John Cage, Earle Brown, Morton Feldman, George Crumb, Lejaren Hiller, Christian Wolff, Stefan Wolpe, Jacob Druckman, Leon Kirchner
Featuring: Concord String Quartet

Name: John Cage, Earle Brown, Morton Feldman, George Crumb, Lejaren Hiller, Christian Wolff, Stefan Wolpe, Jacob Druckman, Leon Kirchner – The Avant Garde String Quartet In The U.S.A. (3LP box)
Brand: Vox
SKU: SVBX 5306
Price: 39.00 EUR
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The Avant Garde String Quartet In The U.S.A. (3LP box)

LabelVoxGenreContemporary Composition

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Cage's beautiful and unusual 1950 string quartet in a monumental compilation released as a 3LP box set by Vox in 1973 with a who's who of the American avant-garde, including Crumb's and Kirchner's outstanding quartets with electric amplification and electronics, with impeccable performances by the Concord String Quartet. With insert.

condition (records/box): NM / VG+ (light discoloration on front) Insert included.

A formidable survey of American avant-garde string quartet writing, issued by Vox as a three-LP box. The roster - John Cage, Earle Brown, Morton Feldman, George Crumb, Lejaren Hiller, Christian Wolff, Stefan Wolpe, Jacob Druckman, Leon Kirchner - maps the full range of postwar American compositional thought, from the chance-based procedures of the New York School to the more structurally determined approaches of the academic avant-garde. Remarkable that a single ensemble and a single label held this breadth of material in a coherent frame.

Details

File under: Contemporary Avant-Garde String Quartet Experimental Electronic

Cat. number: SVBX 5306

Year: 1973

Release notes

Recorded in 1972. Comes with 8-page booklet. Total side durations from labels: A - 29:33 B - 21:42 C - 22:47 D - 26:58 E - 22:51 F - 24:36 Runout data: etched except Bell Sound stamped, ... under 1

Tracklist

String Quartet
A1	I	8:22
A2	II	9:07
A3	String Quartet	11:53
String Quartet In Four Parts
B1	I - Quietly Flowing Along
B2	II - Slowly Rocking
B3	III - Nearly Stationary
B4	IV - Quodlibet
Black Angels (Images I) (Thirteen Images From The Dark Land For Electric String Quartet)
C1	I - Departure
C2	II - Absence
C3	III - Return
String Quartet No. 5 (In Quarter Tones)
D1	I - Theme I
D2	II - Variations
D3	III - Theme II
D4	IV - Variations
D5	V - Theme III
D6	VI - Variations
D7	VII - Theme IV
E1	Quartet No. 3 For Strings And Electronic Tape	18:01
E2	Summer For String Quartet	4:40
F1	String Quartet No. 2	18:40
F2	Structures For String Quartet	5:56