recordings
Available
at:
New Focus Recordings
iTunes
also at CD Baby or
Amazon
TimeOut Chicago: "Top Ten of 2009"
TimeOut Chicago: Chase for the Cup
WQXR Q2: Claire Chase live at (le) Poisson Rouge
Aliento
Claire Chase, flute
The debut album from ICE's fearless founder & executive director Claire Chase features the world premiere recordings of boundary-pushing new flute works by Jason Eckardt, Edgar Guzmán, Dai Fujikura, Marcelo Toledo, Nathan Davis and Du Yun.
Nathan Davis (b. 1973)
1. pneApnea (2007)
Jason Eckardt (b. 1971)
2. 16 (2003)
Dai Fujikura (b. 1977)
3. Poison Mushroom (2003)
Edgar Gumán (b. 1981)
4. Prometeo & Epimeteo (2004)
Marcelo Toledo (b. 1964)
5. Aliento/Arrugas (1988)
Du Yun (b. 1977)
6. Run in a Graveyard (2009)
All are heard in their premiere recordings.
Available
at:
Tzadik Records
iTunes
also at
Amazon
The New York Times: "hallucinatory intensity"
Enter Houses Of
Mario Diaz de León
International Contemporary Ensemble
ICE performs the debut record from Mario Diaz de León, a talented young composer whose work focuses on acoustic/electronic hybrids that often fuse the two elements into unified meta-instruments. Often structured as walls and gestures of shimmering sound, his work is influenced by contemporary composers Scelsi, Ligeti, Dumitrescu and Radulescu as well as a wide range of electronic music, free improvisation, black/drone/doom metal and American noise bands like Metalux and Sejayno. Hypnotic and ritualistic, the music relates to altered consciousness and the movement between vision states.
1. Mansion
2. The Flesh Needs Fire
3. ii.23
4. 2.20
5. Gated Eclipse
Available
at:
New Focus Recordings
iTunes
also at CD Baby or
Amazon
allmusic.com: "exquisite precision"
Chicago Reader: Margasak
on Abandoned
Time
Abandoned Time
International Contemporary Ensemble
Daniel Lippel, guitar
ICE launches its second full-length CD in collaboration with the indie label New Focus Recordings. A no-holds-barred collection of works by Lindberg, Davidovsky, Saariaho, Fujikura, and Du Yun, this exciting new album was programmed, performed, engineered and edited by members of ICE.
Dai Fujikura (b. 1977)
1. Abandoned Time *(2004/06)
Mario Davidovsky (b. 1934)
2. Festino (1994)
Kaija Saariaho (b. 1952)
3. Adjö (1982/85)
Du Yun (b. 1977)
4. Vicissitudes No.1 *(2002)
Magnus Lindberg (b. 1958)
5. Linea d'ombra (1981)
* premiere recording
"fits into my category
of required
listening,
and is, at this
point
a Want List contender"
— William Zagorski, Fanfare Magazine
Complete Crumb Edition
Volume 12
The International Contemporary Ensemble
Jamie Van Eyck, mezzo soprano
Jacob Greenberg, piano
BRIDGE 9261
Available from Bridge Records
The latest disc in Bridge's ongoing Crumb series is in many ways one of the most impressive to date.
The young American ensemble “ICE” worked with the composer on the interpretations of these pieces over a number of years, then recorded the performances under the composer's supervision. ICE's recordings present a level of virtuosity and faithfulness to Crumb's scores that reflect the experience of a generation of performers that has grown up playing this music. Some of Crumb's most popular work is included on this disc (Vox Balaenae) as are some of his most infrequently played scores (Dream Sequence and Five Pieces).
With this disc Bridge draws near the completion of Crumb's 'back-catalog' and plans to release the remaining works before the composer's 80th birthday in 2009. George Crumb is still actively creating new works, and two of these will soon be issued as Vol. 13- a two disc set. See more details of Bridge's Grammy-winning Complete Crumb Edition at bridgerecords.com
Eleven Echoes of Autumn, 1965
The Sleeper
Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale)
Five Pieces for Piano
Dream Sequence
Huang Ruo
Chamber Concerto Cycle
International Contemporary Ensemble
Huang Ruo, conductor
Naxos Catalogue No: 8.559322
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Influenced by both the East and the West, Chinese-American composer Huang Ruo strives to create a seamless synthesis and a convincing organic unity, drawing influences from many genres and cultures. His music has been performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, the ASKO Ensemble, and the Nieuw Ensemble, under conductors James Conlon, Dennis Russell Davies and Wolfgang Sawallisch. In 2003, he was featured on a Composer Portrait concert at Columbia University’s Miller Theatre, where the International Contemporary Ensemble premiered the Chamber Concerto Cycle. The concert was hailed by New York Times critic Allan Kozinn as No. 2 of the Top Ten Classical Moments of 2003.
Chamber Concerto No. 1, "Yueh Fei"
- 04:01
- 03:30
- 03:53
- 02:37
- 04:12
Chamber Concerto No. 2, "The Lost Garden"
- 03:04
- 06:25
- 04:57
- 04:53
Chamber Concerto No. 3, "Divergence"
- 04:09
- 06:22
Chamber Concerto No. 4, "Confluence"
- 02:52
- 05:58
- 02:00
- 04:41
Total Playing Time: 01:03:34
