03 - Interrupteur (For Ten Instruments, 1967) Pt.3
04 - Interrupteur (For Ten Instruments, 1967) Pt.4
05 - Tautologos 3 (For Eleven Instrumentalists And Magnetic Tape, 1970) Pt.1
06 - Tautologos 3 (For Eleven Instrumentalists And Magnetic Tape, 1970) Pt.2
07 - Tautologos 3 (For Eleven Instrumentalists And Magnetic Tape, 1970) Pt.3
08 - Tautologos 3 (For Eleven Instrumentalists And Magnetic Tape, 1970) Pt.4
09 - Tautologos 3 (For Eleven Instrumentalists And Magnetic Tape, 1970) Pt.5

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