Varèse: Dance for Burgess

This page lists all recordings of Dance for Burgess, by Edgard Varèse (1885-1965) on CD. Generally, more recent CDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock.

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Varèse: Tuning Up, etc.

Varèse:

Tuning Up

Amériques

Poème électronique

Arcana

Nocturnal

Un grand sommeil noir

Offrandes

Hyperprism

Octandre

Intégrales

Ecuatorial

Ionisation

Densité 21.5

Déserts

Dance for Burgess


Edgard Varèse, Sarah Leonard

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, ASKO Ensemble, Riccardo Chailly

“Riccardo Chailly's 1996 account [of Amériques] is unlike any of its competitors in that it reconstructed for the first time Varèse's original version of the score from 1918-21, which uses a vast orchestra featuring 27 woodwind and 29 brass instruments - even a cyclone whistle. The recording certainly packs a punch, but the Concertgebouw players also revel in the many subtleties that colour the composer's unique orchestration. It comes as part of a two-disc release that features all of Varèse's surviving music - small in quantity but big on impact.” Matthew Rye, The Telegraph, 24th August 2008

GGramophone Awards 1999

Best of Category - 20th Century Orchestral

Penguin Guide

Rosette Winner

Decca Gramophone Awards Collection - 4754872

(CD - 2 discs)

$16.49

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Varèse - Orchestral Works Volume 2

Varèse - Orchestral Works Volume 2


Varèse:

Amériques

(original version 1921)

Ecuatorial

Thomas Bloch (ondes martenot)

Men’s Voices of Camerata Silesia

Dance for Burgess

Tuning up

Hyperprism

Un grand sommeil noir

Christopher Lyndon-Gee (piano)

Densité 21.5

Maria Grochowska (flute)

Ionisation

Nocturnal

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)


Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Lyndon-Gee

The works on this recording span Varèse’s entire career, containing his sole surviving early composition, Un Grand Sommeil Noir, and his last, unfinished work, Nocturnal, brilliantly and seamlessly completed by the composer’s disciple and assistant during the last seventeen years of his life, the composer Chou Wen-Chung. Chiefly, though, the recording features the world première recording of the original version of Amériques, for a massive orchestra of 155 players, recorded immediately following a rare public performance at the Warsaw Philharmonic (only its second since the 1920s) as part of the 2005 Warsaw Autumn Festival.

“These Polish musicians are well used to be rough-and-tumble of performing the early textural works of Penderecki and Górecki and the visceral rawness, inherent in their own culture, transmutes powerfully to these seminal Varèse scores.” Gramophone Magazine, October 2008

Naxos - 8557882

(CD)

$6.99

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