Music For Sixth​-​tone Harmonium

- 6 panel digipack 2CD with matt finish – includes a 10-page booklet with extensive liner notes by Ian Mikyska – limited edition of 150 copies Composers Fredrik Rasten and Ian Mikyska present new compositions for Alois Hába’s unique sixth-tone harmonium, performed by Miroslav Beinhauer, who has single-handedly revived the instrument after decades of slumber. Alois Hába, Czech composer and pioneer of microtonal music, commissioned a number of microtonal instruments in the 1920s and '30s, including the sixth-tone harmonium, two of which were built. Hába himself wrote only one solo piece for this instrument, and also included a part for it in his sixth-tone opera 'Thy Kingdom Come'. The opera was first performed in 2018, when the Ostrava Center for New Music organised its world premiere, which inspired a number of initiatives to create new pieces for the harmonium. Nine of these pieces were premiered in 2021, 'In' and 'Concord' among them.