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Essential first 1960 recording of the classic masterpiece for electronic sound, piano and percussion performed by the composer with David Tudor, Christoph Caskel and Gottfried Michael Koenig, released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" exper…

Four post-serialistic "sound compositions" with elements of traditional Korean music from the 1960's, respectively for chamber ensemble, piano and violin, orchestra and solo organ, released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental mus…

First volume of new music for choir by by some of the most inportant XXth Century composers (Anton Webern, Henri Pousseur, Dieter Schnebel, Luigi Nono, Sylvano Bussotti, Hans Otte, György Ligeti) performed by Schola Cantorum Stuttgart and released on…

Second volume of new music for choir by by Heinz Holliger, Dieter Schnebel, Krzysztof Penderecki and Friedrich Cerha, performed by Schola Cantorum Stuttgart and released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in the 70'…

Three compositions from the early 1960's, respectively for for choir and orchestra, orchestra, and string quartet, by the eminent Polish composer, released on Wergo's great Studio Reihe Neuer Musik avat-garde music series in the early 1970's.

1971's apocalyptic oratorio for chorus, speaker, tape and grand orchestra backed with 1970's concerto for violin and orchestra, released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in 1973. With insert.

Four 1970's sparse compositions for orchestra, ensembles and piano released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in 1973. With insert (with notes by Peter Michael Hamel).

1972 album on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series with two avant-garde solo piano pieces from the 1950's plus the classic partly indeterminated instrumental composition from 1971 performed by an all-star group including…

Three compositions from the early 1960's, respectively for for choir and orchestra, orchestra, and string quartet, by the eminent Polish composer, released on Wergo's great Studio Reihe Neuer Musik avat-garde music series in the early 1970's.

Unusual and rare 1972 EP on Wergo's "Taschendiskothek 20. Jahrhundert" contemporary music 7" series with recordings of sound sculptures.

Superb album of excellent electro-acoustic compositions by the founder of the Siemens Studio für elektronische Musik, realized between 1959 and 1970 released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in 1972.

Original 1972 LP of Christian Wolff's seminal chance compositions featuring David Tudor, David Behrman, Gordon Mumma, etc. on Wergo’s legendary Studio Reihe Neuer Musik series. Complete with insert.

Cage's 1963 piece for voices and percussion with solos plus three more experimental compositions from the 1960's by the other composers, performed by the San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble and released on Wergo's "Große Interpreten Neuer M…

What?? was composed in 1967 in the electronic music studio of Swedish Radio, and was originally released on the German new music label Wergo with Bo Anders Persson 's Proteinimperialism , another static drone piece. What?? is based on Folke Rabe 's i…

One of the best and most sought after Swedish electronic music records with two droning and minimalist masterpieces, released on Wergo in 1970. With insert. Rare.

One of the best and most sought after Swedish electronic music records with two droning and minimalist masterpieces, released on Wergo in 1970. With insert. Rare.

One of the best and most sought after Swedish electronic music records with two droning and minimalist masterpieces, released on Wergo in 1970. With insert. Rare.

The Italian soprano beautifully sings works for voice and instruments by Arnold Schönberg, Hanns Eisler, Luigi Dallapiccola, Arrigo Benvenuti and Luigi Nono on this 1970 LP on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series.

Five avant-garde compositions for solo flute (two with piano) by European and Japanese contemmporary composers spanning from 1948 to 1969 performed by Aurèle Nicolet and released on Wergo's "Große Interpreten neuer Musik" series in 1969 (German editi…

Four post-serialist and aleatoric pieces composed by the Spanish composer in the 1960's, relased on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" avant-garde and electronic music series in 1969. With insert.

Two pivotal classic pieces from the 60's, respectively for piano and tape and for realistic sounds, released on Wergo's "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" contemporary and electronic music series in 1969. Beautiful and essential.

condition (record/sleeve): VG (record looks near mint but has surface noise throughout) / VG (general yellowing + creases on lamination partly peeling off)  Includes 4-page  LP-size insert. Essential Berio! This exceptional Wergo release features Cat…

First edition on Wergo of "Version 1965" of the massive 1960's work for solo soprano, four mixed choirs, and thirteen instrumentalists (four trumpets, four trombones, three percussionists, and two electric keyboards) released on Wergo's great "Studio…

Five of the Polish composer's extraordinary and intense compositions from the late 1950's and early 60's, conducted by Andrzej Markowski and released on Wergo's great Studio Reihe Neuer Musik avat-garde music series in 1965.

1963 introduction to electronic music with samples realized from 1952 at the WDR electronic music studio by its founder and mentor to Karlheinz Stockhausen, released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series. With insert.

*2022 stock* This work began life as a radio play in 1982, a commission from and for Klaus Schöning and Cologne’s WDR. Working on the principles of collage, Cage brought together 15 unlikely characters – Narrator, James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Vocoder…

'Composed in 1970, Mantra, for two pianos and ring modulation, was one of the decisive turning points in Karlheinz Stockhausen’s career. The 70-minute piece not only signalled a break with the text-based intuitive works, relying heavily on improvisat…

*2022 stock* The Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki used to write chamber music even as a student in Krakow. He was writing the chamber music works for himself, then already an accomplished violinist, and his fellow students (The title "Sonata for …

*2022 stock* 'This collection of ensemble works, six altogether, ranges across the last two decades of Iannis Xenakis's life. It includes the last two pieces he composed, Zythos, for trombone and six marimbas, and O-Mega, for percussion and ensemble,…

*2022 stock* Wergo presents Moton Feldman's compositions For Franz Kline · For Frank O'Hara · De Kooning · Piano Piece To Philip Guston. Performed by Ensemble Avantgarde.

György Ligeti's only opera, Le Grand Macabre, is an entertaining, taut piece of musical theatre that sits somewhere between parody and ominous seriousness, between clowning and wisdom. Based on Michel de Ghelderode's play and set in the imaginary lan…

*2022 stock* John Cage's first manifesto, written in 1937, was called The Future of Music: Credo, and the future it described was an "all-sound music" open to every kind of noise. This volume of Wergo's Edition John Cage follows that idea across thre…

*2022 stock* It may come as a surprise but one of the leading creators of keyboard music in the twentieth century is a composer by the name of John Cage. Cage’s reputation is so deeply associated with the avantgarde, with chance music, graphic notati…

*2022 stock* Magnetic tape for serial use is not the prerogative of Stockhausen or the French members of the GRM. On the other side of the Alps, at the RAI Studio di Fonologia in Milan, Luigi Nono worked for a long time on the development of a new fo…

Circles is one of Luciano Berio's most captivating works: a setting of three poems by e.e. cummings for female voice, harp and two percussionists, in which the words are gradually taken apart into their sounds and the singer moves physically among th…

*2022 stock* Several of György Ligeti's best-known and most characteristic pieces, in recordings made within a few years of their composition by the musicians closest to them. Atmosphères for large orchestra without percussion and Lux aeterna for six…

*2022 stock* This CD of works by the Hungarian composer György Ligeti represents an extremely interesting combination of several of his serene works for harpsichord, organ, and wind quintet with two electronic compositions from the late 1950s.

*2022 stock* This recording deals with works composed between 1944 and 1958, including several of Cage's lovely and masterful prepared piano pieces, which will come as a major surprise to those familiar only with his chance compositions. Joshua Pierc…

*2022 stock* Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano, a cycle of 20 short pieces for prepared piano (a piano modified by inserting nuts and bolts and other objects between the piano strings in order to produce percussive and otherworldly sound effe…

*2022 stock* It's over 70 years since John Cage wrote his pivotal Music of Changes, and it's beginning to show its age. It feels very much of its time, with its uncompromising adherence to the 64 hexagrams of I-Ching, the Chinese book of changes, det…