Masterworks of the 20th Century | Sony 88875061902

Masterworks of the 20th Century

Label: Sony

Cat No: 88875061902

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 10

Release Date: 18th May 2015

Contents

Works

Arel, Bulent

Stereo Electronic Music no.1

Ashley, Robert

She was a visitor

Babbitt, Milton

Composition for synthesizer

Berio, Luciano

Serenade I for flute and 14 instruments

Boulez, Pierre

Le Marteau sans maitre
Livre pour cordes
Sonatine for flute and piano

Cage, John

Fontana Mix-Feed (Max Neuhaus)
Solo for voice no.2

Crumb, George

Lux Aeterna
Makrokosmos II
Night of the Four Moons (1969)
Vox Balaenae

Davidovsky, Mario

Electronic Study no.1

El-Dabh, Halim

Leiyla and the Poet

Feldman, Morton

Chorus and Instruments (II)
Christian Wolff in Cambridge

Haubenstock-Ramati, Roman

Interpolation, Mobile for Flute

Ichiyanagi, Toshi

Extended Voices

Ives, Charles

Emerson
» Extracts
» Transcription no.1
» Transcription no.3
Piano Sonata no.2, op.19 'Concord'
The Alcotts

Lucier, Alvin

North American Time Capsule 1967

Luening, Otto

Gargoyles

Maderna, Bruno

Oboe Concerto no.1

Nono, Luigi

Y su sangre ya viene cantando

Oliveros, Pauline

Sound Patterns

Partch, Harry

Barstow
Bass Marimba
Boo
Castor & Pollux
Chromelodeon I
Cloud-Chamber Bowls
Daphne of the Dunes
Diamond Marimba
Gourd Tree & Cone Gong
Hand Instruments, Partch in Epilogue
Harmonic Canon II
Harmonic Canon I
Kithara II
Kithara
Mazda Marimba
Partch in Prologue
Spoils of War
Surrogate Kithara
Zymo-Xyl

Stockhausen, Karlheinz

Zyklus fur einen Schlagzeuger

Stravinsky, Igor

Agon (ballet for twelve dancers)

Takemitsu, Toru

Asterism
Green
Requiem for string orchestra
The Dorian Horizon for 17 strings

Tredici, David Del

Syzygy

Ussachevsky, Vladimir

Creation - Prologue

Xenakis, Iannis

Akrata

Artists

Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano)
Yuji Takahashi (piano)
John Kirkpatrick (piano)
Charles Ives
Robert Miller
Harry Partch
Max Neuhaus (percussion)
Jan DeGaetani (mezzo-soprano)
Severino Gazzelloni (flute)
Frederick Rzewski (piano)
Lothar Faber (oboe)
Ensemble Musique Vivante
Strings of the New Philharmonia Orchestra
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Aeolian Chamber Players
Brandeis University Chamber Chorus
Festival Chamber Ensemble
Penn Contemporary Players
Members of The Rome Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Pierre Boulez
Seiji Ozawa
Erich Leinsdorf
Alvin Lucier
Richard Dufallo
Richard Wernick
Bruno Maderna

Works

Arel, Bulent

Stereo Electronic Music no.1

Ashley, Robert

She was a visitor

Babbitt, Milton

Composition for synthesizer

Berio, Luciano

Serenade I for flute and 14 instruments

Boulez, Pierre

Le Marteau sans maitre
Livre pour cordes
Sonatine for flute and piano

Cage, John

Fontana Mix-Feed (Max Neuhaus)
Solo for voice no.2

Crumb, George

Lux Aeterna
Makrokosmos II
Night of the Four Moons (1969)
Vox Balaenae

Davidovsky, Mario

Electronic Study no.1

El-Dabh, Halim

Leiyla and the Poet

Feldman, Morton

Chorus and Instruments (II)
Christian Wolff in Cambridge

Haubenstock-Ramati, Roman

Interpolation, Mobile for Flute

Ichiyanagi, Toshi

Extended Voices

Ives, Charles

Emerson
» Extracts
» Transcription no.1
» Transcription no.3
Piano Sonata no.2, op.19 'Concord'
The Alcotts

Lucier, Alvin

North American Time Capsule 1967

Luening, Otto

Gargoyles

Maderna, Bruno

Oboe Concerto no.1

Nono, Luigi

Y su sangre ya viene cantando

Oliveros, Pauline

Sound Patterns

Partch, Harry

Barstow
Bass Marimba
Boo
Castor & Pollux
Chromelodeon I
Cloud-Chamber Bowls
Daphne of the Dunes
Diamond Marimba
Gourd Tree & Cone Gong
Hand Instruments, Partch in Epilogue
Harmonic Canon II
Harmonic Canon I
Kithara II
Kithara
Mazda Marimba
Partch in Prologue
Spoils of War
Surrogate Kithara
Zymo-Xyl

Stockhausen, Karlheinz

Zyklus fur einen Schlagzeuger

Stravinsky, Igor

Agon (ballet for twelve dancers)

Takemitsu, Toru

Asterism
Green
Requiem for string orchestra
The Dorian Horizon for 17 strings

Tredici, David Del

Syzygy

Ussachevsky, Vladimir

Creation - Prologue

Xenakis, Iannis

Akrata

Artists

Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano)
Yuji Takahashi (piano)
John Kirkpatrick (piano)
Charles Ives
Robert Miller
Harry Partch
Max Neuhaus (percussion)
Jan DeGaetani (mezzo-soprano)
Severino Gazzelloni (flute)
Frederick Rzewski (piano)
Lothar Faber (oboe)
Ensemble Musique Vivante
Strings of the New Philharmonia Orchestra
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Aeolian Chamber Players
Brandeis University Chamber Chorus
Festival Chamber Ensemble
Penn Contemporary Players
Members of The Rome Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Pierre Boulez
Seiji Ozawa
Erich Leinsdorf
Alvin Lucier
Richard Dufallo
Richard Wernick
Bruno Maderna

About

Ten CDs filled with iconic performances of 20th-century “avant-garde” classics by Charles Ives (the ground-breaking 1968 recording of the 'Concord' Sonata by pianist and Ives scholar John Kirkpatrick), Stravinsky (the great Balanchine ballet Agon, with Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony), Boulez (his 1973 recording of his masterpiece Le Marteau sans maître, with mezzo Yvonne Minton and the Ensemble Musique Vivante), Takemitsu (Seiji Ozawa conducting the Toronto Symphony), a disc each of works by Harry Partch and George Crumb (including his Voice of the Whale), plus other landmark compositions by Berio, Stockhausen, Nono, Cage, Babbitt, Maderna, Xenaxis, Feldman, Schuller and Del Tredici, along with the pioneering productions of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.

Contents:
CD 1 Pierre Boulez

1. Le marteau sans maître
Yvonne Minton, Ensemble Musique Vivante / Pierre Boulez
2. Livre pour Cordes
Strings of the New Philharmonia Orchestra / Pierre Boulez
 
CD 2 Toru Takemitsu
1. Asterism for Piano and Orchestra
2. Requiem for String Orchestra
3. Green for Orchestra (November Steps II)
4. The Dorian Horizon for 17 Strings
Yuji Takahashi (piano), Toronto Symphony Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa
 
CD 3
Igor Stravinsky
1. Agon
Boston Symphony Orchestra / Erich Leinsdorf

Gunther Schuller
2. Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee
Boston Symphony Orchestra / Erich Leinsdorf

CD 4 Charles Ives
1. Piano Sonata No.2 'Concord, Mass 1840-60'
John Kirkpatrick (piano)

5. Emerson (end of exposition)
6. Emerson (most of recapitulation)
7. Hawthorne (fragment)
8. The Alcotts (complete)
9. Emerson Transcription No.1 with Interpolated Improvisations
10. Emerson Transcription No.3 with Interpolated Improvisations
Charles Ives

CD 5 George Crumb
1. Voice of the Whale (Vox Balaenae) - for Three Masked Players
Aeolian Chamber Players
2. Night of the Four Moons - based on fragments from Federico García Lorca
Aeolian Chamber Players
3. Makrokosmos, Vol. II - Twelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac for Amplified Piano
Robert Miller

CD 6 Harry Partch
1. Daphne of the Dunes
2. Barstow - Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California
3. Castor & Pollux - A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini from Plectra & Percussion Dances
4. Partch in Prologue
5. Chromelodeon I
6. Kithara
7. Harmonic Canon II
8. Diamond Marimba
9. Bass Marimba
10. Cloud-Chamber Bowls
11. Spoils of War
12. Surrogate Kithara
13. Kithara II
14. Boo
15. Harmonic Canon I
16. Zymo-Xyl
17. Mazda Marimba
18. Gourd Tree & Cone Gong
19. Hand Instruments, Partch in Epilogue
Harry Partch
 
CD 7
1. Pauline Oliveros: Sound Patterns
2. Alvin Lucier: North American Time Capsule 1967
3. John Cage: Solos for Voice 2
4. Robert Ashley: She Was a Visitor
5. Toshi Ichiyanagi: Extended Voices
6. Morton Feldman: Chorus and Instruments (II)
7. Morton Feldman: Christian Wolff in Cambridge
Brandeis University Chamber Chorus / Alvin Lucier

CD 8
1. Iannis Xenakis: Akrata
2. David Del Tredici: Syzygy
Festival Chamber Ensemble / Richard Dufallo
3. Karlheinz Stockhausen: No.9 Zyklus for One Percussionist
4. John Cage: Fontana Mix - Feed
Max Neuhaus (percussion)
5. George Crumb: Lux Aeterna
Jan DeGaetani (mezzo-soprano), Penn Contemporary Players / Richard Wernick
 
CD 9
1. Bülent Arel: Stereo Electronic Music No.1
2. Halim El-Dabh: Leiyla and the Poet
3. Vladimir Ussachevsky: Creation - Prologue
4. Milton Babbitt: Composition for Synthesizer
5. Mario Davidovsky: Electronic Study No.1
6. Otto Luening: Gargoyles
7. Ensembles for Synthesizer
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center
 
CD 10
1. Pierre Boulez: Sonatine for Flute
2. Roman Haubenstock-Ramati: Interpolation, Mobile for Flute (1, 2 and 3)
3. Bruno Maderna: Concerto for Oboe and Chamber Orchestra
4. Luigi Nono: Y Su Sangre Ya Viene Cantando
5. Luciano Berio: Serenade I for Flute and 14 Instruments
Severino Gazzelloni (flute), Frederick Rzewski (piano), Lothar Faber (oboe), Members of The Rome Symphony Orchestra / Bruno Maderna

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