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Hayden Chisholm & Philip Zoubek
As If the Stormy Years Had Passed: The Music of Gurdjieff Reimagined [ Rattle Records / CD - released 2/Oct/2025 ] Hayden has a book containing many markings and notes collected from "a bespectacled man's scribbles on a night in Central Asia". The lines have been straightened and the form polished, but the melodic essence of that encounter in Central Asia is... |
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BODY / CRESSWELL / FARR / PSATHAS / BODY / etc
Landscape Preludes Henry Wong Doe (piano) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 25/Jul/2014 ] "If you buy just one classical CD this year, make it Landscape Preludes." William Dart NZ Herald |
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Hirini Melbourne and Richard Nunns
Te Ku Te Whe [ Rattle Records / CD - released 9/Apr/1994 ] This passionate and spiritual album is the definitive recording of pre-European Maori instrumental music. 'Te Ku Te Whe' has a rich and sensual musicality, which spans both its traditional ethnic source and the modern context of the performers. |
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Hirini Melbourne and Richard Nunns / Remixed by Various New Zealand Artists
Te Whaiao - Te Ku Te Whe - Remixed [ Rattle Records / CD - released 3/Oct/2006 ] The 'Te Ku Te Whe' album was released in 1998 and is the definitive recording of pre-European Maori instrumental music. Now these NZ producers have taken the music a step further by remixing it for the 21st century! |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Cello Works Vol 1 Inbal Megiddo (cello) Jian Liu (piano) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 20/Apr/2012 ] Beethoven Cello Works Vol 1 is a concentrated and passionate recording from two exceptional musicians. Inbal and Jian are more than equal to the task of bringing this glorious music to life with great articulation and power. The first of two albums,... |
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IVAN ZAGNI / STEVE GARDEN
Trouble Spots Ivan Zagni, Steve Garden [ Rattle Records / CD - released 12/Jun/2020 ] The originally audio for this album was recorded in 1983-84 and released on the Ode label as A Selection of Trouble Spots (1984). This album is a reinterpretation of the original multi-track recordings, which have been re-edited, added to, subtracted... |
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JACK BODY
Passing By NZTrio, Stephen de Pledge, Stroma New Music Ensemble, Kronos Quartet [ Rattle Records / 2 CD - released 8/May/2015 ] Passing By is a double album set of chamber works by one of our most revered and cherished composers, the inimitable Jack Body. With new recordings from NZTrio and Stephen De Pledge, recent recordings from Kronos Quartet, Del Sol Quartet, Stroma New... |
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JACK WOODBURY
Woodbury: inst.19-20 Jack Woodbury [ Rattle Records / CD - released 12/Jun/2020 ] The works collected on inst.19-20 are derived from two audiovisual installations created during 2019 and early 2020. Titled "A Tree Falls" and "CORROSE". |
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Jack Woodbury, Peter Liley
Unfathomed Waters [ Rattle Records / CD - released 15/Jul/2022 ] Unfathomed Waters is a collection of collaborative works by Peter Liley and Jack Woodbury. Composed between 2020 and 2022, the album draws inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft's short story The Temple. Compositionally, the pieces employ ambient... |
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Jade String Quartet
Parlour Games [ Rattle Records / CD - released 18/Aug/2017 ] Formed in 2003, JSQ is an established ensemble on the NZ chamber music scene, comprised of principal and sub-principal members of the APO (Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra). |
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FAURE / PROKOFIEV / PREVIN / BARBER / RACHMANINOV / etc
Between Darkness and Light Jenny Wollerman (soprano) Michael Houstoun (piano) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 8/May/2015 ] Between Darkness and Light is a celebration of 19th and 20th century art-song from two of our finest classical musicians. This fine album features works by some of the world's most beloved composers, Gabriel Fauré, Sergei Prokofiev, Madeleine... |
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John Coulter, Chris Cree Brown, David Downes, John Elmsly, Paul Smith
Sound Dome [ Rattle Records / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] A set of five works created specifically for the sounddome, a 25-loudspeaker instrument designed for composing with space that brings to life a three-dimensional sound world previously conceivable only in the imagination of the composer. |
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JONATHAN BESSER
Campursari Jonathan Besser (electric piano) with Miranda Adams (violin, gamelan, rebab, voice) & others [ Rattle Records / CD - released 26/Sep/2011 ] 'Campursari' takes its title from an Indonesian musical term used to describe music that combines Western and gamelan instruments. |
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JONATHAN BESSER / GREG FOX
Cathedral Jonathan Besser (St Paul's Cathedral Organ, Dunedin Town Hall), Greg Fox (Guitar & Treatments) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 12/Jun/2020 ] An improvised live concert featuring Jonathan Besser (St Paul's Cathedral pipe organ) and Greg Fox (electric guitar and treatments), originally performed and recorded in 1984, here presented in a newly edit, mixed and mastered version. |
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JONATHAN BESSER
Turn Jonathan Besser (piano & electric piano) with Bravura [ Rattle Records / CD - released 1/May/2006 ] Besser created these pieces initially as sketches, before handing them to a trusted ensemble, to become the complex fusion of musical flavours that is 'Turn'. |
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Jorge Sosa / Dave Lisik
Enceladus [ Rattle Records / CD - released 27/Apr/2012 ] An electro-acoustic work by New York-based contemporary classical composer, Jorge Sosa. The work is structured around the trumpet playing of jazz musician and composer, Dave Lisik. |
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Justin DeHart
Landfall: NZ Percussion Vol 1 [ Rattle Records / CD - released 16/Jul/2021 ] Landfall is the first of a proposed series focused on works for solo percussion. The recording features pieces by New Zealand composers Glenda Keam, David Downes, Alex van den Broek, Mark Menzies, Chris Gendall, Rosa Elliott, Robert Bryce, Simon... |
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Justin DeHart
Pasāda [ Rattle Records / CD - released 4/Jul/2025 ] Pasāda is comprised of a selection of percussion-based compositions that explore the essential sonic and healing properties of rhythmic repetition. The album features work by Peter Garland, Pauline Oliveros, John Luther Adams, Eleanor Hovda, and John... |
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Justin DeHart
Percussion Spheres [ Rattle Records / CD - released 31/Mar/2023 ] This constellation of works was selected from my recent solo performances as part of the International Society of Contemporary Music (ISCM) World New Music Days, and Asian Composers League Festivals held for two weeks in Aotearoa, New Zealand. It was... |
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Justin DeHart
Ring: Bergamo solo percussion works [ Rattle Records / CD - released 31/Mar/2023 ] "I first encountered Bergamo's music as an undergraduate studying percussion at CSU Sacramento with Daniel Kennedy in 1998. Kennedy studied with Bergamo at the California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts) some years before and shared many inspiring... |