DE ALVEAR, MARIA
"As if an incantantory ritual, Drums Off Chaos and MARIA DE ALVEAR create "acoustic images". The inherent spirit of the object - the essence of the tree comes to life through the interplay of voice and drums, assuming a clear shape in the listener's mind. MARIA DE ...
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0006 | WORLD EDITION
"What is one to make of Maria de Alvear's two long solos for piano, De puro amor ('Of pure love') and En amor duro ('In hard love'), both composed in 1991? The scores themselves, if one decides to start from here, are completely perplexing. Pages and pages are marked ...
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0033 | MARIA DE ALVEAR
First in a series featuring previously unreleased works for violinviola by emerging composers, this CD contains the world premiere recording of Maria de Alvear's extended 1994 work for viola. Christina Fong, viola.|
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OOP006 | OGREOGRESS PRODUCTIONS
"There are pieces which must be done. The work LIBERTAD is one of them. Inspired by the lyrics of Tsolagiu M.A. RuizRazo, it is one of those compositions that gave me enormous pleasure while working and that accompanied me with a wave of very great power [...] Perhaps ...
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0001 | WORLD EDITION
"To me, MARIA DE ALVEAR composes like a natural phenomenon: guided not as much by the coming and going of ideas and emotions, nor addressing them, but like a law of nature impassively displaying a sort of automatic writing that moves the body and courses through the ...
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0005 | WORLD EDITION
"MAGNA MATER for voices, ensemble and video installation (2013) is one of Maria de Alvears most important recent works. It constitutes a ritualistic invocation of all-nourishing Mother Nature. Sounds, words and images evoke her power and wisdom, the destructive power of ...
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0040 | MARIA DE ALVEAR
"Maria de Alvear writes confrontationally personal music along sexual themes ... the same kind of spiritual revolution that John Cage ... did here 30 years ago. The work Sexo for female narrator/performer and orchestra is a passionate examination of all the taboos and ...
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0003 | WORLD EDITION
"Vagina is the longing for the man. This simple sentence holds enormous secrets, starting with the word longing and not least with the word man. Recognizing a man is probably very difficult from a woman's perspective: for several reasons. The most important sine qua non ...
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0004 | WORLD EDITION
