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Music In The Auditorium of Teylers Museum-- Henk Badings: Uit "Reeks Kleine Klankstukken" (1954 for 31-tone Fokker Organ in selected tone systems); Sonata III for 2 violins in the 31-tone system (1967) / Anton de Beer: Instructive Sonatina (1964 for 31-tone Fokker Organ) / Hans Kox: Serenade for 2 violins in the 31-tone system (1968) / Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Paduana Lachrimae (16?? for organ in aeolian tuning system) / Giovanni Battista Vitali: Sonata a tre op.2 nr.6 (1667 for 2 violins and bass accompaniment). Ultra rare private press issued in 1970 by the Huygens-Fokker Foundation Center for Microtonal Music and featuring an amazing unusual instrument. These beautiful alien experimental works incorporate non-traditional tuning systems and were recorded at the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, home of the one-of-a-kind Fokker Organ (built in 1950 by physicist Adriaan Fokker, student of Albert Einstein), which divides the octave into a scale of 31 tones and allows the creation of custom microtonal scales. With Anton de Beer on Fokker Organ, and violin microtonality experts Bouw Lemkes and Jeanne Vos. Highly recommended. |
Stichting Huijgens-Fokker [private pressing, no cat#] |
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Easley Blackwood: Twelve Microtonal Etudes For Electronic Music Media (1980). Private pressing issued by the composer, plunging head-on into the underexplored territory of microtonal scales on 12 electronic tracks, dividing the octave into 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24 equally-divided notes, respectively. Blackwood performs this mostly using a Polyfusion synthesizer. He writes, "the project was to explore the tonal and modal behavior of all the equal tunings of 13 through 24 notes, devise a notation compatible with the chord progressions, and write a composition in each tuning to illustrate the chord progressions and practical application of the notation... these Etudes prove that equal tunings can produce expressively compelling progressions of hitherto alien harmonies and modes..." One of the most unique concept albums ever created, presenting complex, strange, and beautiful atonalities perhaps only hinted of in the work of Blackwood's forebears; highly recommended. |
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Glenn Branca & John Giorno: Who You Staring At? (1982). Split lp of early 80s New York noise by art-rock composer Branca and experimental poet Giorno. Branca's side features music made for the Twyla Tharp-commissioned dance Bad Smells, with a microtuned electric guitar ensemble that includes Sonic Youth members Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo (way before SY became famous) along with Branca, David Rosenbloom, and Ned Sublette. Giorno performs 2 spoken word pieces with a band that includes David Van Tieghem on drums. This album is listed in the Broken Music catalog of artist record works. Missing the original inner sleeve (generic replacement included). |
Giorno Poetry Systems GPS 025 |
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John Cage: Aria (1958 for voice) with Fontana Mix (1958 for magnetic tape) / Luciano Berio+e.e. cummings: Circles (1960 for voice, harp, percussion) / Sylvano Bussotti: Frammento (1959 for voice, piano). Original circa 1960 first stereo pressing. Cathy Berberian performs experimental vocals on each piece, and Berio plays piano on the Bussotti. The Cage track is a simultaneous performance of an electronic work realized at the Milan Studio di Fonologia and a vocal work (suggested by Cage). Part of the Contemporary Sound Series directed by Earle Brown. |
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Songs Cathy Sang-- John Cage: Aria (1948 for voice) / Henri Pousseur: Phonemes pour Cathy (1966 for voice) / Cathy Berberian: Stripsody (1966 for voice) / Luciano Berio: Sequenza III (1966 for voice); Folk Songs (for voice and ensemble). DMM audiophile lp with Linda Hirst performing a choice selection of classic experimental vocal works originally written for the great Cathy Berberian, including Berberian's own composition with a graphic score illustrated by artist Roberto Zamarin (which appears on the front cover). Berio's Folk Songs also features the London Sinfonietta under Diego Masson. |
Virgin Classics VC 7 90704-1 |
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Electronic Music-- John Cage: Fontana Mix (1958 for magnetic tape) / Luciano Berio: Visage (1961 for magnetic tape) / Ilhan Mimaroglu: Agony- Visual Study No. 4 after Arshile Gorky (1965 for magnetic tape). The Cage and Berio were composed at the Milan Studio di Fonologia; Mimaroglu's piece was realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Essential early tape music works, the most important volume in Turnabout's legendary Electronic Music series. |
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John Cage: Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra (1951) / Lukas Foss: Baroque Variations (1967 for orchestra). Yuji Takahashi plays prepared piano (treated with metal, plastic, and wooden objects). With Foss conducting the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Vinyl has some marks/pressing artifacts but nothing feelable. |
Nonesuch H-71202 |
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John Cage assisted by David Tudor: Variations IV Volume II. Second part of this brilliant 1964 electronic performance given at an L.A. art gallery, a realtime sound collage of radio and tv broadcasts, pre-recorded found sounds, and live recordings from microphones placed around and outside of the gallery. |
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John Cage: Radio Music (1956 for radios and electronics); Music For Marcel Duchamp (1947 for piano); Music For Amplified Toy Pianos (1960); 4'33" (1952 for silence/unplayed piano); Sixty-Two Mesostics Re Merce Cunningham [excerpt] (1971 for voice). 1999 audiophile 180g reissue of this classic first release in the legendary Cramps Nova Musicha series, featuring Fluxus/ZAJ artists Juan Hidalgo and Walter Marchetti on keyboards and electronics and Demetrio Stratos (of prog band Area) on voice. |
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George Crumb: Apparition (1979 for soprano and amplified piano) / Charles Ives: Songs (1895-1921 for soprano and piano). with mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani and pianist Gilbert Kalish. Crumb's Apparition uses a poem by Walt Whitman. |
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George Crumb: Madrigals (1969 for soprano, percussion, flute, harp, double-bass). Adapted from poems by Frederico Garcia Lorca, performed by soprano Elizabeth Suderburg and the Contemporary Group, University Of Washington. |
Turnabout TV-S 34523 |
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Michael Czajkowski: People The Sky (1969 for Buchla modular electronic music system). This great experimental electronic work is an obscure recording of early Buchla synth equipment, contemporaneous with the first Buchla experiments by Morton Subotnick for Nonesuch. Realized at NYU's Intermedia Program where both Subotnick and Czajkowski worked. |
Vanguard Cardinal Series VCS 10069 |
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Mario Davidovsky: Synchronism 3 for Cello and Electronic Sounds (1965) / Max Schubel: Omphaloskepsis for Unaccompanied Cello (1964) / Robert Dennis: Improvisation And Variations for Cello And Piano (1962) / Meyer Kupferman: Evocation for Cello and Piano (1951) / Vincent Persichetti: Sonata For Solo Cello (1952). Early release on the great Opus One label with David Moore (cello) and Andrew Thomas (piano). The electronic portion of Davidovsky's composition was realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Also features a composition by Robert Dennis of the psych-improv group The Open Window. |
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John Eaton: Microtonal Fantasy (1965 for 2 quarter tone pianos); Piece for Solo Syn-Ket No.3 (1966?); Prelude to "Myshkin" (196?); Songs for R.P.B. (1965 for soprano, piano duet, and Syn-ket). Fantastic experimental works featuring the Syn-Ket, a microtonal electronic instrument invented in 1964 by Paulo Ketoff which the notes call "the first instrument developed for the live performance of electronic music." With Eaton on Syn-Ket and piano, Miciko Hirayama, soprano, and Richard Trythall, piano. |
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John Eaton: Concert Piece for Synket and Symphony Orchestra (1967) / Morton Subotnick: Laminations (196? for orchestra and electronic sounds) / William Bergsma: Violin Concerto (1965). Showcasing the rarely-heard Syn-Ket early synthesizer as well as the Buchla synthesizer. The Subotnick piece is conducted by Lukas Foss. With notes by David Rosenboom and Eaton. |
Turnabout TV-S 34428 |
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Jean Guillou: Visions Cosmiques (196?). Original reflective metallic cover issue of these space-themed experimental organ improvisations performed on the Grandes Orgues de Saint-Eustache a Paris and dedicated to the Apollo 8 mission. Guillou aggressively probes the organ to yield some fascinating noises and textures. |
Philips prospective 21e siecle 836.890 DSY |
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Daniel Gutwein: New Music For The Synclavier II Digital Music System-- Prelude To Act I (1984 for Synclavier II); Kidsromp Fantasia (1985 for Synclavier II). Mega-rare audiophile electronic lp put out by the great Colorado-based label best known for their Tod Dockstader releases. This fantastic album contains probably the most wacked-out experimental sounds ever coaxed out of the legendary Synclavier synth (designed by Jon Appleton and famously used by Frank Zappa, Laurie Anderson, Michael Jackson, Depeche Mode, Hollywood sound designers, etc.). These works were inspired by the Rosenberg espionage trial and incorporate some amazing stereophonic/spatial experiments, "percussive-motoric backgrounds," "a stammering duet between microtonal toy pianos accompanied by the swirling sounds of water droplets and moaning humanoids," "occultist chants," "16 water glasses transformed via digital sampling and resynthesis into an infinitely modulating accompaniment," "a high speed 16-voice fugue played by cowbells," digitally processed excerpts of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's letters and the judge's sentencing speech, and other wonderful electro-madness facilitated by the Synclavier's then-unique capabilities of mixing sampled and synthesized sounds in realtime. |
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Lejaren Hiller: Algorithms I Versions I & IV (1968 for flute, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, harp, percussion, violin, contrabass, and tape) / Elliott Schwartz: Signals (1968 for trombone and contrabass) / Lukas Foss: Paradigm (1968 for guitar, percussionist/conductor, violin, cello, and electronics). Hiller's piece was composed on an IBM 7094 computer using complex randomization algorithms and incorporates "stochastic music," serialist methods, and an electronic tape part realized on an Illiac II; performers include Petr Kotik on flute. In the Foss work, each instrumentalist also is assigned words to speak, whisper, or shout; performers include Jan Williams as percussionist-conductor, Stephen Bell on guitar, and George Ritscher on electronics. Schwartz' composition has performers playing on multiple instruments simultaneously as well multiple performers playing on a single instrument simultaneously; it features James Fulkerson on trombone and Nicholas Molfese on contrabass. |
Deutsche Grammophon Avant Garde 2561 042 |
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Heinz Holliger: Siebengesang (1967 for electronically processed oboe, orchestra, and singers); Der magische Tanzer (1965 music theater piece). Siebengesang features Holliger performing on an electronically treated oboe (yielding a fantastic array of unusual sounds), the Schola Cantorum Stuttgart under Clytus Gottwald, and the Basler Sinfonie-Orchester conducted by Francis Travis, and incorporates a poem by Georg Trakl. Der magische Tanzer is a wild experimental music theater work based on a text by Nelly Sachs involving mimes, marionettes with built-in tape players, and a special layout of loudspeakers spread throughout the audience; it features vocalists Dorothy Dorow, Eva Gilhofer, Philip Langridge, and Hans Riediker, the Basler Instrumentalensemble, Mitglieder der Schola cantorum Stuttgart, Chor der Basler Theater, and Basler Sinfonie-Orchester conducted by Hans Zender. Rare 1971 limited edition Japanese audiophile issue, hand-numbered "253/500", with OBI. |
Deutsche Grammophon MG 2465 |
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musiques pour deux guitares-- Andre Jolivet: Serenade (1956) / John W. Duarte: Six Friendships (1967) / Daniel-Lesur: Elegie (1956) / Pierre Petit: Tarentelle (1965) / Leo Brouwer: Four Micro-Piezas (1957) / Ida Presti: Danse d'Avila. Modern and avant garde guitar compositions performed by Ako Ito and Henri Dorigny. |
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Mauricio Kagel: Ludwig Van (1970 for pianos, violins, viola, cello, bass voice, baritone voice, and electronics). Experimental "meta-collage" piece, using atonally juxtaposed, rearranged and modified fragments of Beethoven's chamber music as source material for controlled improvisations. Kagel serves as 'sound director,' using unusual mic placement, minimal electronic filtering, and spatial/stereophonic mixing effects; other performers include Frederic Rzewski, Siegfried Palm, Bruno Canino, and Saschko Gawriloff. |
Deutsche Grammophon 2530 014 |
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Roland Kayn: Cybernetics III (1969 for electronics) / Luigi Nono: Contrappunto dialettico alla mente (1968 for electronic tape). 2 awesome sidelong experimental electronic works realized with the assistance of Marino Zuccheri at the Milan Studio di Fonologia. The Kayn piece is an early example of his Cybernetic Music, "in which complex networks of electronic devices follow the composer's instructions in the form of a system of signals and commands," while the Nono work combines electronic tone generators, concrete sound sources, and processed vocals into a single epic tape composition made in response to the assassination of Malcolm X and American aggression in Vietnam.
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Gottfried Michael Koenig: Terminus II (1967 for electronic tape); Funktion Grun (1967 for electronic tape) / Zoltan Pongracz: Phonothese (1966 for electronic tape) / Rainer Riehn: Chants de Maldoror (1965-69 for electronic tape). Fantastic early electronic and computer works realized under the creative direction of Koenig at the Instituut Voor Sonologie van de Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht Studio Voor Elektronische Muziek in the Netherlands. |
Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft Avant Garde 137 011 |
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Jacques Lasry: Chronophagie - "The Time Eaters" - The hypnotic music of sculptures that sound (196?). Fantastic Indian-influenced psych-drone pieces performed on the Structures Sonores sound sculptures of Bernard and Francois Baschet. The composer is joined by son Teddy Lasry (member of French prog band Magma) on flute and bass violin, Jean Guerin on tabla, and Aude Cornillac on occasional wordless vocals. |
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Maurice Ohana: 4 etudes choreographiques (1963 for percussion) / Miloslav Kabelac: 8 inventions (1965 for percussion). With The Percussions Of Strasbourg playing over 140 instruments to create amazingly dense mechanical soundscapes. Ohana's work attempts to mimic the sounds of a confused crowd; the Kabelac piece pairs tuned mallet instruments with a variety of Asian bells and gongs. |
Limelight LS 86051 |
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Harry Partch: 5 Li Po Songs (1933 for unique instruments and intoning voice); 4 Songs From Eleven Intrusions (1950 for unique instruments and intoning voices); The Dreamer That Remains (1972 for unique instruments, narrating/intoning voices, and chorus) / John Cage: Music of Changes Books III & IV (1951 for piano). Partch's works are performed on his unique microtonal instruments/sound sculptures by an ensemble that includes Partch, Ben Johnston, and jazz vibist Emil Richards; The Dreamer That Remains was Partch's last composition. The Cage piece is performed by David Tudor, and represents the previously unreleased first recording of Books III & IV. With cover art by Cage, notes by Johnston. |
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The World Of Harry Partch: Daphne of the Dunes (1967); Barstow - 8 hitchhiker inscriptions from a highway railing (1941/67); Castor & Pollux - a dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini (1952). Performed by Partch and his ensemble on his unique microtonal instruments/sound sculptures. Features jazz vibist Emil Richards, avant-improv percussionist Michael Ranta, and conductor Danlee Mitchell. 1970s pressing.
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Columbia Music Of Our Time MS 7207 |
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Krzysztof Penderecki: Utrenja (1971 for solo voices, boys choir, 2 mixed choirs, and large orchestra). 2lp box with thick insert booklet, Holland press, promo copy. Experimental choral work exploring the extreme registers of the human voice's capabilities, from the highest shrieks to the deepest bass notes, incorporating chance methods, a large array of eastern percussion devices paired with traditional western instruments, and a highly complex sectioning of the choirs into dozens of parts. Andrzej Markowski conducts the Chorus & Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic, Warsaw, with choirmaster Jozef Bok. |
Philips 6700 065 |
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Henri Pousseur + Michel Butor: Jeu de Miroirs de Votre Faust (1968 for electronics, voices, and piano) / Pierre Bartholomee: Le Tombeau de Marin Marais (for violin, basses, harpsichord). The amazing collaboration between composer Pousseur and author Butor is an experimental Faustian opera that incorporates tape-manipulated vocals and other electronic sounds (realized at the Studios de musique electronique de Gand et Bruxelles) and a variable 'game' plot with audience participation. Performers include Cathy Berberian, Butor, and Pousseur on voice and Marcelle Mercenier on piano. Bartholomee's work uses microtonal pitch intervals and is performed by the Ensemble Alarius de Bruxelles. Includes inserts with Butor's libretto (in French) and notes by Butor and Pousseur on both pieces (in German).
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J. K. Randall: Music For The Film "Eakins" (1972 electronic tape) / Robert Ceely: Elegia (1964 electronic tape); Mitsyn Music (1971 electronic tape) / Alfredo Del Monaco: Electronic Study No.2 (1970); Metagrama (1970 for tape-manipulated voice). Excellent electronic music from some undeservedly lesser-known pioneers. Ceely's Elegia is a gem from the legendary Milan Studio di Fonologia and was composed for JFK, while his Mitsyn Music was realized on the MITSYN computer sound synthesis system at MIT and further processed at his own BEEP studio. Randall's sidelong computer-synthesized film score was made for a documentary about the painter Thomas Eakins and was realized at the Princeton University Computer Center. Del Monaco's works were made at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center; Electronic Study #2 was created entirely out of tape-manipulated sine, square, pulse, and white noise generators, and Metagrama is a text-sound work that chops up and processes the voice of Venezuelan dancer Sonia Sanoja reading a poem by Alfredo Silva Estrada. |
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Computer Music-- J. K. Randall: Quartets In Pairs (1964); Quartersines (1969); Mudgett- Monologues by a Mass Murderer (1965) / Barry Vercoe: Synthesism (196x) / Charles Dodge: Changes (1970). Realized at the computer centers of Columbia, Princeton, and Bell Telephone Laboratories, using the ancient sound synthesis computer programs Music IV by Max V. Mathews, Music IVB by Hubert Howe, and Vercoe's own IBM Music 360. Vercoe's piece incorporates an equal tempered, 16-note-to-the-octave microtonal scale.
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Group 180 II-- Steve Reich: Piano Phase (1967 for 2 pianos); Octet (1979, arr. by Tibor Szemzo) / Bela Farago: Death of the Spider+Epitaph (1983) / Andras Soos: A Duet on a poem by Robert Burns (1985). Rare sealed copy of the 2nd volume of minimalist works recorded by Group 180. Reich's classic Piano Phase was his first non-electronic study in phase shifting, using subtle variations in repeated patterns to create complex polyrhythms and interrelationships. The Reich pieces were recorded under the composer's supervision and include a new arrangement for Octet. Andras Soos conducts. Includes insert with notes by Reich.
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Oskar Sala: Five Improvisations On Magnetic Tape (196?) / Remi Gassman: Electronic Music to the ballet Electronics (1961). 1970 reissue of these pioneering experimental works from the early 1960s performed by Sala on the Trautonium early electronic microtonal keyboard instrument. Sala's own compositions are a set of brief studies ranging from atmospheric drones and melodies to rhythmic, percussive ditties betraying a sort of demented pop/jazz influence, all beautifully drenched in noise and reverb. Gassman's sidelong piece is larger in scope and was made to accompany a performance by the New York City Ballet under George Balanchine. |
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Ravi Shankar: Transmigration Macabre. Indian free improv featuring the Lasry-Baschet Structures Sonores metal and glass sound sculptures, recorded for the soundtrack of British experimental film Viola (by Dunstan Pereira and Richard Davis). With Shankar, Alla Rakha, and Kamala Chakravarti performing on sitar and tabla and making heavy use of the percussive tuned sculptures. |
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Karlheinz Stockhausen: Kurzwellen ("Short Wave," 1968 for improvising electroacoustic ensemble); Setz die Segel zur Sonne ("Set Sail for the Sun," 1968 for improvising electroacoustic ensemble). Players on varying combos of Buchla synthesizer, tam-tam, piano, alto saxophone, radio, percussion, and alto and soprano recorders react to each other and interpret the score spontaneously while 2 other players filter and mix the output. This lp is especially noteworthy in that unlike most Stockhausen recordings, this one does not involve the composer's infamously iron-fisted 'supervisory' grip. Both pieces are performed by The Negative Band live at a 1974 LA concert. Released on the great label run by Ilhan Mimaroglu. |
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Karlheinz Stockhausen: Number 5 Zeitmasse (1956 for 5 Woodwinds) / Pierre Boulez: Le Marteau Sans Maitre (1957). An early Stockhausen beauty based on his concept of "relative rhythm" (tempo relative to the lung capacity and playing ability of each musician) along with Boulez' first famous piece, incorporating a Rene Char poem. With conductor Robert Craft, violist Milton Thomas, and vibraphonist William Kraft. |
Odyssey Music of Our Time 32 16 0154 |
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Morton Subotnick: 4 Butterflies (1974 for Buchla Electric Music Box). Rarely seen audiophile SQ Quadraphonic issue. Here Subotnick continues to explore the outer limits of his custom-built Buchla Electric Music Box system for creating brilliant microtonal drones and abstract electronic madness. Moments of synthetic tribal percussion freak outs morph into eery wind-like atmospheric howls in this piece patterned after the life cycle of the butterfly.
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Morton Subotnick: A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur (1978 for Buchla Synthesizer); After the Butterfly (1979 for trumpet solo, cellos, clarinets, trombones, percussion, and live electronics). Pair of later works by Subotnick, both involving electronics and just as experimental as his classic 60s pieces. Subotnick describes the purely electronic work A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur as "a dancelike, synthesized metallic drum music." In After The Butterfly, the live trumpet playing is processed through Subotnick's custom "ghost electronics" system involving filters, synthesizers, and a prerecorded tape. The performers are Mario Guarneri, trumpet, and the Twentieth Century Players. |
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Bertram Turetzky: New Music For Contrabass-- Turetzky: Gamelan Music (1974 for 2 contrabasses) / Charles Mingus: Goodbye, Porkpie Hat (for bass) / Boguslaw Schaffer: Free Form No.2 Evocazioni (1974 for contrabass); Project (1970 for contrabass and electronic tape) / Donald Erb: Trio For Two (1968 for contrabass, alto flute, and timpani) / Joseph Julian: Akasha (1972 for contrabass and electronic tape). Rare still-sealed copy of this fantastic experimental bass showcase by Turetzky including 2 electronic works. Schaeffer's musique concrete tape was realized at the Warsaw Electronic Music Studio. Turetzky's own unique piece uses 2 contrabasses played solely as percussion devices. Released on the great label run by Ilhan Mimaroglu. |
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Vladimir Ussachevsky: Divertimento 1980-1981 (for Electronic Valve Instrument, tape, & chamber orchestra) / Lou Harrison: At The Tomb Of Charles Ives (1963 for chamber orchestra) / John Cage+Henry Cowell+Lou Harrison+Virgil Thomson: Party Pieces (1945) / Leo Smit: Academic Graffiti (1962 for voice, percussion, and instruments). White label promo of this scarce 1983 lp with rarely-performed experimental compositions played by the Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lukas Foss. The Ussachevsky piece was one of his final electronic works and incorporates the unusual sounds of the Electronic Valve Instrument played by its inventor, Nyle Steiner. Party Pieces represents a unique collaboration between America's brightest avant garde composers of New York in the 1940s, the result of a surreal party game in which each composer would write a few notes of music and then pass it around (mostly done at Lou Harrison's loft in Greenwich Village). Harrison's tribute to Ives is based around a Mongolian folk tune, and Smit's piece uses texts from W.H. Auden and Mallarme. With Smit on piano and Carol Plantamura, soprano. |
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Stefan Wolpe: Piece For Solo Trumpet And Seven Instruments (1971) / Paul Chihara: The Beauty Of The Rose Is In Its Passing (1976 for solo bassoon, 2 horns, harp, and percussion) / Paul Hindemith: Concerto For Trumpet, Bassoon and String Orchestra (1949). Modern and avant garde trumpet- and bassoon-centered works performed by Mario Guarneri, trumpet, David Breidenthal, bassoon, and William Kraft conducting the Los Angeles Group For Contemporary Music. |
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Charles Wuorinen: Ringing Changes for Percussion Ensemble (1970); Chamber Concerto for Cello & 10 Players (1963). With the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble (director Raymond DesRoches) and the Group for Contemporary Music (which Wuorinen founded) featuring Harvey Sollberger, flute, Fred Sherry, cello, and Alvin Brehm, double-bass. Both are conducted by the composer. |
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Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Tratto (1966 for electronic sounds in the form of a choreographic study); "Die Befristeten" Ode to Eleutheria in the form of Death Dances (1967 for jazz quintet); "Die Soldaten" Jazz Episode Act II Scene 2 (1965 for jazz quintet). Rare lp with a fantastic early electronic work, and also featuring some of the earliest recordings by German free jazz leader Manfred Schoof's Quintet. Tratto is a complexly layered montage of purely electronic tones dedicated to Herbert Eimert and realized at the Studio fur elektronische Musik der Hochschule fur Musik Koln. The other 2 works are experimental jazz pieces with controlled frameworks for free improvisation, performed by Schoof (cornet), Gerd Dudek (clarinet and saxophones), Alexander von Schlippenbach (piano and piano strings), Buschi Niebergall (contrabass), and Jackie Liebezeit (percussion) working off of Zimmermann's graphic scores and improvisation charts. Missing insert. |
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| Ruby Braff & George Barnes Quartet: Salutes Rodgers And Hart. 1975 lp featuring George Barnes (guitar), Ruby Braff (trumpet, cornet), Michael Moore (bass), Wayne Wright (rhythm guitar). |
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| Eddie Condon and His Orchestra with All-Star Personnels: Jazz Concert At Eddie Condon's. Original 1950 10" with live recordings from Condon's New York club, with the guitarist accompanying Bobby Hackett (trumpet), Billy Butterfield (trumpet), Max Kaminsky (trumpet), Pee Wee Russell (clarinet), Jack Teagarden (trombone, vocal), Ernie Caceres (baritone sax), Gene Schroeder (piano), Bob Haggart (bass), George Wettling (drums), [Wild] Bill Davison (trumpet), Tony Parenti (clarinet), Brad Gowans (trombone), Jack Lesberg (bass), Dave Tough (drums), Joe Dixon (clarinet), Bud Freeman (tenor sax), Joe Bushkin (piano), Fred Ohms (trombone), and James P. Johnson (piano). |
Decca DL 5218 |
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| Graham Central Station: [S/T]. Original pressing of this funk band's debut, sampled by Lench Mob, Das EFX, and KAM.
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Warner Bros BS 2763 |
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| Scott Joplin: The Red Back Book. 33rpm issue, with bonus tracks not found on 45rpm version. Gunther Schuller conducts the New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble. |
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| Ernesto Lecuona: Plays For Two. 1955 lp by this Cuban pianist. |
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| Carmen McRae: Mad About The Man - The Songs Of Noel Coward. With Barry Galbraith, Ray Bryant, Jim Cleveland, others.
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Stanyan SR 10115 |
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3.00 |
| Carmen McRae: Bittersweet. With Norman Simmons, Victor Sproles, Curtis Boyd, and Mundell Lowe.
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Focus 334 |
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2.00 |
| Sergio Mendes & Brazil '77: Love Music. 2 small scratches on side 1 cause a few light ticks. |
Bell 1119 |
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2.00 |
| Joni Mitchell: Hejira. With Jaco Pastorius, Victor Feldman, and Neal Young.
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Asylum 7E-1087 |
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3.00 |
| Milton Nascimento: Yauarete. Bossa jazz lp with Brazilian and American musicians featuring Wagner Tiso, Robertinho Silva, Uakti, Paul Simon, Herbie Hancock, Don Grusin, Eric Gale, Alex Acuna, Wayne Shorter, and Quincy Jones. Pressing imperfection on lead-in groove causes surface noise during opening seconds on both sides, but otherwise flawless. |
Columbia FC 44277 |
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2.50 |
| James Newton: Luella. 1984 avant-leaning lp featuring Newton on flute leading violinists John Blake and Gayle Dixon, cellist Abdul Wadud, vibraphonist Jay Hoggard, pianist Kenny Kirkland, bassist Cecil McBee, and drummer Billy Hart. |
Gramavision GR 8304 |
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8.00 |
| Red Norvo: At The Xylophone With Orchestra. Original 1949 3x10" 78rpm set with the xylophonist backed by woodwinds playing Johnny Thompson arrangements of "Twelfth Street Rag," "Band In Boston," "I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance," "Take The Red Car," "El Rojo," and "Summer Night." |
Capitol CC 125 |
all ex |
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9.50 |
| Andre Previn: Plays. Original pressing of this rare 1950s lp by the pianist, composer, and conductor better known for his work in the classical realm. Previn plays 8 Fats Waller tunes accompanied by Buddy Clark (bass) and Shelly Manne (drums). |
Strand SL 1074 |
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5.00 |
| Flora Purim: 500 Miles High At Montreux. Brazilian jazz-funk-fusion sampled by Cypress Hill/DJ Muggs, with Airto, Ron Carter, David Amaro, Pat Rebillot, Wagner Tiso, Roberto Silva, and on one track Milton Nascimento. |
Milestone M-9070 |
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2.50 |
| Emil Richards & the Microtonal Blues Band: Spirit Of 1976 - Live At Donte's (1970). Great lp of adventurous, percussion-heavy, Indian-influenced jazz-psych that incorporates microtonal scales and unusual time signatures. With Richards (vibes, electric vibes, octave marimba, plastic tubes, circular saw blades, stainless steel bowls, tuned saki bottles, and other percussion), Dave Mackay (piano and percussion), Ray Neapolitan (bass and fender bass), Joe Porcaro (drums), and Mark Stevens (percussion). |
Impulse! AS-9182 |
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34.00 |
| Shorty Rogers + Bud Shank with Vic Lewis And His Big Band: Back Again. 1984 reunion of big band era old timers performing new compositions by Rogers and Bill Holman. Also features John Critcherson on piano, Ron Matthewson on bass, and Kenny Clare on drums. |
Choice CRS6829 |
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3.00 |
| The San Francisco Marching, Trotting, and Walking Band: The Good Old Days - 32 All Time Greats. Rare original red vinyl with old time jazz led by banjoist Paul Miller and featuring Bob Will, Harold Zollman, John Derning, Jack Lewerke, Al Hirsch, Al Bramy, Tony Valerio, Is Nathan, and Sandy Beck. With notes by Ralph J. Gleason. |
Fantasy 3265 |
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7.00 |
| Jack Sheldon Quartet: Stand By For. Featuring Jack Sheldon (trumpet, vocals), Ross Tompkins (piano), Ray Brown (bass), Jake Hanna (drums).
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Concord Jazz CJ-229 |
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3.00 |
| Andy Simpkins Quintet: Summer Strut. Hard to find first album as a leader by this bassist and member of The Three Sounds, also featuring Mike Wofford (piano), Harold Jones (drums), Kevin Quail (trombone), and Herman Riley (sax).
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Discovery DS-892 |
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4.00 |
| Jimmy Smith: Any Number Can Win. Original 1963 mono pressing. Hammond organ-centered big band hard bop with arrangements by Claus Ogerman and Billy Byers, featuring Jimmy Smith on organ, Kenny Burrell on guitar, Kai Winding on trombone, Phil Woods on sax.
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Verve V-8552 |
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3.00 |
| Dick Stabile: At The Statler. Rare 50s big band jazz lp. |
Tops L1590 |
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4.00 |
| Sylvia Syms: She Loves To Hear The Music. Rare white label promo. Featuring Patti Austin (backing vocals throughout the album), Peter Frampton, Ron Carter, Joe Beck, Gene Bertoncini, Michael Brecker, Eddie Daniels, Joe Farrell, Urbie Green, and Don Sebesky.
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A & M SP-4696 |
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5.00 |
| Toots Thielemans: Contrasts. Original 1966 stereo pressing with Thielemans playing guitar, harmonica, and whistle on Don Sebesky and Jack Andrews arrangements. Other personnel include Phil Bodner (clarinet, flute, bass clarinet), Al Casamenti (guitar), George Duvivier (bass), Phil Kraus (vibraphone), Bucky Pizzarelli (guitar), and Ed Shaughnessy (drums).
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Command RS 906 SD |
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4.00 |
| Lucky Thompson: Dancing Sunbeam. White label promo double album from 1975 issuing recordings from 1956 featuring Thompson with Jimmy Cleveland, Hank Jones, Oscar Pettiford, Osie Johnson, Skeeter Best, and Don Abney. |
ABC Impulse ASH-9307-2 |
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7.00 |
| Grover Washington, Jr.: Live At The Bijou. Funk double album sampled by GangStarr/DJ Premier a couple of times, also by Das EFX and Lootpack. Featuring John Blake, Tyrone Brown, Leslie Burrs, Leonard Gibbs, James Simmons, Richard Steacker, and Millard Vinson.
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Kudu KUX 3637 M2 |
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6.00 |
| Grover Washington, Jr.: Reed Seed. Funk fusion with breaks sampled by A Tribe Called Quest ("Push it Along"), Original Flavor, King T, and Siah & Yeshua. The players include Grover Washington, Jr. (flute, saxes), John Blake (synthesizers, violin, vocals), Tyrone Brown (bass), Leonard "Doc" Gibbs (percussion, vocals), Jeanine Otis (vocals), James Sid Simmons (keyboards, clavinet), Richard Lee Steacker (guitar, vocals), Millard Vinson (drums).
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Motown M7-910R1 |
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5.00 |
| Gerald Wilson Orchestra: The Golden Sword - Torero Impressions In Jazz. Featuring Roy Ayers on vibes and Laurindo Almeida on guitar. |
Discovery DS-901 |
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3.00 |
| The Paul Winter Sextet: Jazz Meets The Bossa Nova. Columbia Special Products Special Archives Series issue of this 1962 bossa jazz lp. Features Warren Bernhardt, Richard Evans, Harold Jones, Les Rout, and Dick Whitsell. |
Columbia CS 8725 |
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2.50 |
| John Wood + Tony Dumas: Inner Merge. Small label jazz lp with John Wood (piano), Tony Dumas (bass), Ray Pizzi (flute and soprano sax), and Billy Higgins (drums), plus notes by Leonard Feather. |
Strand SL 1074 |
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6.00 |
| LP Title |
Label/Cat# |
Vinyl Condition |
Cover Condition |
| Leonard Bernstein: Ballet from West Side Story; Overture to Candide / Morton Gould: American Salute / Aaron Copeland: Hoe-Down from Rodeo / Scott Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag; The Entertainer / Ferde Grofe: On the Trail from the Grand Canyon Suite. With conductors Maurice Abravanel, Ferde Grofe, Robert Shaw, and Donald Johanos, and pianist Robert Shields on the Joplin pieces. |
Funk & Wagnalls Great Music of Our Time FW 402 |
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| American Song Series Vol. 2: Paul Sperry Sings Romantic American Songs by Paul Bowels / Theodore Chanler / Arthur Farwell / Richard Hundley. With pianist Irman Vallecillo. |
Greg Smith Singers Productions GSS 105 |
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| Harald Genzmer: Organ Concerto (1971) / Flor Peeters: Toccata, Fugue and Hymn for Organ (1935) / Frank Martin: Passacaglia for Organ (1944). Organ-centered works performed by organist Edgar Krapp with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra conducted by Othmar Maga. |
Turnabout TV-S 34627 |
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| Alexander Glazunov: Quartet for Four Saxophones (1932) / Pierre Max Dubois: Quartet For Saxophones (1956) / Eugene Bozza: Andante and Scherzo for Saxophone Quartet (1943). With the Netherlands Saxophone Quartet (Leo Van Oostrum, Ed Boggard, Adri Van Velsen, and Jacques Landa). |
Nonesuch 71410 |
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| Reinhold Gliere: Symphony No. 3, B Minor (Ilya Mourometz). Jacques Rachmilovich conducting the Symphony Orchestra of the Academy of Saint Cecilia, Rome. |
Capitol P8047 |
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| Viktor Kalabis: Piano Trio (1974); Six Two-part Canonic Inventions for Harpsichord (1962); Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord (1967). With the Suk Trio, composer's wife Zuzana Ruzickova on harpsichord, and violinist Josef Suk. |
Supraphon Musica Nova Bohemica 1 11 2170 |
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| Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.1 in D Major. Jascha Horenstein conducts the London Symphony Orchestra. |
Nonesuch H-71240 |
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| Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D ("Titan"). The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Paul Kletzki. |
Angel S 35913 |
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| Gustav Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Soprano; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Baritone; London Symphony Orchestra under George Szell. |
Angel S-36547 |
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| Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major -- Bedachtig; In gemachlicher Bewegung; Ruhevoll (Poco adagio); Sehr behaglich. New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein. |
Columbia ML 5485 |
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| Gustav Mahler: Das Lied Von Der Erde (The Song of the Earth) -- Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde; Der Einsame im Herbst; Von der Jugend; Von der Schonheit; Der Trunkene im Fruhling; Der Abschied. New York Philharmonic under Bruno Walter. |
Columbia Odyssey Y 30043 |
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| Bohuslav Martinu: String Quartet No.6 (1946) / Albert Roussel: String Quartet Op.45 (1932). Performed by the Nocak Quartet. |
Supraphon SUA 50950 |
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| Darius Milhaud: Piano Music-- Saudades do Brazil (1921); Trois Rag-Caprices (1922); Le Printemps (1920). William Bolcom, piano. |
Nonesuch H-71316 |
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| Pehr Henrik Nordgren: Violin Concerto No.3 (1981) / Einar Englund: Concerto per violino ed orchestra (1981). Audiophile DMM pressing of Finnish works. With The Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra conducted by Juha Kangas and The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ulf Soderblom with violinist Kaija Saarikettu as the soloist on both tracks |
Finlandia FAD 343 |
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| Francis Poulenc: Le Bal Masque (1932 for voice, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, piano, violin, cello, percussion) / Maurice Ravel: Chansons Madecasses (1926 for voice, flute, cello, piano) / Gabriel Faure: La Bonne Chanson Op.61 (1894 for voice, violins, cello, double bass, piano). With baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, pianist Wolfgang Sawallisch, and soloists from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. |
HNH 4045 |
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| Gabriel Pierne: Les Enfants A Bethleem (1907 mystery in 2 parts for vocalists, children's choir, and orchestra). "Religious mystery" music theater piece inspired by works of the middle ages and incorporating a poem by Gabriel Nigond. Jacques Jouineau conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique de l'O.R.T.F. with Pierre Fresnay as narrator plus Gerda Hartman, Nicole Leport, Arlette Durigneux, Martine Bernardi, Christiane Chateau, Jean-Jacques Jouineau, and Michel Piquemal. |
Inedits ORTF 995 029 |
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| Francis Poulenc: Concerto For Organ, Strings, And Timpani / Igor Stravinsky: Jeu de Cartes. Boston Symphony Orchestra under Charles Munch with Berj Zamkochian, organist, and Everett Firth, timpanist. |
RCA LM 2567 |
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| George Rochberg: String Quartet No. 3 (1972). With the Concord String Quartet. |
Nonesuch H-71283 |
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| Ned Rorem: Book Of Hours (for flute and harp) / Bohuslav Martinu: Trio (for flute, cello, piano). With Ingrid Dingfelder, flute. Martinu side has some heavy scuffs. |
CRI 362 |
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| Arnold Schoenberg: Gurre Lieder (1911 oratorio for 5 soloists, reciter, chorus & orchestra). Uses text by Danish writer Jens Peter Jacobsen. Rafael Kubelik conducts the Sinfonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks featuring Inge Borkh, Hertha Topper, Keith Engen, Lorenz Fehenberger, Herbert Schachtschneider, and Hans Herbert Fiedler. 2lp box. |
Deutsche Grammophon Geselschaft LPM 19 984/85 |
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| Roger Sessions: The Black Maskers / Roy Harris: Symphony No.3 / William Schuman: American Festival Overture. Walter Hendl conducts the American Recording Society Orchestra. |
American Recording Society ARS 115 |
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| Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto; Humoresques. Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducts the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra. |
Melodiya Angel SR-40020 |
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ex- |
| Igor Stravinsky: Quatre Etudes Pour Orchestre; Suite No. 1 Pour Petit Orchestre; Suite No. 2 Pour Petit Orchestre; Divertimento--Le Baiser de la Fee. Performed by L'Orchestra de la Suisse Romande under Ernest Ansermet. |
London CM 9325 |
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| Mostly French-- Henri Tomasi: Danse Profane; Chant Corse / Emmanuel Chabrier: Larghetto / Luigi Cherubini: Sonata No. 2 / Robert Schumann: Adagio and Allegro, op. 70 / Camille Saint-Saens: Morceau de Concert. Froydis Ree Wekre, horn, and Zita Carno, piano. |
Crystal S377 |
sealed |
nm (sealed) |
| Villa Lobos / E. Granados / A. Barrios / Laurindo Almeida / J. Pernambuca / Bola Sete. Solo Guitar Of Bola Sete: Choros and Preludes. Classical guitar pieces, including a side of Villa Lobos, all performed by Sete. Thin feelable mark causes ticking during one track. |
Fantasy 8369 |
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ex |
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