Bernhard Kontarsky News
German musician
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- Germany
- conductor, pianist, university teacher, musician
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2023-08-06 06:48:00
....towards a Pure Land
[…] sometimes, and bit by bit one got to know about them, and then I went to Darmstadt, and saw him lecture, and heard a lot of his tapes, a lot of his performances, for a week or two, and realized that this was like another planet. Music was never like this, that I had heard before. There was a kind of release from conventional time. And I heard the piano pieces particularly played by the Kontarsky brothers. Up to that point there were eleven of them. And the way they move through time with long silences, and extraordinarily intense fast passages, and everything in between. The structuring of the ‘in between’ so that the whole field is kind of covered, but not in the linear fashion that one expects from music. By the time the piece is finished you have a sensation that you’ve looked at a symmetrical, harmonious universe […]
2018-02-25 22:00:00
Recent updates to previously posted music
[…] Lieder +1CD Wyn Morris 1966 Des Knaben Wunderhorn (J. Baker & G. Evans) (a rip by Leroy V)10/12/16 Musique Française #2 +1CD Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc, Saint-Saens: Violin Sonatas by Kang & Devoyon (2003)10/11/16 Darmstadt #4 +1CD Carter's Piano & Cello Sonatas + works by Del Tredici, Helps & Persichetti10/11/16 Brahms Piano & Chamber Gems +1CD Clarinet & String Quintets by D. Shifrin and Chamber Music N-W10/11/16 Darmstadt #3 +1CD Boulez's Structures for 2 Pianos by the Kontarsky Duo (1965)10/8/16 Spanish School #2 +1CD set Albeniz's Iberia by Olivier Chauzu (2008)10/4/16 Strauss #3 +1CD Oboe Concerto by Douglas Boyd & Paavo Berglund (1986) (+ Mozart's K. 314)10/4/16 Strauss #3 +1CD set Heldenleben & Zarathustra with Zubin Mehta in L.A. (1968) (a rip by Dante B.)10/3/16 Bartok #5 +1CD The wooden Prince & Hungarian Pictures by Neeme Jarvi in London (1990)10/3/16 Bartok #5 +1CD The wooden Prince & Dance Suite by Ivan Fischer […]
2017-09-01 02:00:00
German pianist Aloys Kontarsky died in August 2017
2017-08-25 23:00:00
[…] Des Knaben Wunderhorn (J. Baker & G. Evans) (a rip by Leroy V) 10/12/16 Musique Française #2 +1CD Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc, Saint-Saens: Violin Sonatas by Kang & Devoyon (2003) 10/11/16 Darmstadt #4 +1CD Carter's Piano & Cello Sonatas + works by Del Tredici, Helps & Persichetti 10/11/16 Brahms Piano & Chamber Gems +1CD Clarinet & String Quintets by D. Shifrin and Chamber Music N-W 10/11/16 Darmstadt #3 +1CD Boulez's Structures for 2 Pianos by the Kontarsky Duo (1965) 10/8/16 Spanish School #2 +1CD set Albeniz's Iberia by Olivier Chauzu (2008) 10/4/16 Strauss #3 +1CD Oboe Concerto by Douglas Boyd & Paavo Berglund (1986) (+ Mozart's K. 314) 10/4/16 Strauss #3 +1CD set Heldenleben & Zarathustra with Zubin Mehta in L.A. (1968) (a rip by Dante B.) 10/3/16 Bartok #5 +1CD The wooden Prince & Hungarian Pictures by Neeme Jarvi in London (1990) 10/3/16 Bartok #5 +1CD The wooden Prince & […]
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