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)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.
Third Chamber Concerto For Twelve Soloists / Cadence VI For Tuba And Tape / Duo 1973 For Cello And Piano / Adieu For Clarinet And Piano (LP)
Four avant-garde chamber works composed in 1973/74 ranging from solo instrument with tape to a small ensemble through duos with piano, released by Avant Records in 1974.
Textures / Cadence III / Partita (LP)
Three avant-garde chamber works composed in 1971/72 for piano and five instrumental ensembles, for violin and two percussionists, and for brass quintet and tape, released by Candide in 1972.
A Solo Requiem / Haiku Settings / Filigree Setting / Three Synthesizer Settings (LP)
1981 LP on Nonesuch with some great late 1970's synthesizer music by Powell plus compositions for soprano and piano and for string quartet by both composers spanning from 1958 to 1977. With insert.
New Trends (LP)
1975 LP on CRI presenting four contemporary instrumental pieces from the 1970's for solo instrument, duo or ensemble with vocals, plus Cross' Three Etudes For Magnetic Tape.
Exultation And Lament / Pre-Amnesia / A Little Cosmic Dust / Pieces Of Eight (LP)
1982 LP on Max Schubel’s Opus One label with four contemporary compositions respectively for alto saxophone and timpani, clarinets solo, alto sax solo and piano and tape.
Ruben Radica (LP)
Great 1976 LP on Jugoton's Contemporary Croatian Composers Series with highly original and rather wild avant-garde compositions from the 1970's for piano quintet, wind quintet and tape, cello and orchestra, and narrator, chorus and orchestra.
Musica Nova (LP)
Rare 1978 album on Electrecord presenting four impressive modernist/spectralist/heterophonic chamber music compositions spanning from 1969 to 1974 by four experimental and higly original Romaniam composers.
Translucent II / Phases / Soft Song / Toccare / Serène (LP)
1981 LP on Composers' Voice presenting five pieces for orchestra and tape or solo instrument and tape composed by the Dutch composer between 1974 and 1980.
Xavier Joaquín Interpreta Obras De Xenakis, Taïra Y Lewin-Richter (LP)
1982 LP on Hemisferio presenting three pieces for percussion (one with magneti tape) by three different composers spanning from 1972 to 1975, performed by Xavier Joaquín.
Tinell / Concert Equinoccial / Tocatina (LP)
Three excellent compositions for percussion and magnetic tape by the two Spanish composers performed by the Percussions De Barcelona and released on Musica Per A Anna in 1988.
Symposion / Secuencias / Lineas Y Puntos (LP)
Three rich orchestral (one with magnetic tape and one plus chorus) compositions from the 1960's released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in the 70's. With insert.
...Inwendig Voller Figur... / Tempora (LP)
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.
Stria
Dr. John Chowning (b. 1934) is a pioneering computer musician, composer and professor who, in 1967, discovered the FM synthesis algorithm. This breakthrough in electronic music allowed for simple, yet rich timbres described as sounding "real." With this discovery, Chowning composed singular, dramatic electronic music and changed the timbre of music forever.
Chowning utilized the potential of computers to synthesize sounds according to programmed instructions. The composer's use of his own FM al…
RE:Wilding
Ying Wang’s RE:Wilding presents five works shaped by sonic precision, cultural awareness, and political urgency. Acoustic instruments and electronics coexist without hierarchy, exposing noise, fragility, and quotation as structural elements. Rather than fixed messages, the music offers a field of tensions—between gesture and abstraction, control and collapse, presence and disappearance. References to social injustice, ecological crisis, and cultural memory are articulated through sharply drawn c…
Still Forms in Air
*100 copies limited edition* Still Forms in Air is the debut album by Italian composer Francesca Marongiu under her own name. It draws inspiration from mid-1980s Japanese ambient music — Hiroshi Yoshimura, Satoshi Ashikawa, Takashi Kokubo — and, more subtly, from Italian experimental echoes rooted in both personal and cultural memory.
The album unfolds like suspended time, like architecture that quietly bears witness to the shifts that have shaped our cities and the ways we live in them. These t…
Ade: Ein Stück Über Den Abschied
1988 release ** "In his musical theater piece "Ade," Harald Weiss combines elements of classical, folk, rock, and minimal music to create his signature style, which defies categorization. Solo and choral vocals, string quartet, piano, synthesizers, and percussion accompany the performance on the imaginary stage of the listener. The music leaves a feeling of emotion that can manifest itself as a lasting inner silence."
Nine In One - "You Really Can Listen To Beethoven"
2018 release ** "All the themes from all of Beethoven’s symphonies, played live by an orchestra, concentrated into one hour and supplemented with electronics – that’s “Nine in One”. Or: a wild rollercoaster ride through the twists and turns of Ludwig van Beethoven’s brain. In the front carriage: Wolfgang Mitterer. He has a reputation, as a musician many’s the time he’s tormented the big concert organs of the continent, as well as composing for important orchestras, ensembles and opera houses, ro…
Darklight
"Music by: Nils Frahm, Clint Mansell, DJ Tiësto, Max Richter, Roberto Cacciapaglia, Joe Hisaishi, Vladimir Martynov, Ólafur Arnalds and Floraleda Sacchi. Already renowned for her interpretations of John Cage and Philip Glass, on #Darklight Italian harpist Floraleda Sacchi working solo with acoustic and electric harps, electronic devices and ambient recordings, her compelling interpretations expose the enigmatic quality of the compositions. "People often ask me why I play the harp," says Floraled…
Crystals Of The Zodiac
1991 release ** "Alexander Kandov graduated from the State Academy of Music majoring in Composition under Professor Dimitar Tapkoff and in Piano under Professor Liuba Obretenova. He worked as a music editor at the Bulgarian National Radio and in Musica Publishing House, and as a lecturer in Polyphony at the State Academy of Music. From 1982 to 1990 he was Chairman of the Young Composers’ Section at the Union of Bulgarian Composers. One of the founders of the Society for New Bulgarian Music (1990…