Zygmunt Krauze
Aus Aller Welt Stammende / Transfiguration Of The Moon / Hymnkus
** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Zygmunt Krauze: Aus Aller Welt Stammende, Toshi Ichiyanagi: Transfiguration Of The Moon, John Cage: (1912 - 1992) Hymnkus (version for violin). The Krauze was recorded at Hip Pocket Studios, N.Y.C., on Dec. 10 1993. It was mixed in 2005 at SoundByte Productions, Inc., N.Y.C. Produced & Engineered by Paul Zinman. Assistant Engineer: Gerry Volkerz. The Ichiyanagi was recorded at Master Sound, Astoria, N.Y.C., on Feb. 26, 1995. Produced & Engineered by Paul …
Grand Tour
Tilbury left communist Poland in 1964 and his visits grew rare. He got involved with Cornelius Cardew’s Scrath Orchestra and the AMM; later he went on to become known for his performances of Morton Feldman’s compositions. Meanwhile Zygmunt Krauze, aside from his work in the Musical Workshop, grew to be his generation’s leading conceptual composer, mainly thanks to his reception of Wladyslaw Strzeminnski’s unism. The worlds of Krauze and Tilbury were separate, but adjacent.
The Musical Worksh…
Fete galante et pastorale
There were several ‘firsts’ involved in my initial encounter with Zygmunt Krauze’s music: my first visit to Poland (1970), my first ‘Warsaw Autumn’ festival and its first concert (19 September), and the Warsaw premiere of Krauze’s first Piece for Orchestra (1969). The memory has stayed with me ever since, not least because here was a work that was distinctly different from the other new Polish music that had so far filtered westwards. I was familiar with some Lutosławski, Penderecki …
Spatial Music
Władysław Strzemiński's unism as well as functionalism are to be found at the roots of the first sound installation in Poland. Prepared for Galeria Współczesna in Warsaw, it is a piece signed by an architect Teresa Kelm, composer Zygmunt Krauze and sculptor Henryk Morel. "Spatial-Musical Composition" is a follow up of Morel's and Krauze's explorations initiated in 1966 together with Cezary Szubartowski and Grzegorz Kowalski which resulted in an action titled "5x". The sculptural elements of the …