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Artist:	BROWN, EARLE
Title:	Chamber Music
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD52

Recorded 1999-2002. A collection of early works by Brown, written 1952-64. Includes: "Folio", "Corroboree" (for three pianos); "Four Systems" (multi-timbral realisation); "Tracking Pierrot" (for ensemble). Performed by the Dal Niente projects: Simon Allen (vibraphone, marimba, percussion harmonicas, various sound-producing media); Peter Bevan (trombone); Bridget Carey (viola); Tania Chen (piano); Robert Coleridge (piano); Francesca Hanley (flute); Nicolas Hodges (piano); Mieko Kanno (violin); Lore Lixenburg (voice); Zoe Martlew (cello); Mannon Morris (harp); Fiona Ritchie (vibraphone,marimba); David Ryan (clarinet, bass clarinet); Nancy Ruffer (flute); Andrew Sparling (clarinet, bass clarinet); John Tilbury (piano); Earle Brown (conductor).

Artist:	BROWN, EARLE
Title:	Tracer: Chamber Works 1952-1999
Label:	MODE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MODE 179CD

Regular CD version (also available on DVD). "Earle Brown (1926-2002) first encountered the work of Alexander Calder in 1948, whose mobile sculptures Brown saw as a visual embodiment of the variable (impermanent) aesthetic that he was striving to create. This 'Calder aesthetic' stayed with Brown throughout his several stylistic shifts. Whether he was writing twelve-tone serial music ('Music for Violin, Cello, and Piano'), conceptual graphic scores ('Folio and Four Systems,' and 'For Neil'), composing material/open form scores ('String Quartet,' 'New Piece' and 'Tracer'), or 'spontaneously composed' music: ('Special Events'), all of his music shares Calder's sense of integral but 'floating' variations. Brown belonged to a group of composers that today is referred to as the The New York School (the group active in New York in the 1950s that included Brown, John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Christian Wolff.) The works recorded on this disc represent several of Brown's compositional styles. At least one piece was selected from every decade of his career, from the 1950s to the 1990s. The ensemble size varies from one player to fourteen. Performers include Christian Wolff and Joan La Barbara, both of whom knew and worked with Brown for many years. The classic tape piece 'Octet' is presented in new high-resolution transfers from the analog tapes, remixed for this release. Three first recordings. Original 96khz, 24-bit recording."

Artist:	BROWN, EARLE
Title:	Tracer
Label:	MODE
Format:	DVD-AUDIO
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	MODE 179DVD

DVD version. This version features DVD-audio with accompanying full video for each piece. "Earle Brown (1926-2002) first encountered the work of Alexander Calder in 1948, whose mobile sculptures Brown saw as a visual embodiment of the variable (impermanent) aesthetic that he was striving to create. This 'Calder aesthetic' stayed with Brown throughout his several stylistic shifts. Whether he was writing twelve-tone serial music ('Music for Violin, Cello, and Piano'), conceptual graphic scores ('Folio' and 'Four Systems,' and 'For Neil'), composed material/open form scores ('String Quartet,' 'New Piece' and 'Tracer'), or 'spontaneously composed' music ('Special Events'), all of his music shares Calder's sense of integral but 'floating' variations. Brown belonged to a group of composers that today is referred to as the 'The New York School' (the group active in New York in the 1950s that included Brown, John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Christian Wolff.) The works recorded on this disc represent several of Brown's compositional styles. At least one piece was selected from every decade of his career, from the 1950s to the 1990s. The ensemble size varies from one player to fourteen. Performers include Christian Wolff and Joan La Barbara, both of whom knew and worked with Brown for many years. Several works call for spatialized ensembles spread throughout the hall, perfect for the surround-sound medium. The classic tape piece 'Octet' is presented in new high-resolution transfers from the analog tapes, remixed for this DVD. Many first recordings. This is the first DVD of Earle Brown's music. Hi-resolution 24-bit 5.1 surround recording in 24-hit DTS and Dolby Digital. Dedicated 24-bit PCM stereo mix. NTSC format, Region 0."

Artist:	BROWN, EARLE
Title:	Selected Works 1952-1965
Label:	NEW WORLD RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	NW 80650CD

This long-awaited reissue of the CRI recording of Earle Brown's (1926-2002) music is the best overview of his seminal early works. "It is obviously a great pleasure for me that CRI is re-releasing its 1974 recording of my work, and an even greater pleasure that I am able to add to the repertoire. The performance of 'Times Five' and 'Novara' (recorded in Holland) still seem very fine representations of the works and are performed brilliantly by the Dutch musicians. December 1952 as realized by the late, brilliant pianist and composer David Tudor is, in my opinion, the best of many performances he made of this graphic score. It is fascinating to hear the realizations by Michael Daugherty of November 1952, December 1952 and 'Four Systems' (all published in 'Folio' (1952-54) -- immensely inventive and marvelously performed on piano, tape and computer, with the newer technology that was not available to Tudor at the time he recorded his version in December 1952. This recording of 'Nine Rare Bits' is one of six versions that Antoinette Vischer (who commissioned the work) and George Gruntz surprised me with when I returned to Basel after my lectures in Stockholm in 1965. Although I very specifically compose the sound events, it is an 'open-form' score, subject to innumerable formal shapes, arranged by the performers themselves. 'Music for Violin, Cello and Piano' is a very early (1952) twelve-tone serial piece in very strictly metric notation. It uses Schillinger-suggested 'serial' techniques, very similar to Messiaen, as it turned out. In contrast, 'Music for Cello and Piano' is a completely subjectively composed work, in what I called 'time notation' (contrary to metric) which is now referred to as 'Proportional Notation'."

Artist:	BROWN, EARLE
Title:	Folio and Four Systems
Label:	TZADIK
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	TZ 8028

"A spectacular collection of musicians from all over the map, including Leo Smith, Joan La Barbara, Mark Feldman, Morton Subotnick and Merzbow perform dynamic interpretations of compositions by one of America's greatest musical experimentalists. Influenced by the work of Jackson Pollock and Alexander Calder, Brown pioneered graphic, improvisational and open form scores in contemporary concert music as early as 1952. This heartfelt tribute, organized by the Earle Brown Foundation to commemorate Brown's 80th birthday, brings together musicians and ensembles from rock, jazz and classical backgrounds in exciting and varied realizations of Brown's groundbreaking open form work, Folio and Four Systems." Performers include: Stephen Drury, Merzbow, Joan La Barbara, Wadada Leo Smith, Ikue Mori, Sylvie Courvoisier, Christian Wolf, Daniel Goode, Larry Polansky, Morton Subotnik, Mark Feldman & others.

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