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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | John Cage: Music for percussion quartet
Percussion Ensemble Mainz, Markus Hauke | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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The significance of the seven pieces brought together here is that they both generate a striking panorama of the intelligence of the material presented, over a period of four years, from 1939 to 1943, by the composer whom the critic Fred Goldbeck described as “the greatest Giraudouxian of our age”, and clarify in an extraordinarily oblique manner the prehistory of this “automation” of the creative act, towards which one can detect the perpetual temptation in the young Cage. | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | WERGO: 50 YearsMusic of our Time Special Edition
Cage: | Second Construction for four players Quatuor Hêlios Imaginary Landscape No. 2 Quatuor Hêlios Amores Quatuor Hêlios Double Music Quatuor Hêlios Third Construction Quatuor Hêlios She is Asleep: Quartet for percussion (12 tom-toms) Quatuor Hêlios First Construction in Metal (1939) for seven percussionists Quatuor Hêlios | Nono: | Polifonica Ensemble UnitedBerlin & United Voices, Peter Hirsch Monodia Ensemble UnitedBerlin & United Voices, Peter Hirsch Ritmica für sechs Instrumente und Schlagzeug Ensemble UnitedBerlin & United Voices, Peter Hirsch Canti per 13 Ensemble UnitedBerlin & United Voices, Peter Hirsch Canciones a Guiomar Ensemble UnitedBerlin & United Voices, Peter Hirsch Hay que caminar Ensemble UnitedBerlin & United Voices, Peter Hirsch | Schnebel: | Choralvorspiele I/II Juan Allende-Blin, Guiseppe G. Englert, Carla Henius, William Pearson, Gisela Saur-Kontarsky & Gerd Zacher Interpretenensemble Darmstadt, Dieter Schnebel Atemzüge Juan Allende-Blin, Guiseppe G. Englert, Carla Henius, William Pearson, Gisela Saur-Kontarsky & Gerd Zacher Interpretenensemble Darmstadt, Dieter Schnebel | Stockhausen: | Kontra-Punkte for 10 instruments, Op.1 ensemble recherche, Rupert Huber Refrain ensemble recherche Zeitmasse ensemble recherche, Rupert Huber Schlagtrio ensemble recherche | Stravinsky: | Sonata for Two Pianos Alfons and Aloys Kontarsky (piano) Five Easy Pieces for Piano Duet Alfons and Aloys Kontarsky (piano) Three Easy Pieces for Piano Duet Alfons and Aloys Kontarsky (piano) Concerto per due pianoforti soli Alfons and Aloys Kontarsky (piano) |
For half a century the WERGO label has been synonymous with contemporary music. Its repertoire comprises more than 600 CDs, which have won many awards and prizes, is a major collection of 20th-21st-century music, portraying almost all established contemporary composers. As a result, the label WERGO not only is part of the history of new music but also continues to make contributions to it. In May WERGO celebrates its 50th anniversary. On this occasion WERGO publishes a 5-CD set with music from five decades - all for an especially reasonable price. HAPPY BIRTHDAY WERGO! “Best of all are Alfons and Aloys Kontarsky's 1962 album of Stravinsky's works for two pianos – chamber-music pieces of French, rather than Russian, character – and a recent quartet of Stockhausen's early works performed by Ensemble Recherche.” The Independent, 26th May 2012 **** “To mark its half century the German-based label has brought together discs originally released in each of the five decades of its activities...two of the discs are particularly interesting. Works by the 82-year-old theologian and composer Dieter Schnebel are rare on disc even now, and here his Choralvorspiele I/II is paired with Atemzüge from his important collection Maulwerke” The Guardian, 28th June 2012 *** | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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