Average customer rating: |
Screamers (Circus Marches)
Manufacturer: Philips ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000057L1 Release Date: 1991-02-08 |
Tracks:
Average customer rating: |
The Most Relaxing Harp Album in the World... Ever!
Manufacturer: Angel Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000AXWGXG Release Date: 2005-10-04 |
Tracks:
Tracks:
Average customer rating: |
Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music Special Edition 3CD + DVD
Manufacturer: Ellipsis Arts ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000BDGVX6 Release Date: 2005-10-25 |
Tracks:
Tracks:
Tracks:
Album Description
OHM+ : the early gurus of electronic musicSpecial Edition 3CD + DVD
Leaps in technology: oscillators, generators, vacuum tubes, amplifiers, transistors, magnetic tape, integrated circuits, and the microchip inspired new instruments: the telharmonium, theremin, ondes martenot, electronic sackbut, clavivox, electronium, moog synthesizer, and computers and artists everywhere hungry for new modes of expression.
This collection is a humble but bold attempt to give form to the wonderful, multi-directional, inevitable birth of electronic music.
"Many of the ideas in this collection have now been so completely assimilated into popular listening that it may sometimes be hard to remember how surprising it all was on first outing. Some of it still sounds pretty exotic. These CDs are important as part of the story of how we got to where we are now-the cultural conversation so far-and as a still fruitful repertoire of future possibilities." from the Foreword by Brian Eno
Three CDs42 original music tracks from 1948-1980 112 Page Bookextensive artist interviews, commentaries, and archival photographs Special Edition DVDover two hours of rare performances, interviews, animations, and experimental video.
Average customer rating: |
John Cage: In a Landscape
Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000003EL7 Release Date: 1995-01-10 |
Tracks:
Average customer rating: |
Pieces in a Modern Style
Samuel Barber , Ludwig van Beethoven , John Cage , Ferry Corsten , Henryk Gorecki , George Frideric Handel , Pietro Mascagni , Maurice Ravel , Erik Satie , Andre (aka ATB) Tanneberger , Antonio Vivaldi , and William Orbit Manufacturer: Maverick ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000046S1W Release Date: 2000-02-22 |
Tracks:
Tracks:
Amazon.com
William Orbit's Pieces in a Modern Style is an ambient album that rejigs 11 works by classical composers in a particularly tacky fashion. Even though Orbit has proved his mettle as an innovative and exciting producer for others--Blur's 13 and Madonna's Ray of Light--this is an ungainly meeting of the sublime and the absurd that, frankly, doesn't work. Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings," Ludwig van Beethoven's "Triple Concerto," Henryk Gorecki's "Piece in the Old Style I," and Antonio Vivaldi's "L'Inverno" are four that unfortunately meet their maker in a crude pileup of flat, belching synths and wallpaper flourishes. If he had combined live instrumentation with a playful reverence for the arcane glories of the past, perhaps he could have managed to make reality out of that most elusive of notions: experimental music that actually sells. However, Orbit fails to do anything more than resemble a second-rate Vangelis. --Maxine Kabuubi
Average customer rating: |
Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000JMYM Release Date: 1999-07-20 |
Tracks:
Average customer rating: |
Rzewski Plays Rzewski: Piano Works 1975-1999
Frederic Rzewski Manufacturer: Nonesuch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00006JI9X Release Date: 2002-09-24 |
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 tradition. Political and social issues provide a subtext from which Rzewski's musical imagination explodes with purposeful virtuosity, stylistic freedom, and high drama. He can conjure slow droplets of notes on a dark, still background ("A Life"), only to cram and compress a multitude of disparate popular themes within a larger, traditional framework (Sonata for Piano), or integrate music and spoken words to a level where they cannot exist without the other ("De Profundis"). Rzewski the composer provides Rzewski the pianist plenty of opportunity to display his ingenious improvisatory mettle: his cadenzas for "Mein Yingele, Which Side Are You On" particularly dazzle. There are, to be sure, other ways to play this music, such as Marc-André Hamelin's suavely proficient People United and Paul Jacobs's authoritative premiere recording of the North American Ballads. But the elemental force and personality defining Rzewski's pianism leave as indelible an imprint as his music. No lover of contemporary piano music should miss this important, superbly annotated release. --Jed Distler
Average customer rating: |
Discover Music of the 20th Century
Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000B6N6B8 Release Date: 2005-11-01 |
Tracks:
Tracks:
Average customer rating: |
Indeterminacy
Manufacturer: Smithsonian Folkways ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000001DM2 Release Date: 1992-11-10 |
Tracks:
Tracks:
Album Description
The idea behind Indeterminacy was, like many Cagean ideas, essentially simple and audaciously original. Cage read 90 stories, his speed determined by the story's length. In another room, beyond earshot of Cage, David Tudor, pianist and veteran Cage collaborator, performed miscellaneous selections from Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra and played pre-recorded tape from Cage's Fontana Mix. The resulting collaboration is an astounding piece of "music," and a fine introduction to the innovations of John Cage. "A wonderfully curious way to hear stories." - Stereophile
Average customer rating: |
American Classics Sampler
Manufacturer: Naxos American ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005LMZU Release Date: 2001-06-19 |
Tracks:
Music Composers: