- Conductor: John Cage, Paul Price
- Composer: Roldan, Russell, Harrison, Cowell, Cage, et al.
- Audio CD (8 Sep 2009)
- Number of Discs: 3
- Format: Box set
- Label: Wergo Germany
- ASIN: B002DYLU00
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 321,329 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Earle Brown - A Life in Music - Volume 1, Earle Brown's Contemporary Sound Series, 3 CD`s
Earle Brown's legendary Contemporary Sound Series will be released on WERGO CDs. Recorded between 1960 and 1973, the original eighteen LPs have been highly sought after in the secondary market since 1978 when they were discontinued. These rare and historically important recordings of international avant-garde music have been carefully digitized and remastered by the Earle Brown Music Foundation.
The series - re-released on WERGO since 2009 - presents the extraordinary world of contemporary and avant-garde music that flourished in Europe, the United States, Latin America and Japan in the 1960s and early 1970s.
The first CD set (for original LP covers please see below) contains works by, among others, John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel, performed by Christoph Caskel, David Tudor, Aloys and Bernhard Kontarsky, The Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, Paul Price and the ensembles for electronic music, AMM from London (with: Cornelius Cardew, Lou Gare, Christopher Hobbs, Eddie Prévost, and Keith Rowe) and MEV Musica Elettronica Viva from Rome (with: Alan Bryant, Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski, Richard Teitelbaum, and Ivan Vandor).
Content:
CD 1:
- Concert Percussion for Orchestra, 35:24
CD 2:
Stockhausen - Kagel, 37:41
CD 3:
Live Electronic Music Improvised, 43:05
Earle Brown's legendary Contemporary Sound Series will be released on WERGO CDs. Recorded between 1960 and 1973, the original eighteen LPs have been highly sought after in the secondary market since 1978 when they were discontinued. These rare and historically important recordings of international avant-garde music have been carefully digitized and remastered by the Earle Brown Music Foundation.
The series - re-released on WERGO since 2009 - presents the extraordinary world of contemporary and avant-garde music that flourished in Europe, the United States, Latin America and Japan in the 1960s and early 1970s.
The first CD set (for original LP covers please see below) contains works by, among others, John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel, performed by Christoph Caskel, David Tudor, Aloys and Bernhard Kontarsky, The Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, Paul Price and the ensembles for electronic music, AMM from London (with: Cornelius Cardew, Lou Gare, Christopher Hobbs, Eddie Prévost, and Keith Rowe) and MEV Musica Elettronica Viva from Rome (with: Alan Bryant, Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski, Richard Teitelbaum, and Ivan Vandor).
Content:
CD 1:
- Concert Percussion for Orchestra, 35:24
CD 2:
Stockhausen - Kagel, 37:41
CD 3:
Live Electronic Music Improvised, 43:05
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This series, to comprise 6 volumes of 3 CDs each, restores to the catalogue Earle Brown's "Contemporary Sound Series" which came out in the 1960s and early 1970s. They were pioneering in their time and present a superb survey of the new music of that period. These CDs derive not from the master tapes, but from the LP issues. They have been played back on high quality equipment and wow and flutter have been reduced to a minimum. However, a fair few minor 'clicks' etc, which could have been effectively dealt with by careful redrawing of the waveform at the glitches, remain. Each CD represents one LP, so what you get in volume 1 (the same applies to volume 2) is approximately one and half CD's capacity spread over 3 CDs. The total playing times of those CDs are 35'24", 37'41" and 43'05" respectively. Not exactly well filled discs, nor an environmentally friendly use of polycarbonate and polystyrene.
It's the music, performances and the high quality of the original recordings that counts though. So 5 stars reduced to 4 to reflect the shortcomings in the editing of clicks and the waste of materials.
By the way, a great deal more of the AMM performances from which the AMM extracts on CD 3 are taken, can be found on the Matchless Recording 2CD set, "The Crypt - 12 June 1968 The Complete Session", which uses the original master tapes as its source. At the time of writing, that set can be found on Amazon Marketplace (or direct from Matchless).
It's the music, performances and the high quality of the original recordings that counts though. So 5 stars reduced to 4 to reflect the shortcomings in the editing of clicks and the waste of materials.
By the way, a great deal more of the AMM performances from which the AMM extracts on CD 3 are taken, can be found on the Matchless Recording 2CD set, "The Crypt - 12 June 1968 The Complete Session", which uses the original master tapes as its source. At the time of writing, that set can be found on Amazon Marketplace (or direct from Matchless).
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