Roger Reynolds
Reynolds, a Pulitzer prize-winning American composer, was born in 1934 in Detroit, Michigan. He is known for his capacity to integrate diverse ideas and resources, for the seamless blending of traditional musical sounds and those newly enabled by technology.[1] His work responds to text of poetic (Beckett, Borges, Stevens, Ashbery) or mythological (Aeschylus, Euripides) origins. Roger Reynolds' compositions incorporate elements of theater, digital signal processing, dance, video, and real-time computer spatialization, in a signature multidimensionality of engagement.
IRCAM Les Années 90
Hard-to-find 3CD set released by IRCAM in 1998 with one disc of sound portraits and works by some of its more prominent composers plus two discs of electro-acoustic, mixed and ensemble works from the 1990's. Featuring: Pierre Boulez, Tristan Murail, …
New Music For Piano(s) (LP)
1970 LP on Mainstream with four 1960's avant-garde compositions for piano performed by Yuji Takahashi.
Arditti
1990 release ** "Arditti", presents a typically challenging Arditti programme, beginning with Beethoven's Grosse Fuge (1826), which comes over well from their modernist standpoint. Conlon Nancarrow's String Quartet No. 3 (1987) comes next - Nancarrow…
Three Circuitous Paths
2002 release (RARE) ** Transfigured Wind III (1984) for flute, ensemble, and tape / Ambages (1965) for flute / Mistral (1985) for chamber ensemble. "Pierre Boulez was widely praised as an innovator for his Rèpons when he premiered it at IRCAM in 1981…
Sonor Ensemble
1993 release ** "When the founders of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) set out to develop a Department of Music, they decided to start with composers and leave it to them to attract performers and scholars to an environment that could b…
Electroacoustic Music
This CD presents two of the less often heard, most extreme and hardest to categorize sides of Roger Reynolds. The music for Ivanov is collaborative, utilitarian music for the theater. Versions/Stages is abstract experiment, music inspired by the desi…
Whispers Out Of Time / Transfigured Wind II
If composers born in the 1920s deconstructed the classical tradition and destroyed the foundations of "normal" musical practice, it was left to the '30s generation to build a new universe amid the rubble. No one has participated more assiduously in t…
From Behind The Unreasoning Mask
Clearly influenced by Varese's concept of "pure sound," the four works on From Behind the Unreasoning Mask privilege the exploration of sound as a means of musical expression. In the 1970s, the integration of new vocal and instrumental techniques and…
All Known All White
"My intention … was to explore those situations in which a loss of orientation leads us more deeply into the moment itself. There is a certain aquatic feel to the music, in which the performers are joined with a complex and sonorous fabric of compute…
Process And Passion
This is a recording that explores the "extra"- ordinary potential of the CD not only as a carrier of traditionally recorded instrumental sound (CD 1), but also offering a different view through binaural encoding of the same materials spatialized (CD …
Distant Images
A delicate and mysterious vinyl LP release of two works for chamber ensemble in which Reymolds addresses the dualistic nature of aural perception, approaching the elusive territory between the polarized pair and the unified whole.
Roger Reynolds at 85, Vol II: Piano Etudes
First recording of the twelve Piano Etudes by Roger Reynolds, in two Books written in 2010-11 and 2016-17, played by Eric Huebner. Second of two volumes celebrating the composer at 85.
The imagE - imAge Set
Neuma presents the complete recordings of Roger Reynolds’s "imAgE" series (2007-2015). The series features six pairs of comparatively short, related works that showcase several solo instruments: flute; viola; cello; contrabass; piano; and guitar. Eac…
Roger Reynolds at 85, Vol 1: String Quartets
First recordings of Roger Reynolds's recent string quartets FLiGHT (2012-16) and not forgotten (2007-10), by the JACK Quartet under the composer's supervision. First of two volumes marking his 85th birthday.
Whispers Out Of Time
Three first recordings of orchestral works by Roger Reynolds: Symphony[Myths] with the Tokyo Philharmonic and Kotaro Sato, Whispers Out of Time with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony and Edwin London, and Symphony[Vertigo] with the La Jolla Symphony and…
Epigram And Evolution: Complete Piano Works
Complete piano works by Roger Reynolds on two CDs, from Epigram and Evolution (1960) to The Angel of Death (1998-2001), played by Yuji Takahashi, Eric Huebner and Marilyn Nonken, with new recordings and remastered analog reissues.
Personae - The Vanity of Words - Variation
Neuma Records presents Personae - The Vanity Of Words - Variation by Roger Reynolds. Personae (1990) violin, ensemble, and tape; The Vanity OF Words [Voicespace V] (1986) tape; Variation (1988) piano. Baritone Vocals – Philip Larson. Composed By, Lin…
The Paris Pieces
This is invaluable documentation of the electro-acoustic works of Roger Reynolds. The product of time spent at IRCAM, Pierre Boulez' Paris institute, some of the pieces bear a strong resemblance to "Repons," the highest-profile Boulez composition usi…
Complete Cello Works
Roger Reynolds's complete works for cello, on 2CD and composer supervised, with many first recordings, played by Alexis Descharmes with Ensemble Court-circuit, violin, electronics and piano, and readings by the composer.
Sanctuary
Roger Reynolds's Sanctuary for spatially distributed percussion ensemble and live electronics, presented in three versions on a double DVD: a studio performance, a live performance at the National Gallery of Art and excerpts from the Salk Institute.