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Iddon, Martin: Naiads

Label: Another Timbre
Product Code: 32722
Catalog Code: at202
Country: UK
 
Price: $15.95



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With titles taken from different kinds of water nymphs in Greek mythology, composer Mark Iddon's four-part work is a hauntingly beautiful set of compositions of seeming siren calls and rich percussion, realized by an octet configuration of the UK ensemble Apartment House, with two pianists (Philip Thomas and Mark Knoop), three strings, clarinet, flute and percussion.


Arnold, Martin: Stain Ballads

Label: Another Timbre
Product Code: 29862
Catalog Code: at166
Country: UK
 
Price: $15.95



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The UK Apartment House ensemble perform four chamber works or lyrical ballads of slowly meandering melody, referenced as slow dances, by Toronto composer Martin Arnold: "Lutra" for solo cello & humming; "Stain Ballad" for a sextet of strings, piano, reed organ & percussion; "Trousers" for violin & cello; and "Slip" for cello, violin, bass clarinet & piano.


Verlaak, Maya: All English Music is Greensleeves

Label: Another Timbre
Product Code: 29860
Catalog Code: at164
Country: UK
 
Price: $15.95



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Five fascinating works by the Belgian composer Maya Verlaak, realized by Apartment House and soloists Sarah Saviet & Mark Knoop, experimental compositions including a work of personal reflection based on "Alouette"; a conceptual game piece; a composition layering pre-recorded segments of "Greensleaves"; and two interactive acoustic & computer pieces.


Fox, Chistopher: Works For Piano, Philip Thomas piano [Used Item]

Label: Hat [now] ART
Product Code: 28970
Catalog Code: Hat[now]ART192
Country: Switzerland
 
Price: $14.45



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Four large and distinctive works by composer Christopher Fox performed by pianist Philip Thomas, who also writes the liner notes about the works, revealing and explaining the compositional elements, piano preparations, and physical requirements placed on the performer.


Yudo, Luiz Henrique : Chamber Works' played by Apartment House

Label: Another Timbre
Product Code: 28755
Catalog Code: at150
Country: UK
 
Price: $15.95



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Apartment House play five chamber pieces by American outsider composer Luiz Henrique Yudo, most of whose works are transcriptions into sound of existing artworks, including three short pieces with dedication, the 5 part and quirky "Five Palindromes" and followed by an extraordinary long work based on the patterns in colour artworks, "The Donald Judd Harmonies".


Burn, Chris / Philip Thomas: as if as

Label: Confront
Product Code: 28070
Catalog Code: core 09
Country: UK
 
Price: $13.95



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Contemporary composer, improviser and pianist Chris Burn in 4 lively, playful and fasciatingly structured works, as heard in Philip Thomas's renderings: "as if as"; "only the snow"; a transcription of Derek Bailey's "from ten, two, and three" in 6 parts; "pressings and screening" in 4 parts; and "the sky a silver dissonance" with Kate Ledger as a 2nd pianist.


Apartment House: Perform Olivier Messiaen and Linda Catlin Smith

Label: Another Timbre
Product Code: 27575
Catalog Code: at143
Country: UK
 
Price: $12.95



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The UK ensemble Apartment House performs two works--Olivier Messiaen's "Quatuor pour la fin du Temps" in 6 movements; and Linda Catlin Smith's "Among the Tarnished Stars"--taking a fresh modern approach to the Messiaen, drawing out its experimental character, and the sense of drama and intricate gradations of sonority in Smith's rich and mysterious work.


Smith, Linda Catlin: Wanderer

Label: Another Timbre
Product Code: 26343
Catalog Code: at130
Country: UK
 
Price: $15.95



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Eight sophisticated chamber pieces composed by Linda Catlin Smith and realized by the Canadian Apartment House ensemble, including a solo piano performed by Philip Thomas, a piano duo with Thomas and Mark Knoop, and works for percussion & cello, 2 quintet pieces for strings, percussion and winds, and two 7-piece conducted works with two percussionists, strings and brass.


Miller, Cassandra : O Zomer!

Label: Another Timbre
Product Code: 26339
Catalog Code: at126
Country: UK
 
Price: $15.95



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Two ensemble works and two solo pieces by Christian Wolff's favourite contemporary composer, Cassandra Miller, who is blazing a very personal trail through the experimental music world, with brilliant performances by Apartment House, Mira Benjamin, Philip Thomas, and Charles Curtis with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ilan Volkov.


Frey, Jurg / Magnus Granberg: Early to Late

Label: Another Timbre
Product Code: 25536
Catalog Code: at121
Country: UK
 
Price: $15.95



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New ensemble pieces by Jurg Frey and Magnus Granberg played by Ensemble Grizzana, commissioned by Another Timbre with the request that both start from the same two fragments of early music, one by Johannes Ockeghem, the other by William Byrd, each composer producing fascinatingly different pieces that both contain echoes of the source material.


Cage, John : Winter Music

Label: Another Timbre
Product Code: 25023
Catalog Code: at118
Country: UK
 
Price: $15.95



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John Cage's 1957 composition in a visceral realisation for four pianos, played by John Tilbury, Philip Thomas, Mark Knoop and Catherine Laws, using chance procedures to assign each of the pianist's five of the twenty pages of the score, the pianists agreeing on an overall duration of 40 minutes and preparing their parts independently, performed without rehearsal.


Smith, Linda Catlin : Drifter [2 CDs]

Label: Another Timbre
Product Code: 23754
Catalog Code: at105x2
Country: UK
 
Price: $24.95



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Ten pieces dating from 1995 to 2015 from Canadian composer Linda Catlin Smith, performed by Quatuor Bozzini and Apartment House, the first in Another Timbre's Canadian Composer series, a 2-CD release focusing on Smith's "equal and simultaneous drive toward abstraction and lyricism" in slowly developing, lush and sophisticated compositions.


Frey, Jurg: Circles and Landscapes - works for solo piano played by Philip Thomas

Label: Another Timbre
Product Code: 21490
Catalog Code: at91
Country: UK
 
Price: $15.95



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Five new or recent pieces from composer Jurg Frey, alongside his 1993 work "In Memoriam Cornelius Cardew", all performed by pianist Philip Thomas, presenting slowly unfolding compositions emphasizing the physical space and time within which sounds are situated.


Frey, Jurg : Grizzana and other pieces 2009-2014 [2 CDs]

Label: Another Timbre
Product Code: 21040
Catalog Code: at86x2
Country: UK
 
Price: $26.95



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The Ensemble Grizzana (Ryoko Akama, Mira Benjamin, Richard Craig, Emma Richards, Philip Thomas and Seth Woods) performs a series of delicate and beautiful chamber pieces by Swiss composer and clarinetist Jurg Frey, who also performs on clarinet.


Feldman, Morton played by John Tilbury & Philip Thomas: Two Pianos And Other Pieces 1953-1969 [2 CDs]

Label: Another Timbre
Product Code: 20021
Catalog Code: at81x2
Country: UK
 
Price: $28.95



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"Two Pianos" is one of Morton Feldman's most experimental and radical works, performed here by John Tilbury & Philip Thomas; plus lesser known works including 'Piece for Four Pianos', 'Between Categories', 'False Relationships and the Extended Ending' and 'Two Pieces for Three Pianos'.


Fox, Chistopher: Works For Piano, Philip Thomas piano

Label: Hat [now] ART
Product Code: 19727
Catalog Code: Hat[now]ART192
Country: Switzerland
 
Price: $17.95



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Four large and distinctive works by composer Christopher Fox performed by pianist Philip Thomas, who also writes the liner notes about the works, revealing and explaining the compositional elements, piano preparations, and physical requirements placed on the performer.


SFE - Simon Fell Ensemble: Positions and Descriptions

Label: Clean Feed
Product Code: 14780
Catalog Code: CF230
Country: Portugal
 
Price: $12.95



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Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 with an ensemble including Tim Berne, Joe Morris, Rhodri Davies, Jim Denley, Alex Ward & Steve Beresford, this amazing work is organized in traditional movements using a very modern and free language.


Burn / Thomas / Fell: The Middle Distance

Label: Another Timbre
Product Code: 12711
Catalog Code: AT24
Country: UK
 
Price: $15.95



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Unconvention improvisation fueled by the influence of contempary compositions from bassist Simon H. Fell, pianist Philip Thomas, and prepared pianist Chris Burn.








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