Nono: a Floresta E Jovm E Che
 impassioned political canti to struggles in the 20th century: This is the only work I know within the classical serious realm dedicated to the disappeared.(Well Christian Wolff has a piano solo). Nono here refers to the disappeared in Central and South [... more]
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Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond
processes and fields of sound, not time-objects...: Nyman's 1974 classic is here reprinted sans revisions. Brilliant! It captures a moment -- as Nyman concludes his preface, "Thank goodness I wrote it when I did." EM is not a survey of 20th [... more]
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Talking Music: Conversations With John Cage, Philip ...
great fascinating interviews on American creativity: Willian Duckworth is marvelous at asking questions,he is so natural at it that he makes you feel you have known his guests all your life. He allows everyone to feel at home, at ease,like catching more [... more]
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Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of ...
a primary document of the American avant-garde: " The day Jackson Pollock died I called a certain man I knew- a very great painter-and told him the news. After a long pause he said, in a voice so low it was barely a whisper,' That son of a b---he [... more]
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Jatekok And Bach Transcription
Extraordinary music superbly played: This is one of the finest CDs of contemporary piano music I have ever heard. The music is spare, fragmented, and frequently "empty" -- not empty of content, but empty in the way the Grand Canyon is empty. [... more]
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Signs Games And Messages
Worth a try, for sure: This recording came out yesterday and I picked it up today having never heard of the composer or his music. Upon a first listening to my relatively well travelled ear, this work is challenging and mysterious. Kurtag is walking a [... more]
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Piano Works 1975-1999
From Amazon.com: From his 1975 mega-variation set, The People United Will Never Be Defeated, to his eight-hour "novel for piano," The Road, Frederic Rzewski breathed new life, passion, and vitality into the long dormant composer-pianist [... more]
CDN$66.99
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Chance Operation - the John Ca
unknown..but i'm real excited: Jspark wrote a review that totally grabbed my intrest..I did my senior art history project on John Cage..using random sheets of paper for the lecture. the idea of hitting the "random button" is a great idea..and [... more]
CDN$34.99
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Feldman, Morton: Triadic Memo
timeless music works on the body & mind: Feldman's long durational music, the music he wrote the last (more-or-less) ten years of his life, works best in the piano genre, for which this is the only work. The other pieces as the 4 hour "For [... more]
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American String Quartets, 1950-1970
Fantastic Collection: 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! An interesting sampling of a musical dead end.: [... more]
CDN$11.99
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Wolff: Bread and Roses; 11 Pr
Gifted,brilliant playing,Pinkas has unlocked the mysteries: Christian Wolff writes extremely diffucult music, not ferocious technique, there is that, but part of his musical aesthetic, was/is the interpretive freedom he has always allowed the performers [... more]
CDN$15.99
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Play Feldman String Quartet
Amazon.com essential recording: Written two years before his death in 1987, Morton Feldman's Piano and String Quartet is a shimmering, pristine musical event. Contrasting Aki Takahashi's widely-spaced piano arpeggios with Kronos Quartet's extended chords, [... more]
CDN$19.99
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