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Most Frightening Music in the Universe
from: Denon Records
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Varese: Arcana; Ameriques; Ionization; Offrandes; Density 21.5; Octandre; Integrales
from: Sony
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Percussion Music
from: Nonesuch
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Takemitsu: Requiem; Twill by Twilight
from: Sony
: :Takemitsu (1930-96) is Japan's greatest composer. He had a diverse musical career, which included work for films. His music partakes of aspects of postmodernism--serial construction, atonal modalities, unusual instrumentation--and all of it hypnotic. The works on this disc are for a chamber-size orchestra and are illuminated by the smaller forces. From Me Flows What You Call Time (1990) brings to mind a set of delicate, atonal wind chimes. Twill by Twilight--In Memory of Morton Feldman (1988) reflects Feldman's juxtapositions and separations, but with a bit more ...
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Takemitsu: Chamber Music
from: Naxos
:Album Description:Robert Aitken invited Takemitsu to Canada for performances of his chamber music in the New Music Concerts series in 1975 and 1983. Their close friendship led to the composition of a number of works which were not only personally performed for Takemitsu by the musicians on this recording but benefited from his interpretative insights. The Night from Toward the Sea, one of several works on the subject of water, a continuing theme in the composer's works, received its first performance in Toronto in 1981 by ...
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SYR 4: Goodbye 20th Century
from: Sonic Youth / Syr
: :Wildly influential four-piece Sonic Youth have self-released their version of a tribute to the 20th century: two discs of noisy interpretations of modern, experimental classical scores. The group has chosen composers whose works leave a great amount of innovation open to the performer. This chance-embracing approach--typified and in some senses originated by John Cage--is one of the crucial turning points of 'new' music. What's great about this CD is that it demonstrates the freewheeling, decidedly unserious spirit behind this music, essentially combining the legacies of punk ...
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Varèse - The Complete Works / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra · Asko Ensemble · Chailly
: essential recording:For a composer who is (now) recognizably part of the 20th-century classical canon, the French émigré Edgard Varèse's output was astoundingly meager. Just 15 compositions from his entire life (he destroyed the compositions from his early years, and was a merciless editor of his own material in general) made it out to the listening world. Varèse was caught in the chasm between the music of yesterday and the music of tomorrow: scoring music for modified theremin, steamboat whistles, or air sirens, all balanced with ...
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Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion
from: Telarc
: essential recording:For a composer who is (now) recognizably part of the 20th-century classical canon, the French émigré Edgard Varèse's output was astoundingly meager. Just 15 compositions from his entire life (he destroyed the compositions from his early years, and was a merciless editor of his own material in general) made it out to the listening world. Varèse was caught in the chasm between the music of yesterday and the music of tomorrow: scoring music for modified theremin, steamboat whistles, or air sirens, all balanced with ...
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Philip Glass: The Concerto Project, Vol. 1
from: Orange Mountain Music
: :CONCERTO PROJECT 1 This is the first of a series of four CDs that Philip Glass and Orange Mountain Music have planned entitled The Concerto Project, No. I-IV Each disc contains two concerti. Omm0014 features Julian Lloyd Webber with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gerard Schwarz performining Concerto for Cello and Orchestra and Evelyn Glennie and Jonathan Haas performing Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra also with Gerard Schwarz conducting the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. World-class soloists, excellent orchestra, excellent conducting and ...
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Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos & Percussion/Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn for 2 Pianos, Op. 56b
from: Sony
: :CONCERTO PROJECT 1 This is the first of a series of four CDs that Philip Glass and Orange Mountain Music have planned entitled The Concerto Project, No. I-IV Each disc contains two concerti. Omm0014 features Julian Lloyd Webber with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gerard Schwarz performining Concerto for Cello and Orchestra and Evelyn Glennie and Jonathan Haas performing Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra also with Gerard Schwarz conducting the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. World-class soloists, excellent orchestra, excellent conducting and ...
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