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The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra & Chorus conducted by Edo de Waart in a recording from 1984.
Label: ECM / 25012-1 F
Medium: LP
Contemporary
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, Vinyl, Music
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For his first cd (2004) composer, pianist and conductor, Christopher Adler has chosen a varied program of solo music and ensembles blending traditional Thai classical instruments with those of the West, featuring his works for khaen, a traditional mouthorgan made from bamboo and somewhat resembling a pan flute, producing a sonorous, melancholic sound.
Label: Tzadik / TZ 8004
Medium: CD
Composers
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The renowned & dynamic ensemble play pieces by young and/or upcoming composers: Yannis Kyriakides, Alison Isadora, Rachel Yatzkan, Jan-Bas Bollen, Ricardo Giraldo en Piet-Jan van Rossum.
Label: X-OR / 13
Medium: CD
Music, Contemporary
, Composers
, Modern Jazz
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Structure, vitality & mysteriousness. For Altena these are the three properties that make music into good music. Energy imploding instead of exploding. He relies on psy chological direction in his scores. Creating complicated music without insane notation
Label: Composers Voice / CV 49
Medium: CD
Music, Contemporary
, Composers
, Modern Jazz
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Trappel' by Altena himself, Ballad by Martijn Padding, Leisure by Allison Cameron, Cinema by Erik Satie/Cor Fuhler, Cantus' by Altena & 'En/Of II' by Alison Isadora.
Label: Composers Voice / CV 69
Medium: CD
Music, Contemporary
, Composers
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George Antheil's reputation as the Bad Boy of Music (the title of his fascinating autobiography) was earned largely with his Ballet Mécanique, written to accompany an abstract silent film by the artist Fernand Leger. It was composed for player pianos and percussion, with harsh, driving rhythms, and it caused the kind of riots in Paris that were useful to a composer's reputation. Today, that reputation may keep Antheil from being taken seriously. But when you hear the Ballet (as rescored in 1953 for an early mono recording) today, it's a substantial and exciting piece of music, formally tight and not at all hard on 21st century ears. The remainder of this program shows more of Antheil's range. The Serenade is a lovely piece of Americana, with a particularly touching slow movement. The Symphony and Concert owe much to Stravinsky's "neoclassical" style; both hold up very well.
Label: Naxos / 8.559060
Medium: CD
Contemporary
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This CD presents the version of the piece from 1924, a kind of expanded version with 3 xylophones, 4 bass drums, tamtam, 2 pianos, siren, 3 airplane propellors, 7 bells, and 16 synchronized player pianos. It was never performed until its premiere, produced by Paul Lehrman, at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell in November 1999. Also on the CD: John Cage and Lou Harrison's 'Double Music' (1941), (for percussion quartet); Richard Grayson's 'Shoot the Piano Player' (1995), (for player piano and electronics), and 'Mister 528' (1996), (for multiple player pianos and electronics); Amadeo Roldán's 'Ritmica No. 5' (1930) and 'Ritmica No. 6' (1930),( for percussion ensemble); and Felix Mendelssohn's 'Saltarello-Presto from Symphony No. 4', arranged by Paul Lehrman (for 16 player pianos).
Label: EMF / EMF CD 0020
Medium: CD
Composers
, Contemporary
, Percussion
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Travelling in from different planets, Ashley and the world's rappers agree to aestheticise logorrhoea, shock-jockery and loose language and to keep those texts a-coming (there are 84pp in the accompanying libretto book). Two speakers and a host of ghost voices and a synthesised 'orchestra', all hovering around single tones create a hypnotic, often funny, vicious, strangely gripping linear streams of sound/speech. The nuance is all in shadows and hints and fleeting references. No one else is doing anything like this and it's fascinating to see Ashley re-emerge with such a highly evolved, unplaceable but fascinating form pitched somewhere outside opera, rap, theatre, music and bar talk.' (Chris Cutler)
Label: Lovely Music / LCD1008
Medium: CD
Music, Poetry
, Spoken Word
, Contemporary
, Composers
, Music for Theatre
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1990 CD issue of this 1978 piece for voice and electronics. The electronics (with additional Clavinet by 'Blue' Gene Tyranny) start out shimmering and subtle, slowing building up in strange, menacing fashion. The first part is in Spanish (with Guillermo Grenier providing the voice); the second part is 'in English' (heavily processed vocals by Ashley) and quite radical -- easy to imagine this one sitting very high in a United Dairies-like universe.
Label: Lovely Music / LCD 1003
Medium: CD
Music, Poetry
, Spoken Word
, Contemporary
, Composers
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Student of Louis Andriessen (Cornwall, UK, 1965) feels attracted to 'neglected sound curiosities' that others tend to ban from their music & unorthodox instruments like bagpipe, celtic harp, euphonium in interplay with ensembles.
Label: Composers Voice / CV138
Medium: CD
Music, Contemporary
, Composers
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