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The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 1
Harry Partch, principal vocals (Eleven Intrusions); Gate 5 Ensemble (Sausalito), Horace Schwartz, conductor (Plectra and Percussion Dances: Castor and Pollux, Ring Around the Moon, Even Wild Horses); Gate 5 Ensemble (Evanston, Illinois) (Ulysses at the Edge) This newly remastered reissue marks a welcome return to the catalog of the first...
Matthew Rosenblum: Ancient Eyes
Kristin Norderval, soprano, Mary Nessinger, mezzo-soprano; Maggie Lane, voicePrism Players: Jayn Rosenfeld, flute/piccolo; Tim Smith, clarinet; Daniel Grabois, French horn; Ben Herrington, trombone; Dale Turk, bass-trombone; Dominic Donato & Michael Lipsey, percussion; Eric Moe, piano/sampler; Curtis Macomber, violin; Lois Martin, viola; Ted Mook, cello; Joe Bongiorno, double-bass; Bradley Lubman, conductor...
Contemporary Music Forum: Helmut Braunlich, violin; Lori Barnet, cello; Katherine Hay, flute; Ronald Aufmann, clarinet, bass clarinet; Randall Eyles, percussion; Barbro Dahlman, piano; William Wright, Conductor; Pamela Jordan, sopranoMusic of Amber, written for the New York New Music Ensemble and completed in February, 1981, is scored for flute, clarinet/bass clarinet,...
Kyle Gann: Nude Rolling Down an Escalator
"Some of the rhythms developed through the present acoustical investigation could not be played by any living performer; but these highly engrossing rhythmical complexes could easily be cut on a player-piano roll. This would give a real reason for writing music specially for player-piano..." —Henry Cowell Like many composers...
Alvin Curran: Endangered Species
Alvin Curran, Yamaha Disklavier Endangered Species states, restates, correlates, instigates, inflates and deflates, elevates, formulates, disintegrates, interrogates, percolates, granulates, germinates, Kiss Me Kates, Tom Waits, Norman Bates and W.B. Yeats, horripilates, adumbrates, prestidigitates, sophisticates, enumerates, integrates and contraindicates songs from the standard repertoire, Standards they were called. Old French, Frankish,...
The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 4
The Bewitched－A Dance Satire (1956) Freda Schell, The Witch; The University of Illinois Musical Ensemble, John Garvey, conductor The Chorus of Lost Musicians (in order of appearance): William Olson, Chorus Leader (male solo voice), Marimba Eroica; Warren Smith, Bass Marimba; Thomas Gauger, Boo (Bamboo Marimba); Michael Donzella, Spoils of War;...
Conrad Harris, violin; Joseph Kubera, piano Lejaren Hiller (1924-1994) is, understandably, best known for his computer-assisted compositions and works utilizing electronics. The three pieces included in this collection span a crucial fifteen-year period in Hiller's career. The first was written two years before Quartet No. 4 for Strings, The ILLIAC...
Robert Morris: Carnatic String Quartet
Momenta Quartet: Emilie-Anne Gendron, Alex Shiozaki, violins; Stephanie Griffin, viola; Michael Haas, cello The interesting thing about Robert Morris’s (b. 1943) remarkable career as a composer (and a theorist) is how free he is to move from composing works of great rigor with intricate integrity in his use of...
The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 2
Gate 5 Ensemble (Evanston, Illinois) (U.S. Highball); Harry Partch, Danlee Mitchell, Elizabeth Gentry (San Francisco); Harry Partch, David Dunn, Dennis Dunn, Randy Hoffman, with dubbed-in interludes from the 1950 recording by Harry Partch, Ben and Betty Johnston, and Donald Pippin (The Letter); The Harry Partch Ensemble, Danlee Mitchell, music director...
Robert Erickson: Complete String Quartets
Del Sol Quartet "These four string quartets frame Erickson's entire oeuvre with remarkable eloquence, from the intellectual, process-oriented First Quartet and the suddenly fully mature Second—still explainable in the context of the mainstream of 20th-century music—to the indisputably idiosyncratic valedictory qualities of Solstice and Corfu, which leave conventional analysis irrelevant....