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Elliott Carter (b. 1908) - The Complete Piano Music (1997)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 15 Jan 2009 18:23:00 | Comments : 3
Carter - Piano

Elliott Carter (b. 1908) - The Complete Piano Music (1997)
Charles Rosen, piano
Contemporary | EAC (ape + cue) | 1CD 56:55 | booklet | 189MB | RS

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Opening with a fleshy, resonant version of "90+," which was nominated for a 1998 Grammy award, this Carter collection is special not only for Charles Rosen's execution but also for the CD-closing conversation between performer and composer. Rosen opens the chat with a demonstration of how harmonic dissonance at once backlights and highlights Carter's famed rhythmic explorations. And Carter tells him, "This is the way we experience many things, the idea that one thing comments on another constantly." That's how Carter's music is, also constantly: frontal harmonic shocks, whether ringing tremulously or jumping in bursts of flash--as in Rosen's read of the Piano Sonata--are in dialogue with silence, rhythmic twists, and plainly beautiful constructions that sound in-process.
On 2008 came out: Oppens Plays Carter, Cedille CDR 90000 108, with piano pieces composed after 1997 (Two Diversions; Retrouvailles; Two Thoughts About the Piano; Matribute): Elliott Carter isn't the easiest composer to love, but he's an important one.		”
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Elliott Carter (b. 1908) - Eight Composition 1948-1993 (1994)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 13 Jan 2009 20:47:00 | Comments : 7
Carter 8 Compositions

Elliott Carter (b. 1908) - Eight Composition 1948-1993 (1994)
The Group for Contemporary Music
Contemporary | EAC (ape + cue) | 1CD 78:39 | booklet | 297MB | RS

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For Elliott Carter, a musical instrument is always an extension of a performer. His writing grows from a detailed understanding of the mechanical and acoustical properties of each instrument, but also out of the way a player breathes and moves. The remarkable performances heard on this recording respond to Carter's imaginative challenges. They make us acutely aware of the sounds of each instrument, the stress of bow against string, breath against reed, and they take these physical facts into the realm of human gesture and emotion. Each work combines these physical and psychological elements in an ever-changing polyphony which often suggests an argument, sometimes between many parties, at other times an internal dialogue. As in real human arguments, the outcome is hard to predict and is rarely conclusive. Many people argue, even with themselves, more through assertion than reason, more through blind opposition than through open dialogue. (As the writer Fran Liebowitz once put it "the opposite of listening is waiting.") It is precisely the cantankerous, messy and explosive aspects of argument that Carter has evoked in his musical polyphony. The pieces on this album illustrate the fertility of this theme for Carter's imagination over the last forty-five years.
from the attached booklet
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Elliott Carter (b. 1908) - The Vocal Works 1975-1981 (1989)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 12 Jan 2009 22:29:00 | Comments : 4
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Elliott Carter (b. 1908) - The Vocal Works 1975-1981 (1989)
Speculum Musicae
Contemporary | EAC (ape + cue) | 1CD 61:33 | booklet | 260MB | RS

“The combination of contemporary music and contemporary poetry ought to create an exciting fusion for a contemporary audience. But we live in an age where neither is valued highly enough individually, and the combination seems even more daunting. But Carters vocal pieces are among his most profoundly complex, subtle, unpredictable emotional adventures. As more performers figure out how to make them work — how to make them "speak," seem "lived through" (which is what has happened with Carter's instrumental music, especially his string quartets) — they too may finally get the audiences they deserve.
from the attached booklet
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Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911-1990) - Electronic and Acoustic Music Music [Re-Upload]

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 04 Jan 2009 10:43:00 | Comments : 5
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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CCMIX - UPIC - Xenakis et al. (2001)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 23 Dec 2008 16:30:00 | Comments : 5
CCMIX

CCMIX - UPIC - Xenakis et al. (2001)
Contemporary | EAC (ape + cue) | 2CD 68:19 - 72:46 | booklet 56 pag. | 7x100+65MB | RS
Electroacoustic & Instrumental Works
“This 2-CD collection documents more than 20 years of works composed on the unique computer music system called UPIC (Unité Polyagogique Informatique), and the evolution of the computer music center founded specifically to promote it - Les Ateliers UPIC, now called CCMIX (Centre de Création Musicale Iannis Xenakis).
The UPIC system was conceived by Iannis Xenakis in the early 1950s; the first version of UPIC was built by Xenakis' research center, the CEMAMu (Centre d'études de Mathématique et Automatique musicales), in the late 1970s, and the system continues to be developed to this day. Instead of a keyboard to perform the music, the UPIC's performance device is a mouse and/or a digital drawing board. These are used to trace the composer's graphic score into the UPIC computer program, which the re-interprets the drawings as real time instructions for sound synthesis - the composition/performance of a graphic musical score and real-time sound synthesis are unified by the UPIC's approach.
Xenakis' Mycenae Alpha, the first work entirely realized on the UPIC, opens the set, which also includes the first issuance of his legendary Polytope de Cluny. In 1980, Julio Estrada composed his one and only UPIC work, eua'on, an experience that resulted in a veritable revolution in the composer's approach. Also included is his large orchestral work eua'on'ome, an orchestral realization of the original UPIC score. In the 1990s, the UPIC system fascinated a whole new generation of composers including Brigitte Robindoré, Takehito Shimazu, Nicola Cisternino and Gerard Pape (CCMIX's director). Jean-Claude Risset and Daniel Teruggi, coming, respectively, from the direct computer music synthesis, and the "acousmatic" approaches, also found ways to make the UPIC system their own in the 1990s.
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Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) - Electronic Music (1997)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 09 Dec 2008 09:07:00 | Comments : 15
Xenakis - Electronic Music

Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) - Electronic Music (1997)
Contemporary | EAC (ape + cue) | 1CD 66:59 | booklet | 3x100+91MB | RS
Electronic Music Foundation
An all time hit in the music of our time and, for the first time on the web, in flac!
noel
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Bruno Maderna - Electronic Music (1994)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 03 Dec 2008 21:04:00 | Comments : 3
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Bruno Maderna - Electronic Music (1994)
Cathy Berberin, voice - Renato Rivolta, flute
Contemporary | EAC (ape + cue) | 1CD 74:52 | booklet | 261MB | RS

“ In the course of a conference held at Darmstadt in 1957, Maderna spoke of his compositional experiences in the field of electronic music in the following terms: "My Introduction to electronic music totally upset my relationship with musical materials. (...) Whereas instrumental composition is preceded In most cases Py a linear development of thought (...), the fact that in electronic music one can try out directly various possible sound structures, and manipulate these ad infinitum to obtain new musical Images, and lastly, the fact that the composer can store away a vast amount of unfinished material, puts the composer in a completely novel position.
Bruno Maderna
All the pieces In this CD were restored and digitally remastered In the winter of 1993 in Milan by AGON - acustica informatica musica, using the original tapes preserved in the archives of the Studio di Fonologia of the RAI in Milan.
from the attached booklet
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Archives GRM [Groupe de Recherches Musicales] (2005)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 27 Nov 2008 23:33:00 | Comments : 13
GRM archives

Archives GRM [Groupe de Recherches Musicales] (2005)
Contemporary | EAC (ape + cue) | 5CD 72:23-65:56-61:05-60:46-57:19 | booklets | 1.659MB

“To mark and celebrate the thirty years of the INA (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel), the GRM (Groupe des Recheches Musicales) has chosen to bring together an exceptional set of five compact discs, illustrating some of its most remarkable musical archives. These original works, which are often previously unpublished or have been dispersed throughout a host of other publications, are important because of the originality and audacity they testify to in the second half of the 20° century. Some listeners will be pleased to see that there are a number of illustrious composers here who, in the 1950s, frequented the studio of Pierre Schaeffer, and others will discover numerous musicians whose enthusiasm enabled this innovative musical genre to last throughout the following decades.
Emmanuel Hoog, président directeur générale de l'Ina
from the attached booklet
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50 ans de musique électroacoustique - GRM - Paris 1948-1998 (2001) - by request

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 23 Nov 2008 14:44:00 | Comments : 13

50 ans de musique électroacoustique - GRM - Paris 1948-1998 (2001)
Fondazione Teatro Massimo
Contemporary | EAC (ape + cue) | 2CD 72:23-72:31 | booklet + some pages of magazine "Avidi Lumi" | 683MB | RS

“It is wonderful to be able to look through time, year by year, and see how one of the most fascinating adventures of twentieth-century music was built up. A technology evolving at high speed, an aesthetic triumphing with composition after composition, and, above all, a will to go ever further in experimentation with and knowledge of sounds and the perception of music.
This, in a few lines, is the content of these 2 CD's. A unique collection of great names of composers, in works that have often become classics in the rich and remarkable world of sounds, over and above notes and instruments.
Daniel Teruggi, Director of Ina-GRM
from the attached booklet
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Sciarrino / Gesualdo / Fedele: Madrigale - fuoco e ghiaccio (Fire & Ice) (2002)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 08 Nov 2008 23:07:00 | Comments : 4
Sciarrino-Fuoco

Sciarrino / Gesualdo / Fedele: Madrigale - fuoco e ghiaccio (Fire & Ice) (2002)
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
Contemporary | EAC (ape + cue) | 1CD 73:45 | booklet | 227MB | RS

“There are greater artists who change the course of history by taking maximum risks (in particular, they find the courage to be themselves) and thus anticipate the authors of the next generation. This group of exceptional people stands out from the mass of authors since they make up a kind of family with very close relations and similar tendencies notwithstanding the centuries separating them. This also holds true for such an artist and refined author as Gesualdo. The cultivated listener feels attracted to him in a special way: a plethora of sound associations with the most modern composers are hurled at him. Gesualdo reveals the extravagance typical of Vivaldi and Domenico Scarlatti, of Schubert and even of later Beethoven, we recognise the scent of late romanticism or french Art Nouveau, the atmosphere of expressionism.
Salvatore Sciarrino
from the attached booklet
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Salvatore Sciarrino: Studi per l'intonazione del mare (Studies for Tuning the Sea) (2000)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 08 Nov 2008 09:21:00 | Comments : 4
Sciarrino-Intonazione

Salvatore Sciarrino: Studi per l'intonazione del mare (2000)
for voice, 4 flute & 4 sax soloist, percussion, 100 flute & 100 sax orchestras; Marco Angius conductor.
first world recording
Contemporary | EAC (ape + cue) | 1CD 39:18 | booklet | 159MB

“This astonishing project originally came about through the Holy Convent of Assisi and its intention to mark two then-imminent events due to take place at the same time: the inauguration of the Upper Basilica, now restored after its collapse In the earthquake of 1997 and the Roman Catholic Jubilee of 2000.
Today, the sense and value of this project are apparent whenever it is performed to mark a celebration and the themes with which it deals come across increasingly strongly. These are travel as an Image of the life of the Individual and of society and solidarity, which is becoming more and more alien to our modern way of life. Excessively so.
The integrating factor in this composition, in much the same fashion as a chorus, is provided by the words of Saint Francis, seeking the stones to restore his church and the work Is based on the infinite call and response between the small and the great. There Is undoubtedly a spectacular side to this composition simply in the number of performers involved. Yet this becomes secondary when the music itself begins to bloom or when the spell is cast of those gigantic natural acoustic phenomena which arise out of the multiplying of the tiniest of sounds. Think of a river, the song of the birds, of the crickets, the hubbub of a market, the hum of the traffic and the pitter-patter of the rain.
To the ears of those who open their consciousness, the desert comes alive: those are the voices of the intelligent silence. Everything is in tune, even what appears too vast and blurred. How can the sea be tuned?....
Salvatore Sciarrino
from the attached booklet
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Lauds and Lamentations - Elliott Carter / Isang Yun (2003)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 04 Nov 2008 18:20:00 | Comments : 11
Carter-Yun

Lauds and Lamentations - Elliott Carter / Isang Yun (2003)
Heinz Holliger, oboe; T. Zehetmair, violin; R. Killius, viola; T. Demenga, violoncello
Contemporary | EAC (ape + cue) | 2CD 46:34 + 33:48 | booklet | 360MB | RS
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Unlike Mozart's Clarinet Quintet (with masterly descendants by Brahms and Reger), Mozart's Oboe Quartet (one of the most distinguished works of oboe literature) remained without successors for over one and a half centuries. ..... So it was only natural that I should ask two of my closest friends to write something for this at once problematic and fascinating formation. Both composers had already made very significant contributions to the oboe literature: Elliott Carter (who, as a student, played the oboe himself) with such works as the Oboe Concerto, the "Trilogy" for Oboe and Harp and the Italian song settings "Tempo e Tempi"; Isang Yun with his Oboe Concerto, the Double Concerto for Oboe and Harp, the Sonata for Oboe, Viola and Harp, the Inventions for Two Oboes and many other works.
Heinz Holliger
from the attached booklet
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Esotérik SATIE - Alessandra Celletti (2000)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 22 Oct 2008 15:54:00 | Comments : 18
Celletti-Esoterik

Esotérik SATIE (2000)
Alessandra Celletti, piano
Contemporary | EAC (ape + cue) | CD 49:54 | booklet | 146MB

“A wonderful gem! This incredibly well put together album is a triumph start to finish. The way in which Celletti interprets and represents the tunes on her sole piano is astonishing; perfectly paced with a beautiful use of dynamics and ordered all together so well it delivers a sensation of euphoria. This is a perfect measured collection of written sound that's delivered through the fingers of a rare artist who has within her that special ingredient needed to be able to release Satie's compositional ideas and make them illuminate the listener's ears. An esotérik talent
Daniel Bristow - Cluas.com
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Cage a Firenze (1992)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 20 Oct 2008 19:21:00 | Comments : 8
Cage-Florence

Cage a Firenze (1992)
G.Cardini, D.Lombardi, p; R.Fabbriciani, fl; S.Scodanibbio, bass; F.Della Monica, voice
Avant-Garde | EAC (ape + cue) | CD 76:02 | Scanned magazine + artworks | 234MB

“The concert dedicated to John Cage's music, performed in his presence and introduced by a brief conversation in public, was organized in the summer of 1992 (21 june) in Florence and obtained an exceptional success. It was really and truly an event because Cage had come to Florence on one previous occasion alone, about midway through the Fifties, on the occasion of a concert in the hall of Leonardo da Vinci Society which the young Luciano Berio took part in, and because the performers was the best ones for Cage's sounds.
A few weeks later (on 14 August), Cage died.
from the magazine Sonora, partially included
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Salvatore Sciarrino: Complete Piano Works (1969-1992) + Quattro Adagi (2008)

Posted By : ooliver | Date : 14 Oct 2008 18:51:00 | Comments : 8
Sciarrino-Damerini

Salvatore Sciarrino: Complete Piano Works (1969-1992) + Quattro Adagi (2008)
Avant-Garde | EAC (APE + CUE) | booklet + artworks | 2x100MB
Massimiliano Damerini, piano

“The development of Salvatore Sciarrino's piano philosophy cannot, of course, be divorced from the development of his musical philosophy as a whole. It is therefore worth remembering that Sclarrino's production of works for solo piano offers reflections of the most stunning, innovative, cultured, magical adventures in contemporary musical creativity.
from the attached CD booklet
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