Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / ASKO|Schoenberg / Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Spaces of Blank / Mask / Imprint
- Type CD
- Label Disquiet Media
- UPC 0608917400120
- Catalog number DQM 01
- Release date 03 September 2010
About the album
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Ed Spanjaard: conductor
Christianne Stotijn: mezzo-soprano
Asko|Schönberg
Otto Tausk: conductor
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Gottfried von der Goltz: violin
“The recurring theme in Van der Aa is identity: of human beings, sounds, instruments, musicians, music communities.”
“And so Spaces of Blank becomes, by playing with the outward show of the opposite, everything that a ‘normal’ song cycle is not.”
“As ‘beautiful’ as it is, the music is clearly the product of an imagination that far surpasses the purely musical.”
Opusklassiek.nl interviews with Navarra Quartet & Michel van der Aa
16-12-2010
The elaborate and high standard website about classical music www.opusklassiek.nl has recently published two interviews with Challenge (related) artists: Navarra Quartet and composer Michel van der Aa both written by connaisseur Aart van der Wal.A quote from the interview with the Navarra Quartet:"No wonder really that on their latest CD (Challenge Classics CC72365) the Navarra Quartet play the three string quartets by the Latvian composer Peteris Vasks (b. 1946) with ...