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V.A. : A Young Person's Guide To The Avant-Garde (Music And Modernism In The 20th Century)

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Format: 2CD [LTMCD2569]
Shipping Weight: 0.1lbs
Label: LTM

2,100円

A Young Person's Guide to the Avant-Garde is an accessible, comprehensive primer that surveys modernism and music in the 20th century, offering Futurist noise, dreamy Surrealism, Dada tone poetry, serialism, prepared pianos, musique concrete and early electronic works.

With a generous playing time of 145 minutes, this deluxe double CD set is presented in a handsome 6 panel digipack, containing an illustrated booklet with detailed historical notes. To purchase CD simply click the button below the cover image.

Tracklist
1-1 Erik Satie - Vexations (Detail) 3:09
Performer - Alan Marks
1-2 Leo Ornstein - Suicide In An Airplane 3:44
Performer - Daniele Lombardi
1-3 Luigi Russolo - Risveglio Di Una Citta 0:31
Performer - Daniele Lombardi
1-4 Francesco Balilla Pratella - Sogni, Intermezzo Da L'Aviatore Dro - 11:36
1-5 Antonio Russolo - Corale - 1:58
1-6 F.T. Marinetti - La Battaglia Di Adrianopoli - 3:01
1-7 Franco Casavola - Dance Of The Monkeys 2:45
Performer - Daniele Lombardi
1-8 George Antheil - Mechanisms
Performer - Daniele Lombardi 12:35
1-9 Marcel Duchamp - Musical Erratum 10:06
Composed By - Marcel DuchampPerformer, Piano [Modified] - Kristine Scholz, Mats Persson
1-10 Francis Poulenc - Mouvements Perpetuels 5:40
Performer - Peter Beijersbergen Van Henegouwen
1-11 George Ribemont-Dessaignes - Pas De La Chicoree Frisee 4:04
Performer - Peter Beijersbergen Van Henegouwen
1-12 Francis Picabia - La Nourrice Americaine 3:08
Performer - Peter Beijersbergen Van Henegouwen
1-13 Jean Cocteau - La Toison D'Or 2:54
Music By ['Holidays'] - Dan ParrishPerformer [Musical Backing] - Dan Parrish Jazz OrchestraPerformer, Text By - Jean Cocteau
1-14 Kurt Schwitters - Die Sonata In Urlauten 3:27
Performer - Kurt Schwitters
1-15 Robert Desnos - Description Of A Dream - 3:19
2-1 Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question 6:05
Conductor [Chamber Orchestra Conducted By] - Vladimir Cherniavsky
2-2 Arnold Schoenberg - Sechs Kleine Klavierstucke - 5:56-Igor Stravinsky - The Rite Of Spring (Extract) - (8:05)
2-3.1 - Introduction - 3:28
2-3.2 - The Augurs Of Spring - Dance Of The Young Girls - 3:18
2-3.3 - Mock Abduction - 1:17
2-4 Josef Matthias Hauer - Tanz Op. 10 4:59
Performer - Peter Beijersbergen Van Henegouwen
2-5 Arthur Honegger - Pacific 231 - 6:05
2-6 Alexander Mosolov - Iron Foundry 2:59
Conductor - Julius EhrlichOrchestra - Orchestre Symphonique De Paris
2-7 Henry Cowell - The Aeolian Harp 3:45
Performer - Henry Cowell
2-8 John Cage - 4'33" - 5:00
2-9 Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang Der Junglinge 13:03
Performer - Karlheinz Stockhausen
2-10 Edgard Varese - Poeme Electronique - 8:08
2-11 Gyorgy Ligeti - Atmospheres 9:04
Conductor - Hermann ScherchenOrchestra - North German Radio (NDR) Symphony Orchestra

Notes
Dates of composition appended to the track titles:
1-1: 1893; 1-2, 1-3, 1-9, 2-3: 1913; 1-4, 2-4: 1915; 1-5, 1-6: 1924; 1-7: 1925; 1-8, 2-5, 2-7: 1923; 1-10: 1918; 1-11, 1-12: 1920; 1-13: 1929; 1-14: 1932; 1-15: 1938; 2-1: 1906; 2-2: 1911; 2-6: 1927; 2-8: 1952; 2-9: 1956; 2-10: 1958; 2-11: 1961
1-1 Published by Sacem/G. Ricordi & Co.
1-8 Published by G. Schirmer Ltd.
1-9 This recording appears courtesy of Riksconcerter/Caprice Records, Sweden.
1-10 Published by Sacem/Chester Music.
1-13 This [...] recording was made on 12 March 1929 [...] The underlying music is 'Holidays'.
1-14 This abridged recording was made [...] for Sud-deutschen Rundfunk radio on 5 May 1932 and appears courtesy of Ernst Schwitters and Cosmopress Geneva.
1-15 This restored recording appears courtesy of Jaques Frankael and INA, France.
2-1 Published by Peer Southern/Faber Music.
2-4 Published by JMH/Universal Edition.
2-7 This performance [...] was recorded in 1963. Published by Associated Music Ltd/G. Schirmer.
2-8 The performance featured here lasts exactly 4'33", the remainder of the running time being pauses and applause.
Compiled [...] for LTM (2013). Mastered [...] at Flow Mastering, London. Design and packaging [...] at Aleph Studio. Verdant piano by Peter Mertens (Brussels, summer 2007). With thanks to Daniele Lombardi and Peter [misprinted as Dieter] Beijersbergen Van Henegouwen.