PORTRAIT ALBUMS
One of Machajdík’s most ambitious works to date, THE IMMANENT VELVET is a recording of new chamber music performed by pianists Fero Király, Daniel Garel, Dušan Šujan, harpist Floraleda Sacchi, cellist Piero Salvatori, guitarist Ondrej Veselý, the Ján Pöschl String Orchestra with Anita Mirossayová conducting, clarinetist Guido Arbonelli, and sound artist Dawn Scarfe. The composer formulates a new sonic palette that is in equal measures intriguing and unsettling. Hypnotic music with slow harmonic changes, melodic cells, and tonal ambiguity.
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NAMAH, the critically-acclaimed album of Machajdík's chamber music recorded by harpist Floraleda Sacchi, vocalist David Moss, pianists Mayuko Kida and Daniel Garel, clarinetist Guido Arbonelli, the Ján Pöschl String Orchestra, Icarus Quartet, cimbalom player Enikö Ginzery, cellists Jozef Lupták and Darry Dolezal, and Jon Anderson, the singer and creative force behind the prog-rock band Yes.
An obscured world of diatonic harmonies, layered textures and patterns that are subjected to gradual changes. A challenging yet satisfying listen.
An obscured world of diatonic harmonies, layered textures and patterns that are subjected to gradual changes. A challenging yet satisfying listen.
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INSIDE THE TREE, a unique and exclusive recording, performed by Piero Salvatori & Floraleda Sacchi, features the nine-movement work In situ and other chamber music compositions for cello and harp written by Peter Machajdík. The album vividly demonstrates the quality of both Salvatori’s and Sacchi's playing, which manages to be both full-blooded and immensely sensitive at the same time. A masterpiece in neoclassical composition.
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IMAGES includes six pieces for solo violin, both viola & piano and violin & piano duets, a piano miniature, and an ensemble composition.
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living contemporary neoclassical music composers
Compilations
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Bird inspired music by François Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau, William Byrd (!) and first recordings of pieces by Olli Mustonen and Peter Machajdík. The album is available via the Finnish Fuga label.
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Italian harpist Floraleda Sacchi excels with Peter Machajdík's hypnotic composition Nell'autunno del suo abbraccio insonne as well as with works by John Cage, Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass, Michael Nyman, György Ligeti, Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, and Nicola Campogrande on a powerful disc from DECCA.
Sacchi has a convincing way with these varied works, giving each their due in terms of tonal color and rhythmic emphasis, while suggesting implicit similarities. This is a seductive, rather than flamboyant, recital that offers surprising, albeit subtle, rewards to the open-minded listener. Art Lange, Fanfare 
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Peter Machajdik's Senahh and compositions by Adrienne Albert, Tor Brevik, André Caplet, Francis Kayali, Peter Kütt, Alexander Timofeev and Kevin W. Walker. These compelling new works for flute and piano explore the versatility of the instruments and the creativity of the composers. Some of the works give a nod to traditional 19th century music while others break all boundaries, delivering a sonic experience.
The album is available HERE
CD REVIEW
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The CD includes Peter Machajdik's three-movement, approx. 18 minute Munk as well as Phantasy in F major Op 54 by York Bowen, Suite No. 1 in G minor for Solo Viola, Op. 131d by Max Reger, and Sonata for piano and viola in E flat major Op. 120 No. 2 by Johannes Brahms.
Performed by Ivan Palovič (viola) and Jordana Palovičová (piano). Hard copy CD available for sale HERE
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Peter Machajdík's 27 minute On The Seven Colours of Light and works by Patricia Van Ness, Thomas Åberg, Jim Dalton, Tim Rozema, Al Benner, and Harold Stover. The brilliant organist Carson Cooman has selected compositions for this recording that are unified by their debt to early music (most especially its modality) as well as an economy of means in their construction. All are built from simple musical materials, elaborated and developed by their composers to create compositions that inhabit musical spaces of an often spiritual character.
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Sonatas for violin and piano composed by Peter Machajdík, Antonín Dvořák and Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský.
Performed by the Czechoslovak Chamber Duo (Pavel Burdych - violin and Zuzana Berešová - piano). 
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Fifty features piano miniatures by a diverse group of contemporary composers, including Louis Andriessen, Clarence Barlow, Peter Machajdík, Elliott Sharp, Michael Blake, Boudewijn Buckinx, Martin Burlas, Philip Corner, David Dramm, Christopher Fox, Chris Newman, Jon Rose, Owen Underhill, Milan Adamčiak, Daniel Matej, Boris Lenko, Hauke Harder, Frédéric Inigo, Egidija Medekšaité, Piet-Jan van Rossum, and others.
Hard copy CD available for sale HERE
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Peter Machajdik's Torqued Images performed by Milan Paľa. Other Slovak composers featured include Iris Szeghy, Vladimír Godár, Pavol Malovec, Oľga Kroupová, Vladimír Bokes, Mirko Krajči and Hanuš Domanský.
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Peter Machajdik's 7 minute Peroket along with 8 other solo violin pieces including Slovak composers Jozef Malovec, Pavol Šimai, Jozef Sixta, Ivan Parík, Tadeáš Salva, Juraj Beneš, Juraj Tandler and Mirko Krajči.
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