this is really interesting.  I see what you mean about modern angles on sonority. If 58 years ago can be considered modern -

Kinder und hausmärchen
Sonido Extremo
Paris 31/03/2022

Kinder und hausmärchen [excerpt]

Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988): Anahit (1965) for violin and ensemble.
(Poème Lyrique Dédié À Venus)

Anahit was the goddess of fertility and healing, wisdom and water in Armenian mythology, more or less equivalent to Venus in Roman mythology. This piece by Scelsi is probably the most profoundly beautiful piece of music I know.

Carmen Fournier, violin
Polish Radio-Television Orchestra Krakow
Jürg Wyttenbach, conductor

Giacinto Scelsi: Anahit (1965)

Klangforum Wien
Bas Wiegers, conductor

LIVE recording
June 29, 2022 (8pm concert)
Konzerthaus Wien

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Unfeeling was written in response to a commission for an homage to Gustav Mahler. It is an inward-looking meditation on withdrawal and isolation, deeply indebted to his spirit.

References to Mahlerian sonorities abound, in a deliberately restrained, sparsely-orchestrated, Fin-de-Siècle atmosphere. A long melody, led by the English Horn, slowly coalesces, smeared with heterphonic doublings and intercut by an insistent harmonium and static noises. Once-vivid sounds are deprived of their vitality, muffled by a wide variety of mutes, providing a strained and distant counterpoint.

The music reaches for those transcendent moments — the coda of Ich bin der Welt Abhanden Gekommen, the last bars of Lieder Eines fahrenden Gesellen, the ending of Das Lied von der Erde — but that kind of climax remains elusive. We are grounded in the 􏰂at and muddled territory of rumination, unable to muster the strength to break through.

After a while, a second voice emerges: raspy, guttural, full of stutters and slides — a mutually incomprehensible language that fails to communicate or redirect the 􏰂ow.

Unfeeling was commissioned by Klangforum Wien and premiered on December 3m 2021 at the Konzerthaus in Vienna with Bas Wiegers conducting.

Unfeeling

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echo from afar (ii)(2022), for six musicians and electronics
commissioned by hand werk 

Live Recording, hand werk, 29 November 2022, Köln

echo from afar (ii)(2022), for six musicians and electronics

Le Ombre delle cose
for accordion, violin, cello and piano
September 2023 - Ensemble Cairn 
(Julia Sinoimeri, Constance Ronzatti, Alexa Ciciretti , Maroussia Gentet)
Musica Festival - Strasbourg
(recording: Frédéric Apfell)

Le ombre delle cose (accordion, violin, cello and piano)

13 March 2024, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, cond. Kristiina Poska, Auditorium de la Maison de la Radio et de la musique, Paris (FR)

Co-commissioned by Radio France, L'Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire and Brno Philharmonics

“Confluere” (from Latin “to flow together”) for chamber orchestra, like one river flowing into another, was composed to be performed just before the W. A. Mozart’s 40th symphony in G minor. The composition takes its first theme - the sighing “sospiro” figure and repeats it breathlessly, almost obsessively through different layers of the dense orchestra texture, while slowing it down extremely. This minor second-based motive is being explored through various angles and colours, harmonies and timbres, gradually expanding its range up to the limits and thus preparing the listeners for the arrival of the Mozart.

"Confluere" for chamber orchestra (2024)

Performed by Caput Ensemble at Dark Music Days 2022:

Björg Brjánsdóttir, alto flute
Grímur Helgason, bass clarinet
Pétur Björnsson, violin
Svava Bernharðsdóttir, viola
Ragnar Jónsson, violoncello

https://www.bergrun.com/ecognosis

Ecognosis

Nunca se voló tan bajo. CrossingLines Ensemble/ Dir. Lorenzo Ferrándiz Premiere 26/10/24 Sala Beckett BCN

Nunca se voló tan bajo [excerpt]

05. Tomás Louis de Victoria – O Magnum mysterium

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You crawl over seas of granite (2019–20), for amplified, detuned string quartet
commissioned by JACK Quartet, with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation

Live Recording, JACK Quartet, 16 January 2020, Berlin

You crawl over seas of granite (2019–20), for amplified, detuned string quartet

Fausto Romitelli - „Your time is over“ für Violoncello und 9 Instrumente (1993)

Deutsche Erstaufführung im Rahmen des 16. Naxos Hallenkonzert 11.08.19

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16. Naxos Hallenkonzert. Kooperation mit der Internationalen Ensemble Modern Akademie Sonntag – 11. August 2019 – 20:00 Uhr
COMING TOGETHER. DAS IEMA-ENSEMBLE AUF NAXOS I
IEMA-Ensemble 2018-19 
 
Ensemblewerke von Witold Lutosławski, Frederic Rzewski – „Coming together“, Fausto Romitelli, Elnaz Seyedi – „a sun of one ́s own“ (2019), Thierry De Mey, Simon Steen-Andersen
 
Das IEMA-Ensemble spielt erstmalig in der Naxoshalle! Zu hören: unterschiedlichste musikalische Positionen des 20. & 21. Jahrhunderts. Highlight im Rahmen dieses Naxos Hallenkonzertes: die Aufführung des bisher in Deutschland nur selten gespielten Werkes „Your time is over“ für Violoncello und 9 Instrumente (1993) des italienischen Komponisten Fausto Romitelli.

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