Various Artists / Warp Works And Twentieth Century Masters
| Album: | Warp Works And Twentieth Century Masters | Collection: | Classical | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Oct 2006 | |
| Label: | Warp Records | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2006-10-22 | Pull Date: | 2006-12-24 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
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| Week Ending: | Dec 17 | Dec 3 | Nov 19 | Nov 12 | Nov 5 | Oct 29 |
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| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 15, 2014: | Clean Copper Radio
Spiral, Prepared Piano Piece 1 |
4. | Feb 07, 2007: | Baptism of Solitude (Favorites of 2006)
Chamber Conterto: 3. Movimento Preciso E Meccanico |
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| 2. | Apr 19, 2014: | Music Casserole
Polygon Window, Spiral |
5. | Dec 27, 2006: | Baptism of Solitude
Sonatas 1 & 2 (From Sonatas And Interludes) |
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| 3. | Jul 16, 2007: | classic ducks
Sonata 5 & 6 (From Sonatas & Interludes) |
6. | Dec 13, 2006: | Eranmuke Datsuzaka... HAI! (some wave)
Sonata 5 & 6 (From Sonatas & Interludes) |
Album Review
mufaor
Reviewed 2006-10-24
Reviewed 2006-10-24
Amazing collection of modern classical. 2 CDs of Reich, Cage, Stockhausen, Ligeti, et al. killer Aphex Twin tracks too. Modern classical at its best. Beautiful pieces for prepared piano, weird orchestrations, avant-garde masterpieces. By track 5 on CD1 I’m in tears. Extremely alive music, at times delicate, at times horrific, always great. Dig in, enjoy, play any of these, multiple times :). Some tracks end early, some start soft, and a few have clapping at the beginning and/or end.
CD1:
*1 & 2. Slow beautiful jangly prepared piano.
*3. Wow, a Conlon Nancarrow player piano piece arranged for ensemble – funky orchestration – loooove the piano, trumpet, and bell lines together – crazy.
*4. Prep. piano - sparsest Cage track here. Phenomenal placement of silence.
5. Repeating, intertwining violins. Hypnotic. Orgasmic out-of-phaseness in the middle.
6. Brake drums, water gongs and anvils. Awe-inspiring rhythmic spacing.
7. Jazzy. Erie, almost industrial sounding.
8. Quiet, minimal, spacey, droney. The score for this is cool – basically the musician(s) plays shortwave radio and jams off it in various ways. There are some markers and guidelines, but it’s sorta like a Zorn game piece.
CD2:
1. Mid-tempo prepared piano. Delicate, almost like a music box. Would go well with Toychestra or Margaret Lang Tan.
2. Varese’s famous percussion piece. 37 percussion instruments and two sirens. The first time a siren was used in a composition?
3. Mid-fast, 6 marimbas – oh how I’d love to watch this done live.
4. Horror music for a cave scene.
5. The most up-tempo of the Cage prep. piano pieces here. Playful. Like a much less anal Ravel :)
6. Up-tempo dark orchestral. Funky percussion, string slicing. Nice muted trumpets.
7-8. Nail-biting Ligeti orchestral. Quiet.
*9. Same piece but more pizzicato and Chinese-water-torture repeated notes (yeah!).
10. Last and most active movement of the Ligeti piece.
*11. A more rockin’ piece to end the compilation. Zany marimba and violin, heavy on the bass drum and other percussion. Lots of changes. Clapping at start and end.
CD1:
*1 & 2. Slow beautiful jangly prepared piano.
*3. Wow, a Conlon Nancarrow player piano piece arranged for ensemble – funky orchestration – loooove the piano, trumpet, and bell lines together – crazy.
*4. Prep. piano - sparsest Cage track here. Phenomenal placement of silence.
5. Repeating, intertwining violins. Hypnotic. Orgasmic out-of-phaseness in the middle.
6. Brake drums, water gongs and anvils. Awe-inspiring rhythmic spacing.
7. Jazzy. Erie, almost industrial sounding.
8. Quiet, minimal, spacey, droney. The score for this is cool – basically the musician(s) plays shortwave radio and jams off it in various ways. There are some markers and guidelines, but it’s sorta like a Zorn game piece.
CD2:
1. Mid-tempo prepared piano. Delicate, almost like a music box. Would go well with Toychestra or Margaret Lang Tan.
2. Varese’s famous percussion piece. 37 percussion instruments and two sirens. The first time a siren was used in a composition?
3. Mid-fast, 6 marimbas – oh how I’d love to watch this done live.
4. Horror music for a cave scene.
5. The most up-tempo of the Cage prep. piano pieces here. Playful. Like a much less anal Ravel :)
6. Up-tempo dark orchestral. Funky percussion, string slicing. Nice muted trumpets.
7-8. Nail-biting Ligeti orchestral. Quiet.
*9. Same piece but more pizzicato and Chinese-water-torture repeated notes (yeah!).
10. Last and most active movement of the Ligeti piece.
*11. A more rockin’ piece to end the compilation. Zany marimba and violin, heavy on the bass drum and other percussion. Lots of changes. Clapping at start and end.
Track Listing