For Stefan Wolpe

1. Piece for 2 ensembles
Composed by Stefan Wolpe
with Recherche Ensemble

2. Extensions 4, for 3 pianos
Composed by Morton Feldman
with Recherche Ensemble

3. Five4, for 2 saxes & percussion ("in memory of Stephan Wolpe")
Composed by John Cage
with Recherche Ensemble

4. Form IV: Broken Sequences for piano
Composed by Stefan Wolpe
with Recherche Ensemble

5. Form IV: Broken Sequences for piano
Composed by Stefan Wolpe
with Recherche Ensemble

6. Inner Song - in Memory of Stefan Wolpe, for oboe
Composed by Elliott Carter
with Recherche Ensemble

7. Drei kleinere Canons, Op 24
Composed by Stefan Wolpe
with Recherche Ensemble

8. Canons (3) for String trio
Composed by Stefan Wolpe
with Recherche Ensemble

9. Pieces (7) for Three Pianos
Composed by Stefan Wolpe
with Recherche Ensemble

10. Five4, for 2 saxes & percussion ("in memory of Stephan Wolpe")
Composed by John Cage
with Recherche Ensemble

11. About the seventh, for chamber ensemble
Composed by Johannes Schollhorn
with Recherche Ensemble

For Stefan Wolpe,Wolpe,Feldman,Cage,Carter,Schollhorn,Disques Montaigne,Classical

Average customer rating: Now I know why they make jokes about Hoboken (see below) Many Undiscovered Treasures compendium of the richness of American innovation An interesting sampling of a musical dead end. Fantastic Collection

American String Quartets, 1950-1970 Manufacturer: Vox (Classical) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Cage, John | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by George Crumb | Crumb, George | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Feldman | Feldman, Morton | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Electronic | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music | Computer General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Feldman: String Quartet (1979) Luciano Berio: Laborintus 2 Luciano Berio: Corale (Sequenza VIII), for Violin, 2 Horns & Strings / Chemins II (Sequenza VI) / Chemins IV (Sequenza VII) / Ritorno degli Snovidenia, for Cello & Small Orchestra / "Points on the Curve to Find...", for Piano & 22 Instrumentalists - Pierre Boulez Elliott Carter: Piano Concerto; Concerto for Orchestra; Concerto for Orchestra; Three Occasions Elliott Carter: A Symphony of Three Orchestras; Varèse: Deserts; Ecuatorial; Hyperprism ASIN: B000001K50 Release Date: 1995-09-26

Tracks:

1. String Quartet: 92
2. String Quartet: 144
3. String Quartet
4. String Quartet In Four Parts: Quietly Flowing Along
5. String Quartet In Four Parts: Slowly Rocking
6. String Quartet In Four Parts: Nearly Stationary
7. String Quartet In Four Parts: Quodlibet
8. Quartet No. 3 For String Quartet And Electronic Tape
9. Summer

Tracks:

1. Black Angels (Images) For Electric String Quartet: Departure: Tutti, Threnody I - Night Of The Electric Insects; Trio, Sounds Of Bones And Flutes; Duo, Lost Bells; Solo, Cadenza accompagnata Devi-Music; Duo, Dance Macabre (Due Alternative: Dies Irae)
2. Black Angles (Images) For Electric String Quartet: Absence (Crumb)
3. Black Angles (Images) For Electric String Quartet: Return (Crumb)
4. String Quartet No 5: Theme I (Hiller)
5. String Quartet No 5: Variations (Hiller)
6. String Quartet No 5: Theme II (Hiller)
7. String Quartet No 5: Varitaions (Hiller)
8. String Quartet No 5: Theme III (Hiller)
9. String Quartet No 5: Variations (Hiller)
10. String Quartet No 5: Theme IV (Hiller)
11. String Quartet No 2: (Druckman)
12. Structures for String Quartet (Feldman)

Customer Reviews:

Now I know why they make jokes about Hoboken (see below).......2005-10-27

Man, it's discouraging to see people piddling all over music like this. 1950-65 was a great era for American culture; sure the European influence was lingering but American composers (and artists and filmmakers) were finding a voice, an expression of some quality uniquely American that had never appeared before. American music could be something other than Hoe-Downs, Charlestons, and Nearer my God to Thee (sorry, Charles, and you know I love you anyway). This was a taut and crisp intellectual America that was finally gaining ascendancy, something new to the world, brilliant and beautiful. I think of a wonderful photo of Elliott Carter with Stravinsky in New York at some gallery or concert hall circa 1960 or so. Stravinsky looks old and seedy, like a Russian refugee even though he had years to ditch that; Carter, alert and in a sharp suit, looks like the future-on-the-half-shell. It all got blown out of the water by 60s and 70s-era lack of standards and discrimination and an unwillingness to TRY. Sixties-era, anti-culture crapola that still reigns supreme. To much pot. Hippies ruined everything.

What's startling about the bad review is these quartets are hardly over-intellectualized. In fact most are quite beautiful or evocative; the Cage stunningly so. The LPs this collection came off were among my favorites of that era and I doubt a better or more nightmarish Black Angels has ever been done despite recent attempts by Kronos and others. Amazing playing by committed performers. A deal and a bargain.

For ten bucks this is like gold for free. Have at it!

Many Undiscovered Treasures.......2003-01-08

It's almost laughable not to pick up this disc. The price alone makes the set worth it. Added to that the fact that many of these works are not available in other forms and this disc is a no-brainer for fans of the late 20th century string quartet. The sampling transcends styles, from the almost improvisatory sonic canvas of Earle Brown, to the surprisingly beautiful almost minimal quartet of Cage, the horrific depiction of war in Crumb's justly famous Black Angels, or the almost traditional sounding Schonbergisms of Stepan Wolpe, this is an eclectic collection and well worth the modest investment.

I won't review everything on the album, as there is just too much. Highlights for me include the Earle Brown quartet, which is one of Brown's strongest early works. Since Brown is poorly represented on CD, every release of his is worth having, but the Second Quartet is a masterwork of tonal subtlety. Cage's Quartet was written just before he moved into his more aleatoric phase. It is highly modal and almost a precusor to minimlism, a very pleasing work that should be more widely known. Christian Wolff is also a composer who is underrepresented on CD (though Mode is quickly redressing the imbalance.) Summer is also a protominimalist work, based on stark 5ths. The reading of Black Angels is good, though not anything to supplant the Kronos reading, which is still my favorite. Also interesting are Quartets by Wolpe and Leon Kirchner.

So if you have any interest in American string work of the late 20th century, you need this disc. It is indispensible and very beautifully played. And the Vox Box price is unbeatable.

compendium of the richness of American innovation.......2000-04-05

This is a great showcase of the American string quartet,innovation,vision,iconoclasm,all elements which we often overlook and forget easily.But only Elliot Carter is missing, and that's because he has what! Five Quartets now.Inclusion of the First Carter would have rounded things out. The Earle Brown here is a neglected masterwork. Based on graphic notation the performers don't improvise so much as are given entrance freedoms within a prescribed range. The affect can be mysterious,haunting,also innovative with a wide pallette of extended techniques, at the bridge, sul ponticello,plucking. We often forget the traditional beauty Cage engaged the early part of his career, the Forties. This Quartet is a fine consummate example of that,with soft,gentle lines, very sparce, and transparent,also he limits himself to a few tones,tossed around the various voices. Structures by Feldman is an early work here, the Quartet is treated as one monolith sound,indistinguishable voices playing harmonics,cello playing where the violin plays, same range. All of Feldman's floating gentleness is here as well,perhaps too much at times,like it overspends its welcome. Crumb's Black Angels is another classic, The Kronos has takened this around the block many times, Crumb always works well with a programmatic agenda in place, and here he transforms the Quartets introspective consititution to more a drammatic focus. Druckman as well also works well with a program but here there is none. He has a fine imagination for sonoric structures,balance,but its doesn't seem to amount to much. The Wolpe is one of his best works. His creativity was uneven, here the violence and charged motives he is found of are in place to jump, and reiterate, toss around in an environment of high energy. Wolff's Summer is an early work prior to his metamorphosis into utilization of political imagery by comparison, this is a beautiful work,but cold, Wolff also needs a program,which he profoundly found, He has alater Quartet he wrote in the Eighties that is more compelling.

An interesting sampling of a musical dead end........1999-06-18

Superb analog transfers and excellent playing, I suppose. (I mean, how can you tell with music like this?) OK, I'm not a fan of this kind of music, but at this price I thought the collection was worth chancing. So far, I've found that the best way to listen to this recording is to let the music wash over you while you enjoy the sheer variety of sounds that the composers and players create. And there are some pleasant surprises, particularly the Cage quartet (from 1950) which contains genuine emotion and ends with a brief movement chock full of--gasp!--sprightly tunes. Makes me wonder what might have been had these composers shown more interest in music and less interest in mathematical gymnastics designed to impress their colleagues at the academy. At any rate, I recommend this album as an interesting sonic experience and a good sampling of the dead-end serialist/avant-garde genre that is now being supplanted by a return to music that recognizes tonality. (If you really want great 20th century quartets, incidentally, buy the 6 by Bartok).

Fantastic Collection.......1999-03-24

This set is a must if you have the slightest interest in avant-garde music from the 50s and 60s. Not a single weak piece, excellent sound and performances, and the price can't be beat!

Average customer rating:

Bauhaus Reviewed, 1919-1933 Manufacturer: Ltm / Boutique Nl ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Antheil, George | ( A ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schoenberg | Schoenberg, Arnold | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Spoken Word | Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000MGBTSO Release Date: 2007-03-06

Tracks:

1. Phantasie, Op. 17
2. Walter Gropius on the Origins of the Bauhaus
3. Variation
4. Walter Gropius on Form and Totality
5. Shimmy
6. Walter Gropius on Klee, Itten, Kandinsky, Feininger & Moholy-Nagy
7. Stehende Musik
8. Josef Albers on Handling and Texture
9. Walter Gropius on Albers and Functionalism
10. Marsch Alexander des Grossen
11. Walter Gropius on Selection and Students
12. Piano Piece No. 1, Op. 23
13. Walter Gropius on Meyer and Mies Van der Rohe
14. Josef Albers on Politics and Meyer
15. Walter Gropius on Industrial Contracts
16. Suite for Piano, Op. 25
17. Walter Gropius on Utopianism
18. Ludwig Miew Van der Rohe on Architecture as Language
19. Walter Gropius on the Future of Architecture

Average customer rating: Great recording One of the 20th century's great set of piano etudes. Hamelin always mesmerizes and excites

Works by Bolcom and Wolpe: Twelve New Etudes/Battle Piece Manufacturer: New World Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Bolcom, William | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Etudes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Hamelin, Marc-André | ( H ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: BOLCOM: Fifth Symphony/Violin Concerto in D/Fantasia Concertante Ives: Concord Sonata; Barber: Piano Sonata Bolcom - Piano Rags William Bolcom: Symphony No. 4; Session 1 Catoire: Piano Music ASIN: B0000030DW Release Date: 1992-12-08

Tracks:

1. Twelve New Etudes, Book I: Fast, Furious
2. Twelve New Etudes, Book I: Recitatif
3. Twelve New Etudes, Book I: Mirrors
4. Twelve New Etudes, Book II: Scene D'Opera
5. Twelve New Etudes, Book II: Butterflies, Hummingbirds
6. Twelve New Etudes, Book II: Nocturne
7. Twelve New Etudes, Book III: Premonitions
8. Twelve New Etudes, Book III: Rag Infernal (Syncopes Apocalyptiques)
9. Twelve New Etudes, Book III: Invention
10. Twelve New Etudes, Book IV: Vers Le Silence
11. Twelve New Etudes, Book IV: Hi-Jinks
12. Twelve New Etudes, Book IV: Hymne A L'Amour
13. Battle Piece: Quasi Presto
14. Battle Piece: Molto Sostenuto
15. Battle Piece: Con Moto Ma Non Troppo
16. Battle Piece: Vivo
17. Battle Piece: Moderato
18. Battle Piece: Con Brio
19. Battle Piece: Allegro Non Troppo

Customer Reviews:

Great recording.......2002-11-02

If you like Bolcom's piano works, this CD is for you. Really an astonishing performance!!

One of the 20th century's great set of piano etudes........1999-12-24

The Bolcom 12 New Etudes are wild wonderful pieces. They should be considered one of the great sets of piano etudes written in the 20th century along with those by Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, and Debussy. Hamelin was the composer's new inspiration after the project was shelved following the death of the original dedicatee, Paul Jacobs, who died in 1983. Hamelin does incredible things with these pieces. He understands them fully, and overcomes their cruel and unusual demands with astonishing ease. In literature that is unusual, rarely played, and exceptionally difficult, Hamelin has no equal. The Wolpe piece didn't do much for me (though I respect Hamelin's advocacy of it), but the Bolcom Etudes take up most of the playing time and are easily worth the price of the disc.

Hamelin always mesmerizes and excites.......1999-04-08

Hamelin likes to scour the countryside looking for piano music no one else would touch. It could be because of marketability or lack of understanding. So,if you have followed his recordings you've seen all the neglected piano geniuses he has presented, as the post-romantic Russian Medtner, or the Berlioz contemporary Alkan(a recluse). And here with Wolpe, we have a creativity hardly known. Well Wolpe was inconsistent without a focused agenda, and his piano music, there is( for my money) only the "Passacgaglia" and this work. I had hoped he would have performed the "Passacaglia" which is more problematic. Hamelin, whatever he touches turns into a high dramatic affair. His consummate technique always allows him to run past ahead of the music. And here in the Wolpe, the piano is shattered,full of abandonement yet always controlled. Bolcom is not so neglected, an eclectic by comparison and temperment who has made the popular strains of expression work for him while maintaining some semblance of intellectual manipulation. The trick is to keep both within the pit of play. These Etudes do just that and are nice and easy listening yet engage a structural musical imagination, bound by texture and register. Like good etudes they say what needs to be said and are off onto another excursion.

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Aria & Architecture: Three Centuries of the Virtuoso Oboe Manufacturer: Crystal Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by J.S. Bach | Bach, Johann Sebastian | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Oboe | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000003J3O Release Date: 1994-12-12

Tracks:

1. Son in g: Andante
2. Son in g: Siciliano
3. Son in g: Presto
4. Son: Tanz
5. Son: Molto Adagio
6. Son: Embittered, Violent And Quick
7. Son: Allegro Con Grazia
8. Gran Con Su Temi Dall' Opera I Vespri Siciliani Di Verdi
9. Scena

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String Quartet Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Stefan Wolpe: The Man from Midian; Sonata for violin & piano Roger Sessions: String Quartet Dance Suite and Cello Concerto The Group For Contemporary Music Dybbuk; Fancy Free (complete ballets) ASIN: B000FVQUVW Release Date: 2006-07-13

Tracks:

1. Quarternote-92
2. Quarternote-144
3. Second Piece For Violin Alone - Curtis Macomber
4. Quarternote-Ca. 132
5. Quarternote-Ca. 80
6. Early Morning Music
7. Calm
8. Intense And Spirited
9. Taut; To Oneself

Average customer rating: Fresh and Lyrical

Stefan Wolpe: The Man from Midian; Sonata for violin & piano Manufacturer: Naxos American ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: String Quartet Hailstork: Symphonies 2 & 3 Dance Suite and Cello Concerto John Harbison: Piano Trio No. 2 John Corigliano: String Quartet; Snapshot: Circa 1909; A Black November Turkey; Friedman: String Quartet No. 2 ASIN: B000M2DNNW Release Date: 2007-02-27

Tracks:

1. Overture
2. Serfdom Lamentation
3. Mother Conceives Child
4. Pharoah's Daughter Bathes In The Nile, Finds The Baby
5. Procession
6. Pet Of The Court-Political Intrigue
7. Moses Among The Workers
8. Moses Buries The Taskmaster In The Sand
9. Conversation With God
10. Moses Meets Aaron;Command Of Moses For The Waters
11. March Through The Red Sea
12. Restlessness
13. Aaron's Depseration
14. Joshua's Pleading
15. Bacchanal
16. Return Of Moses:Breaking Of Tablets;Moses Falls On The Arm Of Joshua
17. Moses Walks Among The People;Commands Some To Be Killed
18. Gathering Of People
19. Un Poco Allegro - Garrick Ohlsson
20. Andante Appassionato - Garrick Ohlsson
21. Lento:Scherzo - Garrick Ohlsson
22. Allegretto Deciso - Garrick Ohlsson

Customer Reviews:

Fresh and Lyrical.......2007-03-12

In any discussion of 20th-century music, certain names--Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Britten, etc--crowd to the front of the room. But a more thorough examination of the era reveals many more fine composers. Stefan Wolpe is among those, and his reputation has grown over the decades since his death. This CD presents music composed in the first decade of Wolpe's time in America. "The Man From Midian" is a ballet, scored for two pianos, on the subject of Moses.

Ballet scores can be problematic, restricted as they are by the need for short tableaux. In the case of some composers--Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev come to mind--scores never escape those restrictions. They're always "ballet music". Wolpe instead found an opportunity. The score plays as an integrated suite, exploring various scales and formal mechanisms. It's more innovative than a first hearing would indicate, and nicely explores the sonorities available from two pianos. Of course, if one prefers to listen to music programmatically, the story is ready-made. Some of the processional music reminds me slightly of Britten's "Burning Fiery Furnace", which came much later.

The "Sonata for Violin and Piano" doesn't really break any new ground, but it's still a well-made piece in a unique voice. It's quite vigorous and dramatic. Although Wolpe was born in Germany, the Sonata doesn't sound particularly German, or American, or any other particular nationality. Wolpe has successfully breathed in the musical air from all around. It's a nice piece.

The peformance comes from the Group for Contemporary Music--not so much a specific assemblage of performers as a sort of clearing house for first-rate musicians. The readings are excellent, and the recording--while a bit reverberant--is excellent. Thanks again to Naxos for giving these excellent readings a second life.

Average customer rating: Astonishing

Trumpet in our Time Manufacturer: Summit(Classical) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Trumpet | Brass | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Thomas Stevens Trumpet Sonatas David Hickman, Trumpet Chamber Music Of Eric Ewazen Trumpet Vocalise Caprice - Alison Balsom ASIN: B0000038JL Release Date: 1994-01-04

Tracks:

1. Nativity
2. Enigma-Release
3. Rebirth
4. Muted Spirits; Jump
5. The Mysteries Remain
6. Cycle Of Seed-Time
7. Demeter In The Grass
8. Lacchus In The Vine
9. Intrada
10. Graceful, Talking, Not Too Big, Intimate
11. Solo
12. With Strength And Vigor
13. Rather Slowly And With Freedom
14. Moderately Fast, With Energy
15. Allegro
16. Andantino
17. Presto
18. Moderato
19. Allegretto
20. 1/4nt=56
21. Presto

Customer Reviews:

Astonishing.......2002-05-12

This is hands down one of the best trumpet recital CD's out there. Mr. Mase's playing is outstanding. He has a beautiful sound and amazing articulation. What really makes this CD outstanding his Mr. Mase's overriding musicianship. I especially liked the opening piece "The Avatar" the first mvt. Features Mr. Mase on piccolo trumpet, and the second and third continue on with flugel horn and trumpet, respectively. The piece is very interesting with lots of contrast and melody. I especially like the first two mvts.
The Kent Kennan sonata recorded here is in my mine the definitive recording of this work (at the very least the definitive revised version).
This is a must buy for any trumpet student. For any person interested in modern brass music this is a definite recommendation.

Average customer rating: Carter in Europe

Elliott Carter: Homages & Dedications Elliot Carter , Spanjaard , and Nieuw Ensemble Manufacturer: Disques Montaigne ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Duets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Trios | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Carter | Carter, Elliott | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Clarinet | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Flute | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Oboe | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Guitar | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Harp | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Music of Elliott Carter Vol. 7; Boston Concerto, Cello Concerto, ASKO Concerto, Dialogues The Music of Elliott Carter, Vol. 6 Boulez conducts Boulez Elliott Carter: The Complete music for Piano Tristan Murail: Gondwana; Désintégrations; Time and Again ASIN: B0000C8WXM Release Date: 2004-01-20

Tracks:

1. Luimen 'For The Nieuw Ensemble' (1997) For Mandolin, Guitar, Harp, Vibraphone, Trumpet And Trombone
2. Scrivo In Vento 'For Robert Aitken' (1991) For Flute
3. Con Leggerezza Pensosa - Omaggio A Italo Calvino (1990) For Clarinet, Violin And Cello
4. Changes 'For David Starobin' (1983) For Guitar
5. Esprit Rude, Esprit Doux II 'For Pierre Boulez' (1994) For Flute, Clarinet, Violin And Cello
6. Bariolage 'For Ursula Holliger' (1992) For Harp
7. Inner Song 'For Heinz Holliger' In Memory Of Stefan Wolpe (1992) For Oboe
8. Immer Neu 'For Ursula And Heinz Holliger' (1992) For Harp And Oboe
9. Gra 'For Witold Lutoslawski' (1993) For Clarinet
10. Enchanted Preludes 'For Ann Santen's Birthday' (1988) For Flute And Cello
11. 90+ 'For Goffredo Petrassi' (1994) For Piano
12. Canon For 4 - Homage To William 'For Sir William Glock' (1984) For Flute, Bass Clarinet, Violin And Cello

Customer Reviews:

Carter in Europe.......2006-06-28

Though Elliott Carter's music has often found greater acceptance within modernism-friendly Europe rather than at home, many of his most distinguished interpreters (particularly on record) have been American musicians. By contrast, this disc has a distinctly European flavour, with members of the Dutch group Nieuw Ensemble playing ten works, including one dedicated to them.

The two most weighty works on the disc are Luimen and Trilogy. Luimen (roughly meaning 'whimsical moods') is a sextet for the unusual combination of mandolin, guitar, harp, vibraphone, trumpet and trombone, and was written for the performers on this disc. It's a delightful piece, written with a very light touch as it swings from one mood to another. There is a previous recording by Speculum Musicae, which I slightly prefer due to its greater intensity, but the more relaxed feel of this reading suits the music very well too.

Trilogy, for oboe and harp, was written for Heinz and Ursula Holliger. As the title would suggest, it's in three movements: Bariolage for solo harp, Inner Song (an elegy for Stephan Wolpe) for solo oboe, and Immer Neu for both instruments. As with Luimen, it's amongst the most charming of Carter's later works, the harp part full of unusual sounds and techniques, the oboe solo a beautiful lament, and the finale a witty, conversational dialogue. As the Holligers' performance is no longer available, this reading will do very nicely as a replacement (even if it doesn't supersede the original).

The rest of the pieces on the disc are rather slighter. Scrivo in vento is a flute solo which alternates slow, lyrical music in the lower range of the instrument with shrieks and cries at the top of its range, while Con leggerezza pensosa, for clarinet, violin and cello, pays homage to Italo Calvino's writings with rapidly shifting moods. Changes is a delightful solo guitar work that never stays in the same mood for more than a few moments, while Esprit rude, esprit doux II, for flute, clarinet and marimba, celebrates Pierre Boulez's 80th birthday and the two sides of his personality--generous and irascible.

Gra, a homage to Witold Lutoslawski, is a vivacious solo clarinet piece (practically a repertory work now, too), while the charming Enchanted Preludes is a witty dialogue between flute and cello with a joyous close. 90+ celebrates the 90th birthday of Goffredo Petrassi with 90 bars of contrasting pianistic styles...then refuses to quit, while the not-as-austere-as-you'd-expect Canon for 4 is a hommage to BBC radio controller Sir William Glock, for the typically Carterian combination of flute, bass clarinet, violin and cello.

This isn't an absolutely essential Carter disc--unless you don't have another recording of Trilogy--but it's hard to see any lovers of this composer's music being disappointed by it. I know I enjoyed it.

Average customer rating: Fired Up!

Modern Trumpet Manufacturer: Capriccio ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Duets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Trios | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Carter | Carter, Elliott | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Gubaidulina, Sofia | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Henze | Henze, Hans Werner | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Hindemith | Hindemith, Paul | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Honegger | Honegger, Arthur | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Stravinsky | Stravinsky, Igor | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Trumpet | Brass | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Brass | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Thomas Stevens Trumpet Sonatas ASIN: B000001WPT Release Date: 1992-11-23

Tracks:

1. Fanfare For a New Theatre;2.Intrada for Trumpet and Piano;3.Toccata (Allegro con brio);4.Canzone;5.Segnali;6.Mit Kraft;7.Mäßig schnell;8.Trauermusik;9.Graceful, talking;10.Not too bit, intimate;11.Allgreo giusto;12.Introduktion (Adagio sostenuto - March - Meno);13.Thema und 7 Variationen (über eine deutsche Schnulze);14.(olla podrida);15.I;16.II;17.III;18.I;19.II;20.Trio for two trumpets ;21.Moderato;22.Canon for 3

Customer Reviews:

Fired Up!.......2000-12-29

Friedrich really fires things up on this CD! He plays some unbelievable things on this disc, which has The Honnegger Intrada, Hindemith Sonate, Stravinsky Fanfare for a New Theatre, and other really hard tunes. He really gets it out front on every track!

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Wolpe: Quintet with Voice; Piece in 3 Parts; Suite im Hexachord Manufacturer: Bridge ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Duets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000003GJ1 Release Date: 1995-02-13

Tracks:

1. Ste Im Hexachord: 1. Sostenuto - Stephen Taylor/Allen Blustine
2. Ste Im Hexachord: 2. Pastorale - Stephen Taylor/Allen Blustine
3. Ste Im Hexachord: 3. Fuge - Stephen Taylor/Allen Blustine
4. Ste Im Hexachord: 4. Adagio - Stephen Taylor/Allen Blustine
5. Provence - Hilda Morley
6. Qnt: 1. Of Festive Grace - Speculum Musicae/William Purvis
7. Qnt: 2. Here, The Sun Violet - Speculum Musicae/William Purvis
8. Qnt: 3. Vars - Speculum Musicae/William Purvis
9. Piece In Three Parts: 1. 1/4nt= 100 - The Chamber Music Society Of Lincoln Center/Oliver Knussen
10. Piece In Three Parts: 2. 1/4nt= 74 - The Chamber Music Society Of Lincoln Center/Oliver Knussen
11. Piece In Three Parts: 3. 1/4nt= 132 - The Chamber Music Society Of Lincoln Center/Oliver Knussen

Album Description

This new release celebrates the explosively visceral sound world of Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972). Regarded by specialists as among the elite of mid-century modernists, Wolpe's compositions of the 50's and 60's can be heard as developing in sound many of the ideas championed on canvas by New York's Abstract Expressionists.

This disc includes the premiere recordings of two late Wolpe scores - Quintet with Voice (1957) and Piece in 3 Parts for Piano and 16 Instruments (1961); as well as Wolpe's early Suite im Hexachord (1936.

Performed by Peter Serkin, Oliver Knussen, Jan Opalach, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Speculum Musicae.

Track Listings:

1. From Scandinavia
2. Gautier de Coinci: The Miracles Of Our Lady
3. Gershwin Gold 2
4. Grieg: Sonata for violin No3; Sonata for violin No2
5. Guiraut Riquier & the Court of Alfonso X the Wise - Compagnie Medievale
6. Harpsichord Pieces
7. Henri Dutilleux / Pascal Dusapin (Arditti Quartet Edition 16)
8. Ignis Noster / Helle Nacht
9. In the Age of Enlightenment
10. Inner Time

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If You're Into It, I'm Out of It

Mozart: Clarinet Con. / Flute & Harp Con. (City of London sinfonia/Hickox)

Live on Maxwell Street [Live]

Music: Straylight Run [Enhanced]

Last Rides Of The Midway

It's Too Funky in Here [Live]

Lord Bring Me Down

Janacek: Taras Bulba / Dunaj / Sinfonietta

No More Looking Over My Shoulder

Los Aguacates de Jiquilpan

Mercury

Music for Speeding [Import]

Members Only V.8 [Import]

Joplin: Treemonisha

Live in Chicago at the United Center 12.19.98