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Stockhausen - Kurzwellen (1969) re-post

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 30 Nov 2009 10:53:34 | Comments : 11
Kurwellen

Stockhausen - Kurzwellen (1968-69)
for six players & short-wave radio
Avant-Garde | Analog to Digital Rip (ape) | rar 3% recovery record | 309 MB | RS.com
Deutsche Grammophon 2707 045 | 2 Vinyl LP 47' & 53' | Full Sleeve Scans

“HOW the players react to what they hear on the radio; HOW they imitate and then modulate it, transpose it in time (longer or shorter, more or less rhythmically articulated) and in space (higher or lower, louder or softer); WHEN and HOW and HOW OFTEN they play synchronously or alternatingly, in duos, trios or quartets; HOW they call and invite each other to hear together an event which wanders among them for a prolonged period of time, letting it shrink and grow, compressing and expanding it, darkening and lightening it, concentrating or playfully decorating it.
Stockhausen, from the attached sleeve text
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Bang on a Can plays Louis Andriessen (2002)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 25 Nov 2009 09:33:51 | Comments : 6
Andriessen

Bang on a Can plays Louis Andriessen (2002)
Avant-Garde | EAC Rip (ape, cue, log) | rar 3% recovery | 264 MB | RS.com
Label: Cantaloupe Music | Cat. Num.: LLC. CA21012 | 1 CD 50:50 | Artwork's scans

“Dutch composer Louis Andriessen turned minimalism upside down in the 1970's with his exciting and overpoweringly aggressive sounds. Earth-shattering and tribal in its elemental power, three of Andriessen's classics are now on one disc. Reissuing "Hoketus" and "Hout," plus a new blistering recording of "Workers Union," this disc is an international collaboration of the Bang on a Can All-Stars, members of London's Icebreaker ensemble, and musicians from Andriessen's own group.
elp1983
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Stockhausen: Examen (1991) - Eldorado/Preljocaj (2008)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 07 Nov 2009 14:18:19 | Comments : 11
Stocky-Preljocaj

Stockhausen: Examen (1991) - Eldorado/Preljocaj (2008)
Avant-Garde | DVD SAT rip | WDR/Arte | Video 720x576 (16:9) | Audio: Stereo 48 kHz 256 kBps
30min + 90 min | Language: French, German | 17x200mb rar + 3% recovery record | 3.27 GB | RS.com

“"Examen" it's life, my life.., but also life of everyone on this planet. We have to protect ourself, to learn. "Examen" it's a portion of 1° act of "Licht" (Light), and the name of this portion is "Donnenstag" (Thursday). Why Thursday? Thursday it's the learning day. The Man, into "Examen", learn and, in my opinion, he learn upmost music. Music as the most beatiful art, infinetely ingenious message, pulsations...
Karlheinz Stockhausen, extract from "Examen" soundtrack
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Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911-1990) - Electronic and Acoustic Music Music [Re-Upload]

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 16 Oct 2009 11:54:54 | Comments : 4
Ussachevsky

Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911-1990) - Electronic and Acoustic Music [Re-Upload]
Works 1957-1972 / Film Music
Contemporary | EAC (ape + cue) | 2CD 63:55 - 58:05 | Artworks & booklets | 540 MB | RS

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Vladimir Ussachevsky was one of the most significant pioneers in the composition of electronic music, and one of its most potent forces. Born in 1911 in Manchuria, China, Ussachevsky was the son of a Russian Army captain. His childhood was spent on the windswept and sparsely settled Manchurian plain, visiting with the nomadic tribesmen in their tents, and singing Old Slavonic chants as an altar boy in the local Russian Orthodox church. By the time he arrived in California, at the age of nineteen, he was a skilled pianist gifted in the interpretation of Romantic music, and a fluent improvisor. ..........
Unknown to Ussachevsky, the first experiments in tape and electronic music had begun two or three years earlier in France with the "musique concrète" of Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry and, one year before, in Germany with the founding of the Cologne electronic-music studio by Herbert Eimert. Ussachevsky's first experiments began in 1951 when the Columbia Music Department acquired an Ampex 400 tape recorder, which together with a microphone, a pair of earphones, and a borrowed Magnecord recorder, constituted the entire equipment of the first American electronic-music studio. ........
It is perhaps not far-fetched to describe Ussachevsky as one of the most enigmatic and self-effacing figures in new American music after World War II. He was an intensely personal man who combined Old World charm and courtliness with humor and American get-up-and-go. He talked little about himself or the fact that he had been brought up in an unusual time and place that had already ceased to exist.
pout-pourri from the attached booklets
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Pioneers of Electronic Music (2006)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 04 Oct 2009 00:07:42 | Comments : 8
Pioneers_EM

Pioneers of Electronic Music (2006)
Avant-Garde | (ape, cue, log) | rar + 3% recovery record | 330 MB | RS.com | Artworks & Booklet

“In 1950, the Columbia University Music Department requisitioned a tape recorder to use in teaching and for recording concerts. In 1951, the first tape recorder arrived, an Ampex 400, and Vladimir Ussachevsky then a junior faculty member, was assigned a job that no one else wanted: the care of the tape recorder. This job was to have important consequences for Ussachevsky and the medium he developed. Electronic music was born. Over the next ten years, Ussachevsky and his collaborators established the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, which Ussachevsky directed for twenty years. It was the first large electronic music center in the United States, thanks to the path-breaking support of the Rockefeller Foundation and encouragement from two of the country's leading universities. The Center became one of the best-known and most prolific sources of electronic music in the world.
All of the music on this historic reissue is the result of the pioneering work of the Center and its composers.
A.Shields - from the attached booklet
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Galina Ustvolskaya - Preludes & Compositions (1994)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 28 Sep 2009 00:18:49 | Comments : 8
Ustvolskaya - Preludes & Compositions

Galina Ustvolskaya - Preludes & Compositions (1994)
Oleg Malov and The St. Petersburg Soloists
Avant-Garde | (flac, cue, log) | rar + 3% recovery record | 182 MB | RS.com
Megadisc MCD 7867 | Artworks & Booklet

“That kind of music escapes from all traditional criteria pertaining to analysis and interpretation.
Ustvolskaya herself claimed it: "I urge everyone who loves my music not to analyze it theoretically"
from the attached booklet
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Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa (1999) by request

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 16 Jul 2009 00:11:58 | Comments : 11
Part_Rasa_Jarvi

Arvo Part: Tabula Rasa (1999)
Gil Shaham & Adele Anthony, violin - Neeme Jarvi, conductor
Avant-Garde | (flac, cue, log) | 7-zip | 305 MB | RS.com
DDG 20/21 CD 457 647-2 | 58:29 | Artworks & Booklet

“The music of Arvo Part contains a message which appeals to the deepest spiritual needs of our time.
Neeme Jarvi
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Omaggio a Franco Donatoni (2008)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 09 Jul 2009 20:59:02 | Comments : 3
Donatoni 2008

Omaggio a Franco Donatoni (2008)
Ensemble Algoritmo . Marco Angius, conductor
Avant-Garde | Digital-radio satellite broadcast rip (flac, cue, no log) | 7-zip | 305 MB | RS.com
RAI 3 broadcast | 70:19 | Theater program

“Who can today, like Franco Donatoni, conciliate the quality of craftsmanship with the originality of a sophisticated imaginary world?
There are not so many composers who forged a so original tool (forma a pannelli), who speech a language so detailed, who created a poetic territory so unmistakable to be immediately recognizable.
Moreover his univers has the gift of making happy perfomers because of his concret, near and evident aspect. The Franco Donatoni's long perseverance seems having brought him toward liberty and, once more, toward spontaneity: happy privilege, if any others may exist, this apparent easiness that gives to others such deep resources stubbornly reached and so seducing!
Every composer might be jealous of this extraordinary ability of realizing illusion.
Pierre Boulez
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Luciano Berio (1925, Oneglia – May 27, 2003, Rome) - Rendering - Stanze (2005)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 27 May 2009 09:31:14 | Comments : 4
Ondine_Berio

Luciano Berio (1925, Oneglia – May 27, 2003, Rome) - In memoriam (2005)
Dietrich Henschel, baritone - Orch. de Paris, Christoph Eschenbach
Avant-Garde | EAC Rip (ape, cue, log) | 7-zip | 270 MB | RS.com
Label: Ondine | Cat. Num.: ODE 1059 | CD 63:39 | Scans (only english pages)

“As in many of his other works, in "Stanze" Berio used the text both comprehensibly and as purely phonetic material. The movements have no titles apart from the name of the poet in question. The first and second movements are performed without a break, likewise the third and fourth.The text appears in its clearest form in the soaring melodies of the baritone soloist, whereas the choir usually only presents scraps of the text to fill out the soundscape. In the first and fourth movements, the vocal part is taken by the baritone alone, while in the others the baritone is joined by three male voice ensembles. The orchestra is also divided into three groups.
We may wonder whether Berio anticipated that Stanze would be his final work. At the very least the work acquires a poignant extra dimension.
Kimmo Korhonen (from the attached booklet)
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Erkki-Sven Tüür (b. 1959) Exodus (2003)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 25 May 2009 06:18:11 | Comments : 8
Tuur Exodus

Erkki-Sven Tüür (b. 1959) Exodus (2003)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra - Paavo Jãrvi, conductor
Avant-Garde | EAC Rip (ape, cue, log) | 7-zip | 296 MB | RS.com
Label: ECM New Series | Cat. Num.: ECM 1830 | 1 CD 61:09 | Artwork Scans

“It's really very interesting to see how things have changed. Of course there are still composers who believe strictly in one dogma or another, but there are many more finding their way, unafraid to use material or methods previously 'locked up' by one school or another,and yet they're not making the mu sic in a post-modern 'anything goes' kind of way-which I particularly dislike.The issue is not so crucial for me now, but you can still see that I'm open for both the Minimalist legacy and the Modernist legacy, only now the elements are not so much separated. I'm trying to make a real synthesis out of it.
Erkki-Sven Tüür from the attached booket
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Musica Futurista (2000)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 13 May 2009 16:16:32 | Comments : 7
futurisMUSIC

futurisMUSIC (2000)
Daniele Lombardi, piano
Classic - Avant-Garde - piano solo | EAC Rip (ape, cue, log) | 7-zip | 325 MB | RS.com
Label: col legno | Cat. Num.: WWE 1CD 20076 | 1 CD 76:44 | Full Scans

“This anthology is a kind of ship's log of my long research, born of a passion for futurism. Now that the twentieth century has become the previous century, the ideas of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti enjoy more than ever a propulsive energy that furthered the many movements throughout Europe that constituted the historical avant-garde.
The pieces that make up this anthology are highly diverse: transgression and contamination, rumorismo (noiseism), hyperexpressive states of the soul, rhythmic heightening, but all of them share a need for modernization, for anticonformity, for courageous experimentation.
Daniele Lombardi from the attached booket
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Erkki-Sven Tüür (b. 1959) Crystallisatio (1996)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 09 May 2009 17:53:04 | Comments : 14
Tuur-Crysta

Erkki-Sven Tüür (b. 1959) Crystallisatio (1996)
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra - Tonu Kaljuste, conductor
Avant-Garde | EAC Rip (ape, cue, log) | 7-zip | 302 MB | RS.com
Label: ECM New Series | Cat. Num.: ECM 1590 | 1 CD 64:14 | Artwork Scans

“...the treatment of the few musical conventions that still prevail provides a measure of the quality of a work of art. If a work is completely devoted to these conventions, it is worthless as a current piece of art; if it ignores them as completely, it is meaningless. Innovation in art has always entailed the gradual modification of existing forms. Erkki-Sven Tuur has absorbed the formal canon of music history, assimilated its needs and significantly enlarged upon them with out forgetting beauty of sound and the serenity of the liturgy: the Glass Bead Game and consolation. In the fine web of his musical imagination he is forever the poet. We all believe that we cannot do without poetry. Even if - like Jean Cocteau - we do not know what it is for.
Wolgang Sandner from the attached booket
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Giulio Castagnoli (b. 1958) Five Pieces (2000)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 03 May 2009 16:17:12 | Comments : 6
Giulio Castagnoli

Giulio Castagnoli (b. 1958) Tre poesie T'ang - Cloches - Fioriture - Doppio quintetto - Costellazioni (2000)
Divertimento Ensemble - Sandro Gorli, conductor
Avant-Garde | EAC Rip (ape, cue, log) | 7-zip | 310 MB | RS.com
Label: Stradivarius | Cat. Num.: STR 33572 | 1 CD 73:04 | Artwork Scans

“Castagnoli has always been receptive to Scelsi's approach to composition and to his art, unlike many others over the years who have shown no interest whatever in Scelsi's music. Common to all five pieces on the present recording is the idea of a natural, organic development of form - the development of a single, complex sound starts from within the sound itself and its duration is stretched out over a far longer period than one would expect. The complexity of this single note and single sound leads the listener to hear the entire work as one sound moving within itself, rather than "going somewhere".
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Giulio Castagnoli was born in Rome into a family of physicists. He attended Turin University where he read classics and archeology. He obtained a degree in music history and diplomas in composition under Gilberto Bosco and in pianoforte with Maria Golia. He went on to complete his musical studies at the Hochschule fur Musik in Freiburg under Brian Ferneyhough (1986) and Franco Donatoni at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome (1987). Since 1984 he has lectured in composition at the Giuseppe Verdi College of Music in Turin and in 1999 was appointed professor at Turin University. He was composer in residence in Berlin, a guest of the DAAD (1998--9).
He worked on music education with Sergio Liberovici whose unfinished opera Malzel he orchestrated with Luciano Berio in 1995. Like Giacinto Scelsi, Castagnoli employs a sophisticated style directed towards timbral inventiveness, and it was to Scelsi that Castagnoli dedicated not only his first orchestral work Klang, but also an analytical essay for the series Quaderni di Musica Nuova which he founded in 1987.
Martin Wilkening from the attached booket
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Luca Francesconi (b. 1956) Etymo - Da Capo - A fuoco - Animus (2008)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 21 Apr 2009 13:01:10 | Comments : 10
Kairos_Francesconi

Luca Francesconi (b. 1956) Etymo - Da Capo - A fuoco - Animus (2008)
IRCAM Ensemble intercontemporain - Susanna Mãlkki, conductor
Avant-Garde | EAC Rip (ape, cue, log) | 7-zip | 290 MB | RS.com
Label: KAIROS | Cat. Num.: 0012712KAI | 1 CD 69:15 | Full Scans

“"Music is seduction": without seeking to reduce the work of Luca Francesconi to a few diminishing maxims, this short thought undeniably expresses one of the important fundamentals of his art of composition. This elliptical formulation is for him the culmination of long reflection in a thought process that continues today. It began during his years of apprenticeship at the Milan Conservatory and was sparked off by a dual reality. On the one hand, the fascination of the Western musical tradition, and not just the works of the masters of the past but also the tools that this tradition produced over the course of the centuries (notably the instruments and, above all and most extraordinarily, the orchestra), and on the other hand, the pleasure of a creative energy free of any constraint, primitive and archaic (in other words non-reflective), which he found while playing rock and jazz.
Robert Coher from the attached booket
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Luigi Nono [1924 1990] - Composizione #1 - Der rote Mantel, ballett [1st Recording] (2004)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 15 Apr 2009 13:11:21 | Comments : 15
Nono_Rote Mantel

Luigi Nono [1924-90]: Composizione #1; Der rote Mantel, ballett [1st Recording] (2004)
Angelika Luz, soprano - Jorg Gottschick, bariton - Peter Hirsch, conductor DSOB
Avant-Garde | EAC Rip (ape, cue, log) | 7-zip | 180 MB | RS.com
Label: Wergo | Cat. Num.: WER 6667-2 | 1 CD 51:11 | Complete Scans

“"Music-life (or life-music, which is the same thing)": thus wrote the young Nono to Karl Amadeus Hartmann in 1953. That same year he wrote to Hermann Scherchen about "the very beautiful reality of our strong unity in life and in music." This desire for unity of art and life, which was still possible - indeed, perhaps necessary - after the war, found an ideal correspondence in Federico Garcia Lorca and his "barraca." It was this simple stage on a truck with which Lorca traveled across the country for a time; he wrote and staged plays for it on behalf of the young Spanish republic.
...in Der rote Mantel the obvious, "audible" political intentions are very much in the background; there are no choral, rhythmic slogans or anything similar. Nono's ballet on the "erotic hallelujah" is rather a bizarre kind of chamber play that seeks intensifications of Garcia Lorca's intangible, poetic images. And yet at the same time, of course, it is an homage to Garcia Lorca, who was murdered by the Falangists.
Peter Hirsch from the attached booket
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