Jürg Frey album Je laisse a la nuit son poids d’ombre (“I leave to the night its weight of shadow” in English) is his thirteenth for the label, some as composer, some as musician.
…Impressive as Frey’s tally of releases with Another Timbre is, it is worth remembering that in his earlier years from 1996 to 2010 most of his releases were on Edition Wandelweiser, which also catalogues his compositions (currently up to 188 of them) varying from many compositions for a single piano up to several compositions for a full orchestra. The composition which gives this album its name dates back to 2019-20 and was written for two soprano voices, cello, violin, trombone, clarinet, tuba, flute,…
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Swiss Wandelweiser master reimagined by virtuoso flutist Manuel Zurria in stunning solo interpretations. Jürg Frey’s String Quartet No. 3 and four Extended Circular Music pieces (originally for various chamber ensembles) are transformed into ethereal soundscapes through Zurria’s conceptual approach inspired by Japanese Kintsugi art. Interweaving minimalism with radical experimentalism, these recordings draw startling scope from minimal material means – breath-length utterances dance among complex harmonic clusters, provoking suspensions of time.
…The completed work represents a “conjunction of these two artists” that has “activated a transformative form of experimentalism.” These renderings “dance with an airy…
Composer, alone is a collection of twelve solo piano pieces by Swiss composer Jürg Frey, performed by Dutch pianist/composer Reinier van Houdt. It is the sequel to the 2022 triple album lieues d’ombres and the third collaboration between Frey and van Houdt on elsewhere music. The two have cultivated a close rapport, first documented on l’air, l’instant – deux pianos in 2020.
This three-disc set features a wide range of Frey’s solo piano compositions from 1990 to 2024, including his latest piano pieces ‘Composer, alone (1)’ and ‘Composer, alone (2)’. This three-disc album traces Frey’s journey over the past 30 years as he explores his voice as a composer through piano works. It reveals how his compositional style has evolved, while also…
Three recent and typically exquisite chamber works by Swiss composer Jürg Frey, all written for and performed by the Prague Quiet Music Collective – one in collaboration with the Norwegian new music group asamisimasa.
…Frey is a prolific composer, with many fine compositions dating back to 1984, the three compositions here date from 2023/2024, 2024 and 2022/2023, whereas four of the seven compositions on his previous Another Timbre release Outermost Melodies dated from 1994 to 2003. Just as the sound of Penumbra was influenced by Evans-Weiler and Falzones’ experience in Ordinary Affects, so was that of Longing Landscape by the fact that it was performed by Prague Quiet Music Collective,…