BRITTEN
Simple Symphony / String Quartet in F / Rhapsody for String Quartet / etc The Emperor Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Mar/2014 ] the quartet have gathered five works from the composer's earliest period, from the String Quartet in F, by a fourteen-year old schoolboy, to Simple Sym"The Emperor hony, composed six years later and the work which may be regarded as his breakthrough. |
Emperor String Quartet
Martinu: String Quartets 3/4/5 [ Bis / CD - released 2/Aug/2004 ] |
SALLY BEAMISH / BEETHOVEN
String Quartets Emperor String Quartet [ BIS / CD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] "I first came across the Emperor Quartet a few years ago when they released their excellent recording of the William Walton Quartet on Black Box. At the time I was struck by the powerful commitment of their playing, a feature clearly brought to bear... |
MARTINU
Strings Quartets Nos 3, 4 & 5 Emperor String Quartet [ BIS / CD - released 13/Jul/2004 ] "Powerful and eloquent performances ... an opportunity to explore the Emperor's abrasively vertical response" (CD of the Month MusicWeb Sept 2004) |
JAMES MacMILLAN
String Quartets Emperor String Quartet / Robert Plane (clarinet) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Feb/2002 ] showing MacMillan's development as a composer of chamber music |
Emperor String Quartet/Plane
Macmillan: String Quartets 1-2 [ Bis / CD - released 1/Apr/2002 ] |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
F#A#∞ (LP) [ Constellation Records / LP - released 18/Feb/2016 ] F#A#∞ was recorded at the original Hotel2Tango in spring 1997 on a rented 16-track tape deck and supplemented with various field recordings. In the preceding year, the band had taken shape as a quasi-orchestral outfit involving most of the players... |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (Double Gatefold LP) [ Constellation Records / 2 LP - released 18/Feb/2016 ] After two years of constant touring and near-unanimous critical acclaim, Godspeed You Black Emperor! assembled a collection of new recordings that charted the creative evolution of the band as well as its literal physical movement on the road,... |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada EP (12") [ Constellation Records / LP - released 18/Feb/2016 ] Side A is cut at 45rpm and features "Moya", a broiling cascade of upward scales that repeatedly explodes beyond its own threshold. "BBF3" on Side B clocks in at 18 minutes, and was the band's most lyrical, multi-movement music to date - more... |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Yanqui U.X.O. [ Constellation Records / LP - released 18/Feb/2016 ] U.X.O. is unexploded ordnance is landmines is cluster bombs. Yanqui is post-colonial imperialism is international police state is multinational corporate oligarchy. Godspeed You! Black Emperor is complicit is guilty is resisting. The new album is... |