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John Cage: Works For Percussion, Vol. 2 / Third Coast Percussion

1 CD / Mode Records / 2012-06-05

Works: John Cage: Third Construction, for 4 percussionists; Second Construction, for 4 percussionists; First Construction (In Metal), for 6 percussionists; Trio, for 3 percussionists; Quartet, for 4 percuss...
Performers: Beyer, Gregory; Karre, Ross

The Guardian, July 2012
These performances have a special fluency and zest that sets them apart from most other recorded versions. The way in which Cage's...continue...

Barbara Monk Feldman: The Northern Shore / Takahashi, Sabat, Clarke

1 CD / Mode Records / 2012-05-22

Works: Barbara Monk Feldman: The Northern Shore, for chamber ensemble; In the Small Time of a Desert Flower, for chamber ensemble
Performers: Clarke, Stephen; Rothbrust, Dirk; Sabat, Marc; Takahashi, Aki

The Guardian, July 2012
Monk Feldman's own music, perhaps unsurprisingly, owes much to that of her late husband though it is contained within much more modest...continue...
Recording information: Teldex Studios, Berlin, Germany (08/14/2002); Wesleyan University, Middletown CT (08/14/2002); Teldex Studios, Berlin, Germany (08/26/2003); Wesleyan University, Middletown CT (...continue...

In The Shadow of No Towers / Cappelli, Spiegelman, Turturro [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Mode Records / 2011-09-13

Works: Marco Cappelli: In The Shadow of No Towers
Performers: Cappelli, Marco; Ledda, Daniele; Pellegrini, Roberto
Conductors:
Ensemble: Sintax Error

The artist and New York City resident Art Spiegelman drew the comic board book 'In the Shadow of No Towers' immediately after the September 11th...continue...
Run Time: 50 min.
Region: 1
Picture Format: NTSC, Color
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Roger Reynolds: Sanctuary / Steven Schick, redfishbluefish [2 DVD]

2 DVD Video / Mode Records / 2011-06-28

Works: Roger Reynolds: Sanctuary
Performers: Schick, Steven
Conductors:
Ensemble: redfishbluefish

Cage: A Cage Of Saxophones 3

2 CD / Mode Records / 2010-06-15

Works: John Cage: Four6, for any way of producing sounds; Work(s); Fontana Mix, for 4-channel tape or indeterminate means; Party Pieces (20) for 5 winds, co-composed with Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison & Virgil...
Performers: Enzel, Christoph; Iber, Michael; Krieger, Ulrich; Lingk, Marc; Maiß, Ulrich; Peters, Andreas; Platz, Johannes; Schöpp, Klaus; Scherer, Gerald; Schlotzhauer, Burkhard; Schmucker, Andreas; V...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Intersax

Ulrich Krieger completes his 'A Cage of Saxophones' survey of Cage's works composed for, or which can be played on any instrument or instruments. For...continue...

Roger Reynolds: Complete Piano Works / Takahashi, Nonken, Huebner, et al

2 CD / Mode Records / 2009-09-29

Works: Roger Reynolds: imAge / piano; Fantasy for Pianist; Epigram and Evolution; Variation; imagE / piano; Traces, for piano, flute, cello, live electronics & tape; Less than Two, for 2 pianos, 2 percussio...
Performers: Barron, Lin; Dan Dunbar; Dunbar, Daniel; François, Jean-Charles; Huebner, Eric; Jean-Charles Francois; Johnson, Alan; Johnson, Allan; Karen Reynolds; Lin Barron; Nonken, Marilyn; Pratt, Daryl;...
Conductors: Martensson, Magnus; Mårtensson, Magnus
Ensemble: ; Slee Sinfonietta

These piano pieces were written at every turning point in Roger Reynolds' creative life, marking his evolution. The music is driven by relentless attacks toward...continue...

Denyer: Silenced Voices / Smalt, Barton Workshop

1 CD / Mode Records / 2008-06-10

Works: Frank Denyer: Woman, Viola and Crow, for voice, viola & percussion; Two Beacons, for ensemble; Tentative Thoughts, Silenced Voices, for ensemble; Ghosts Again, for ensemble
Performers: Small, Elisabeth
Conductors:
Ensemble: Barton Workshop

Frank Denyer's music doesn't adhere to any easily defined aesthetic prescripts, and the four recent works on this disc resist categorization and ready comparison to...continue...

por Gitaro - Lou Harrison / Schneider, et al

1 CD / Mode Records / 2008-04-15

Works: Lou Harrison: Serenade for Guitar and Percussion; Avalokiteshvara; Music for Bill and Me; Sonatas (6) for Cembalo; Tandy's Tango; Sonata in Ishartum; Pedal Sonata; Solo to Anthony Cirone; Young Ceasa...
Performers: Andrade, Caitlin; Barnes, Erin; Chen, Jane; Chen, Vicki; Jackson, Greg [Percussion]; Lei, Anna; Schneider, John [Guitar]; Simon, Julie [Percussion]; Sterling, Gene; Troy, T. J. [Percussion]; Wu, Vict...
Conductors: Alves, Bill
Ensemble: Harvey Mudd College American Gamelan

"Schneider has a clear command of the Justly tuned guitar, and of the possibilities of the tuning system in general, which allows him to bring...continue...

Roland Auzet - Percussion(s)

4 CD / Mode Records / 2008-02-19

Works: Iannis Xenakis: Psappha, for solo percussion; O-Mega, for solo percussion & 13 musicians; Kassandra, for amplified voice, psalterion & percussion; Rebonds, for solo percussion; Gérard Pape: Fune...
Performers: Auzet, Roland; Bancquart, Alain; Campion, Edmund; Isherwood, Nicholas; Orieux, Armelle; Pape, Janet S.; Tanaka, Karen
Conductors: My, Dominique; Bancquart, Alain; Adrien, Jean-Marie
Ensemble: ; Ensemble Musique Aujourd'hui

"Inactuelles" is a unique collaboration between Mode and the Parisianart-book store Tschann, to combine CDs and video DVDs of musical performances with an informative musical...continue...

Melody, Erodicity and Indeterminacy - Tenney: Poem, etc

1 CD / Mode Records / 2007-09-25

Works: James Tenney: Poem, for flute; Ergodos I for John Cage; Monody, for clarinet; Ergodos II with Instrumental Responses; Seegersong no 1, for clarinet; Seegersong no 2; Ergodos III, for 2 pianos
Performers: Anderson, John; Denyer, Frank; Liebezeit, Tobias; Mulder, Nora; Tenney, James; Zwaanenburg, Jos
Conductors:
Ensemble: Barton Workshop

James Tenney (1934-2006) was probably the first composer to develop an aesthetic for computer music, realizing that electronic music almost forced the composer to accept...continue...

Xenakis: Complete Works for Percussion / Schick

3 CD / Mode Records / 2006-12-05

Works: Iannis Xenakis: Persephassa, for 6 percussionists; Psappha, for solo percussion; Dmaathen, for oboe & percussion; Pléïades, for 6 percussionists; Komboï, for percussion & harpsichord...
Performers: Harris, John Mark; Huang, Aiyun; Larson, Philip; Leclair, Jacqueline; Schick, Steve; Stuart, Greg; Wettstein, Shannon
Conductors:
Ensemble: Red Fish Blue Fish

As Steven Schick states in his comprehensive essay accompanying this set, Xenakis was the "progenitor of modern percussion music." Of course Iannis Xenakis did not...continue...

Crumb: Music for a Summer Evening, Black Angels

1 CD / Mode Records / 2006-10-03

Works: George Crumb: Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III), for 2 amplified pianos & 2 percussionists; Black Angels (Images I), for electric string quartet
Performers: Cladera, Andres; Lorenz, Nena; Manriquez, Luz; Morales, Walter; Passaris, Michael; Shope, Mark; Spurgeon, Brian
Conductors: Izquierdo, Juan Pablo
Ensemble: Carnegie Mellon University Philharmonic Orchestra; Latinoamericano String Quartet

This CD combines two classic Crumb compositions of the 1970s expertly performed by members of The Carnegie Mellon Philhar-monic under the direction of conductor Juan...continue...

Gerard Pape - Ascension to Purgatory

1 CD / Mode Records / 2006-09-19

Works: Gérard Pape: Funeral Sentences, for 2 sopranos, percussionist & live electronics; La naissance du son (in memoriam Iannis Xenakis), for cello; Weaveworld Prologue, for bass & chamber ensemble; F...
Performers: Arditti, Irvine; Auzet, Roland; Orieux, Armelle; Pape, Janet S.
Conductors: Bancquart, Alain; Arnaud, Lionel
Ensemble: ; Atelier de Musique Contemporaine du CNR de Versail

This is Pape's third monographic CD with Mode Records. Whereas his last Mode CD ("Electro-acoustic Chamber Works, released in 1998) presented his ground breaking works...continue...

Tim Hodgkinson: Sketch of Now

1 CD / Mode Records / 2006-06-27

Works: Tim Hodgkinson: Vers Kongsu II; Aici Schiteaza pe Acum; Fighting/Breathing; Fragor; De Yoknapatawpha; Further into Hard Stone
Performers: Aguilar, Gustavo; Berthelot, Pascale; Cella, Lisa; D'Hollander, Berten; Di Donato, Jacques; Duthoit, Isabelle; Golia, Vinny; Hodgkinson, Tim; Palter, Morris; Reigle, Robert; Simandy, Denis
Conductors: Dumitrescu, Iancu; Hodgkinson, Tim
Ensemble: Hyperion Ensemble

Feldman Edition Vol 7 - Works for Clarinet / Robinson, et al

1 CD / Mode Records / 2003-10-21

Works: Morton Feldman: Three Clarinets, Cello and Piano, for 3 clarinets, cello & piano; Bass Clarinet and Percussion, for bass clarinet, cymbals & gong; Quartet for Clarinet and Strings
Performers: Andreyev, Elena; Dutrieu, Pierre; Leterme, Vincent; Rivalland, Francoise; Robinson, Carol [clarinet]; Voize, Olivier; Wiersma, Peppie

Déjà Vu - Colgrass, Schuller / New England Conservatory Wind

1 CD / Mode Records / 2003-08-12

Works: Michael Colgrass: Déjà vu, for percussion quartet & orchestra; Dream Dancer; Gunther Schuller: In Praise of Winds
Performers: Klymus, William; Means, Jeffrey; Radnofsky, Kenneth; Rubinshteyn, Timur; Victor, David
Conductors: Peltz, Charles
Ensemble: New England Conservatory Ensemble

Michael Colgrass and Gunther Schuller have led lives musically rich in varied influences - performing music of the 19th century tradition, embracing the 20th century...continue...

Harrison: Mass to St. Anthony, etc / Maginnis, Miller, etc

1 CD / Mode Records / 2003-05-06

Works: Lou Harrison: The Marriage at the Eiffel Tower, for chamber ensemble; The Only Jealousy of Emer, incidental music for celeste. piano, flute, cello & bass; Young Caesar, versions for puppet-opera and ...
Performers: Andrie, Karen; Brandenburg, Mark; Brown, Susan; Cass, Jennifer; Gandolfi, Jodi; Macomber, Scott; Maginnis, Patrice; McGushin, Michael; Miller, Leta E.; Rosenberg, Joel; Staufenbiel, Brian; Winant, Wi...
Conductors: Paiement, Nicole A.
Ensemble: California Parallèle Ensemble; California Parallèle Ensemble ; Members of the University of California Santa Clar; U. C. Santa Cruz Chamber Singers

Alain Bancquart: Livre du Labyrinthe

2 CD / Mode Records / 2003-02-25

Works: Alain Bancquart: Le Livre du Labyrinthe
Performers: Artaud, Pierre-Yves; Baldassaré, Frédéric; Billier, Sylvaine; Briard, Thierry; Curt, Emmanuel; Gallois, Pascal; Garioud, Romain; Isherwood, Nicholas; Joste, Martine; Lauridon, Fl...

Personnel: Claude Pavy (electric guitar); Pierre-Yves Artaud (flute); Carol Robinson (clarinet); Emmanuel Curt (percussion).

Recording information: Salle Olivier Messiaen, Radio France, Paris,...continue...

Garland: Another Sunrise / Takahashi, Essential Music, et al

1 CD / Mode Records / 2002-08-27

Works: Peter Garland: Another Sunrise, for 2 pianos & 4 percussionists; Dreaming of Immortality in a Thatched Cottage, for 3 voices, harpichord & percussion; I have had to learn the simplest things last, fo...
Performers: Gunji, Maya; Kennedy, John; Suter, Mark; Takahashi, Aki; Trigg, William; Wood, Charles
Conductors: Wood, Charles; Kennedy, John
Ensemble: Essential Music

Bernadette Speach: Without Borders

1 CD / Mode Records / 2002-02-26

Works: Bernadette Marie Speach: Moto; Pensées; Trajet; Sonata for Piano; Shattered Glass; Telepathy
Performers: Davis, Thulani; de Mare, Anthony; Horner, Lindsey; Hoyer, Jeff; Krech, Leonard; Lake, Oliver; Melford, Myra; Pugliese, Michael; Schanzer, Jeffrey; Vigeland, Nils; Williams, Jan
Conductors: Speach, Bernadette Marie
Ensemble: Bowery Ensemble

John Cage Edition Vol 24 - The Works for Saxophones Vol 1

1 CD / Mode Records / 2002-02-26

Works: John Cage: Five, for any 5 voices or instruments; Ryoanji, for voice, flute, oboe, trombone, contrabass, percussion, chamber orchestra & 2nd voice ad; Four5, for 4 saxophones; Five4, for 2 saxes & pe...
Performers: Bertoncini, Mario; Kaczynski, Raymond; Krieger, Ulrich; Ruger, Tobias; Schaper, Gerhard; Volker, Reimar

CCMIX Paris - Xenakis UPIC Continuum - Risset, Roads, et al

2 CD / Mode Records / 2001-09-11

Works: Iannis Xenakis: Mycanea-Alpha; Polytope de Cluny; Brigitte Robindoré: L'autel de la perte et de la transformation; Comme etrangers et voyageurs sur la terre; Jean-Claude Risset: Saxatile; Nico...
Performers: Auzet, Roland; Isherwood, Nicholas; Kientzy, Daniel; Takada, Kazuko; Talibart, Claire
Conductors: Henzold, Olaf;
Ensemble: Arditti String Quartet; Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra

Ferrari: Chansons pour le corps, Et si tout entiére...

1 CD / Mode Records / 1999-11-30

Works: Luc Ferrari: Chansons pour le corps, suite for voice & 5 instruments with recorded memories; Et si tout entiere maintenant...symphonic tale for actress, field recordings on an ice-breaker & orc
Performers: Caron, Elise; Frydman, Sylvain; Lagniel, Christine; Maurer, Michel; Musseau, Michel
Conductors: Prin, Yves
Ensemble: Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique

Ferrari (1925-2003) studied with Messiaen and Honegger and became one of the founding members of the electronic studio Groupe de Recherches Musicales in 1959, along...continue...

Surface Tension - Howard Skempton / Leonard, HCD Productions

1 CD / Mode Records / 1998-06-16

Works: Howard Skempton: passing fancy, for piano; Drum Canon 2; Bends, for cello; Call, for clarinet & piano; Fire, for soprano voice & clarinet; Saltaire Melody, for piano; Recessional, for any instrument ...
Performers: Bocker, Eva; Corbett, John H.; Dickel, Werner; Howard Skempton [Composer/Accordion]; Kretzschmar, Hermann; Leonard, Sarah; Romer, Rainer; Wiesner, Dietmar

With their distinctly English vocabulary, witty turns, and spare yet memorable melodies, 'Surface Tension' offers a survey of Skempton's music in solo through quintet settings...continue...

Hilda Paredes: The Seventh Seed, Permutaciones

1 CD / Mode Records / 1997-11-18

Works: Hilda Paredes: Permutaciones for violin; The Seventh Seed, for voices, strings & percussion
Performers: Ambriz, Lourdes; Arditti, Irvine; Plantamura, Carol; Schick, Steve
Conductors: Steiger, Rand

Hilda Paredes is among the foremost younger-generation Mexican composers. Schooled in London where she now lives, Paredes studied with Harrison Birtwistle, Franco Donatoni and Peter...continue...

Xenakis: Dämmerschein, etc; Varèse: Amériques / Izquierdo

1 CD / Mode Records / 1997-04-22

Works: Iannis Xenakis: Dämmerschein, for 89 musicians; Persephassa, for 6 percussionists; La Déesse Athéna, for baritone, solo percussion & 10 musicians; Edgard Varèse: Amériques
Performers: Adams, Timothy
Conductors: Izquierdo, Juan Pablo
Ensemble: Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic

Xenakis - Ensemble Music Vol 2 / Charles Z. Bornstein, ST-X

1 CD / Mode Records / 1996-11-19

Works: Iannis Xenakis: Échange, for bass clarinet & 13 musicians; Okho, for 3 percussionists; Xas, for saxophone quartet; Akrata, for 8 winds & 8 brass; In memory of Witold Lutoslawski, for 2 trumpets ...
Performers: Cashman, Mathew; Cook, Susan; Lowenstern, Michael; McEwan, Robert; Rieppi, Pablo; Rosenblatt, David; Tracy, Shawn
Conductors: Bornstein, Charles Zachary
Ensemble: Six Ensemble Xanakis USA

Berio: The Great Works for Voice / Christine Schadeberg

1 CD / Mode Records / 1995-11-21

Works: Luciano Berio: Folk Songs, arranged for soprano & 7 instruments (or orchestra); Sequenza III, for voice; Popular Songs (4), for female voice & piano; Chamber Music, for female voice, clarinet, cello ...
Performers: Allen, Barbara; Berkowitz, Sheldon; Coid, Marshall; Emanuel, Carol; Jolles, Susan [Harp]; Kampmeier, Margaret A.; Laimon, Sara; Mook, Ted; Mook, Theodore; Mooke, Martha; Mukherji, Katherine Flanders;...
Conductors: León, Tania; Biggs, Hayes
Ensemble: ; Musicians' Accord

Luciano Berio was one of the greatest and most innovative composers for the voice of the post-war generation - moving it into previously unknown territories,...continue...

Sanctuary / Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening Band

1 CD / Mode Records / 1995-09-19

Works: Pauline Oliveros: Invocation; Hi bali, hi; Processional; Sanctuary; Non-stop Flight
Performers: Balliett, Julie Lyon; Buckner, Thomas; Chappell, Carol; Demerest, Lorraine; Dempster, Stuart; Finkleman, Jason; Gamper, David; Gato, Nego; McPhee, Joe; Miller, Leaf; Muldoon, Judith; Oliveros, Paulin...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Deep Listening Band; Women Who Drum

The Musical Railism of Anne LeBaron

1 CD / Mode Records / 1995-07-18

Works: Anne LeBaron: Dog-Gone Cat Act for prepared harp; The E. & O. Line, opera; Waltz for Quintet (flute, violin, viola, cello & piano); The Sea and the Honeycomb, for soprano, piccolo/flute, clarinet/ba...
Performers: Barker, Thurman; Beck, John [Rock]; Cloutier, Louise; Fischer, Penelope; Hamilton, Lawrence; Kim, Kwant-wu; LeBaron, Anne [Composer/Harp]; London, Frank; Melford, Myra; Merz, Albert; Oldfather, Chris...
Conductors: LeBaron, Anne; Heldrich, Claire; Fleisher, Leon
Ensemble: ; Kennedy Center Theater Chamber Players; New Music Consort

Cage: Europera 5 / Mikhashoff, Herr, Burgess, Williams, Metz

1 CD / Mode Records / 1994-05-01

Works: John Cage: Europera 5
Performers: Burgess, Gary; Herr, Martha; Metz, Don; Mikhashoff, Yvar; Williams, Jan

Made In America - The Complete Works of William Russell

1 CD / Mode Records / 1994-01-01

Works: Bill Russell: Prelude, Chorale and Fugue; Dance Movements (4); Cuban Pieces (3); Concerto for trumpet; Chicago Sketches; March Suite; Ogou Badagri, ballet based on the Voodoo Rites of Haiti; Made in ...
Performers: Fink, Laurie; Music, Essential
Conductors: Wood, Charles
Ensemble: Essential Music

Anne LeBaron: Rana, Ritual & Revelations

1 CD / Mode Records / 1992-12-01

Works: Alice Anne LeBaron: Lamentation/Invocation; Rite of the Black Sun; Planxty Bowerbird; Noh Reflections; Concerto for Active Frogs
Performers: Cartwright, George; Cassara, Frank; Elsing, Evelyn; Fujiwara, Hamao; Guerguerian, Paul; Kawasaki, Masao; Kellman, Nina; LeBaron, Anne; Pugliese, Michael; Shapiro, Madeleine; Shea, David; Shearer, All...
Conductors: Bouchard, Linda; Heldrich, Claire; LeBaron, Anne
Ensemble: Chorus; New Music Consort; Theater Chamber Players of the Kennedy Center

Perkin At Merkin

1 CD / Mode Records / 1991-09-19

Works: Iannis Xenakis: Psappha, for solo percussion; Recorded Sound: Applause; Morton Feldman: The King of Denmark, for percussion; Nils Vigeland: Progress, for percussion; John Cage: Four4; Per Norgå...
Performers: Grossman, Kory; Nappi, Christopher; Pugliese, Michael; Trigg, William; Williams, Jan

Recording information: Merkin Concert Hall, New York, NY (04/04/1989)....continue...