Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series Vol.4 / New Music For String Quartet & Chamber Orchestra

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Album Summary

Performers

• Severino Gazzelloni (Flute)
• Guy Deplus (Clarinet)
• Lothar Faber (Oboe)
• Paul Zukofsky (Violin)

Conductors

• Maderna, Bruno
• Travis, Francis

Ensemble

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Composers

• Giacinto Scelsi (1905 - 1988)
• Aldo Clementi (1925 - 2011)
• Wlodzimierz Kotonski (1925 - )
• Niccolò Castiglioni (1932 - 1996)
• Earle Brown (Composer) (1926 - 2002)
• Bo Nilsson (1937 - )
• Yuji Takahashi (Piano) (1938 - )
• Vittorio Fellegara
• Pierre Boulez (Composer, Conductor) (1925 - )
• Iannis Xenakis (1922 - 2001)
• Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951)
• Milko Kelemen (1924 - )
• Isang Yun (1917 - 1995)

Notes & Reviews:

Wergo's reissues of the legendary Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series have been a big hit with fans of contemporary music around the world. Each set is a treasure-trove of works by a wide range of composers, performed by some of the fi nest musicians of the time. The three CDs of volume four feature string quartets by Boulez, Scelsi and Earle Brown, works for chamber orchestra by Xenakis, Aldo Clementi, Bo Nilsson, Wlodzimierz Kotonski and Yuji Takahashi and works by Milko Kelemen, Niccolò Castiglioni, Vittorio Fellegara and Isang Yun that were originally premiered by the Hamburger Kammersolisten.

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Works Details

Boulez, Pierre : Livre pour quatour, for string quartet

• Notes: Paris; Hamburg
• Running Time: 3 min. 24 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1948-1961

Scelsi, Giacinto : Quartet for Strings no 4

• Running Time: 10 min. 46 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Chamber Music
• Written: 1964

Brown, Earle : String Quartet

• Running Time: 10 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1965

Xenakis, Iannis : Achorripsis, for 21 musicians

• Conductor: Francis Travis
• Running Time: 5 min. 54 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1956-1957

Clementi, Aldo : Triplum for flute, oboe & clarinet

• Performers: Severino Gazzelloni (Flute); Guy Deplus (Clarinet); Lothar Faber (Oboe)
• Running Time: 4 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Nilsson, Bo : Szene 3, for chamber orchestra

• Conductor: Bruno Maderna
• Running Time: 5 min. 48 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1961

Schoenberg, Arnold : Little Pieces (3) for chamber orchestra (no 3 unfinished)

• Conductor: Bruno Maderna
• Running Time: 1 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1910

Kotonski, Wlodzimierz : Canto, for chamber ensemble

• Conductor: Bruno Maderna
• Running Time: 5 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1961

Takahashi, Yuji : Six Stoichei, for 4 violins

• Performer: Paul Zukofsky (Violin)
• Running Time: 6 min. 37 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1965

Nilsson, Bo : Frequenzen, for chamber ensemble

• Conductor: Francis Travis
• Running Time: 4 min. 14 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1956

Kelemen, Milko : Études contrapuntiques, for wind quintet

• Conductor: Francis Travis
• Running Time: 11 min. 15 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1959

Niccolò Castiglioni (1932 - 1996) : Tropi

• Conductor: Francis Travis
• Running Time: 8 min. 36 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1959

Fellegara, Vittorio : Serenata, for 9 players & chamber orchestra

• Conductor: Francis Travis
• Running Time: 6 min. 38 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1960

Yun, Isang : Musik for 7 instruments

• Conductor: Francis Travis
• Running Time: 2 min. 32 sec.
• Period Time: Modern