Cage Machine

Track Listings
1. Cage Machine -    
2. Chorale Times Two -    
3. Elapsed Time: Variations - Julie Steinberg    
4. Elapsed Time: Almost - Julie Steinberg    
5. Elapsed Time: Racer - Julie Steinberg    
6. Name(less): Without Attack    
7. Name(less): Quad 9/4    
8. Name(less): Rods Resonance    
9. Name(less): Tragic Rhapsody    
10. Name(less): Longitude    
11. Name(less): Delta Clavé    
12. Din of Iniquity    

Cage Machine, Music, Paul Dresher, The Electro-Acoustic Band, Julie Steinberg, David Abel, Chamber, Chamber Music, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Classical Artists, Electronic, Electronic/Avant-Garde/Minimalist Music, World Fusion
Discover Music of the 20th Century
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • excellent overview of contemporaneous classic music
  • For the price you can't lose
Discover Music of the 20th Century

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ASIN: B000B6N6B8
Release Date: 2005-11-01

Tracks:

  1. Prelude A L'Apres-Midi D'un Faune - Alexander Rahbari
  2. Walzer - Peter Hill
  3. I. Andante-Scherzo - Rebecca Hirsch
  4. Sehr Ruhig Und Zart - Ulster Orchestra
  5. Lebhaft Und Zart Bewegt - Ulster Orchestra
  6. Sehr Langsam Und Ausserst Zart - Ulster Orchestra
  7. Fliessend, Ausserst Zart - Ulster Orchestra
  8. Sehr Fliessend - Ulster Orchestra
  9. Forlane: Allegretto - Klara Kormendi
  10. First Tableau: The Shrove-Tide Fair - Philharmonia Orchestra
  11. The Mountebank - Philharmonia Orchestra
  12. Vivo - Bournemouth Sinfonietta
  13. III. Moderato Pesante - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
  14. Hymn To St. Cecilia - Choir Of St. John's College, Cambridge
  15. IV. Allegretto - Ondrej Lenard
  16. Introduzione: Andante Non Troppo-Allegro Vivace - Alexander Rahbari

Tracks:

  1. Romance - Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra (Kosice)
  2. II. Allegro - Ladislav Slovak
  3. III. Allegro Agitato - Stephen Gunzenhauser
  4. Main Theme From Schindler's List - Paul Bateman
  5. The Unanswered Question - Northern Sinfonia
  6. Second Electonic Interpolation (Conclusion) - Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
  7. Third Electronic Interpolation (Beginning) - Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
  8. I. Liturgie De Cristal - Amici Ensemble
  9. IV. Commentaire - Idil Biret
  10. Warming Up, Leading To Model 1, Bass - Gregory Rose
  11. 'Gott Nochmal' Sun God - Gregory Rose
  12. 'Vishnu' God Of Storms - Gregory Rose
  13. God Of The Earth - Gregory Rose
  14. First Interlude - Boris Berman
  15. I. - Roger Heaton
  16. Short Ride In A Fast Machine - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
  17. The Lord's Prayer - Choir Of St. John's College, Cambridge
  18. II. Lento E Largo-Tranquillissimo - Zofia Kilanowicz
  19. Lullaby - Philharmonia Orchestra
  20. Vision Of The Hunt I - Philharmonia Orchestra
  21. Voice For Solo Flute - Robert Aitken

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars excellent overview of contemporaneous classic music.......2007-03-22

excellent overview of contemporaneous classic music.

Should be continued, plenty more 20th-century composers to be discovered.

5 out of 5 stars For the price you can't lose.......2007-02-21

This 2 cd set consists of, as the title indicates, various 20c pieces or movements from the Naxos catalog. Sound quality is uniformly high, although for some such as Stockhausen's it's not clear if that's good or bad. What is excellent is the variety of the collection--some familiar (Debussy), others not, some pretty, others intentionally weird. Few will find every piece to his or her taste, but many listeners who do not spend much time on 20c music will find something to like. Overall, a great introduction to a period of much off-putting, yes, but also much compelling music.
The Story of American Classical Music
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • A Great Intro to American Classical Music - Almost a Short Course!
The Story of American Classical Music

Manufacturer: Naxos
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ASIN: B0009JMELK
Release Date: 2005-06-21

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A Great Intro to American Classical Music - Almost a Short Course!.......2005-07-12

Many reasonably sophisticated American and European musiclovers still think there are really no American classical music composers of note other than perhaps Gershwin and Copland. It is to the credit of the Naxos label, via their 'American Classics' series, that the lie is put to that notion. Each month there are new issues from Naxos containing music by American composers. And it was a brilliant idea for them to take selections from their dozens of releases of this music to put together this sampler of such music to illustrate a 100+ page essay on the subject by an eminent writer on music, Barrymore Laurence Scherer. The combination of 2 CDs of music tracks, Scherer's essay, a chronological outline, suggestions for further listening, even a map showing where various composers were born helps the 'student' learn much about our nation's musical heritage.

There are selections by twenty-eight composers stretching from the amazing Wagnerian 'Macbeth' Overture by William Henry Fry (1813-1864) to the very recent 'Rapture,' a percussion concerto by Michael Torke (b. 1961). Some selections are complete movements, others are shorter passages from larger works. Included are such gems as the first movement of Arthur Foote's Piano Quartet, the third movement of Henry Hadley's Fourth Symphony, Charles Ives's 'The Unanswered Question,' 'King Cotton' by John Philip Sousa, 'Maple Leaf Rag' by Scott Joplin, a passage (the exciting Spanish Waltz) from Walter Piston's 'The Incredible Flutist,' the finale of Copland's 'Billy the Kid,' the opening of Samuel Barber's luminous 'Knoxville - Summer of 1915,' 'Tonight' from Bernstein's 'West Side Story,' the opening of George Rochberg's masterful Violin Concerto, and John Adams's incredibly popular 'Short Ride in a Fast Machine.' Plus selections by Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Edward MacDowell, George Whitefield Chadwick, Amy Beach, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Charles Wakefield Cadman, George Gershwin, George Antheil, Zez Confrey, William Schuman, John Cage, Gunther Schuller, Alan Hovhaness, Elliott Carter and Philip Glass. The performances are more than acceptable and in some instances ('Knoxville,' Rochberg's Violin Concerto) definitive.

I would heartily recommend this set (especially at its superbudget price) to anyone wanting to know more about the history of American classical music -- Scherer is a master of cogent, clear prose -- and wishing to hear examples of the broad range it has taken over the past couple of centuries. I can easily imagine this set being used in a music appreciation course. And I am sure it will spark interest in the newcomer to this branch of classical music.

2 CDs TT=ca. 160 mins.

Scott Morrison
Cage Machine
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • remarkable
Cage Machine

Manufacturer: New Albion Records
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B0002XL1WQ
Release Date: 2004-10-19

Tracks:

  1. Concerto For Violin & Electro-Acoustic Band: Cage Machine
  2. Concerto For Violin & Electro-Acoustic Band: Chorale Times Two
  3. Elapsed Time: Variations
  4. Elapsed Time: Almost
  5. Elapsed Time: Racer
  6. In The Name(less): Without Attack
  7. In The Name(less): Quad 9/4
  8. In The Name(less): Rods Resonance
  9. In The Name(less): Tragic Rhapsody
  10. In The Name(less): Longitude
  11. In The Name(less): Delta Clave
  12. Din Of Iniquity

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars remarkable.......2004-11-11

I heard (with delight) passages from this album on John Shafer's daily radio show "New Sounds" (via www.wnyc.com) yesterday; -- glad to see the CD's available. Dresher remains a significant presence among composer/musicians of our time: his work is at once strong, deep, satisfying, complex, highly innovative, and (as noted here) enjoyable and fresh. [Paul's in NYC so as to appear this week in a Carnegie Hall concert series curated by John Adams.] The relationship between this work's sampled sounds & John Cage's "prepared piano" is best explicated by Dresher himself (as I belive he does in liner notes).

Looking forward to exploring this more fully in coming days.
Ibert: Complete Piano Music
Average customer rating: 1 out of 5 stars
  • IBERT.... UNINSPIRED
Ibert: Complete Piano Music
Hae-Won Chang
Manufacturer: Naxos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004SSJC
Release Date: 2000-05-16

Tracks:

  1. Scherzetto
  2. Piece Romantique
  3. Toccata Sur Le Nom D'Albert Roussel
  4. L'espiegle Au Village De Lilliput
  5. Francaise: 'Guitarre' Pour Le Piano
  6. Le Vent Dans Les Ruines
  7. Prelude
  8. Rondo
  9. Le Gai Vigneron
  10. Berceuse Aux Etoiles
  11. Le Cavalier Sans-Souci
  12. Parade
  13. La Promenade En Traineau
  14. Romance
  15. Quadrille
  16. Serenade Sur L'eau
  17. La Machine A Coudre
  18. L'Adieu
  19. Les Crocus
  20. Premier Bal
  21. Danse Du Cocher
  22. La Meneuse De Tortues D'or
  23. Le Petit Ane Blanc
  24. Le Vieux Mendiant
  25. A Giddy Girl
  26. Dans La Maison Triste
  27. Le Palais Abandonne
  28. Bajo La Mesa
  29. La Cage De Cristal
  30. La Marchande D'eau Fraiche
  31. Le Cortege De Balkis
  32. Les Bouquetieres
  33. Les Creoles
  34. Les Mignardes
  35. Les Bergeres
  36. Les Bavardes

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars IBERT.... UNINSPIRED.......2001-08-06

The word "uninspired" is used diplomatically here; it's far worse. No matter how hard pianist Hae-Wong Chang tries, there is no way she can breathe life into these dull works. It's not her fault. All the sensuous flavor, the piquant coloring, the rich and distinctive atmosphere of Ibert's orchestral music remains conspicuously absent in his piano music. Now, considering that Ibert (1890-1962) had been a pupil of Faure, the lack of contrast, depth, ingenuity, melody and invention seems profoundly mysterious. Frankly, these "works" border on the inane. It just seems incomprehensible to me.

And, it's a long CD overflowing with pieces that titillate the eye, but not the ear: compositions with endearing names like Little Suite In Fifteen Pictures (with cute titles that lure you in, like, "Lullaby Under the Stars," "Sleigh Ride," "Romance," "Serenade on the Water" and "L'Adieu") or Stories For Piano ("A Giddy Girl," "In the Sad House," "Under the Table," etc.) and Encounters (Ballet Suite for Piano). Yet, all are sadly lacking in any kind of musical charm or content that might even hold your interest for five minutes. These are not the genre pictures of MacDowell's Woodland Sketches, Grieg's Lyric Pieces, Schumann's Kinderscenen or Tchaikovsky's Album For The Young.

It's all so mundane, unfortunately, that you'd have to have the patience of Job to wade through the homogeneity here.... or be unwillingly duct-taped to your couch.

Massively disappointing music featuring an excellent pianist, excellent sound and a phenomenal playing time. But to what end? Well, I suppose, giving the devil his due, it was enterprising of Naxos to allow us the opportunity to "hear" these Ibert works, regardless of their merit or lack thereof. And I suppose, as well, that this matters equally.

[Running time: 68:12]
Americans!: 20th Century Piano Music of American Composers
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Brilliant!
Americans!: 20th Century Piano Music of American Composers

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ASIN: B00004X0TM
Release Date: 2000-09-12

Tracks:

  1. China Gates
  2. Pno Son Op.26: Allegro Energico
  3. Pno Son Op.26: Allegro Vivace E Leggero
  4. Pno Son Op.26: Adagio Mesto
  5. Pno Son Op.26: Fuga - Allegro Con Spirito
  6. Processional: Sempre Pulsando Estaticamente
  7. Each For Himself: Machine Flats (Vigorously)
  8. Each For Himself: Returns (Andante)
  9. Each For Himself: The Five-Flat Machine's Return (Very Fast)
  10. In A Landscape
  11. North American Ballads: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Brilliant!.......2002-03-25

Emanuele Arciuli is a young Italian pianist with a taste for American contemporary music. This disk features a broad selection of 20th century American piano music, including Cage, Rzewski, Barber, Joel Hoffman and others. His playing is wonderful; it's a good recording; the selections are diverse yet work well together; Arciuli's liner notes are witty and informative.

Anyone with a taste for modern American piano music will enjoy this recording!

Music Review:

  1. Clearly Three - Trios from the Twentieth Century
  2. Crawford: 9 Preludes, Beyer: Dissonant Counterpoint
  3. Dança das Ondas
  4. Debussy: Mélodies
  5. Distant Land: the Orchestral Collection [Import]
  6. Duo
  7. Dupré: Works for Organ, Vol. 9
  8. Earl Wild Plays Brahms
  9. Enescu, Bartók, Szymanowski: Works for Violin & Piano
  10. English Bassoon Concertos

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Love Pie

Jehan Alain: Oeuvres instrumentales & vocales

Grieg: Piano Concerto; Elegiac Melodies; Holberg Suite; Lyric Suite

Balance 007

Joe Music Unplugged

Galaxy Vol. II (2)

Il a Fallu [Import]

Home Recordings: Americana

Hits of the Sixties [Import]

Golden Classics

I Lead a Life [Original recording remastered] [Import]

Guajiras de Cuba

Discografia Completa V.5 [Import]

Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Highlights)

Hold Your Fire