4039956925163

Eden Lonsdale; Eric Skytterholm Egan; Kaija Saariaho; Bernhard Gander: Gates

Riot Ensemble

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Format: CD

Cat No: COV92516

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Release Date:  12 June 2026

Label:  Coviello

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  4039956925163

Genres:  Classical  Chamber Music  

Composer/Series:  Eden Lonsdale; Eric Skytterholm Egan; Kaija Saariaho; Bernhard Gander

  • Description

    Gates presents the Riot Ensemble at the peak of contemporary ensemble performance. The album brings together works by Eric Skytterholm Egan, Eden Lonsdale, Kaija Saariaho, and Bernhard Gander, exploring the tension between order and chaos, structure and excess, historical reference and radical present. Riot Ensemble, one of the world's leading contemporary music ensembles, is renowned for its precision, stylistic versatility, and close collaboration with living composers. Kaija Saariaho's Gates from her ballet MAA opens a space of fluid transitions, transforming Baroque sonata models into overlapping timbral clouds. In contrast, Bernhard Gander's (2005) channels raw, physical energy inspired by rock, yet retains a structural link to Baroque principles of excess. Gates is an album of thresholds: between past and present, ritual and corporeality, control and collapse. The Riot Ensemble renders these tensions audible with a blend of analytical clarity and visceral immediacy.