Georges Aperghis

Very rare massive 5LP box set on EMI/Odeon from 1973 documenting Athens' live avant-garde music festivals from 1966 to 1971 with spectacular experimental music for orchestra, ensemble or tape/electronics by the most prominent Greek composers of that period. Unvaluable document never re-issued on either vinyl or CD. No inserts (photocopies of the English translations are included).

Georges Aperghis is probably still not much associated, by the public that internationally attends performances of his works, with music for solo piano. Music-theatre – of an uncommonly original kind, with extended vocal techniques much to the fore – has usually been his stamping ground. The concerns that his operas and other music-theatre compositions have embraced – often focusing around a highly individual approach to words and to all aspects of language, developed with great musical sophisti…

A songbird that stops singing must die. Georges Aperghis demands a similar degree of self-sacrifice of the performer of his 14 Récitation.