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condition (record/cover): NM/VG+ (tiny stains on front) Gatefold sleeve with original innersleve. Walter Marchetti (1931-2015), co-founder of the legendary ZAJ collective in Madrid alongside Juan Hidalgo, presents three visionary works bridging concrete music, home-made electronics, and conceptual provocation. J'aimerais jouer avec un piano qui aurait une grosse queue (I would like to play with a piano that has a big tail, 1974-75) is a witty and subversive piano action documented at the Venice …

condition (record/cover): EX/VG+ (light wear) No insert. Roughly and dearly! Giuseppe Morrocchi (b. 1940), enigmatic Italian composer and pianist from San Casciano in Val di Pesa, delivers a striking collection of piano works that balance rawness with tenderness. The album's evocative title – Suonando Rudemente Caramente (Playing Roughly Dearly) – perfectly captures Morrocchi's distinctive aesthetic: a post-modern sensibility that embraces both harsh gesture and lyrical intimacy. Working at the …

condition (record/cover): M/EX Includes 4-page LP-size insert. This essential Deutsche Grammophon release presents two defining works by Luigi Nono (1924-1990), towering figure of post-war Italian modernism. .....sofferte onde serene... (1976), dedicated to Pollini and his wife Marilisa, is a haunting meditation for piano and magnetic tape, recorded at Munich's Herkulessaal. Inspired by the bells of Venice's Giudecca and marked by personal tragedy, the work achieves profound beauty through the d…

condition (record/cover): EX/EX. Luigi Nono's shattering Como una ola de fuerza y luz (1971-72) mourns Luciano Cruz, young leader of Chile's Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), who died tragically at 27. This monumental work for soprano, piano, orchestra, and magnetic tape – dedicated "para vivir" (that he may live) – unleashes waves of orchestral violence, haunting tape interventions, and piercing vocal lines from texts by Argentine poet Julio Huasi. Maurizio Pollini's piano cuts through with ha…

condition (record/cover): M/EX Includes 8-page LP-size insert. Luigi Nono's Das atmende Klarsein (1980-83) inaugurates the composer's final creative phase – a profound turn toward fragility, spatial listening, and live electronics. Composed for bass flute, small choir, and live electronics in intense collaboration with flutist Roberto Fabbriciani at Freiburg's legendary Experimentalstudio of the Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung, this visionary work explores the very limits of perception. Texts drawn fr…

condition (record/cover): NM/EX . Goffredo Petrassi (1904-2003), towering figure of Italian 20th-century composition and teacher of Franco Donatoni, Aldo Clementi e Cornelius Cardew, and Morricone, presents four exquisite works for guitar and chamber ensemble composed between 1959 and 1977. Suoni Notturni (1959), dedicated to painter Afro Basaldella, evokes phantasmagorical nocturnal atmospheres inspired by Basaldella's painting Notturno. Seconda Serenata-Trio (1962) blends guitar with harp and …

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condition (disc/cover): NM/NM . Teresa Procaccini (b. 1934), distinguished composer and longtime professor of composition at Rome's Accademia di Santa Cecilia, presents her percussion works in this focused collection. Winner of the Viotti Competition, Casella Prize, and San Francisco International String Quartet Competition, Procaccini has created a vast catalog of over 150 works blending neoclassical values with bold rhythmic invention inspired by Bartók and Stravinsky. Her percussion writing e…

condition (disc/cover): NM/NM . A prolific composer with over 150 compositions spanning opera, orchestral, chamber, and band music, Procaccini has developed a distinctive voice balancing neoclassical values with modern expression. Trained under Fernando Germani (organ) and Virgilio Mortari (composition), her chamber music showcases sophisticated formal construction, lyrical melodic invention, and rhythmic vitality inspired by Bartók and Stravinsky. These works feature diverse instrumental combin…

condition (disc/cover): NM/NM. Teresa Procaccini (b. 1934) showcases her mastery of concertante writing in this spectacular collection featuring guitar, piano, and orchestra. Performed by the exceptional duo of guitarist Lapo Vannucci and pianist Luca Torrigiani with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra under Nicola Giuliani, the program includes Procaccini's Concerto for Guitar, Piano and Orchestra Op. 246 (2017) – a work of joyful vivaciousness, lyrical intimacy, and elegant wit. The central Andan…

condition (record/cover): VG+ (light surface noise throughout) / EX+ . A pioneering voice in Italian contemporary music! Irma Ravinale (1937-2013), distinguished composer and educator, studied with Goffredo Petrassi at Rome's Conservatory of Santa Cecilia, Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne. This rare LP presents Jointly, a significant work from a composer who bridged Italian tradition with international avant-garde. A member of the International Honour Committee of F…

condition (disc/cover): M/M. Enrico Renna (b. 1952, Salento) is a significant Italian contemporary composer who studied with Umberto Rotondi in Milan and with Luigi Nono. This self-titled CD presents chamber, symphonic, electronic, and theatrical works by a composer whose music has been performed throughout Europe and the United States.

condition (record/cover): M/M (still sealed) Gateford sleeve. Includes 16-page LP-size book. Alberto Savinio (1891-1952), born Andrea Francesco Alberto de Chirico, was the polymorphous younger brother of Giorgio de Chirico – painter, writer, musician, composer, and co-founder of the Scuola Metafisica. This rare Cramps/Multhipla LP (1978) documents the 1976 Milan realization of Les chants de la mi-mort (Songs of the Half-Death), Savinio's 1914 avant-garde operetta originally staged in Apollinaire…

condition (record/cover): NM/EX- Gateford sleeve. Includes 16-page LP-size book. Alberto Savinio (1891-1952), born Andrea Francesco Alberto de Chirico, was the polymorphous younger brother of Giorgio de Chirico – painter, writer, musician, composer, and co-founder of the Scuola Metafisica. This rare Cramps/Multhipla LP (1978) documents the 1976 Milan realization of Les chants de la mi-mort (Songs of the Half-Death), Savinio's 1914 avant-garde operetta originally staged in Apollinaire's Les Soiré…

condition (record/cover): NM/EX Gatefold sleeve.  Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), one of the most enigmatic figures of 20th-century music, presents four essential works exploring his revolutionary approach to sound. Scelsi's radical music focuses on the microtonal universe within single pitches – sound as living, breathing matter rather than melodic material. Quattro Pezzi (su una nota sola) showcases his groundbreaking chamber orchestra aesthetic built on single notes. Pranam II creates ritual int…

condition (record/cover): NM/NM Gatefold sleeve. A profound exploration of sacred music by one of Italy's most enigmatic composers! Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), whose work remained largely unknown until late in his career, created a unique compositional language centered on microtonal explorations and the inner life of single sounds. This rare Fy release presents his sacred works, revealing Scelsi's deeply spiritual approach to composition. Moving beyond traditional harmonic structures, these pi…

condition (record/cover): VG+ (light surface noise) / EX- (small tag on front) Gatefold sleeve. A remarkable collaboration between composer Fernando Sulpizi and virtuoso flutist Roberto Fabbriciani! This release explores contemporary possibilities of the flute through works inspired by Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus. Fabbriciani, one of Italy's leading interpreters of new music and a close collaborator with composers including Luigi Nono, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Sylvano Bussotti, brings his excepti…

condition (record/cover): NM/EX- (very small white tag on front) Distinguished violist Aldo Bennici presents works by five towering figures of the Italian avant-garde: Salvatore Sciarrino, Sylvano Bussotti, Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna, and Franco Donatoni. This collection represents the finest contemporary viola writing from Italy's post-war generation of composers, each exploring the instrument's expressive possibilities through distinctive compositional languages. From Sciarrino's delicate so…

condition (record/cover): VG (record looks near mint but has surface noise throughout) / VG (2" stripe on front + spine wear + minimal ring wear). Distinguished oboist Lothar Faber presents world premiere recordings of works commissioned specifically for him by leading Italian composers and international figures. The program features Francesco Valdambrini's Dioie, Yoritsuné Matsudaira's Somakash, Lawrence Singer's Musica A 2, Giuseppe Sinopoli's Numquid, Bruno Maderna's Aulodia, and Bruno Bartol…

condition (disc/cover): NM/NM A significant release featuring works by composer Luca Mosca (born 1957)! Mosca, who studied with Franco Donatoni at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and later with Gérard Grisey in Paris, developed a distinctive compositional voice that synthesizes Italian post-war modernism with French spectral influences. Contemporary Italian music for piano by: Arduino Gottardo, Bruno Cerchio, Nicloas Bacri, Elisabetta Brusa, Alessandro Lucchetti, Paolo Ugoletti, Riccard…

condition (record/cover): NM/EX A definitive document of contemporary flute repertoire by two legendary Italian interpreters! Severino Gazzelloni (1919-1992), the most celebrated flutist of the post-war avant-garde, collaborated with virtually every major composer of his generation, inspiring countless works and redefining the instrument's possibilities. Joined by pianist Bruno Canino, this recording presents an extraordinary program balancing Italian masters with Japanese composers: Niccolò Cas…

condition (record/cover): VG+ (surface noise) / EX (minimal spine wear) Gatefold sleeve. An essential collaboration between two titans of contemporary music interpretation! Severino Gazzelloni (1919-1992), the legendary Italian flutist who redefined the instrument's possibilities in the post-war avant-garde, joins forces with Aloys Kontarsky (1931-2017), the German pianist renowned for his definitive interpretations of Stockhausen, Boulez, and the European serialist repertoire. This Time Records…

condition (record/cover): VG (record looks near mint but has surface noise throughout) / VG+ (creasing + small tag on front + spine wear + minimal general wear). Italian post-war avant-garde meets the new music pioneers! This rare Italia label release documents the Continuum Ensemble Dortmund under conductor Werner Seiss performing landmark works from the European experimental vanguard. Carlos Roqué Alsina's Funktionen (1965) showcases the Argentine-French composer's work with Luciano Berio and …

condition (record/cover): VG+ (record looks near mint but has some surface noise) / VG+ (small tag on front + light wear) Political consciousness meets avant-garde innovation. This Italian RCA Red Seal release dedicates itself to the victims of Hiroshima through landmark compositions of social protest and sonic experimentation. Bruno Maderna (1920-1973), conductor and co-founder of Milan's Studio di Fonologia, leads the Soloists of the Rome Symphony Orchestra with flutist Severino Gazzelloni in …

condition (record/cover): NM/EX . Contemporary composers reimagine folk traditions. Commissioned by the Festival Musica '900 (Trento) and Incontri Internazionali di Musica Contemporanea (Bolzano), premiered November 14, 1988. Salvatore Sciarrino arranges Ary Barroso's Brazil. Luca Francesconi, Carlo Galante, Claudio Ambrosini, and Andrea Mascagni contribute new works alongside international voices: Betty Olivero (Israel), Zygmunt Krauze (Poland), Walter Zimmermann (Germany), Hubert Stuppner, and…

condition (record/cover): EX- (minimal surface noise) / VG+ (small tag on front + ring wear) Gatefold sleeve.  Italian post-war chamber music at its finest. Marcello Panni conducts the Solisti di Teatromusica, the ensemble he founded in 1971, in essential works by four masters of Italian modernism. Recorded Rome, March 1972. Collana Edizioni Suvini Zerboni. Franco Donatoni's Souvenir (Kammersymphonie, Op.18) showcases his serial period before the compositional crisis of the mid-1960s. Camillo To…

condition (discs/cover): M/EX (still sealed but box has minimal wear) A pioneering voice in Italian experimental music! Daniele Lombardi (1946-2017), distinguished pianist, composer and musicologist, dedicated much of his career to preserving and reinterpreting the revolutionary music of Italian Futurism. This comprehensive 8-CD box set presents a complete survey of his work in this field - from meticulous reconstructions of Luigi Russolo's intonarumori compositions to performances of works by F…

condition (discs/cover): NM/NM Includes 20-page booklet with text in Italian and English.  The sound of the Italian avant-garde 1909-1935! First edition on Multhipla Records, Gianni Sassi's label dedicated to avant-garde music and performance. Music and words from the Italian Futurist movement, featuring original recordings and contemporary performances. Luigi Russolo's Esempi Sonori documents his revolutionary Intonarumori (noise intoners) – mechanical noise-generators that realized his manifes…

condition (record/cover): NM/EX - this album captures world premieres and rare works performed by Gruppo Octandre under Alain Meunier and other distinguished ensembles. The program features Salvatore Sciarrino's Due Nuove Melodie, Andrea Mannucci's Adagio Sostenuto, Franco Donatoni's Françoise Variationen, Maurizio Ferrari's Berceuse, Gilberto Bosco's Aria delle Carte (based on Carmen), and Giacomo Manzoni's Due Sonetti Italiani - a complex choral work from 1961 receiving its belated first perfo…

condition (record/cover): NM/NM Gatefold sleeve. A remarkable tribute to one of Italy's most influential composers! This album honors Goffredo Petrassi (1904-2003) with his own Inno alongside six commissioned works by distinguished international composers: Elliott Carter's Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi, Armando Gentilucci's Metafore del Tempo, Gérard Grisey's Anubis et Nout, Donald Martino's Canzone sul Nome Petrassi, Luis de Pablo's Dos Epigramas de Marcial, Cristóbal Halffter's Dialogo, a…

condition (record/cover): VG (record looks near mint but has surface noise throughout) / EX-  Oversize gatefold sleeve - no magazine. A landmark coupling of two masters of European post-war modernism! Luciano Berio's Circles (1960), one of his most celebrated works, sets texts by e.e. cummings for soprano, harp, and two percussionists - a virtuosic exploration of phonetic and semantic dimensions performed by the incomparable Cathy Berberian, for whom the work was written. Berio's spatial disposi…

condition (record/cover): VG (record looks near mint but has surface noise throughout) / EX-  Oversize gatefold sleeve - no magazine. An important document of Italian post-war modernism from the prestigious educational series! Niccolò Castiglioni (1932-1996), one of Italy's most refined and poetic composers, presents Tropi - a work revealing his characteristic sensitivity to timbre and his ability to merge avant-garde techniques with lyrical impulse. Castiglioni studied with Goffredo Petrassi an…

condition (book): LIKE NEW 27x21cm., full-color 144-page, softbound book. An essential publication documenting the visionary work of pianist, composer and musicologist Daniele Lombardi (1946-2017)! This volume explores Lombardi's ambitious project involving twenty-one pianos - a monumental installation and performance concept that exemplifies his expansive approach to sound, space, and the piano as both instrument and sculptural object. The book examines themes of labyrinth and Babel - metaphors…

Transversales Disques presents Unreleased & Rarities, a revelatory collection spanning 1972-2002 by electronic music pioneer Jean Schwarz - thirty years of secret compositions from one of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) most dedicated yet overlooked figures. Schwarz occupied a unique position in the world of electroacoustic music, serving simultaneously as an engineer at the CNRS in the Ethnomusicology Department of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris and as a core member of the legendary GRM…

Transversales Disques presents Mémoire Magnétique Vol.3, a revelatory collection of short and secret music by electronic music pioneer Bernard Parmegiani, spanning 1967-1971. This third volume offers unprecedented access to unreleased rarities from Parmegiani's personal archives - intimate glimpses into the working methods of one of electronic music's most visionary composers. The late Bernard Parmegiani (1927-2013) stands among the founding fathers of electroacoustic music, a core member of the…

World Of Echo announces the reissue of two remastered albums by Japanese guitarist and songwriter Naoki Zushi, 1988’s Paradise, and 2005’s III. Two classics of Japanese psychedelia, both Paradise and III were originally released on Org Records, the imprint of Shinji Shibayama of acid-folk group Nagisa Ni Te, with whom Zushi has guested on second guitar for decades. Both intimate and expansive, rich with revelatory songwriting and blasted, sky-scouring guitar, these reissues return these albums t…

World Of Echo announces the reissue of two remastered albums by Japanese guitarist and songwriter Naoki Zushi, 1988’s Paradise, and 2005’s III. Two classics of Japanese psychedelia, both Paradise and III were originally released on Org Records, the imprint of Shinji Shibayama of acid-folk group Nagisa Ni Te, with whom Zushi has guested on second guitar for decades. Both intimate and expansive, rich with revelatory songwriting and blasted, sky-scouring guitar, these reissues return these albums t…

Two decades of French experimentalism meets Japanese spiritual practice in this haunting collaboration. Recorded around a 104-year-old harmonium, Dora and Suzuki channel otherworldly beauty through voice and electronics - music of prayer, magic, and genuine mystery.

Ambroos De Schepper and Pepijn Gyssels became roommates when PiP first moved to Brussels in 2021. Both paid close attention to each other’s musical approach and interests. One year later, Ambroos moved out. When he swung by to pick up some boxes, they decided to record something for the fun of it. Between May '23 and November '24 they continued experimenting with textures and improvisations. This collaboration has become the deepening of a friendship and a way to maintain it at the same time. Pi…

Marionette is proud to present Mélodies pour Clairons, the debut album by Ioa Beduneau, a multidisciplinary artist whose work bridges the worlds of electronic music, installation art, and social dialogue. Based in the South of France, Ioa's artistic practice is defined by hands-on creation—constructing intricate self-playing installations and handmade DIY electronics that challenge conventional modes of interaction. Proudly identifying as a disabled artist, Ioa brings a unique and vital perspect…