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Cage . Pisaro . Frey . Beuger: Accordion Music [2 CDs] (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Four works interpreted for accordion performed by Edwin Alexander Buchhol, including John Cage's "Cheap Imitation"; Michael Pisaro-Liu's "Here (2)"; Jurg Frey's "Sam Lazaro Bros." and Antoine Beuger's "die geschichte des sandkorns". |
Keller, Beat / Tom Johnson / Joseph Kudirka: String Trios (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock A superb program of string trios from minimalist composers Beat Keller, Tom Johnson, and Joseph Kudirka, from cinematic to spacious sound work, as realized by the trio of Julia Schwob on violin, David Schnee on viola, and Nicola Romano on cello. |
Wilmington Sound Orchestra: Play Russolo (Bad At Raving Foundation -- USA ) Price: $9.95 In Stock Two interpretations of Luigi Russolo's 1914 Futurist noise composition "Risveglio Di Uns Citta" ("The Awakening Of A City"), performed forwards and backwards, from a live performance at Squidco headquarters in Wilmington, NC. |
Werder, Manfred: 2003 [3 CDs] (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Pushing the envelope on minimalism, Manfred Werder's 3 scores for "2003" present just 6 tones, the instructions telling 3, 2 or 1 performers to play a pitch or sound for 3-7 seconds twice during the performance; realized by Erik Carlson, Stephanie Richards, and D. Edward Davis. |
Zimmerlin, Alfred: Dunki . Frey . Aeschbacher . Capt . Hefti . Moster (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Norway ) Price: $12.95 In Stock German composer Alfred Zimmerlin presents 3 pieces that balance compositional and improvisational approaches, with a 7-part work for strings, a large Klavierstruck work for microtonal piano, and an improvised chamber work, "Klarinettenquintett," with Jurg Frey on clarinet. |
Cage, John : Cartridge Music (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock A 2003 recording from The Ensemble Daswirdas performing John Cage's 1960 composition "Cartridge Music", described as: "For amplified small sounds; also amplified piano or cymbal; any number of players and loudspeakers; parts to be prepared from score by performers." |
Nono, Luigi / Jurg Frey: Works For Violin Duos (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Two works from two distinctive composers from different periods--Jurg Frey and Luigi Nono--both for two violins, Frey using the two violins in parallel to emphasize their distinction; Nono using powerful gestures of divergence and contrast in a dream-like duo. |
Quartetski: Quartetski Does Bartok - Mikrokosmos, Sz 107 (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Composed between 1926 and 1939, "Mikrokosmos" was Bela Bartok's attempt to solve certain technical problems in the art of piano playing, here adapted by the 5-piece Quartetski into a fascinating series of progressive exercises and etudes, oddly enough presented without a piano. |
Drake, Hamid / Sylvain Kassap: Heads Or Tails [2 CDs] (RogueArt -- France ) Price: $23.95 Out of Stock A masterful fountain of melodic ideas, intriguing rhythms, and exceptional technical skill from the duo of Hamid Drake on drums and frame drum, and Sylvain Kassap on clarinets and chalumeau, recording live at the France Musique at Studio Theatre dÕAlfortville and in the studio. |
Judson Trio (Joelle Leandre / Mat Maneri / Gerald Cleaver): An Air of Unreality [VINYL] (RogueArt -- France ) Price: $19.95 Out of Stock A live performance at Judson Church in Manhattan as part of the 20th Vision Festival from the NY/France free improvising trio of Joelle Leandre on double bass, Mat Maneri on viola, and Gerald Cleaver on drums and percussion, two tracks of steadily building, incredibly compatible dialog. |
Silence Ensemble led by Peter Urpeth: John Cage: Speech (FMR -- UK ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock These recordings of pieces by John Cage were made at a performance called Silence & Transmission led by Peter Upreth conducting an ensemble of four performers using radios and voice, held at An Lanntair Arts Centre, Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides on 20th September 2012, as part of the celebrations for Cage's centenary. |
Noetinger, Jerome / Anthony Pateras / Synergy Percussion : Beauty Will Be Amnesiac Or Will Not Be At All (Immediata -- Australia ) Price: $13.75 Out of Stock Anthony Pateras was commissioned to compose this work by Synergy Percussion for their 40th birthday in 2014, performed with a six piece ensemble including electronic artist Jerome Noetinger, using the same instrumentation as Xenakis' "Pleiades" of more than 100 orchestral percussion instruments, including Xenakis' 17-pitch microtonal metallophones. |
Clinamen Trio (Marion / Di Donato / Berger): Decline (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Roman philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus named "Clinamen" the unpredictable (in time and space) swerve of atoms falling in the void, which aptly describes the unexpected directions taken in subtle free improvisation from this French trio, led by bassist Louis-Michel Marion, with Jacques Di Donato on clarinet, and Philippe Berger on viola. |
Wisseltangcamatta, The: Movements (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Live recordings at LOFT in Cologne, Germany from the trio of George Wissel on prepared saxophone, Achim Tang on doublebass, and Simon Camatta on drums & percussion, performing seven "Movements" that use prodigious technique with reserve and direction, revealing the structure of their work as the pieces build and recede in fascinating ways. |
DK & The Perfectly Ordinary: CAR DEW TREAT US (Spool -- Canada ) Price: $10.95 In Stock A diverse set of artist interpret a random page from Cornelius Cardew's "Treatise", using the score alone with each artist unable to hear what the other participants were playing, which Spool label-leader Daniel Kernohan assembled into these 10 incredible audio tracks, each roughly 4:35 long, in a great interpretation of Cardew's (in)famous work. |
Feldman, Morton : Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Morton Feldman's final composition, originally premiered in 1987, here performed by pianist Mark Knoop, violinist Aisha Orazbayeva, violist Bridget Carey, and cellist Anton Lukoszevieze, recording a year after their successful performance at London's Cafe Oto, maintaining focus and concentration on this large, unhurried work of micro-variations. |
Nitsch, Hermann: Orgelkonzert Jesuitenkirche 20.11.2013 (Trost Records -- Austria ) Price: $12.23 Out of Stock Austrian avant-garde musician and multimedia artist Hermann Nitsch performed these powerful and mesmerizing solo organ drone works during the 2013 "Shut up and listen" festival in in the Jesuit church of Vienna, releasing the 4 recordings with an 8-page booklet of art and an essay from Nitsch himself, with mastering by Martin Siewert. |
Cage, John : Winter Music (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock John Cage's 1957 composition in a visceral realisation for four pianos, played by John Tilbury, Philip Thomas, Mark Knoop and Catherine Laws, using chance procedures to assign each of the pianist's five of the twenty pages of the score, the pianists agreeing on an overall duration of 40 minutes and preparing their parts independently, performed without rehearsal. |
Cage, John: Klang der Wandlungen [3 CDs] (Edition Rz -- Germany ) Price: $36.95 In Stock An impressive triple-CD box with recordings of some late works by John Cage, including "Seventy-Four for Orchestra, 1992", "103 for Orchestra, 1991, part 1 & 2", In a Landscape fur Harfe", "Postcard From Heaven fur Eine Bis Zwanzig Harfen", and some of "The Harmony of Maine"; including a 32 page booklet with photos and liner notes by Jakob Ullmann. |
Gerdzewski, Nikolaus: Ordinary Music Volume 3 (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Violinist Gerszewski developed an individual form of notation to create his "ordinary music", a continuation of abstract visual thinking by means of sound. |
Frey, Jurg : 120 Pieces of Sound (elsewhere -- USA ) Price: $14.95 Out of Stock Two distinct works by Swiss composer and bass clarinetist Jurg Frey: the 1st, recorded in Connecticut, a quintet composition from 2009 for bass clarinet, cello, violin, keyboard and electric guitar, Frey's harmonies creating an open instrumentation for the clarinet and cello; the second a 1997 composition for multitimbral field recordings and bass clarinet. |
Cage, John / Guy Vandromme: Number Pieces (Piano) (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock John Cage wrote his "Number Pieces" in the last years of his life, using his time bracket technique of short fragments allowing the performer flexibility in interpretation; each piece is titled for the number of performers and its ordinal position in the series, and most pieces are dedicated to a musician; here pianist Guy Vandromme performs three of the "One", or solo, series. |
Johnson, Tom : Spaces . An Hour For Piano (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Two works for solo piano from composer Tom Johnson and performed by Keiko Shichijo; "Spaces" was written after his teacher, Morton Feldman, helped Johnson elucidate his voice as a composer through a study of chords; "An Hour for Piano" was written in 1971 based on a series of short, improvisatory sketches written for modern dance, merged and expanded to exactly one hour. |
Satie, Erik (Aleman / Vandromme): Socrate (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock A beautiful rendering of French composer Eric Satie's 1918 masterwork "Socrate", originally for four sopranos and chamber orchestra, here stripped to its essence as a duo with Olalla Aleman on soprano and Guy Vandromme on piano, maintaining Satie's characterist reserve and refinement in the 3 parts: "portrait of socrates"; "banks of the ilissus"; and "death of socrates". |
London Experimental Ensemble: Child Ballads (Split Rock Records -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Drawn from 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland alongside their American variants, anthologised by Francis James Child during the second half of the nineteenth century, are here sung by Ed Pettersen in the fascinating intersection of traditional lyrics and experimental interpretations of melodies, performed by the 11-piece London Experimental Ensemble. |
Ullmann, Jakob : Femde Zeit Addendum 5 (Edition Rz -- Austria ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Jakob Ullman's 5th solo work for piano is atypical for a piano performance, using electronic playback and requiring three assistants sustaining a soundscape to realize a concept of "gravity" that Ullman applies as laws in a conceptual soundscape modified by a series of abstract images, resulting in unexpected sonic environments, tones, timbres and momentum. |
London Experimental Ensemble: Child Ballads [VINYL] (Split Rock Records -- USA ) Price: $19.95 Out of Stock Drawn from 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland alongside their American variants, anthologised by Francis James Child during the second half of the nineteenth century, are here sung by Ed Pettersen in the fascinating intersection of traditional lyrics and experimental interpretations of melodies, performed by the 11-piece London Experimental Ensemble. |
Feldman, Morton (Philip Thomas): Piano [5 CD BOX SET] (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $44.95 In Stock Containing the majority of minimalist composer Morton Feldman's compositions for solo piano, 3 CDs of short works and 2 for the magnificent "For Bunita Marcus" and "Triadic Memories", performed by one of the foremost interpreters of Feldman's work, Philip Thomas, and presented in a sturdy 5-CD box set with a 52 page booklet of notes from the performer and artwork. |
Johnson, Scott: Mind Out of Matter (Tzadik -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock Five years in the making, composer Scott Johnson transcribed the speech of philosopher Daniel C. Dennett (Committee for Skeptical Inquiry) into this extended, 8-movement suite, using a rich, detailed set of musical landscapes blending musical genres that run in parity with the voice of Dennett, as Johnson emphasizes and highlight his insightful thinking. |
Dunston, Nick: Atlantic Extraction (Out Of Your Head Records -- USA ) Price: $11.95 In Stock Brooklyn-based composer, bassist, and writer Nick Dunston in his debut album, blending jazz, contemporary, chamber and avant forms, in a uniquely voiced quintet with Louna Dekker on Vargas on flutes & piccolo, Ledah Finck on violin & viola, Tal Yahalom on guitar, and Stephen Boegehold on drums, in a sophisticated album of concisely fascinating compositions. |
Denyer, Frank: The Boundaries of Intimacy (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock A set of varied compositions from Frank Denyer, most of them of a delicate acoustic intimacy, with works for female singers & flute, two works for koto, a string quartet, one for flute and electronics and the two-part "Frog" for a bowed stringed instrument of Denyer design, the "sneh"; uncategorizable music of sublime imagination and unusual approaches. |
Brotzmann, Peter: I Surrender Dear (Trost Records -- Austria ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock Iconoclastic legend of the European Free Jazz movement, saxophonist Peter Brotzmann surprises with a (mostly) lyrical album of jazz standards (and some of his own compositions), interpreting pieces by Harry Barris/Gordon Clifford, Sigmund Romberg/Oscar Hammerstein II, Herbie Nichols, Dizzy Gillespie, George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin, and Sonny Rollins. |
Dharmoo, Gabriel : Quelques fictions (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Stunningly unusual vocal music from composer, music researcher and vocalist based in Montreal, Gabriel Dharmoo, collecting works from 2012 to 2019, performed with small and large ensembles using almost completely wordless voice, utterance, guttural sound, swoops and, melodic flights, augmented with physical percussion like stamping and clamping; brilliant and enthralling. |
Corner, Philip: Gamelan Coming & Going (ANTS Records -- Italy ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Gamelan Son of Lion partners Philip Corner and Evan Schwartzman perform this Fluxus composition where two pianists play piano notes on the chromatic scale in relationship to numbers counted out loud from 1 to 88, forward and backward, creating an unusual texture and counterpoint that when taken as a whole becomes hypnotic and obsessively absorbing; inexplicably interesting. |
Pinhas, Richard / Tatsuya Yoshida: Live In Japan (Magaibutsu -- Japan ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock After the 2014 Rock In Opposition Festival in Japan, Richard Pinhas and Yoshida Tatsuya did a two week tour of Japan; one of the results was this CD compiled from several shows during that tour, an excellent album of improvised electronics and drums from Heldon and Ruins masters. |
Zurria, Manuel : Again & Again [2 CDs] (ANTS Records -- Italy ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Drawing from contemporary composers including Tom Johnson, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Adrian Democ, James Tenney, &c, this is the 3rd chapter of Italian flutist Manuel Zurria's project/research on "minimalisms" in contemporary music, taking an active interpretation of the classification over 16 informed and adventurous recordings. |
Feldman, Morton: Piano And String Quartet (Bridge Records -- USA ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock Composed two years before his death, Feldman's "Piano and String Quartet" is a wonderfully impressionistic piece that moves slowly, rendered beautifully by Vicki Ray and the Eclipse Quartet. |
Opening Performance Orchestra: Radio Music Extended (Based on John Cage's Radio Music) (Sub Rosa -- Belgium ) Price: $10.59 Out of Stock Taking their lead from John Cage's 1956 Radio Music, the Opening Performance Orchestra in collaboration with the radio & a/v device archive at the Tesla Museum in Trest, present this 72-minute piece from a private live performance in July 2018, the 7 members of the Orchestra plus 2 guest operating 13 historical radio sets, dating from between 1935 and 1961. |
Feldman, Morton (Judith Wegmann): Triadic Memories [2 CDs] (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Price: $19.95 In Stock The second of four connected solo piano works by Morton Feldman, Triadic Memories is about that reality, the acoustic space created by the piano's strings and soundboard, as Feldman attempted to expand the temporal frame of his music, heard here in Judith Wegmann's 2019 recording, where thThe second of four connected solo piano works by Morton Feldman, Triadic Memories is about the acoustic space created by the piano's strings and soundboard, as Feldman worked to expand the temporal frame of his music, heard her in Judith Wegmann's 2019 studio recording where that space is revealed by a magnificent Bosendorfer 280VC piano.at space is revealed by a magnificent Bosendorfer 280VC piano. |
Artaud, Antonin (Jaap Blonk): To Have Done With the Judgment of God (Kontrans -- The Netherlands ) Price: $17.95 In Stock Vocal performer & musician Jaap Blonk presents a rendering of French dramatist, poet and theatre director Antonin Artaud's "Pour en Finir avec le Jugement de Dieu" (To Have Done With the Judgment of God), a work shelved by the French Radio in 1948 without broadcast as 'too scatological, political, anti-religious, random, and cacophonous through xylophonic and percussive sounds'. |
Xenakis, Iannis: GRM Works 1957-1962 [VINYL] (Recollection GRM -- Austria ) Price: $22.95 Out of Stock Back in Stock: Recollection GRM assembles Greek experimental composer Iannis Xenakis' works for Groupe de Recherches Musicales circa 1957-1962: "Concret PH" (1958); "Orient-Occident" (1960); "Diamorphoses" (1957-58); "Bohor" (1962). |
Cundy, Chris: Mountains (Aural Terrains -- UK / EU ) Price: $20.95 In Stock Bass clarinetist Chris Cundy, uses the studio as a performance tool for accompaniment along with pre-recorded tapes, as he contrasts two different composers--Cornelius Cardew & Ton de Leeuw and their compositions titled "Mountains", alongside a Cardew graphic score piece, and 2 work for 5 bass clarinets, from Thanos Chrysakis and John Cage, the latter from his Numbers series. |
Chase, Claire: Density 2036 [4 CDs] (Corbett vs. Dempsey -- USA ) Price: $29.95 Out of Stock Part of flutist Claire Chase's project to commission a modern body of work for the instrument, this 4-CD set features 17 works by 15 composers, including the multi-part album-long composition "Pan" by Brazilian-born Marcos Balter, with works for the entire flute family from piccolo to contrabass flute; participants include Tyshawn Sorey, Vijay Iyer, Pauline Oliveros, &c. |
Baysse, Jeremy: In C (Creative Sources -- Portugal ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Recording in live conditions and multitrack, French guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Baysse performs a version of Terry Riley's classical minimalist composition "In C" using electric guitar, acoustic guitar, twelve string guitar, effects, banjo, bass, glockenspiel, maracas, cymbal, mandolin, synthesizer, percussion, and drum machine. |
Bokanowski, Michele: Rhapsodia / Battements Solaires [VINYL] (Recollection GRM -- Austria ) Price: $24.95 Out of Stock Two works from Paris-based electroacoustic composer Michèle Bokanowski (b. 1943 and who studied with Pierre Schaeffer) recorded by the artist in 2008 and 2018, "Rhapsodia" an hypnotic work of looping structures and rich strains of muted melody, while "Battements Solaires" is the edgy soundtrack to the award-winning film of the same name by her husband Patrick Bokanowski. |
Cage, John / Apartment House: Number Pieces [4-CD BOX SET] (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $49.95 In Stock A 4-disc box-set with a 44-page booklet of extensive notes, presenting John Cage's Number Pieces which he wrote in the last five years of his life, adapted for mid-size ensembles and performed by the London-based ensemble Apartment House, compositions 'Five' to 'Fourteen' along with alternative versions of three of the pieces; significant and essential. |
Feldman, Morton (Judith Wegmann / Andreas Kunz): For John Cage [2 CDs] (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd -- Switzerland ) Price: $19.95 In Stock First performed in 1982, Morton Feldmans' monumental composition for piano and violin dedicated to peer John Cage creates a distinctive environment of instrumental interaction where patterns are subtly varied in a virtual suspension of time as the music drifts and reflects, beautifully rendered in this 2021 recording by pianist Judith Wegmann and violinist Andreas Kunz. |
Ashley, Robert: eL / Aficionado (2021) (Lovely Music -- USA ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock A group of scenes from the life of an "agent" in composer Robert Ashley's 1987 work, revived in 2021 with this new studio recording featuring mezzo soprano Kayleigh Butcher taking over the role of The Agent formerly inhabited by baritone Thomas Buckner, plus Brian McCorkle as Interrogator No. 1, Bonnie Lander as Interrogator No. 2 and Paul Pinto as Interrogator No. 3. |
Feldman, Morton / Apartment House: Piano and String Quartet (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Inspired by the broadcast performance by The Apartment House ensemble of three works by Morton Feldman, Another Timbre requested that they record the exceptional late work of the minimalist composer, Piano and String Quartet, captured at Henry Wood Hall two months later in a stunning interpretation of this enigmatic work of sensually dissipating motion. |
Beuger, Antoine: Laments [2 CDs] (Edition Wandelweiser Records -- Germany ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Wandelweiser composer and performer Antoine Beuger reflects, or more correctly, laments, in nine solo vocal works of profound emotional depth, utterances first on the dearth of time and the vicissitudes and intersections we face; then on mourning and grief, a requiem that extolls the listener to use our voice to confront sadness that we may gain strength from it. |
Rzewski, Frederic: Speaking Rzewski: Performed by Stephane Ginsburgh (Sub Rosa -- Belgium ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock Composer Frederic Rzewsk is known for his associations with John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Alvin Curran & Richard Tietelbaum, &c.; he wrote a number of text pieces for solo piano about life, philosophy and politics, many premiered by pianist and narrator Stephane Ginsburgh, who here presents seven such compositions, several written for Ginsburgh himself. |
Quatuor Bozzini: Tom Johnson: Combinations (Collection QB -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 Out of Stock The Montreal string quartet Quatuor Bozzini (Alissa Cheung-violin, Clemens Merkel-violin, Stephanie Bozzini-viola, Isabelle Bozzini-cello) continue their investigation of avant composers, focusing on American composer Tom Johnson through three works or minimalist precision: "Combinations for String Quartet"; "Tilework" and "Four-Note Chords in Four Voices". |
Scholz, Kristine: Plays Otte And Cage (thanatosis produktion -- Sweden ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The 2nd solo album from Sweden-based pianist and Merce Cunningham-collaborator Kristine Scholz, performing on a 1921 Steinway & Sons Model A piano, recording four movements from composer Hans Otte's seminal work "Das Buch der Klänge" (1979-82), and an interpretation of John Cage's "Music for Piano 4-19", compatible pieces from two contemporary and visionary composers. |
Quartetski (Ceccarelli / Falaise / Lauzier / Martel): Cage (Ambiances Magnetiques -- Canada ) Price: $13.95 In Stock Quartetski--the Montereal quartet of Isaiah Ceccarelli on percussion & synthesizer, Bernard Falaise on electric guitar, Philippe Lauzier on bass clarinet & synthesizer and Pierre on Yves Martel on electric bass, perform John Cage's 1992 Numbers work "Four6" and "One7", a variation on "Four6", an incredible and insightful interpretation of this fascinating work. |
Meyer, Sabina / Marco Dalpane : Cabaret Per Nulla (ANTS Records -- Italy ) Price: $12.95 In Stock Pianist Marco Dalpane and soprano Sabina Meyer create a virtual cabaret of songs using the music of Erik Satie and John Cage, interlacing pieces by each in a delicate set of songs that draw the two composers together through a surprising commonality, the lyrics provided from texts written by J. Peladan, C. Mendes, H. Pacory, J.P. Contamine de Latour, &c.; lovely. |
MusicWorks: #109 Spring 2011 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Musicworks Spring 2011 issue with Music Technology Futures on the cover, plus articles on Cleo Palacio-Quintin, Paul Walde, Daniel Peter Biro, and 10 track compilation CD. |
Musicworks: #137 Fall 2020 [MAGAZINE + CD] (Musicworks -- Canada ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Fall 2020 issue of Canada's finest new music magazine, focusing on guitars--hollow, heavy, bowed, cracked, pedalled, flung, trusty companions & feedback demons; Plus articles on Casey Koyczan, Susan Alcorn, Amy Brandon, Aidan Baker, Eliza Kavtion, C. Diab, Markus Lake, Catherine Debard, Cloud Chamber, &c; and an 11-track CD with music from the aforementioned. |
Riley, Terry played by John Tilbury: Keyboard Studies (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock There is uncertainty of when pianist John Tilbury recorded these three solo keyboard works by his associate and friend, legendary minimalist composer Terry Riley, performing "Keyboard Study #1" and #2, along with "Dorian Reeds" using piano, electric organ, harpsichord & celesta, captured with excellent quality in superb performances from Tilbury at the height of his powers. |
Quatuor Umlaut (Karl Naegelen / Morton Feldman): Calques (Umlaut Records -- France ) Price: $14.95 In Stock Founded by violinists Amaryllis Billet and Anna Jalving, with Fanny Paccoud on viola and Sarah Ledoux on cello, Quatuor Umlaut presents their first recordings, joined by clarinetist Joris Ruhl for two pieces: "Calques" by composer Karl Naegelen using effects of transparency and fusion of tones; and Morton Feldman's highly textured "Clarinet and String Quartet". |
Nitsch, Hermann: Weinviertel Sinfonie (Trost Records -- Austria ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock Titled for the landscape and vineyards of his native Lower Austrian countryside, "Landschaft in Niederösterreich", this recording of composer Hermann Nitsch's serene and evocative Weinviertel Sinfonie for 27 string players in six parts was recorded in 2021 at the Nitsch Museum in Mistelbach by the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna conducted by Michael Mautner. |
Cage, John / Apartment House: Hymnkus / Thoreau Drawings / Two (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock The UK avant ensemble Apartment House performs three of John Cage's later works: Two (1987), a number piece using randomly-determined time brackets specifying pitch & dynamic; Hymnkus for up to 14 instrumental parts each of 17 elements blending the concepts of a hymn and a haiku; and Thoreau Drawings, the score twenty unnumbered pages on which Cage drew shapes onto a grid of six systems, each divided into 5+7+5 parts, following the form of a haiku. |
Cage, John / Domencio Scarlatti: Changes (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 In Stock Pianist Pi-Hsien Chen performs both the playful and quirky sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti juxtaposed to John Cage's I Ching developed compositions, "Music of Changes", which complement each other in unexpected and sublime ways. |
Kirschner, Kenneth / Joseph Branciforte: From the Machine: Volume 1 [VINYL] (Greyfade -- USA ) Price: $16.09 In Stock The first volume in an ongoing collaboration between composers Kenneth Kirschner and Joseph Branciforte, this work explores the application of software-based compositional techniques — including algorithmic processes, generative systems, and indeterminacy — performed in a superb ensemble including members of Flux Quartet and International Contemporary Ensemble. |
Stockhausen / Beethoven (Pi-hsien Chen): Klavierstucke / Sonaten (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 In Stock Alternating between Stockhausen and Beethoven, pianist Pi-Hsien Chen performs solo works including "Klavierstuck", "Sonata A-Dur Op. 101" and "Sonata C-moll Op. 111", contrasting and comparing the innovations of both composers. |
Tippett, Keith: The Monk Watches The Eagle (Discus -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock As though an elegy for the departed pianist and composer, Keith Tippett does not perform on this work, which was commissioned for the 2004 Norwich and Norfolk Festival, but conducts an ensemble that includes Julie Tippetts on voice, a saxophone octet that includes long-time collaborator Paul Dunmall, and the polyphonic choir of the BBC Singers; an exquisite and stirring work. |
Various Artists (Zorn / Johansson / Johnson / de Vroe / Schleirmacher): Enfants Terribles (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 In Stock |
Weber, Christian: 3 Suits and A Violin (Hatology -- Switzerland ) Price: $16.95 Out of Stock |
Wolff, Christian: Early Piano Pieces (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Early works from avant-garde composer Christian Wolff, including pieces for prepared piano influenced by John Cage's ideas for the same instrument. |
Wolpe, Stefan: Enactments (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $18.95 In Stock |
Brown, Earle: Chamber Music (Matchless -- Great Britain ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock Earle Brown conducts a chamber ensemble including John Tilbury on piano through a number of compositions, including versions of "October", "November", & "December", "Corroboree 1964 For Three Pianos", "Trio For Five Dances", and "Tracking Pierrot For Ensable". |
Duplant, Bruno : Chamber and Field Works 2015-2017 [2 CDs] (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $24.95 Out of Stock A double CD of delicate music from the French composer Bruno Duplant, the first disc containing three chamber pieces exquisitely played by the Suidobashi Chamber Ensemble, the second disc a long piece for solo guitar, performed by Taku Sugimoto in a public park in Tokyo, incorporating an extraordinary variety of environmental sounds. |
Schiller, Christoph / Morgan Evans-Weiler: Spinet & Violin (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 Out of Stock An extended improvisation between spinet player Christoph Schiller and Boston-based composer/violinist Morgan Evans-Weiler, recorded in Schiller's workshop in Basel during Evans-Weiler's tour of Europe, a slowly moving exploration of pitch, timbre and texture executed with intensive concentration and utterly impressive control. |
Smith Quartet with John Tilbury: Morton Feldman: Music For Piano And Strings Volume 1 [DVD-AUDIO] (Matchless -- Great Britain ) Price: $29.95 Out of Stock The Smith Quartet with pianist John Tilbury perform two long works by Morton Feldman: "For John Cage" (1982) and "Piano and String Quartet" (1985) on DVD Audio. |
Ogura, Miharu: Ogura Plays Stockhausen [2 CDS + DOWNLOAD] (thanatosis produktion -- Sweden ) Price: $21.95 In Stock A double CD of Japanese pianist Miharu Ogura's performance of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Klavierstücke I-XI for solopiano, recorded at the MONOPIANO festival in 2021, bringing to a pinnacle her fascination with Stockhausen's unique approach to this set of compositions, captured in her second live performance after a concert in Tokyo in the same year. |
Eno, Brian Performed by Dedalus Ensemble : Discreet Music / Music For Airports / Tuesday Afternoon [2 CDs] (Sub Rosa -- Belgium ) Price: $22.95 Out of Stock The French Dedalus Ensemble render three works from the ground-breaking ambient work of Brian Eno--Discreet Music (1975), Music for Airports (1978), and Thursday Afternoon (1985)--performed as an 11-piece acoustic ensemble and remaining faithful to the introspectively intelligent intention and peaceful elegance of Eno's original electronic works. |
Eno, Brian Performed by Dedalus Ensemble : Discreet Music / Music For Airports / Tuesday Afternoon [2 LPs] (Sub Rosa -- Belgium ) Price: $29.95 In Stock The French Dedalus Ensemble render three works from the ground-breaking ambient work of Brian Eno--Discreet Music (1975), Music for Airports (1978), and Thursday Afternoon (1985)--performed as an 11-piece acoustic ensemble and remaining faithful to the introspectively intelligent intention and peaceful elegance of Eno's original electronic works. |
Eastman, Julius: Two Extended Pieces For Four Pianos [VINYL 2 LPs] (Sub Rosa -- Belgium ) Price: $36.95 Out of Stock Four European pianists--Nicolas Horvath, Melaine Dalibert, Stephane Ginsburgh, Wilhem Latchoumia--perform New York legendary and radical avant composer Julius Eastman's powerful works for four pianists: the provocatively titled "Crazy Nigger" and "Evil Nigger", reflecting the biased culture he faced, written around 1980 using his organic principle of composition. |
Oliveros, Pauline / Apartment House: Sound Pieces (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $15.95 In Stock Six sound-oriented compositions for acoustic ensemble performed by the UK ensemble Apartment House, beautifully reflective and rich works, the first six pieces being text scores for open instrumentation, along with Peace/Tree, a seven movement work for violin, cello and piano that specifies pitches while leaving room for interpretation and improvisation. |
Durand, Werner : Schwingende Luftsaulen 2 (ANTS Records -- Italy ) Price: $14.95 In Stock A beautifully hypnotic album of saxophone, accompanied by Pan-Ney, Shruti Box and Organ, recorded in overdubs by composer/wind player Werner Durand in this 2nd chapter of his trilogy focused on the Pan-Ney, a self-built instrument for repetitive foundations, as Durand draws on elements of nature, mythology, dance, religion, literature and folklore. |
Feldman, Morton / Apartment House: Violin and String Quartet [2 CDs] (Another Timbre -- UK ) Price: $23.95 In Stock One of New York School minimalist composer Morton Feldman's later works, this extended composition spread across two CDs invokes waves of beautifully suspended, weaving strings from four violinists and cello, performed by the UK Apartment House ensemble violinists Mira Benjamin, Chihiro Ono, Amalia Young & Bridget Carey and cellist Anton Lukoszevieze. |
Eastman, Julius: The N*gger Series (Box Version) [VINYL 2 LPs] (Blume -- Italy ) Price: $68.95 Out of Stock Reissuing Blume record's 2018 double album of New York avant composer Julius Eastman's "N****r Series" "Evil N****r" (1979) "Gay Guerilla" (1980) and "Crazy N****r", now in a deluxe wooden box set edition with a 12-page booklet with the original liner notes by Mary Jane Leach and Bradford Bailey, a new 2500 word essay by Bailey, as well as unseen pictures and a poster. |
Cage, John: Music Of Changes (1951) (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $19.95 In Stock "Music of Changes" was composed by John Cage using the hexagrams of the I Ching and has no sense of structure, continuity, rhythm, or speed; change itself is the only consistent aspect of the work. |
Cage, John: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (El Records -- Great Britain ) Price: $17.95 Out of Stock |
Cardew, Cornelius: Treatise (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $29.95 Out of Stock |
Feldman, Morton : For John Cage (Hat [now] ART -- Switzerland ) Price: $19.95 In Stock Morton Feldman was a friend, flatmate and student of John Cage's innovative approaches to composition; he wrote this 3 part work for violin and piano in 1982 as a 70th birthday present for Cage, here performed by violinist Josje Fosie Ter Haar and pianist John Snijders. |
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