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Masterworks of the 20th century [sound recording].
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Masterworks of the 20th century [sound recording].
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[sound recording].
Publication Information:
[New York] : Sony Music, ℗©2015.
Physical Description:
10 audio discs : digital, sterophonic ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Compact discs.
Event Note:
Recorded at EMI Studios, London, in December 1968 (first work), at Studio Davout, Paris, in October 1972 (second work), at Massey Hall, Toronto on January 16, 1969 (third and sixth works) and January 17, 1969 (fourth and fifth works), at Symphony Hall, Boston, on April 19, 1965 (seventh work) and November 23, 1964 (eighth work), at Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York, on March 28 and 29, 1968 (ninth work), March 19, 1973 (eleventh work), November 12, 1973 (twelfth work), June 4-6 and 23, 1975 (thirteenth work), July 11, 1968 (fortietth-forty-first works), February 15 and 16, 1968 (forty-second-forty-third works), and January 10, 1975 (forty-fourth work), at Mary Howard Studio, New York City, on April 24, 1943, in New York City on May 11, 1938, and at Columbia Graphophone Company, London, on June 12, 1933 (tenth work), at Whitney Museum, New York, September 11, 1968 (fourteenth-sixteenth works), at San Diego State College in 1969 (seventeenth-thirty-second works), at Mastertone Recording Studios, New York City, on May 12, 1967 (thirty-third-thirty-ninth works), at Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, date unknown (forty-fifth-fifty-first works), and in Italy in 1967 (fifty-second-fifty-sixth works).
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Masterworks of the twentieth century
Contents:
Disc 1. Le marteau sans maître / Pierre Boulez ; Livre pour cordes / Pierre Boulez -- disc 2. Asterism for piano and orchestra / Tōru Takemitsu ; Requiem for string orchestra / Tōru Takemitsu ; Green (November Steps II) for orchestra / Tōru Takemitsu ; The Dorian horizon for 17 strings / Tōru Takemitsu -- disc 3. Agon : ballet for 12 dancers / Igor Stravinsky ; 7 Studies on Themes of Paul Klee / Gunther Schuller -- disc 4. Piano sonata no. 2 / Charles Ives ; Piano sonata no. 2 (excerpts) / Charles Ives -- disc 5. Voice of the Whale (Vox balaenae) : for 3 masked players (electric flute, electric cello and amplified piano) / George Crumb ; Night of the Four Moons : for contralto, alto flute/piccolo, banjo, electric cello and percussion / George Crumb ; Makrokosmos Vol. II : 12 fantasy-pieces after the zodiac, for amplified piano / George Crumb -- disc 6. Daphne of the Dunes / Harry Partch ; Barstow : 8 Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing in Barstow, California / Harry Partch ; Castor & Pollux : a Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini, from Plectra & Percussion Dances / Harry Partch ; Partch in Prologue, Adapted Viola / Harry Partch ; Chromelodeon I / Harry Partch ; Kithara I / Harry Partch ; Castor & Pollux (Harmonic Canon II) / Harry Partch ; Diamond Marimba / Harry Partch ; Bass Marimba / Harry Partch ; Cloud-Chamber Bowls / Harry Partch ; Spoils of War / Harry Partch ; Surrogate Kithara / Harry Partch ; Kithara II / Harry Partch ; Boo / Harry Partch ; Harmonic Canon I / Harry Partch ; Zymo-Xyl / Harry Partch ; Mazda Marimba / Harry Partch ; Gourd Tree & Cone Gong / Harry Partch ; Hand Instruments, Partch In Epilogue / Harry Partch -- disc 7. Sound Patterns : for mixed chorus a cappella / Pauline Oliveros ; North American Tine Campsule 1967 : for voices and Sylvania Electronic Systems Vocoder / Alvin Lucier ; Solos for Voice 2 / John Cage ; She Was a Visitor : from the opera That Morning Thing / Robert Ashley ; Extended Voices : for voices with Moog synthesizer and Buchla Associates Electronic Modular System / Toshi Ichiyanagi ; Chorus and Instruments II : for chorus, tuba and chimes / Morton Feldman ; Christian Wolff in Cambridge / for chorus a cappella / Morton Feldman -- disc 8. Akrata : for 16 wind instruments / Iannis Xenakis ; Syzygy : for soprano and orchestra / David Del Tredici ; Zyklus : for a percussionist / Karlheinz Stockhausen ; Fontana Mix - Feed / John Cage ; Lux Aeterna : for 5 masked musicians (soprano, bass flute, soprano recorder, sitar and percussion) / George Crumb -- disc 9. Stereo Electronic Music No. 1 / Bülent Arel ; Leiyla and the Poet / Halim El-Dabh ; Prologue : Enuma Elish : from 3 Scenes from The Creation / Vladimir Ussachevsky ; Composition for Synthesizer / Milton Babbitt ; Electronic Study No. 1 / Mario Davidovsky ; Gargoyles / Otto Luening ; Ensembles for Synthesizer / Milton Babbitt -- disc 10. Sonatine for flute and piano / Pierre Boulez ; Interpolation : mobile for flute 1, 2 and 3 / Roman Haubenstock-Ramati ; Concerto no. 1 for oboe and chamber orchestra / Bruno Maderna ; Y Su Sangre Ya Viene Cantando : epitaffio per Federico Garcia Lorca no. 2 : for flute, strings and percussion / Luigi Nono ; Serenade I for flute and 14 instruments / Luciano Berio.
Performer:
Yvonne Minton, mezzo-soprano ; Ensemble Musique Vivante (first work) ; Strings of the New Philharmonic Orchestra, Pierre Boulez, conductor (second work) ; Yuji Takahashi, piano (third work) ; Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, conductor (third-sixth works) ; Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf, conductor (seventh-eighth works) ; James Pappoutsakis, flute (eighth work) ; John Kirkpatrick, piano (ninth work) ; Charles Ives, piano (tenth work) ; Aeolian Chamber Players (eleventh-twelfth works) ; Robert Miller, piano (thirteenth work) ; various performers, Danlee Mitchell, conductor (fourteenth-sixteenth works) ; Harry Partch, performer (seventeenth-thirty-second works) ; Brandeis University Chamber Chorus, Alvin Lucier, director (thirty-third-thirty-ninth works) ; Harvey Philips, tuba ; John Bergamo, chimes (thirty-eighth work) ; Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano ; Festival Chamber Ensemble, Richard Dufallo, conductor (fortieth-forty-first works) ; Max Neuhaus, percussion (forty-second-forty-third works) ; Jan DeGaetani, soprano ; Penn Contemporary Players, Richard Wenick, conductor (forty-fourth work) ; Max Pollikoff, violin (fiftieth work) ; Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center (forty-fifth-fifty-first works) ; Severino Gazzelloni, flute (fifty-second-fifty-third, fifty-fifth-fifty-sixth works) ; Frederic Rzewski, piano (fifty-second work) ; Lothar Faber, oboe (fifty-fourth work) ; soloists of the Rome Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Maderna, conductor (fifty-fourth-fifty-sixth works).
Language:
Sung in French (first work), Spanish (eleventh work), and English (fifteenth, thirty-third-thirty-ninth works).