Riot Ensemble – Vestige (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:31 minutes | 529 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Coviello Classics
With their fourth album at Coviello Contemporary, the Riot Ensemble returns to Deutschlandfunk with soprano Sarah Dacey to make a chamber music recording that ranges from the huge architectural spaces of Alex Grove’s Three Forms to Enno Poppe’s wild and virtuoso grapes. The musicians, who are constantly reassembling themselves and dividing them into different subgroups of the group (soprano, violin, viola, cello and piano), show the warmth, precision and burning expressiveness that earned them the title “Supergroup of New Music Soloists” in the UK and led them to festivals such as MaerzMusik, Wien Modern and Dark Music Days.
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Alexander Hawkins, Evan Parker, Riot Ensemble – Togetherness Music (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 50:48 minutes | 550 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Intakt Records
With Togetherness Music, British pianist and composer Alexander Hawkins presents a fascinating musical panorama, a distillation and synthesis of different traditions and influences, reflecting the broad spectrum of an extraordinary musical spirit. Released to celebrate Hawkins’ 40th birthday, this six-movement quasi-orchestral work is an extensive expansion and revision of a piece which originated with a commission from conductor and composer Aaron Holloway-Nahum for the Riot Ensemble, to feature Hawkins and saxophone icon Evan Parker – with whom Hawkins has enjoyed a now more than decade-long musical association – as soloists. The new incarnation of the work features the original forces, augmented by additional acoustic improvisers and the electronic wizardry of Matthew Wright.
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