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Tenney, James

Forms 1-4 - In Memoriam Edgar Varese, John Cage, Stefan Wolpe, Morton Feldman [2 CDs]

Tenney, James: Forms 1-4 - In Memoriam Edgar Varese, John Cage, Stefan Wolpe, Morton Feldman [2 CDs] (Hat [now] ART)


 

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Paulo Alvares-celeste-piano

Marina Ascherson-viola

Jan Babinec-horn

Marc Blaauw-trumpet

Helen Bledsoe-alto and piccolo flute

Bruce Collings-trombone

John Corbett-clarinet-bass clarinet

Nándor Gotz-clarinet

Gregory Johns-cello

Seth Josel-guitar

Tomoko Kiba-violin

Ulrich Loffler-organ

Sarah O'Brien-harp

Thomas Oesterdiekhoff-percussion

Melvyn Poore-tuba

Ellen Ruth Rose-viola

Alexander Scheirle-cello

Heinrich Schkrobol-doublebass

Peter Veale-english horn-oboe-musette

Alban Wesley-bassoon-contra bassoon


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UPC: 752156012726

Label: Hat [now] ART
Catalog ID: Hat [now] ART127-2
Squidco Product Code: 9855

Format: 2 CDs
Condition: New
Released: 2002
Country: Switzerland
Packaging: 2 CDs in gatefold cardstock foldover
All recorded at WDR Koln, Funkhaus I; Tenney pieces recorded on 1-2 October 1997; the Wolpe on 17 November 1997; the Varese and Cage on 11-21 December 1997; and the Feldman on 2 February 1998.

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"What James Tenney does have in common with the composers to whom he has dedicated his FORMs, however, is not a specific approach to dynamics, but to sound. And precisely this inquiring interest in sound, both as a physical phenomenon and as regards its perception, was a constant leitmotif that pervaded the whole American avant-garde in the 20th century. To a certain extent, it could even be seen as a decisive characteristic distinguishing the American avant-garde from its European counterpart, which was more structurally and historically oriented."-Raoul Mörchen


Artist Biographies

"Seth Josel - originally from New York, now residing in Berlin - has become one of the leading instrumental pioneers of his generation. As a soloist he has concertized in Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, France, Israel, Italy, The Netherlands, Switzerland, the US and Canada. He has performed as a guest with leading orchestras and ensembles of Europe, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra (London), the Rundfunksinfonie Orchester Berlin, the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, the South German Radio Choir, the Staatskappelle Berlin and the Schönberg Ensemble of Amsterdam, and has appeared at several major European festivals including the Salzburg Festspiele, Ars Musica, Donaueschingen, The Holland Festival, Munich Biennale and London's South Bank Festival. From 1991 till 2000 he was a permanent member of the musikFabrik. In recent seasons he has been guesting regularly with KNM Berlin, Ensemble SurPlus of Freiburg as well as with the Basel Sinfonietta.

As ensemble player and soloist Seth Josel has been involved in the first performances of more than one hundred works. He has collaborated and consulted closely with such composers as Louis Andriessen, Gavin Bryars, Mauricio Kagel, Helmut Lachenmann, Tristan Murail and James Tenney. In addition, he has been highly committed to working with several of the leading young composers of our time, including Peter Ablinger, Richard Barrett, Sidney Corbett, Chaya Czernowin, Keeril Makan and Manfred Stahnke, all of whom have written works featuring his talents.

He has recorded for radio stations throughout Europe, and he appears as ensemble/chamber music performer on CDs released by Aeon, Nonesuch, Mode Records, CPO, Col Legno, Cybele Records, HetHut, New World Records, Touch Records, Edition Wandelweiser, Wergo, and Winter & Winter. In 1995 he released his first solo CD on CRI (Composers Recordings, Inc.) featuring works of contemporary American composers. His second solo CD appeared on O.O. Discs, Inc. and his third on New World Records, all featuring works of American composers. With Ulrich Krieger he collaborated on a portrait CD for Mode Records, presenting rarely heard works by Gavin Bryars. He recorded Berio's "Sequenza XI" for the complete Sequenza-Cycle which was released on Mode, and "33-127" by Peter Ablinger, was released by Mode in February 2009.

With colleagues Wiek Hijmans, Patricio Wang and Mark Haanstra from Amsterdam, he is co-founder of the quartet, Catch, which, in 2007, gave a week-long workshop at Princeton University in addition to appearing as part of the "concertino" in the U.S.-premiere of Steve Mackey's "Dreamhouse" with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Catch had a featured slot in September '07 at the second "Output" festival in Amsterdam, collaborated extensively in the Autumn '07 with the Slagwerkgroep Den Haag and performed concerts in Los Angeles, Berkeley and Grinnell during the spring of '08. In 2013, Catch appeared as the concertino with the New York Philharmonic.

In recent year Seth Josel has been a welcome guest on university and college campuses for his stimulating and diverse presentations regarding new art music. Among them are Yale, Northwestern, MSM, CalArts, Musik Akademie Basel, UdK Berlin, and the Sweelinck Konservatorium.

In addition to having published articles which concern issues related to new art music, Seth Josel is co-founder of "www.sheerpluck.de", a website dedicated to contemporary guitar music which has been online since the summer of 2003. "The Techniques of Guitar Playing", co-authored by Ming Tsao, was published by Bärenreiter Press in July 2014. Seth Josel's reconstruction of the "lost" work for solo electric guitar by Morton Feldman was published by Edition Peters in 2015. In 2016 he was named Research Fellow at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent, where he will be in residence part-time till the autumn of 2017.

After acquiring his Bachelor of Music degree at the Manhattan School of Music, Seth Josel enrolled at Yale University and earned the Master of Music degree; he then went on to become the first guitarist at Yale to earn the Master of Musical Arts and the Doctor of Musical Art degrees. His teachers included Manuel Barrueco, Eliot Fisk and harpsichordist Richard Rephann; as well, he has participated in the master classes of Oscar Ghiglia and Andrés Segovia. He is recipient of numerous awards and prizes including a Fulbright-Hays grant from the United States government and an Artists Stipend from the Akademie Schloß Solitude, Stuttgart."

-Seth Josel Website (http://sethjosel.de/biography.php)
3/13/2024

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"The direction was clear from early on. From the age of four, I played euphonium - like my father; at seven I gave my first public performance; later, I started piano as well; and at twelve I finally decided in favour of tuba."

"But exactly how far one can go with this apparently unwieldy instrument only became clear to Melvyn Poore (born 1951) while he was studying. His experiences as "music director" of the "Birmingham Arts Laboratory" contributed to the realisation that there is a life as tubist beyond the humdrum of the orchestra. "Even as a student, I preferred to play pieces that weren't written for tuba at all."

Poore's first experiments in the "Arts Lab" with tape and electronics led him on to a new passion: the experimental interaction of acoustic instruments and technology, which for him now has the same priority as purely acoustic experiments involving the sound possibilities of the tuba. Poore has passed on his experience in the capacities of interpreter, composer and also lecturer: he was "Research Assistant" at the Salford College of Technology (1989-1991), a guest at the Zentrum für Kunst- und Medientechnologie (Centre for Art and Media Technology) in Karlsruhe from 1992-1994 (where he developed his concept 'METAinstrument'), and 1993-95 "Visiting Professor for Electro-Acoustic Music" at the Royal College of Music in London.

Since 1995 he is a permanent member of Ensemble Musikfabrik and dedicates himself to the creation of the pedagogical department of the ensemble."

-Ensemble MusikFabrik (https://www.musikfabrik.eu/en/ensemble/members/melvyn-poore/)
3/13/2024

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Track Listing:



CD 1



1. James Tenney: Form 1 In memoriam Edgar Varèse 18:44

2. Edgar Varèse: Octandre 7:09

3. James Tenney: Form 2 In memoriam John Cage 16:44

4. John Cage: Seven 20:00



CD 2



1. James Tenney: Form 3 In memoriam Stefan Wolpe 14:00

2. Stefan Wolpe: Piece 7:42

3. James Tenney: Form 4 In memoriam Morton Feldman 16:38

4. Morton Feldman: Numbers 12:08

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