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Robyn Schulkowsky, percussion with Frederic Rzewski, piano; Joey Baron, percussion; Kim Kashkashian, viola; Reinhold Friedrich, trumpet; Rohan de Saram, cello; Christian Wolff, melodica "Christian Wolff's is a spare, prosaic music, with little interest in straining after sonic novelty. Recalling the memorable title of philosopher David Rothenberg's book on improvisation, we...
Christian Wolff: Ten Exercises
Natacha Diels, Garrett List, Larry Polansky, Michael Riessler, Frederic Rzewski, Robyn Schulkowsky, Chiyoko Szlavnics, Christian Wolff This marvelous recording of these elusive works features composer-supervised performances by a hand-picked group of renowned new-music exponents. "Your first encounter with the music of Christian Wolff (b 1934) leaves you with the impression...
Thomas Schultz, piano "[Long Piano] seems to me like a kind of geological agglomeration. My hope is that it forms a possible landscape on one extended canvas. At first I just started writing and kept going. My tendency is to work in smaller patches. After the piece was finished I...
Christian Wolff: 2 Orchestra Pieces
Robyn Schulkowsky, percussion; SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg; Lothar Zagrosek, conductor Ostravská banda; Petr Kotík, Peter Rundel, Roland Kluttig, conductors This recording is the first ever devoted to the orchestral music of Christian Wolff (b 1934) and thus documents a little-known aspect of his wide-ranging work. John, David (1998) introduces...
Christian Wolff: Lines / Accompaniments
Nathan Rubin and Thomas Halpin, violins; Nancy Ellis, viola; Judiyaba, cello; Frederic Rzewski, pianoLines, for string quartet or possibly other and larger combinations of string instruments, was commissioned by Hans Otte for North German Radio (Bremen) and written early in 1972. The composition began with the desire to find new...
Christian Wolff: 3 String Quartets
Quatuor Bozzini: Clemens Merkel, Alissa Cheung, violins; Stéphanie Bozzini, viola; Isabelle Bozzini, cello Starting with his music of the 1960s and early 1970s, with works such as For 1, 2 or 3 People (1964), the Prose Collection (1968–71), and Changing the System (1974), Christian Wolff (b. 1934) quietly re-invented chamber...
Works by JOHN CAGE, DAVID TUDOR, TAKEHISA KOSUGI, MARYANNE AMACHER, DAVID BEHRMAN, EARLE BROWN, STUART DEMPSTER, MORTON FELDMAN, JON GIBSON, TOSHI ICHIYANAGI, JOHN KING, ANNEA LOCKWOOD, GORDON MUMMA, BO NILSSON, PAULINE OLIVEROS, MICHAEL PUGLIESE, YASUNAO TONE, CHRISTIAN WOLFF AND OTHERS The late Merce Cunningham was renowned for his legendary collaborations...
Music for Merce, Vol. 3 (digital only)
The late Merce Cunningham was renowned for his legendary collaborations with the most significant experimental musicians of the late 20th century. Particularly notable is his association with John Cage, who served as the founding musical director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company until Cage’s death in 1992. Spanning six decades...
Composer, Uninterrupted: Christian Wolff at 90
Wolff, the last representative of the New York School that included John Cage and Morton Feldman, will celebrate his birthday with a concert at Judson Memorial Church. By Steve Smith If artistic stature worked by osmosis, Christian Wolff could claim greatness based on that alone. “My father met Brahms,”he said,...
CHRISTIAN WOLFF IN THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD
by George Grella The program for Christian Wollf’s concert at Roulette this month has both premieres and older works. The earliest, For 1, 2 or 3 People, dates from 1964, while another, Keyboard Miscellany, is both older and newer—a collection of short keyboard pieces Wolff began making in 1997 and...