Antheil, George

Scenes from a New Music Séance - works by Cowell, Crawford, Antheil, Hovhaness et al. / Kate Stenberg, violin; Eva-Maria Zimmermann, piano

1 CD / Other Minds Music / 2012-10-30

Works: Ronald Bruce Smith: Tombeau for violin & piano; Josef Matthias Hauer: Fünf Stücke für Violine und Klavier, Op. 41; Henry Cowell: Sonata for Violin; Charles Amirkhanian: Rippling the La...
Performers: Amirkhanian, Charles; Stenberg, Kate; Zimmermann, Eva-Maria

American Record Guide, March / April 2013
Henry Cowell's 'Ballade' is tonal, pastoral, and simple. Rippling the Lamp by Charles Amirkhanian is a plaintive piece for...continue...
Recording information: Skywalker Soudn, Nicasio, CA (10/2010-12/2010); Studio of Amy X Neuburg, Oakland, California (10/2010-12/2010); Skywalker Soudn, Nicasio, CA (2010-01-12_2010-01-13&2010-); Studi...continue...

Frank Zappa's Classical Selections

2 CD / Chrome Dreams--mvd-- / 2011-03-08

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Walküre; Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring; A Soldiers Tale; Anton Webern: Op. 9; Gustav Holst: The Planets; Edgard Varèse: Hyperprism; George Antheil: Ballet Mecaniqu...
Performers: Hollweg, Ilse
Conductors: Knappertsbusch, Hans; Stravinsky, Igor; Holst, Gustav; Ravel, Maurice; Partch, Harry; Penderecki, Krzysztof
Ensemble: ; Gate 5 Ensemble of the World

Frank Zappa was never shy about citing the influence of modern classical music on him, especially in its more avant-garde aspects, listing various of his favorites on the 1966 debut album by his band ...continue...

Georges Antheil: Sonatas for Violin and Piano / Mark Fewer

1 CD / Azica / 2011-02-22

Works: George Antheil: Sonata no 2 for violin and piano; Sonata, for violin & piano no 1, W. 130; Sonata, for violin & piano no 4 (the second "No. 2"), W. 141; Sonata for solo violin (incomplete)
Performers: Fewer, Mark; Novacek, John [Piano]

Multi-talented violinist Mark Fewer enjoys one of the most diverse artistic lives of his generation. Comfortable in a variety of roles, he is well-known nationally...continue...
Recording information: Multi-Media Room, Schulich School of Music, McGill Univ (05/10/2010-05/12/2010)....continue...

Antheil's Ballet Mecanique

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2010-08-10

Works: George Antheil: A Jazz Symphony, for piano & jazz orchestra (original version), W. 157a; Sonata, for violin, piano & drums no 2, W. 131; Quartet for Strings no 1; Ballet mécanique, for pianola, ...
Performers: Amper, Leslie; Baker, Jim; Bowman, Andy; Castleman, Charles; Close, David; David Carey [Percussion/Vibes]; Davis, Ivan; Evans, Sue; Gottlieb, Gordon; Hardison, Clifton; Harlos, Stephen; Hodgkinson, R...
Conductors: Peress, Maurice

Recording information: SUNY Purchase New York (04/01/1990-04/04/1990)....continue...

Blues

1 CD / Orchid Classics / 2010-06-29

Works: Jascha Heifetz: Selections (5) from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, arrangement for violin & piano; Three Preludes, arrangement for violin & piano (after Gershwin); Wayne Marshall: Blues Improvisation; Ge...
Performers: Trusler, Matthew; Wayne Marshall [Piano/Organ]

Recording information: Wigmore Hall, London (09/05/2006-09/06/2006)....continue...

Touch - The Toccata Project / Rorem, Sowerby, Amalong

1 CD / Albany Records / 2009-11-10

Works: Ned Rorem: Toccata, for piano (4th mvt. of Piano Sonata no 1); George Antheil: Toccatas (2), for piano, W. 72; Lee Hoiby: Toccata, for piano, Op. 1; Irving Fine: Diversions for piano; Leo Sowerby: To...
Performers: Amalong, Philip

Touch: The Toccata Project is a collection of post-1900 piano toccatas written by American composers. The distinguished pianist Philip Amalong has uncovered many unknown gems...continue...

Futurpiano / Daniele Lombardi

1 CD / LTM / 2009-08-25

Works: Arthur Vincent Lourié: Synthèses, for piano, Op. 16; Formes en l'air, pieces (3) for piano; Leo Ornstein: Suicide in an Airplane; Three Moods; A la Chinoise, Op. 39; George Antheil: Mechani...
Performers: Lombardi, Daniele

Unique CD showcasing three influential avant-garde composers associated with Futurism, featuring piano music composed between 1913 and 1933....continue...

Sonic Rebellion - An Alternative Classical Collection [B&N exclusive]

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2009-08-25

Works: John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine, fanfare for orchestra; Philip Glass: Concerto for Violin; Henryk Mikolaj Górecki: Symphony no 3, Op. 36 ("Symphony of Sorrowful Songs"); George Antheil:...
Performers: Anthony, Adele; Berman, Boris; Crawford, Peter; Jones, Angharad Gruffydd; Kilanowisz, Zofia; Mikkola, Laura; Nowacki, Piotr; Rehlis, Agnieszka; Zdunikowski, Adam
Conductors: Alsop, Marin; Yuasa, Takuo; Wit, Antoni; Spalding, Daniel; Edison, Noel; Summerly, Jeremy; ; Milanov, Rossen
Ensemble: ; Amici Ensemble; Forestare

American Classics - American Ballets - Antheil, Schuman, Gould / Joseph Levine, Ballet Theatre Orchestra

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2009-06-30

Works: George Antheil: The Capital of the World Suite (3), for orchestra, W. 198; William Schuman: Undertow, ballet (choreographic episodes); Morton Gould: Fall River Legend, ballet
Conductors: Levine, Joseph
Ensemble: Ballet Theatre Orchestra

BBC Music Magazine
Three rarely heard scores for American Ballet Theatre - George Antheil's blowsy Capital of the World, William Schuman's dramatic Undertow, Morton Gould's allusively...continue...

American Classics - Four American Quartets - Evans, Glass, Antheil, Herrmann / Fine Arts String Quartet

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2008-07-29

Works: Ralph Evans: Quartet for Strings no 1; Philip Glass: Quartet for Strings no 2 ("Company"); George Antheil: Quartet for Strings no 3; Bernard Herrmann: Echoes

This recording gathers four string quartets by American composers who are widely divergent in style and manner, and who have made a distinctive and personal...continue...

Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 4 / Stokowski, NBC SO

1 CD / Cala Records / 2008-07-01

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 4 in F minor; George Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad; George Antheil: Symphony, for orchestra no 4 ("1942"), W. 177
Conductors: Stokowski, Leopold
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

In a State of Jazz / Marc-André Hamelin

1 CD / Hyperion / 2008-05-13

Works: Friedrich Gulda: Excercise no 5; Prelude and Fugue; Nikolai Kapustin: Sonata for piano no 2, Op. 54; Alexis Weissenberg: Sonate en état de jazz; Improvisations (6) on songs sung by Charles Tre...
Performers: Hamelin, Marc-André [Piano]

"One could be forgiven for thinking that this disc might just be a case of another classical pianist deciding to indulge a 'hidden passion' for...continue...
This album was nominated for the 2008 Grammy Award for "Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (without Orchestra)."

Recording information: Henry Wood Hall, London, England.

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George Antheil: Bad Boy's Piano Music

1 CD / Col Legno / 2008-05-01

Works: George Antheil: Fireworks and the Profane Waltzers, for piano, W. 28; The Golden Bird, for piano ("after Brancusi"), W. 35; The Airplane Sonata, for piano (a.k.a. "Second Sonata"), W. 40; Jazz Sonata...
Performers: Koehlen, Benedikt

Piano Pictures

1 CD / Col Legno / 2008-05-01

Works: Erik Satie: Sports et divertissements (Sports and diversions), pieces (21) for piano; George Antheil: La Femme 100 Têtes, preludes (45) for piano inspired by etchings of Max Ernst, W. 60
Performers: Koehlen, Benedikt

Recording information: WDR Köln....continue...

James Adler Plays Syncopated Rhythms

1 CD / Albany Records / 2008-04-01

Works: Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Pasquinade, caprice for piano, Op. 59, D. 113 (RO 189); James Adler: Three Moments from Scott Joplin's Treemonisha (A Concert Paraphrase), for piano; Piano Transitions, suite...
Performers: Adler, James

Pianist and composer James Adler made his debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 16, the start of varied career in the...continue...

The Life of the Machines - Nancarrow, Roslavets, et al / Vladimir Stoupel

1 CD / Eda (ger) / 2008-02-19

Works: Conlon Nancarrow: Sonatina for Piano; Nikolai A. Roslavets: Sonata for Piano no 2; Wladyslaw Szpilman: Suite "The Life of Machines"; George Antheil: Sonata for Piano no 4; Sonata for Piano no 3 "The ...
Performers: Stoupel, Vladimir

Here is another exceedingly well thought out and performed piano recital. The Russian-born French pianist Vladimir Stoupel has established himself worldwide as an artist of...continue...

Piano Music in America, 1900-1945 / Works by Antheil, Barber, Carpenter, Copland, Cowell / Roger Shields, piano

3 CD / Vox Classical / 2007-10-09

Works: Edward MacDowell: Woodland Sketches (10) for piano, Op. 51; Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Roman Sketches (4), suite for piano, Op. 7; George Antheil: The Airplane Sonata, for piano (a.k.a. "Second Sonat...
Performers: Shields, Roger

Antheil Plays Antheil / Adler, Haefner, Price, et al

2 CD / Other Minds Music / 2007-10-09

Works: George Antheil: Valentine Waltzes (11), for piano, W. 74; Fragments from Shelley (8), for chorus & piano, W. 102; McKonkey's Ferry (Washington at Trenton); A Concert Overture, for orchestra, W. 188; ...
Performers: Antheil, George
Conductors: Wagner, Roger; Adler, F. Charles

"Fans and scholars of George Antheil will go ape for this collection of original recordings, narrations, and radio plays made for SPA Records from 1942...continue...

SCENE Player Piano 4 - Piano Music Without Limits

1 CD / MD&G / 2007-09-25

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Study for Pianola; Paul Hindemith: Music for Mechanical Instruments no 1, Op. 40; Hans Haass: Fugue for Player Piano in C major "Fugen-Capriccio"; Ernst Toch: Study 4; Studies (3), f...

Furious glissandi, monumental chords, breathtaking velocities, most highly complicated rhythms compounded by multilayered meters and after many years of work, Jurgen Hocker is now finally...continue...

Horizons - Leif Ove Andsnes

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2006-09-12

Works: Jean Sibelius: Pieces (13) for piano, Op. 76; Alexander Scriabin: Impromptus (2) for piano, Op. 14; Felix Mendelssohn: Songs without words, vol 3, Op. 38; Richard Strauss: Songs (6) for voice & piano...
Performers: Andsnes, Leif Ove

Leif Ove Andsnes's new album, 'Horizons', on EMI Classics is full of dramatic and poetic moments that will inspire both new and committed listeners alike....continue...

Antheil / Spalding, Livingston, Philadelphia Virtuosi

1 CD / New World / 2006-09-01

Works: George Antheil: Dreams, ballet for orchestra, W. 238; Concerto for Piano (1926) a.k.a."No. 2," W. 206a; Serenade, for chamber orchestra no 2, W. 191
Performers: Livingston, Guy
Conductors: Spalding, Daniel
Ensemble: Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra

"Just last year (May/June) we reviewed a CPO release of Antheil's piano music, which contained another performance of the concerto as well as the original...continue...

Works for Violin - Cowell, Antheil, Mahler, et al / Abe,

1 CD / New World / 2006-08-01

Works: Henry Cowell: Sonata for violin & piano, HC 705; Stefan Wolpe: Second Piece for Violin Alone, C. 165; George Antheil: Sonata, for violin, piano & drums no 2, W. 131; Johanna Beyer: Suite for violin &...
Performers: Abe, Miwako; Harvey, Michael Kieran

Henry Cowell (1897-1965), in the introduction to the first edition on his prophetic "symposium" titled American Composers on American Music (1933), described features of contemporary...continue...

Antheil: Piano Concertos, etc / Becker, Oue, et al

1 CD / CPO / 2006-02-21

Works: George Antheil: Concerto for Piano no 1, W. 205; Concerto for Piano no 2, W. 207; A Jazz Symphony; Jazz Sonata; Work(s); Sonatina for Radio; Sonatina for Piano "Death of the Machines"; Little Shimmy
Performers: Becker, Markus [Piano]
Conductors: Oue, Eiji
Ensemble: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra

George Antheil was a crazy fellow who very much fancied himself in the role of the "bad boy," as he termed himself in the title...continue...

George Antheil: The Complete Works for String Quartet

1 CD / Other Minds Music / 2005-11-08

Works: George Antheil: Lithuanian Night, for string quartet, W. 125; Quartet for Strings no 1, W. 133b; Quartet for Strings no 2 ("for Sylvia Beach with love"), W. 135; Little Pieces (6), for string quartet...
Performers: String Quartet, Del Sol
Conductors:
Ensemble: Del Sol String Quartet

If there is a musical counterpoint to the writers of the Lost Generation, it is surely New jersey-born composer George Antheil. His early career captured...continue...

The Story of American Classical Music / Scherer, et al

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2005-06-21

Works: William Henry Fry: Overture to Macbeth; Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Symphony no 1; Edward MacDowell: Concerto for Piano no 2 in D minor, Op. 23; Arthur Foote: Quartet for Piano and Strings in C major, O...
Performers: Andjaparidze, Eteri; Anthony, Adele; Barbagallo, James; Berman, Boris; Currie, Colin; Eldred, Mike; Feinberg, Alan [Piano]; Gauvin, Karina; Goff, Scott [Flute]; Lewin, Michael; Morrison, Betsi; Peska...
Conductors: Rowe, Tony; Rosenberg, Richard; Fagen, Arthur; ; Schermerhorn, Kenneth; Williams, John McLaughlin; Sinclair, James; Brion, Keith; Judd, James; Spalding, Daniel; Schwarz, Gerard; Serebrier, José;...
Ensemble: ; Da Vinci Quartet; Eaken Piano Trio

Think 'American Classical Music and what names spring to mind? Gershwin, Copland, Bernstein? Joplin, Foster Sousa? These great composers are deservedly famous, but from Colonial...continue...

Piano Concertos of the 1920s Vol 2 / Rische, Schuller, et al

1 CD / Arte Nova / 2005-06-14

Works: Erwin Schulhoff: Concerto for piano & small orchestra "In one movement"; George Antheil: A Jazz Symphony, for piano & jazz orchestra (original version), W. 157a; George Gershwin: Concerto for Piano i...
Performers: Rische, Michael
Conductors: Schuller, Gunther; Marshall, Wayne
Ensemble: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Cologne West German Radio Symphony Orchestra

"This disc offers not only spectacular performances of some great repertoire, but also gives a clear look at an important and unruly decade in our...continue...

Piano Concertos of the 1920s / Rische, Poppen

1 CD / Arte Nova / 2005-04-12

Works: George Antheil: Concerto for Piano no 1, W. 205; Aaron Copland: Concerto for Piano; Arthur Honegger: Concertino, for piano & orchestra, H. 55; Maurice Ravel: Concerto for Piano in G major
Performers: Rische, Michael
Conductors: Poppen, Christoph; Sloane, Steven; Yinon, Israel
Ensemble: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra; Cologne West German Radio Symphony Orchestra

Pianist Michael Rische has been heard regularly in the great concert halls at home and abroad since 1970. Particularly since his discovery of the piano...continue...

Antheil: Symphony no 3 "American", etc / Wolff, et al

1 CD / CPO / 2004-11-16

Works: George Antheil: Symphony, for orchestra no 3 ("American"), W. 174; Tom Sawyer, overture for orchestra, W. 192; American Dance Suite no 1; McKonkey's Ferry (Washington at Trenton); A Concert Overture,...
Conductors: Wolff, Hugh
Ensemble: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

George Antheil was one of the craziest and most original composers to come out of 20th-century America, and his life was just as exciting and...continue...

Music for Trumpet and Piano / Thornburg, Roederer

1 CD / Centaur / 2002-11-01

Works: Karl Pilss: Sonata for Trumpet and Piano; Halsey Stevens: Sonata for Trumpet and Piano; George Antheil: Sonata for Trumpet and Piano; Fisher Tull: Bagatelles (3) for Trumpet and Piano; Kent Kennan: S...
Performers: Roederer, Silvia; Thornburg, Scott

American Classics - Antheil: Ballet Mécanique, etc /Spalding

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2001-09-01

Works: George Antheil: Ballet mécanique, for 4 pianos, 2 electric bells, 2 airplane propellers & percussion (1953 revision); Serenade for Strings no 1; Symphony for Five Instruments, for flute, bassoon...
Conductors: Spalding, Daniel
Ensemble: Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra

Notorious for its orchestra of pianos, percussion, electric buzzers and aeroplane propellers, the Ballet Mecanique is actually quite an interesting work. Given it's odd instrumentation,...continue...

Nancarrow, Antheil: Piano Works / Herbert Henck

1 CD / ECM Import / 2001-06-19

Works: Conlon Nancarrow: Two-part Studies (3) for piano; Prelude for Piano; Blues, for piano; George Antheil: Sonatina für Radio, for piano, W. 58; The Airplane Sonata, for piano (a.k.a. "Second Sonata...
Performers: Henck, Herbert

Antheil: Symphonies no 4 & 5 / Wolff, Frankfurt RSO

1 CD / CPO / 2000-11-01

Works: George Antheil: Symphony, for orchestra no 4 ("1942"), W. 177; Decatur at Algiers, nocturne for orchestra, W. 179; Symphony, for orchestra no 5 ("Joyous"), W. 186
Conductors: Wolff, Hugh
Ensemble: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

"The Symphony is about the most complete musical picture of an American circus that has ever been made. There is everything in it - military...continue...

Piano Dance: A 20th-Century Portrait

1 CD / Telarc / 2000-07-25

Works: Joan Huang: Reflections after a Rainbow; William Albright: The Sleepwalker's Shuffle; Claude Debussy: Children's Corner; Samuel Adler: Road To Terpsichore (Dance Suite) for piano; Paul Hindemith: Sui...
Performers: Cheng, Gloria

"A super-enjoyable, toe-tapping disc if ever there was one! Cheng is a marvellous champion of all the hugely varied music on this spiffingly enterprising disc...A...continue...
Over the centuries, the spirit of the dance has bonded music of all forms. Though infinitely varied, music that inspires the dance shares an intangible essence: part rhythm, part melody, it makes the ...continue...

Antheil: Symphonies no 1 & 6, etc / Wolff, Frankfurt RSO

1 CD / CPO / 2000-05-01

Works: George Antheil: Symphony, for orchestra no 1 ("Zingareska"), W. 150; Symphony, for orchestra no 6 ("after Delacroix"), W. 190; Archipelago
Conductors: Wolff, Hugh
Ensemble: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

"The Frankfurt radio Symphony plays all three works with steely abandon. Wolff's readings are full of wit and subtlety. He catches Antheil's droll understatement...yet gives...continue...

Music at the Bauhaus - Wolpe, Hauer, Antheil, et al

1 CD / MD&G / 1999-06-22

Works: Stefan Wolpe: Sonata "Stehende Musik," for piano, C. 10, Op. 1; Cinq marches caracteristiques (5), for piano, C. 58, Op. 10; Adagio no 5; Variation, for piano, C. 4/3, 70/2, Op. 5b/3; Tango for Piano...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

New World Jazz / Tilson Thomas, New World Symphony

1 CD / RCA Records / 1998-09-15

Works: John Adams: Lollapalooza, for orchestra; George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, for piano & orchestra (orchestrated by F. Grofé); Leonard Bernstein: Prelude, Fugue and Riffs; Darius Milhaud: La cr...
Performers: Calcara, Tad; Inouye, Mark J.; Linville; Niehaus, Mark; Simas, Jerome; Thomas, Michael Tilson
Conductors: Thomas, Michael Tilson
Ensemble: New World Symphony

"...Thomas does wonderful things with the music and with the young musicians in the New World Symphony. They and RCA ought to consider New World...continue...

Thomas Stevens, Trumpet

1 CD / Crystal Records / 1997-02-04

Works: Peter Maxwell Davies: Sonata for Trumpet, for trumpet and piano, J. 18; George Antheil: Sonata, for trumpet & piano, W. 143; Thomas Stevens: Triangles for 3 trumpets; Variations for trumpet, vibrapho...
Performers: Carno, Zita; Green, Donald; McGregor, Bob Roy; Stevens, Thomas [Trumpet]; Wheatley, David [Composer]

Antheil: Capital of the World, etc / Kolman, Slovak State PO

1 CD / Centaur / 1996-05-18

Works: George Antheil: Capital of the World, ballet for orchestra, W. 249; Symphony, for orchestra no 5 ("Joyous"), W. 186; Archipelago
Conductors: Kolman, Barry

Antheil, Bruzdowicz: Sonatas, etc / Szreder, Strobel, Strahl

1 CD / Pavane / 1996-04-11

Works: George Antheil: Sonata for Violin and Piano no 1; Sonata for Violin and Piano no 2; Joanna Bruzdowicz: Sonata for Violin and Piano "Spring in America"; Trio dei due mondi
Performers: Strahl, Tomasz; Strobel, Boguslaw Jan; Szreder, Robert

George Antheil - Bad Boy of Music / Marthanne Verbit

1 CD / Albany Records / 1995-01-01

Works: George Antheil: The Airplane Sonata, for piano (a.k.a. "Second Sonata"), W. 40; Sonata Sauvage, for piano, W. 41; La Femme 100 Têtes, preludes (45) for piano inspired by etchings of Max Ernst, ...
Performers: Verbit, Marthanne

Valentines- Antheil, Scott, Gershwin, etc / Marthanne Verbit

1 CD / Albany Records / 1992-07-01

Works: George Gershwin: Funny Face; George Antheil: Valentine Waltzes (11), for piano, W. 74; John Diercks: Sonatinas (12) for piano; Joseph Fennimore: Crystal Stairs for piano; Leo Ornstein: Morning in the...
Performers: Verbit, Marthanne