The Harry Partch Collection Volume 3

Track Listings
1. The Dreamer That Remains - A Study in Loving    
2. Rotate the Body in All Its Planes - Ballad for Gymnasts    
3. Windsong    
4. Water! Water! - An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues    
5. Water! Water! - An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues    
6. Water! Water! - An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues    
7. Water! Water! - An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues    
8. Water! Water! - An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues    
9. Water! Water! - An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues    
10. Water! Water! - An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues    
11. Water! Water! - An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues    
12. Water! Water! - An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues    
13. Water! Water! - An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues    
14. Water! Water! - An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues    

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
The four works on this newly remastered CD are eloquent testimony to Harry Partch’s aesthetic of corporeality. The music he composed for The Dreamer That Remains, for Rotate the Body in All Its Planes, for Windsong, and for Water! Water!, was intended as only one component in the total artistic experience. In these works music joins with drama, with film, with dance, even with gymnastics, as integral parts of the composer’s vision.

"The eloquent and affecting The Dreamer That Remains (1972) was Partch’s last work. It was commissioned by the patroness Betty Freeman for her film on Partch which was directed by Stephen Pouliot. Rotate the Body in All Its Planes (1961) was a spin-off of the "Tumble On" sequence in Partch’s large-scale theatre piece Revelation in the Courthouse Park. It was premiered at the National Collegiate Gymnasts Championship in 1961. Windsong (1958) was also written for film, the soundtrack to a film by Madeline Tourtelot in which Partch saw the Greek myth of Daphne and Apollo. (A later version of the work was named Daphne of the Dunes). Finally, somewhat akin to a Broadway musical, Water! Water! (1961) is perhaps Partch’s most lively and lighthearted work. It pokes fun at many targets, especially the rush of audiences for water at the interval; thus the subtitle: "An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues.

The Harry Partch Collection Volume 3, Music, Harry Partch, Jack Logan, John Garvey, Gate 5 Ensemble of the World, Harry Partch Ensemble, Freda Pierce, Cynthia Schwartz, Jane Daily, Avant-Garde, Chamber Music & Recitals, Choral, Classical, Classical Composers, Film, Film Music, Secular Music for More One Soloist, Chorus and Instr, Secular Music for Soloists, Chorus and Instruments, World Fusion
The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 1
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Now it's possible to get your Partch all in a row
 The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 1

Manufacturer: New World Records
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ASIN: B0002WZTKC
Release Date: 2004-09-28

Tracks:

  1. Eleven Intrusions (1949-50)
  2. Eleven Intrusions (1949-50)
  3. Eleven Intrusions (1949-50)
  4. Eleven Intrusions (1949-50)
  5. Eleven Intrusions (1949-50)
  6. Eleven Intrusions (1949-50)
  7. Eleven Intrusions (1949-50)
  8. Eleven Intrusions (1949-50)
  9. Eleven Intrusions (1949-50)
  10. Eleven Intrusions (1949-50)
  11. Eleven Intrusions (1949-50)
  12. Plectra and Percussion Dances-Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theatre (1952)- Castor & Pollux---A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini
  13. Plectra and Percussion Dances-Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theatre (1952)- Castor & Pollux---A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini
  14. Plectra and Percussion Dances-Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theatre (1952)- Ring Around the Moon---A Dance for Here and Now
  15. Plectra and Percussion Dances-Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theatre (1952)- Ring Around the Moon---A Dance for Here and Now
  16. Plectra and Percussion Dances-Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theatre (1952)- Ring Around the Moon---A Dance for Here and Now
  17. Plectra and Percussion Dances-Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theatre (1952)- Ring Around the Moon---A Dance for Here and Now
  18. Plectra and Percussion Dances-Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theatre (1952)- Even Wild Horses---Dance Music for an Absent Drama
  19. Plectra and Percussion Dances-Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theatre (1952)- Even Wild Horses---Dance Music for an Absent Drama
  20. Plectra and Percussion Dances-Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theatre (1952)- Even Wild Horses---Dance Music for an Absent Drama
  21. Plectra and Percussion Dances-Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theatre (1952)- Even Wild Horses---Dance Music for an Absent Drama
  22. Plectra and Percussion Dances-Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theatre (1952)- Even Wild Horses---Dance Music for an Absent Drama
  23. Plectra and Percussion Dances-Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theatre (1952)- Even Wild Horses---Dance Music for an Absent Drama
  24. Plectra and Percussion Dances-Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theatre (1952)- Even Wild Horses---Dance Music for an Absent Drama
  25. Plectra and Percussion Dances-Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theatre (1952)- Even Wild Horses---Dance Music for an Absent Drama
  26. Ulysses at the Edge (1955)

Album Description

This newly remastered reissue marks a welcome return to the catalog of the first volume of the classic 4-CD collection that was formerly available on the CRI label. The works recorded on this disc span the first six years of what Harry Partch (1901-1974), slightly tongue-in-cheek, called the "third period" of his creative life. They show him moving away from the obsession with "the intrinsic music of spoken words" that had characterized his earlier output (the vocal works of 1930-33 and 1941-45) and towards an instrumental idiom, predominantly percussive in nature. This path was to take him through the "music-dance drama" King Oedipus (1951)—-the culmination of his "spoken word" manner—to the "dance satire" The Bewitched (1954-55), in which his new percussive idiom manifests itself. The three works on this disc show Partch before, during, and after this period of transition. In their quiet, forlorn way, the Eleven Intrusions are among the most compelling and beautiful of Partch's works. The individual pieces were composed at various times between August 1949 and December 1950, and only later gathered together as a cycle. Nonetheless they form a unified whole, with a nucleus of eight songs framed by two instrumental preludes and an essentially instrumental postlude. Although foreshadowed by the dance sequences of King Oedipus, the Plectra and Percussion Dances (1952) are the first of Partch's major works to be wholly instrumental in conception. They stand in relation to Oedipus as a satyr play in relation to a Greek tragedy—hence the work's subtitle, "Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theater." He felt that after the prolonged period of composition and production of Oedipus it was "almost a necessity to give vent to feelings and ideas, whims and caprices, even nonsense, that seem to have no place in tragedy." The final work on this disc is Ulysses at the Edge, written at Partch's studio at Gate 5 in July 1955. Ulysses, which Partch describes as a "minor adventure in rhythm," is unique among his mature compositions in that, in its original form, it did not call for any of his own instruments. The version recorded here, for alto and baritone saxophones, Diamond Marimba, Boo, Cloud-Chamber Bowls, and speaking voice, is considered the third version of the piece.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Now it's possible to get your Partch all in a row.......2006-02-20

Harry Partch is the quintissential mad genius of music--his image of music that was non-Eurocentric led to him devising his own tonal scale based on ancient Greek and Asian methods and then creating his own instruments. This series release of Partch music lets one organize his Partch tastes and get a real sense of his progress through time. This disc is superb for the Intrusions, ghostly little pieces that were my first introduction to this fine composer. I would also highly recommend volume 3, which has Barstow, one of my favorite Partch pieces.

Be prepared. This is classical music you have not been prepared for. If you're already a fan of Partch, aren't you glad SOMEONE is getting all his amazing stuff together in one tightly knit package?
The Harry Partch Collection Volume 3
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    		The Harry Partch Collection Volume 3

    Manufacturer: New World Records
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    Chamber MusicChamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
    General ModernGeneral Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
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    ASIN: B00076Y1AC
    Release Date: 2005-01-01

    Tracks:

    1. The Dreamer That Remains - A Study in Loving
    2. Rotate the Body in All Its Planes - Ballad for Gymnasts
    3. Windsong
    4. Water! Water! - An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues
    5. Water! Water! - An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues
    6. Water! Water! - An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues
    7. Water! Water! - An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues
    8. Water! Water! - An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues
    9. Water! Water! - An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues
    10. Water! Water! - An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues
    11. Water! Water! - An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues
    12. Water! Water! - An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues
    13. Water! Water! - An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues
    14. Water! Water! - An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues

    Album Description

    The four works on this newly remastered CD are eloquent testimony to Harry Partch's aesthetic of corporeality. The music he composed for The Dreamer That Remains, for Rotate the Body in All Its Planes, for Windsong, and for Water! Water!, was intended as only one component in the total artistic experience. In these works music joins with drama, with film, with dance, even with gymnastics, as integral parts of the composer's vision.

    "The eloquent and affecting The Dreamer That Remains (1972) was Partch's last work. It was commissioned by the patroness Betty Freeman for her film on Partch which was directed by Stephen Pouliot. Rotate the Body in All Its Planes (1961) was a spin-off of the "Tumble On" sequence in Partch's large-scale theatre piece Revelation in the Courthouse Park. It was premiered at the National Collegiate Gymnasts Championship in 1961. Windsong (1958) was also written for film, the soundtrack to a film by Madeline Tourtelot in which Partch saw the Greek myth of Daphne and Apollo. (A later version of the work was named Daphne of the Dunes). Finally, somewhat akin to a Broadway musical, Water! Water! (1961) is perhaps Partch's most lively and lighthearted work. It pokes fun at many targets, especially the rush of audiences for water at the interval; thus the subtitle: "An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues.

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    6. Vaughan Williams: Over hill, over dale
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    9. Verdi - Otello / Plácido Domingo, Scotto, Milnes, Levine
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