Collectif9 - No Time for Chamber MusicCollectif9 is a Montreal based string ensemble whose main focus is an original exploration of the classical repertoire, including transcriptions for chamber ensemble of large scale works. Alpha is starting a collaboration with this innovative group and now presents it's very first album, recorded in 2018 and consisting of music by (and inspired by) Gustav Mahler: No Time for Chamber Music, a nod to Luciano Berio's Sinfonia, inspired in it's turn by

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73 by Robert Kahn are presented on this album as only the second-ever commercially-released recordings of these works

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