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Electronique Et Percussion (LP)
French edition of the 1968 LP with five superb realizations for percussion and electronics of as many classic avant-garde compositions, including Cage's Fontana Mix-Feed, spanning from 1958 to 1965, released on CBS' "Music Of Our Time" avant-garde music series curated by David Behrman.
Blackearth Percussion Group (LP)
Great 1974 album on Opus One with six compositions for percussion (and prepared piano), including Cage's Amores and a rare recording of a Bertoncini piece. Never re-issued on either LP or CD. With inserts.
Double Music (LP)
Cage's 1940 piece for percussion and his 1941 collaboration with Harrison plus two compositions for percussion from the 1970's and 80's, performed by The New Music Consort and released by New World Records in 1985.
The Kroumata Percussion Ensemble & Manuela Wiesler, Flute, Play Music By Jolivet, Harrison, Cage & Sandström (LP)
Cage's 1943 composition for percussion and prepared piano, plus Harrison's 1939 and Jolivet's 1965 compositions fol flute and percussion, performed by the Swedish ensemble and released by BIS in 1984.
Den Danske Slagtøjsgruppe (LP)
Cage's 1941 piece for unusual percussion plus three other minimalist works for percussion from the 1970's and 80's, performed by The Danish Percussion Group and released by Point in 1985.
At The Tomb Of Charles Ives / Divertimento / Party Pieces / Academic Graffiti (LP)
Cage's mid-1940's "exquisite corpses" pieces in collaboration with Cowell, Harrison and Thompson, plus Ussachevsky's 1981 electronic valve instrument composition and two 1960's compositions by Harrison and Smit, performed by The Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lukas Foss abd released by Gramavision in 1983.
Five Hanau Silence (7" + book)
1992 book with enclosed EP released by KomistA in a limited edition of 500 numbered copies with performances of Cage composition by Sterneck and KomistA.
The Early Years (LP)
1968 re-issue on Odyssey's "Music Of Our Time" avant-garde music series produced by David Behrman of the 1959 LP New Directions In Music 2 with historical recordings of the composers' early pieces from the 1950's performed by David Tudor and the composer himseld among others.
Viola In My Life / False Relationships (LP)
Two breathtakingly beautiful meditative copmpositions for small ensemble from the late 1960's and early 70's, performed by David Tudor and Karen Phillips among others, and released by CRI in 1971. Essential.
Viola In My Life / False Relationships (LP)
Two breathtakingly beautiful meditative copmpositions for small ensemble from the late 1960's and early 70's, performed by David Tudor and Karen Phillips among others, and released by CRI in 1971. Essential.
Rothko Chapel / For Frank O'Hara (LP)
Two of the composer's most beautiful and beloved immersive compositions from the early 1970's, respectively for chorus, viola and percussion, and for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion, released on Columbia Odyssey's "Modern American Music Series" in 1976. Essential.
Rothko Chapel / For Frank O'Hara (LP)
Two of the composer's most beautiful and beloved immersive compositions from the early 1970's, respectively for chorus, viola and percussion, and for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion, released on Columbia Odyssey's "Modern American Music Series" in 1976. Essential.
Spring Of Chosroes / Sonata For Violin And Piano (LP)
Feldman minimal 1977 composition for violin and piano backed with Schnabel's 1931 avant-garde piece for the same instruments, performed by Paul Zukofsky and Ursula Oppens and released by CP² Recordings in 1981.
Triadic Memories (CD)
1989 CD on ALM with Aki Takahashi performing the 1981 composition for piano in 1983. With OBI.
For John Cage (2CD)
1993 2CD set on ALM with Aki Takahashi and Yasushi Toyoshima preforming the 1982 composition for piano and violin in 1991. With OBI and insert.
Feldman / Brown (LP)
1970 re-issue on Mainstream's "Contemporary Sound Series" of the 1962 lLP on Time's superb "Series 2000" curated by Earle Brown with Feldman's seminal early 1960's partly indetermined compositions for solo instruments and Brown's experimental 1950's pieces for small ensembles, performed by David Tudor among others.
Times Five / Octet I / December 1952 / Novara (LP)
Great collection of experimental works spannong from 1952 to 1963, including an electronic piece, two open form compositions for ensemble (one with tape) conducted by the composer himself and one for piano performed by Davis Tudor, released on CRI's "Contemporary Music" series in 1974.
New Music For Piano(s) (LP)
1970 LP on Mainstream with four 1960's avant-garde compositions for piano performed by Yuji Takahashi.
24 Songs (LP)
A landmark selection of the composer's diverse traditional/avant-garde songs composed in 1922, performed by Helen Boatwright and John Kirkpatrick and released by Overtone in 1954. With insert.
The Four Symphonies (3LP box)
Landmark recordings of the diverse complete symphonies composed between 1898 and 1918 by the modernist/avant-garde composer, performed by different orchestras conducted by Eugene Ormandy, Leonard Bernstein and Leopold Stokowski, released as a 3LP box set by Columbia in 1968. With insert.
Holidays Symphony (LP)
1970's re-press with brown labels of the 1967 LP on Columbia with the 1913 orchestral by the modernist/avant-garde composer, performed by The New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein.
Symphony No. 1 / Three Places In New England (LP)
1970's re-press with brown labels of the 1968 LP on Columbia with two orchestral works composed by the modernist/avant-garde composer between 1898 and 1914 and performed by Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy.
Concord Sonata (LP)
1962 LP on Time's superb "Series 2000" curated by Earle Brown with the recording of a landmark performance ny Aloys Kontarsky of the composer's best known avant-garde composition from 1919.
Trio For Violin, Cello And Piano / Quartet For Piano And Strings (LP)
Two ensemble pieces by the two most representative American composers of the first half of the 20th Century performed by Cardiff Festival Ensemble and released by Argo in 1975.
Appalachian Spring / Three Places In New England (LP)
Two orchestra pieces by the two most representative American composers of the first half of the 20th Century performed the Vienna Symphony Orchestra conducted by Walter Hendl and released on Desto's "American Composers Series" in 1963.
Sonata For Violin And Piano / Sonata No 4 For Violin And Piano / Sonata For Violin & Piano In Three Movements (LP)
Three sonatas for violin and piano composed from 1916 to 1977, performed by Jaime Laredo and Ann Scheinand released on Desto in 1975.
Piano Fantasy / Piano Variations (LP)
Two compositions for solo piano respectively from 1930 and 1957, performed by William Masselos and released on Odyssey in 1967.
Da Capo In Song (LP)
Vocal compositions performed by Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Constantine Cassolas and Paul Sperry with the Da Capo Chamber Players and released by New World Records in 1984.
Accordion Revisited (LP)
Avant-garde compositions for accordion performed by William Schimmel and released on Ilhan Mimaroglu's experimental Finnadar label in 1984.
Five Piano Pieces / Three Ostinati / Six Scenes And A Fantasy / Variations (LP)
Compositions from the 1940's and 1980's for piano solo or in duo with another instrument (cello, clarinet or flute) released on CRS in 1985.
Ancient Voices Of Children (LP)
Beautiful and evocative 1970 reverberating cycle of songs for soprano, boy soprano, oboe, mandolin, harp, amplified and toy piano and percussion by the highly original composer, released by Nonesuch in 1972.
Music For A Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) (LP)
Beautiful and eerie 1975 chamber work by the highly original composer for two amplified pianos and percussions used with extended techniques , released by Nonesuch in 1975.
Suite / Persian Set (LP)
1970's re-issue of the 1957 LP on CRI with the pairing of two cross-cultural works composed on the 1950's by the two original and innovative composers, beautifully incorporating respectively Indonesian and Iranian music elements.
Mass / Missa Brevis (LP)
Two rather unique contemporary masses for mixed chorus (one plus instruments) composed in the 1950's and released on Epic's "Twentieth Century Composers Series" in 1957.
Complete Studies For Player Piano Volume One (LP)
First of four volumes released by 1750 Arch Records between 1977 and 1984 of the experimental and groundbreaking compositions for piano beyond the ability of a human pianist spanning almost 50 years. With insert
Die Musik von Conlon Nancarrow (book)
Very nice thick program for the performance of the music for player piano in Germany in 1982, with essay, notes and scores. German text.
And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma (LP)
1970's re-press with red labels of the 1967 CRI LP of the maverick composer's mid-1960's studies for his unique microtonal instruments performed by his own Gate 5 Ensemble, producing some of the strangest otherworldly avant-garde music ever.
Enclosure 1 (VHS)
1995 VHS presenting four historic films from the late 1950's / early 60's, the first installment of Innova's documentation of the seminal maverick avant-garde composer's work.
Enclosure 4: Harry Partch (VHS)
1997 VHS with the 1971 film version of Partch's major dramatic work Delusion of the Fury, the fourth installment of Innova's documentation of the seminal maverick avant-garde composer's work.
The Prairie (LP)
1943 choral work performed by the Gregg Smith Singers and the Brooklyn Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by the composer himself, released by Turnabout in 1976.