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CAGE, JOHN - THE WORKS FOR PERCUSSION 2 (CD)

""Third Construction" (1941) for percussion quartet. "Second Construction" (1940) for percussion quartet. "First Construction [in Metal]" (1939) for percussion sextet, with assistant. "Trio" (1936). "Quartet" (1935), "Living Room Music" (1940) for percussion & speech ...
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CAGE, JOHN - WORKS FOR PERCUSSION 1 (CD)

"FIRST RECORDINGS to use the actual 1930s Test Tone records and variable-speed turntables as specified in the score. "Credo In US" (1942) [1st version - Shostakovich], "Imaginary Landscape No. 1" (1939). "Imaginary Landscape No. 2" (1941). "Imaginary Landscape No. 3" ...
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XENAKIS, IANNIS - COMPLETE STRING QUARTETS (CD)

"Xenakis Edition Volume 10 - Complete String Quartets. "Tetras" (1983). "Tetora" (1990.) "ST-4-1,080262" (1956-62). "Ergma" (1994). The Jack Quartet: Christopher Otto and Ari Streisfeld, violins. John Pickford Richards, viola. Kevin McFarland, cello. The first complete ...
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CAGE, JOHN - CAGE PERFORMS CAGE (CD)

"Empty Words (1973-74) with Music for Piano (1952-56). John Cage, voice. Yvar Mikhashoff, piano. One7 (1991) for any way of producing sounds. John Cage, voice. Mode celebrates its 200th release with a special installment in its John Cage Edition - works performed by ...
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CAGE, JOHN - ROARATORIO (2CD)

1. Roaratorio: An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake (1976/79) 60:30. First cd recording John Cage voice, Joe Heaney singer, Seamus Ennis Uillean pipes, Paddy Glackin, fiddle, Matt Malloy, flute, Peadher Mercier, Mell Mercier, bodhran, with 62 track tape. 2. Laughtears: ...
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XENAKIS, IANNIS - KRAANERG (CD)

"According to Xenakis' program notes, the title also referred to the 'current youth movements' -- 1968 was a significant year in modern social history -- and to his utopian vision of the upcoming 'biological struggle between generations unfurling all over the planet, ...
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CAGE, JOHN - MUSIC FOR MERCE CUNNINGHAM (CD)

"2008 repress, featuring a 24-bit Hi-Definition remaster; originally released in 1991. Volume 4 in the Music of Cage series. The first audio document between Cage & Cunningham. It includes a 55-minute piece called "Five Stone Wind" performed by David Tudor (live ...
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CAGE, JOHN - COMPLETE SHORT WORKS FOR PREPARED PIANO (2CD)

"John Cage's works for prepared piano expose his earliest experimentations in finding new and exotic sounds. Brief and attractive, they are among his most accessible work. This release marks the first time all of his short works for prepared piano have been made ...
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CAGE, JOHN - 44 HARMONIES FROM APARTMENT HOUSE 1776 / CHEAP IMITATION (2CD)

Volume 33 of Mode's Complete John Cage Edition. Features 2 long works: "Cheap Imitation" (1977, for solo violin; peformed by Irving Arditti); "44 Harmonies from Apartment House 1776" (1976, for string quartet, performed by Arditti Quartet). World Premiere Recording of ...
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KOONCE, PAUL - WALKABOUT & BACK: ELECTROACOUSTIC WORKS (CD - USED m-/m-)

Walkabout (1998); Hothouse (1996); Pins (1992); The Flywheel Dream (1994)
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WOLFF, CHRISTIAN - INCIDENTAL MUSIC & KEYBOARD MISCELLANY (2CD)

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SUN / SCHULZE - MODERN LIED (CD)

specila offer - Sarah Maria Sun, Jan Philip Schulze play Holliger, Kurtag, Lachenmanna, Lang, Rihm, Sciarrino
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FELDMAN, MORTON - COMPLETE MUSIC FOR VIOLIN & PIANO (2CD)

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.
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FELDMAN, MORTON - COMPOSING BY NUMBERS - THE GRAPHIC SCORES 1950-67 (CD)

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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FELDMAN, MORTON - FIRST RECORDINGS: 1950S (CD)

THE TURFAN ENSEMBLE, PHILIPP VANDRE
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WOLFF, CHRISTIAN - TILBURY PIECES / SNOWDROP (CD)

"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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FELDMAN, MORTON - TRIO (2CD)

"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 - THE MINILALISTS (2CD)

"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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WOLFF, CHRISTIAN - COMPLETE WORKS FOR VIOLIN & PIANO (CD)

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WOLFF, CHRISTIAN - LOOK SHE SAID (COMPLETE WORKS FOR BASS) (CD)

"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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RADULESCU, HORATIU - PIANO SONATAS & STRING QUARTETS 1 (CD)

""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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BRYARS, GAVIN - THE MARVELOUS APHORISMS OF GAVIN BRYARS: THE EARLY YEARS (CD)

"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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