Includes 'Piece for violin and piano' (1950), 'Projection 4' (1951), 'Extensions I' (1951), 'Vertical thoughts 2' (1963), 'Spring of Chosroes' (1977), and 'For John Cage' (1982). Marc Sabat: violon and Stephen Clarke: piano. more »
Performed by The Baron Workshop. "When Feldman met Cage in the winter of 1949, they quickly established a friendship based upon a similarity of intent and a mutual respect for the work each was doing. Soon thereafter, Feldman showed a string quartet he had been writing ...
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"The works on this disc, volume 3 of Mode's Christian Wolff Edition, belong to his minimalist, and open-form, styles. The 'Tilbury' pieces (1969-70) are named for the pianist John Tilbury, whom Wolff had recently met. 'Snowdrop' (1970), from the same period, was named ...
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"The expansive length of FELDMAN's trio (1980) (105 min. 22 sec) requires a new approach to listening, which takes scale, the physical experience of sound, and novel uses of musical memory into consideration. With his delicate manipulation of musical materials, FELDMAN ...
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"Orkest de Volharding, Jussi Jaatinen. In the spring of 1972, composer Louis Andriessen and saxophonist Willem Breuker brought together musicians from improvised and from traditional music, at a historical and tumultuous concert in the Amsterdam Carré theatre.They ...
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"This disc collects all of Wolff's large body of works for the bass, including a piece for solo electric bass guitar. Two of the works were written specifically for Robert Black, who prepared these pieces with Wolff. The composer attended all of the recordings sessions. ...
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""String Quartet No.5 "before the universe was born", op. 89" (1990-95). "'Piano Sonata No.5 "settle your dust, this is the primal identity", op. 106" (2003) "Piano Sonata No.2 "being and non-being create each other", op.82" (1991) The first volume in a projected series ...
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"The Marvellous Aphorisms of Gavin Bryars: The Early Years. 'The Squirrel and The Ricketty Racketty Bridge' (1971). Seth Josel, guitars. 'Pre-Mediaeval Metrics' (1970). Ulrich Kreiger, saxophones. Seth Josel, guitars. First recording. 'Made in Hong Kong' (1970). Ulrich ...
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... Chamber Works 1986-89. HCD Ensemble (Frankfurt), with Michael Bach, cello. "Like Morton Feldman, whose music he acknowledges as an influence, Zimmermann (b.1949) is fascinated by the relationship between painting and music, and how material of an apparently simple ...
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special offer, new copies, sealed "Stockhausen's early percussion music is among the most visionary of the percussion repertoire. This unique collection features some works which are almost impossible to find elsewhere. 'Zyklus' (1959) was not only a novel composition ...
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special offfer, new copies, sealed "The three-quarter hour solo accordion improvisation, St. George and the Dragon comes as a bit of a shock after other recent Oliveros recordings; cavernous reverberation in a light, poignant tone, are replaced by much more brittle, ...
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""Carbon Copies" (1989) for recordings "of any indoor or outdoor environment" and instrument. "Risonanza" (1982) for resonant objects and optional electronics. "Music for Pure Waves, Bass Drums and Acoustic Pendulums" (1980). "Broken Line" (2006) for flute, piano & ...
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"'Navigations for Strings': For String Quartet. 'Small Waves': For String Quartet, Trombone, Piano and Two Water Pourers. The Arditti Quartet: Hildegard Kleeb, Roland Dahinden. Alvin Lucier (b. 1931) has been a pioneer in many areas of music composition and performance, ...
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