Karlheinz Stockhausen, Daniel Jones, Dudley Simpson, Reginald Smith Brindle

Featuring: Tristan Fry

condition (record/cover): NM / NM

A Classics For Pleasure LP that pairs one of the twentieth century's canonical percussion works with three British contemporaries in a programme that documents the range of what composers were asking of the drum kit, the mallet instruments, and the extended percussion ensemble by the late 1960s. Karlheinz Stockhausen's contribution - presumably Zyklus (1959), the work that established the percussion solo as a major compositional vehicle in the post-war European tradition - sits here in company with works by Daniel Jones (1912-1993), the Welsh composer whose sophisticated harmonic language and commitment to formal rigor placed him somewhat outside the mainstream of British music criticism's attention; Dudley Simpson; and Reginald Smith Brindle (1917-2003), a British composer and theorist whose studies in Rome with Dallapiccola and Pizzetti had given him both a serial technique and a sympathy for the Mediterranean formal tradition.

The Classics For Pleasure label - a budget imprint whose seriousness of programming sometimes exceeded that of its parent companies - issued this LP at a moment when percussion music was beginning to reach beyond specialist audiences, and the collection reflects a genuine desire to document a range of approaches. Classics For Pleasure, CFP 40207.