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Music by Arnold Schoenberg, Sylvano Bussotti and Giacomo Puccini, heard by Giuseppe Pennisi
2017-09-01 13:23:00
Variation through Commitment, Commitment in Variation: Works by Schoenberg, Beethoven, and Rzewski
[…] out upon his self-proclamation as Emperor, replaced with a generic, universal tribute to the ‘memory of a great man’. Much, although far from all, of Beethoven’s method had been outlined here. The People United: the musician as ‘organiser and redistributor of energies’ Rzewski is a fine pianist in his own right; he gave, in 1962, the first performance of Stockhausen’s Klavierstück X, and performed works by, amongst others, Boulez, Cage, Bussotti, and Kagel. Not entirely unlike Schoenberg and Beethoven, he would turn to more overtly political writing and other activity – if again like them, far from unequivocally – in his case, in the wake of the turmoil of the late 1960s. Perhaps not entirely unlike Eisler, whose work Rzewski has also performed, he had developed a wariness of avant-gardism, concerned that it might unwittingly divorce itself from urgent political matters. These words from 1968 […]
2016-01-12 01:00:00
Theremin - Brecht - Berio - Tudor
Lydia Kavina: Music from the Ether ORIGINAL WORKS FOR THEREMIN Lydia Kavina, theremin Joshua Pierce, piano Elizabeth Parcells, soprano Recordings: May/June 1997 Bertolt Brecht: Songs and Ballads Klaus Kinski, vocal Ingo Insterburg, guitar 9. April 1959 Live, Vienna Townhall Luciano Berio (1925-2003): Recital I for Cathy (1971), Folk Songs (1964), 3 Songs by Kurt Weil Cathy Berberian (1925-1983), mezzo-soprano London Sinfonietta - Luciano Berio, conductor Juilliard Ensemble - Luciano Berio, conductor Recorded 1958 resp. 1972 David Tudor - Music for Piano (ed. RZ) (2 CDs) Compositions by John Cage, Christian Wolff, Sylvano Bussotti, Morton Feldman. David Tudor, piano Recorded 1956 - 1967 Published 2007 LYDIA KAVINA: MUSIC FROM THE ETHER - ORIGINAL WORKS FOR THEREMIN Joseph Schillinger (1895-1943) [01] Melody (1929) Kavina, Pierce (1:43) [02] Mouvement électrique et pathétique (1932) […]
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