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Reduced price, last copies. Fantôme Phonographique present a reissue of Serenata I/Sonatine/Canteyodjaya/Zeitmasze, originally released in 1958. The avant-garde composer and conductor Pierre Boulez was a titan of post-war experimental classical music. Born in the small cheesemaking town of Montrbrison in central France in 1925, Boulez studied at the Paris Conservatoire with the composer and organist Charles Messiaen and received private tuition from pianist Andrée Vaurabourg; after moving to the Marais district in 1945, he briefly studied with Schoenberg disciple, René Leibowitz, and further influence came from immersion in Balinese gamelan, Japanese classical music, and African drumming, among other sources. Earning money by playing an early electronic keyboard called the Ondes Martenot on theater productions, Boulez soon became music director of the Renaud-Barrault Theatre Company, leading to tours of Belgium, Switzerland, Britain, and both North and South America. American composer John Cage became an ally, though they subsequently clashed over Cage's commitment to the role of chance in his compositions, paving the way for an intense and lasting friendship with the German composer, Karlheinz Stockhausen, who arrived in Paris in 1952 to study with Olivier Messiaen. In July of that year, the pair attended the International Summer Course for New Music in Darmstadt, leading to contact with Italian composer Luciano Berio and other noteworthy figures. Then, in 1954, with backing from Barrault and Renaud, Boulez began staging a series of concerts of experimental music at the Petit Marigny Theatre, titled Le Domaine musical. The pieces collected on this album are all taken from performances staged for the 1957 Domaine musical season, beginning with Berio's "Serenata I", conducted by Boulez, which debuted in Paris in March of that year; arranged for flute and fourteen instruments, Berio said that the idea behind the piece was for the solo flute to be confronted by continuously interchanging elements, rather than mere accompaniments or oppositions. Boulez's own "Sonatine", composed in 1946 for flute and piano, is a 12-tone piece that evidences Messiaen's influence, with shades of Asian classical music in places; then, Stockhausen's monumental "Zeitmasze" (or "Time Measures") a serial composition for five woodwinds, played in different combinations of tempos and speed, was partly inspired by Webern's principles of homogenous and harmonic textures. Finally, Messiaen's 1949 work "Cantéyodjayâ", delivered by pianist Yvonne Loriod, takes it shape from the classical Hindu rhythms of ancient India, as with much of the composer's oeuvre. 180 gram vinyl.
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"Zeit(t)räume, dedicated to works by Stockhausen and Berio, features soprano Claudia Böttcher and pianist Jovita Zähl. Stockhausen's music box cycle Tierkreis is presented here in a version for soprano and piano alongside his Klavierstück IX, which exemplifies principles of his serial thinking. In Berio's Sequenza III, a wealth of emotional states is expressed, while the special charm that characterizes Quattro Canzoni poplari is rooted in the composer's fascinating interpretations of traditional folk songs."
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"Debut EP from D Tiberio, producer representing the east of Los Angeles. The first release of Nosaj Thing's Timetable imprint, D Tiberio creates a melodic platform for connecting deeper realities of the human conscience. He provides an acceptance of repressed emotions within a new territory of experimental music."
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Performed by Vincent David (saxophone), Ensemble Quaerendo Invenietis, Renaud Déjardin. "Saxophonist Vincent David, assisted by his frequent chamber-music partners and closest friends, gives exceptional performances of the works featured here: 'Chemins IV and VII' (Récit), plus selections from the 34 Duos by Luciano Berio (1925-2003); the Dialogue de L'ombre Double by Pierre Boulez (b. 1925); and the 1930 Quartuor Op. 22 by Anton Webern (1883-1945)."
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MODE 161/63CD
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"Luciano Berio greatly enriched the repertoire for solo instruments and voice with his series of sixteen Sequenzas and works such as 'Psy,' 'Gesti,' 'Rounds' and 'Fa-Si.' Written between 1958 and 2002 and spanning almost five decades of Berio's creative career, these solo compositions reflect some of his most crucial aesthetic ideas and compositional techniques." Features: The first complete recording of the Sequenazs; The first complete recording of the alternate Sequenazs; Plus all of Berio's works for solo instruments; An international all-star cast of performers: Paula Robison, flute; Susan Jolles, harp; Isabelle Ganz, voice; Aki Takahashi, piano; Stuart Dempster, trombone; Rohan De Saram, cello; Ulrich Krieger, soprano saxophone; Irvine Arditti, violin; Seth Josel, guitar; Noriko Shimada, bassoon; Stefano Scodanibbio, double bass. Deluxe package with 104 page booklet of notes.
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