Pieces For Sixth-Tone Harmonium, by Hába, K.Lang, Niblock, Berkson, B. Lang, Mofakham, Guštar, Mikyska performed by Miroslav Beinhauer

Pieces For Sixth-Tone Harmonium

by Hába, K.Lang, Niblock, Berkson, B. Lang, Mofakham, Guštar, Mikyska performed by Miroslav Beinhauer

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dvntshaku unexpectedly delicious album. each piece is really fantastic in its own right but once I got to the Niblock, my jaw hit the floor and I haven't been able to stop listening to it for a week straight. great stuff Favorite track: Harmonius (2022) Phill Niblock.

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1.	5.Adagio - from Six compositions for sixth-tone harmonium, op. 37 (1928) Alois Hába 02:51	buy track
2.	Not One And Not Two (2022) Klaus Lang 14:24	buy track
3.	36 Views on Edo (2023) Milan Guštar 24:25	buy track
4.	Not the same, not different (2023) Ian Mikyska 14:16	buy track
5.	Bent Meanings (2023) Judith Berkson 12:10	buy track
6.	Taftāl (2023) Idin Samimi Mofakham 13:54	buy track
7.	Loops for Hába (2022) Bernhard Lang 11:24	buy track
8.	Harmonius (2022) Phill Niblock 44:16	buy track

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Until recently, the sixth-tone harmonium was just one of the many exhibits in the Czech Museum of Music. After almost a century, however, it is enjoying a renaissance and attracting the interest of the professional public, musicians and composers.
The first model of the sixth-tone harmonium was created in the 1920s on the basis of a commission from the pioneer of microtonal music, Alois Hába, whose visions for its construction convinced the company August Förster. The improved model of the harmonium dates from 1936 by the same company. The first Czechoslovak president Masaryk supported the purchase of the new instrument by contributing ten thousand crowns, and the same amount was added by the Ministry of Education and National Enlightenment at the time. The only example of a working sixth-tone harmonium in the world belongs to the collections of the National Museum and is permanently exhibited in the Czech Museum of Music in Prague.
Pianist Miroslav Beinhauer (*1993) is recently the only musician in the world who can play this unique instrument. In 2018, he participated in the premiere of Hába's sixth-tone opera Come Thy Kingdom, followed by the staging and recording of Alois Hába's opus Sixth compositions for sixth-tone harmonium, op. 37, which was the only solo composition for this instrument for more than ninety years. In the last three years, new repertoire for sixth-tone harmonium has been written by renowned Czech and foreign composers.
New compositions were written by Phill Niblock, Klaus Lang, Bernhard Lang, Milan Guštar, Judith Berkson, Idin Samimi Mofakham and Ian Mikyska. The premiere of these compositions took place in August 2023 as part of the Ostrava Days contemporary music festival.

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released March 21, 2024

Miroslav Beinhauer - Sixth-Tone Harmonium.
recorded at Sound Studio HAMU, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, 5 & 6 September 2023.
Published with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the Czech Music Fund Foundation.
Special thanks to the National Museum of the Czech Republic - Czech Museum of Music.

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