Various Artists - Box: The Avantgarde Series

Klasyka

Tracklista:

CD 1  (41:37)

Witold Lutosławski (1913–1994)

1-2. String Quartet

Krzysztof Penderecki (1933–2020)

3. Quartetto per archi

Toshiro Mayuzumi (1929–1997)

4. Prelude for String Quartet

LaSalle Quartet:

Walter Levin violin 1

Henry Meyer violin 2

Peter Kamnitzer viola

Jack Kirstein cello

CD 2  (49:02)

Mauricio Kagel (1931–2008)

1-3. Phantasie für Orgel mit Obbligati 

Juan Allende-Blin (*1928)

4. Sonorités  8:22

György Ligeti (1923–2006)

5-6. Volumina

7. Etüde Nr. 1 (»Harmonies«)

Gerd Zacher organ

CD 3  (38:27)

David BEdford (1937–2011)

1-2. 2 Poems for Chorus on Words by Kenneth Patchen

György Ligeti (1923–2006)

3. Lux aeterna

for 16-voice a cappella mixed chorus

Arne Mellnäs (1933–2002)

4. Succsim

for a cappella mixed chorus

Marek Kopelent (1932–2023)

5-7. Matka

Fresco for mixed chorus and solo flute

Gerhard Otto solo flute

Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks

Helmut Franz conductor

CD 4  (49:23)

Vinko Globokar (*1934)

1-5. Discours II 

for 5 trombones

Luciano Berio (1925–2003)

6. Sequenza V

for trombone solo

Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007)

7-8. Solo für Melodie-Instrument mit Rückkopplung

Carlos Roqué Alsina (*1941)

9-11. Consecuenza op. 17

for trombone solo

Vinko Globokar trombone

CD 5  (41:54)

Mauricio Kagel (1931–2008)

1-6. Match für 3 Spieler

Christoph Caskel percussion

Siegfried Palm, Klaus Storck cellos

7-13. Musik für Renaissance-Instrumente

Collegium Instrumentale

Mauricio Kagel direction

Collegium Instrumentale:

Sebastian Kelber soprano crumbhorn, recorders · Gerhard Braun alto crumbhorn, recorders · René Clemencic tenor crumbhorn, recorders · Michael Vetter bass crumbhorn, recorders · Helmut Hucke soprano bombard · Alfred Sous alto bombard · Heinrich Göldner tenor bombard, tenor curtal · Werner Mauruschat bass bombard, bass curtal · Edward H. Tarr cornett, clarino trumpet · Helmut Schmitt alto Renaissance trombone · Wilhelm Wendtlandt tenor Renaissance trombone · Kurt Federowitz bass Renaissance trombone · Annemarie Bohne positive organ, regal · Christoph Caskel, Siegfried Rockstroh percussion (dulcimer, triangle, small cymbals, hand bells, jingle cluster, strip & hoop, tambourine, hand drum, drum, timpani) · Karlheinz Böttner alto lute · Wilhelm Bruck theorbo · Eduard Rab treble viola da braccio · Spiros Rantos alto viola da braccio · Heiner Spicker treble viola da gamba · Hubert Koller alto viola da gamba · Gerald Sonneck tenor/bass viola da gamba · Hein-Georg Thor contrabass viola da gamba

CD 6  (48:22)

Improvisationen

1-5. »... e poi?«

6. Quasiraga

7. Light Music

Gruppe Nuova Consonanza:

Mario Bertocini percussion · Walter Branchi double bass

Franco Evangelisti piano · John Heinemann cello/trombone

Egisto Macchi percussion · Ennio Morricone trumpet

8. Ancora un trio

Walter Branchi double bass

John Heinemann trombone

Ennio Morricone trumpet

9. Credo

Walter Branchi double bass

Franco Evangelisti piano

Egisto Macchi percussion

CD 7  (46:46)

Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918–1970)

1-5. Présence

White ballet in 5 scenes for violin, cello and piano

Saschko Gawriloff violin · Siegfried Palm cello

Aloys Kontarsky piano

6-13. Intercomunicazione

for cello and piano

Siegfried Palm cello · Aloys Kontarsky piano

CD 8  (63:12)

John Cage (1912–1992)

1. Atlas Eclipticalis & Winter Music 

electronically amplified after Cartridge Music

(all simultaneously)

Atlas Eclipticalis:

Donald Blakesley tuba · Kees Blokker trombone

Ruud van den Brink percussion · Maurice Dentan violin

Horst Hornung cello · Geert van Keulen clarinet

Michael Kopfermann cello · Jan Labordus timpani

Kurt Meyerhans viola · Nico Scholtens saxophone

Iman Soeteman horn · Joep Terwey bassoon 

Paul Verhey flute · Gerard van der Vlist trumpet 

Han de Vries oboe · Frank Wolff cello

Winter Music:

Lissa Bauer, Chaia Gerstein, Heinz-Klaus Metzger,

Gertrud Meyer-Denkmann, Mario Venzago pianos

Cartridge Music:

Fred van der Kooy assistant to the conductor

Ensemble Musica Negativa

Rainer Riehn

Dieter Schnebel (1930–2018)

2-5. Glossolalie

Definition of music for speakers and instrumentalists (Version 1961)

Werner Bärtschi instrumentalist 2

Thomas Gross instrumentalist 4

Michael Mendl recitation 3

(Rainer Riehn recitation 4)

Doris Sandrock recitation 1

Sava Savoff instrumentalist 1

(Dieter Schnebel recitation 4)

Hartmut Schumann instrumentalist 3

Dieter Strobel recitation 2

Ensemble Musica Negativa

Rainer Riehn

CD 9  (57:22)

Mauricio Kagel (1931–2008)

1-6. Hallelujah

for 16 solo voices a cappella

Dieter Schnebel (1930–2018)

7-9. für stimmen (... missa est)

Schola Cantorum Stuttgart:

Ingrid Ade, Hanna Aurbacher, Richard Anlauf, Gisela Evers,

Manfred Gerbert, Ursula Häffner, Wolfgang Isenhardt,

Elisabeth Künstler, Ewald Liska, Wolfgang Löhnert (für stimmen),

August Messthaler, Brigitte Messthaler, Barbara Hiller,

Theophil Maier, Hildegard Schnabel, Ulrich Schaible, Karl Stanzl,

Irmgard Thanner (für stimmen)

Clytus Gottwald direction

CD 10  (57:50)

Gottfried Michael Koenig (1926–2021)

1-6. Terminus II

7. Funktion Grün

Zoltán Pongrácz (1912–2007)

8. Phonothese

Rainer Riehn (1941–2015)

9-13. Chants de Maldoror

(Rev. version 1968/69)

Realization by the composers

CD 11  (37:26)

Mauricio Kagel (1931–2008)

1-2. Der Schall

for 5 players (with 54 instruments)

Kölner Ensemble für Neue Musik

Plucked instruments, percussion & wind instruments:

Karlheinz Böttner, Wilhelm Bruck, Christoph Caskel,

Vinko Globokar, Edward H. Tarr

CD 12  (41:37)

György Ligeti (1923–2006)

1-5. String Quartet No. 2

Earle Brown (1926–2002)

6-7. String Quartet

Wolf Rosenberg (1915–1996)

8-9. String Quartet No. 3

LaSalle Quartet:

Walter Levin violin 1

Henry Meyer violin 2

Peter Kamnitzer viola

Jack Kirstein cello

CD 13  (48:19)

Luc Ferrari (1929–2005)

1. Presque rien No 1

Daybreak on the beach

Luc Ferrari realization & sound direction

2-8. Société II

Et si le piano était un corps de femme

And if the piano were a female body

for piano, 3 percussions and 16 instruments

Gérard Frémy piano

Jean-Pierre Drouet, Sylvio Gualdo, Gaston Sylvestre percussion

Ensemble Instrumental de Musique Contemporaine de Paris

Konstantin Simonovitch direction

CD 14  (46:09)

Lukas Foss (1922–2009)

1-6. Paradigm (“for my friends”)

Jan Williams percussion & conductor

Stephen Bell electric guitar

Charles Haupt violin · Jerry Kirkbride clarinet

Marijke Verberne cello

George Ritscher tape recorder & electronics

Lukas Foss musical supervision

Lejaren Hiller (1924–1994)

7-9. Algorithms I, Version I

10-12. Algorithms I, Version IV

Petr Kotik flute · Jerry Kirkbride clarinet

Darlene Reynard bassoon · Frank Collura trumpet

Marco Falcão harp · Ed Burnham percussion

Charles Haupt violin · Marijke Verberne cello

James Kurzdorfer double bass · George Ritscher tape recorder

Lejaren Hiller conductor

Elliott Schwartz (1936–2016)

13. Signals 

James Fulkerson trombone

Nicholas Molfese double bass

Elliott Schwartz musical supervision

CD 15  (42:50)

Roland Kayn (1933–2011)

1-2. Cybernetics III

Roland Kayn, Marino Zuccheri magnetic tape realization

Luigi Nono (1924–1990)

3-8. Contrappunto dialettico alla mente

Liliana Poli soprano

Cadigia Bove, Marisa Mazzoni,

Elena Vicini, Umberto Troni voices

Coro da Camera della RAI

Nino Antonellini direction

CD 16  (62:29)

Franco Evangelisti (1926–1980)

1-7. Die Schachtel

Mimic-scene action (from an idea by Franco Nonnis)

for 5–7 mime artists, projector, voice, small orchestra and tape recorder

Voice (anonymous)

Solistenensemble des Orchesters der Münchener Kammeroper

Eberhard Schoener conductor

Heinz Holliger (*1939)

8-16. Der magische Tänzer

Attempt at an escape for 2 persons and 2 marionettes

for 2 singers, 2 dancers, 2 actors, mixed choir, orchestra and tape

Text: Nelly Sachs

Dorothy Dorow soprano (Mitbewohnerin)

Eva Gilhofer alto (Marina)

Philip Langridge tenor (Der magische Tänzer)

Hans Riediker bass (David)

Soloists of the Schola Cantorum, Stuttgart

Chor des Basler Theaters

Basler Sinfonie-Orchester

Instrumental soloists:

Roland Cavin piccolo · Anton Stingl guitar

Siegfried Schmid cimbalom

Ursula Holliger, Cathérine Eisenhoffer harps

Jürg Wyttenbach, Janka Wyttenbach harpsichord, celesta, piano

Markus Ernst, Jean-Claude Forestier, Charles Pfyffer percussion

Hans Zender conductor

CD 17  (42:20)

Cornelius Cardew (1936–1981)

1-2. The Great Learning

Scratch Orchestra

Cornelius Cardew conductor

CD 18  (36:26)

Roman Haubenstock-Ramati (1919–1994)

1-3. Symphonie “K” 

ORF-Symphonieorchester Wien

Milan Horvat conductor

Vinko Globokar (*1934)

4-7. Étude pour Folklora II

Climats 1–6

Simfonični Orkester RTV Ljubljana

Vinko Globokar conductor

CD 19  (37:11)

Heinz Holliger (*1939)

1-11. Siebengesang

for oboe, orchestra, voices and loudspeaker

Heinz Holliger oboe

Schola Cantorum Stuttgart

Clytus Gottwald chorus master

Basler Sinfonie-Orchester

Francis Travis conductor

Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007)

12-15. Spiral

for a soloist with short-wave receiver

Heinz Holliger oboe

Karlheinz Stockhausen sound direction

CD 20  (44:34)

Sylvano Bussotti (1931–2021)

1-5. Cinque frammenti all’Italia

Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks

Soloists (Nos. 1, 3 & 5):

Dorothea Förster-Dürlich soprano

Irmgard Jacobeit soprano

Dieter Lorenz tenor

Günter Genersch tenor

Hartwig Stuckmann  baritone

Wilhelm Zimmer bass

Günther Hertel piano (No. 2)

Erich Wauschkuhn chimes (No. 2)

Helmut Franz conductor

Nicolaus A. Huber (*1939)

6-8. Versuch über Sprache

for 16 solo voices, Hammond organ, double bass and

2 obligatory loudspeaker channels

Texts: J. W. von Goethe, Karl Marx, Friedrich Hölderlin,

Alkaios (Sappho?)

Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks

Gerhard Gregor Hammond organ

Georg Nothdorf double bass

Max Lindner percussion

Helmut Franz conductor

CD 21  (45:11)

Leo Küpper (*1935)

1. L’enclume des forces

Text: Antonin Artaud

Jean-Claude Frison recitation

Leo Küpper automatic programming & performing

Exequiel Virasoro dynamic faders

2. Électro-poème

12 voices of girls and boys logatomes

3-7. Automatismes sonores

2-channels simultaneous information

Leo Küpper automatic programming & performing

Exequiel Virasoro dynamic faders

Studio de Recherches et de Structurations Électroniques Auditives, Bruxelles