Multiples

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Whitman's not only ahead of the electronic world, he is paving the roads others will be traveling upon.

Product Description
Keith Fullerton Whitman recorded Multiples at the Harvard University studios where he had access to vintage synthesizers and electronics. The eight tracks on this album flow from piercing electronic tones to interlocking clusters of repetitive guitars.

Multiples

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Average customer rating: Hot Lips Trumpets "Abblassen" Used in "Sunday Morning" fun trumpets

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Tracks:

1. Abblasen - Don Smithers
2. Rondeau - Wynton Marsalis
3. Allegro Assai - Thomas Stevens
4. I. Allegro - Maurice Andre
5. II. Largo - Maurice Andre
6. III. (Allegro) - Maurice Andre
7. I. Andante - Hakan Hardenberger
8. II. Allegro Moderato - Hakan Hardenberger
9. I. Allegro - John Wilbraham
10. II. Largo - John Wilbraham
11. III. Allegro - John Wilbraham
12. I. Adagio - Maurice Andre
13. II. Allegro - Maurice Andre
14. I. Allegro - Aldoph Herseth
15. II. Andante - Adolph Herseth
16. III. Finale. Allegro - Adolph Herseth
17. I. Allegro Con Spirito - John Wilbraham
18. II.Andante - John Wilbraham
19. III. Rondo - John Wilbraham
20. La Virgen De La Macarena - Ronald Romm
21. Theme & Variations On 'The Carnival Of Venice' - John Wilbraham

Tracks:

1. Reiterfanfare - Berlin Philharmonic Brass Ensemble
2. XXI: Sonata A 3 - Michael Laird
3. Sonata A 7 - The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
4. March For 3 Trumpets And Timpani - The London Festival Brass Ensemble
5. I. Allegro - The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
6. II. Andante - The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
7. III. Vivace - The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
8. I. Moderato - John Wilbraham
9. II. Menuett - John Wilbraham
10. III. Larghetto - John Wilbraham
11. IV. Vivace - John Wilbraham
12. Fanfare For St. Edmundsbury - The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
13. Quiet City - Thomas Stacy
14. Concertino For Trumpet, Piano And Strings - Pierre Thibaud
15. Fanfare For A New Theatre - Raymond Mase
16. Marche Royale - ARMANDO GHITALLA
17. Etude Characteristique - Elgar Howarth
18. Hora Staccato - Rafael Mendez
19. Czardas - Rafael Mendez

Customer Reviews:

Hot Lips Trumpets.......2007-01-10

I appreciate this CD, it is high quality and a great variety and I enjoy it very much.
Vernon M. Dean

"Abblassen" Used in "Sunday Morning".......2006-02-01

The CBS News show "Sunday Morning" is using "Abblassen" as their theme music.

fun trumpets.......2005-09-13

"Masters of The Trumpet" is a simple and accurate title for this 2- disc collection. The recordings cover trumpet/cornet literature ranging from Gabrieli to Stravinsky.
Especially enjoyable moments are Don Smithers playing Reiche's "Abblasen" & Armando Ghitalla's work on Stravinsky's "Marche Royale" (L'Histoire du Soldat).
Rafael Mendez sounds as though he has more fun playing than should be legal...exciting!..and Adolph Herseth is a pleasure to hear whether he's playing in "delicate mode" or shattering asteroids with his power.
Get this recording.

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Average customer rating: Three pieces which introduce Boulez's recent blend of glittering colours and ingeniously-paced action among the best of Boulez Love it or hate it, the world needs stuff like this.... wonderful pieces, best perfomances These pieces are very colourful with a bright instrumentatio

Pierre Boulez: Rituel / Eclat / Multiples - Ensemble InterContemporain / BBC Symphony Orchestra Pierre Boulez , Ensemble InterContemporain , and BBC Symphony Orchestra Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Boulez | Boulez, Pierre | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Percussion | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Classical Instrumental Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Pierre Boulez: Pli selon pli; Livre pour cordes Boulez: Sur Incises/Messagesquisse/Anthèms 2 Luciano Berio: Corale (Sequenza VIII), for Violin, 2 Horns & Strings / Chemins II (Sequenza VI) / Chemins IV (Sequenza VII) / Ritorno degli Snovidenia, for Cello & Small Orchestra / "Points on the Curve to Find...", for Piano & 22 Instrumentalists - Pierre Boulez Boulez: ...Explosante-fixe... Boulez conducts Boulez ASIN: B000002703 Release Date: 1991-01-14

Tracks:

1. Rituel in Memoriam Maderna
2. Eclat
3. Multiples

Customer Reviews:

Three pieces which introduce Boulez's recent blend of glittering colours and ingeniously-paced action.......2006-08-07

This Sony disc contains three pieces by Pierre Boulez with the composer himself conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Ensemble Intercontemporain. I think that the products of Boulez's middle period, following the Piano Sonata No. 3, are generally disappointing, showing a certain lack of focus. The pieces here, however, represent a coming back to life that was to lead to his great masterpieces of the 80s and 90s.

"Eclat" for 15 instruments (1965) continues Boulez's interest in aleatoric form. In this work consisting of a succession of elegant little motifs, the pitches, tempo, and dynamics are all predetermined, but the conductor can, on the spur of the moment, decide which motif he wants to signal next. The small ensemble is divided into two halves, those instruments whose sound dies away immediately unless trilled, and those instruments capable of sustaining there sound. In the interaction between these two groups, Boulez creates a web of beautiful colours. "Multiples", meant to always follow "Eclats" to form a single piece "Eclat/Multiples", was begun in 1971 and is still unfinished. It is an expansion of the ideas of the first piece, lasting twice as long and with the added instrumentation of nine violas, a basset horn, and a second piano. It shows a much greater variety of rhythms, and much of the writing consists of tuttis against the isolated cells of "Eclat". This second half of the joint work is one of my favourite pieces by Boulez, captivating for every minute of its duration and revealing new secrets on every listen.

"Rituel" for orchestra in eight groups (1974/75) was written in memory of Bruno Maderna, a Darmstadt figure who is nearly forgotten now but who was a close friend and inspiration to many composers who came of age in the 1950s. With its solemn pace and sad, mournful tones, the piece serves as a strong antidote to that usual conservative accusation that serialism "can't communicate anything." This is Boulez's vastest work in terms of percussion, with a large amount of exotic drums, cymbals, bells, wood blocks, and so forth on the stage. Its fifteen sections consist of highly mobile even-numbered intonations, unconducted after Boulez signals their starting points, contrasted with strict conducted responses. Over the course of the work, we move from one orchestral group to another, exploring all of its timbres even though the melodic material is intentionally limited to create a feeling of sorrow.

I should mention that appreciation of everything here can be vastly expanded through outside references. Dominique Jameux's PIERRE BOULEZ (Harvard University Press, 1991) contains a fantastic dissection, specifying what's happening minute by minute in each piece. For "Eclat" specifically, there's a documentary by Frank Schaeffer recently put out on DVD in the Juxtapositions series that shows Ed Spaanjard preparing to conduct the piece with the Nieuw Ensemble, with helpful commentary by Boulez himself.

Nothing here has quite the same grand proprtions of such later pieces as "...explosante-fixe...", "Repons", or "Sur Incises" (though "Multiples" gets close), but they are generally entertaining and represent a vast improvement over the lack of focus in "Pli selon pli" or the Piano Sonata No. 3.

among the best of Boulez.......2005-08-26

This disc, with either two or three Boulez pieces depending on whether you count "Eclat" and "Multiples" or just "Eclat/Multiples," is one of the best of the select output by the French composer and conductor. One simple rule I have learned is to beware of longer works -- "Repons" at over 40 minutes loses energy and interest (see my review), and "Pli Selon Pli," which is 60 minutes long in the 1969 Sony recording (see my review) and 70 minutes in the latest DG version (see my review) needless to say tests the outer limits of endurance.

"Rituel in memoriam Maderna" (1974/5 -- 25' 19") sustains interest for its entire duration! The BBC Symphony Orchestra tackled this modern work in 1976 with the same enthusiasm they showed in their 1969 recording of "Pli Selon Pli." Opening with a keening oboe over a steady timpani rhythm, it is a static work which fascinates through its creative use of varied percussion and suspense. "Rituel" may be the most Messiaen-ic of all Boulez's compositions, a shifting progression of fifteen tableaus, gradually increasing the size of the orchestra to the midpoint, and then diminishing.

"Eclat" and "Multiples" are performed by Boulez's own Ensemble Intercontemporain. "Eclat" (1965 -- 9'41") opens with piano, and its 15 instruments are divided into two groups -- instruments capable of sustaining tones (flute English horn, trumpet, trombone & strings) as "sonorous background" for a group of soloists, all instruments whose sound dies away (piano, glockenspiel, vibraphone, mandolin & guitar). The slightest familiarity with Boulez reveals that this is a very Boulezian choice of instrumentation, leading to a characteristically Boulezian timbre. I would recommend this brief crystalline work as an ideal introduction to the music of Pierre Boulez. "Multiples" (1966-1970 -- 17'02") is unfinished. We can only hope it remains that way, though the liner notes threaten that it is supposed to be doubled in length when completed. It takes the "Eclat" ensemble and adds nine violas and a basset horn. Louder and more exuberant, it becomes quite different in style and mood than the preceding "part," and variety is a virtue in any Boulez recording.

This disc, part of the fine Sony PIERRE BOULEZ series, can be recommended without reservation -- it makes a great bargain-price introduction to Boulez, and it is an essential addition to a Boulez collection already underway.

Love it or hate it, the world needs stuff like this...........2001-03-01

Rituel is Boulez at his most accesible. An obssesive thredony, rich with oriental resonances, and jazzy 'improvisatory' woodwind polyphony, it owes a great debt to his teacher, Messian. Magical soundscapes of midrange instruments on Eclat and Multiple. As it's one of Boulez's indeterminate pieces (musicial events can be triggered in different orders and dynamics by the conductor), this piece would be best heard live, but retains an expectant tension on the recording. Multiples follows Eclat with vigor and verve. A hint for the uninitiated; listen to a little Boulez at first, and clear your mind of any preconceptions about harmony. Sampling a little each time, one can grow accostomed to his unique sounds, and begin to appreciate the music on its own terms. Personally, I like to listen to Boulez to clear my palette after a heavy meal of Romantic music, but many may find him a little dry.... Ah, well, I like it. Superb performance from the Ensemble. Sound suitably brilliant and clear throughout.

wonderful pieces, best perfomances.......2000-03-20

Eclat is a peculiar sound world in which i'v experienced great beauty. the language of this work of art is pure, and the outcome is light and magical. Rituel is probably a masterpiece, and certainly this is the best recorded performance of it i'v ever heard, so do not purchase another cd but this one for Rituel. boulez conducts in this recording and does it so much better than anyone else in this case of his own works.

These pieces are very colourful with a bright instrumentatio.......1998-11-27

I've heard these pieces several times. I like Eclat very much. It is a bright piece. Rituel is also very good for its rithmic continuity with a sparkling instrumentation in wich I heard some remembrance of the use of orchestral colouration of Maderna. The performances are as you can expect from Boulez: Very clear and exact.

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Tracks:

1. Processional Fanfare
2. Fanfares Pour Britannicus: Prelude
3. Fanfare For Brass
4. Ceremonial Fanfare
5. The Cenci: Fanfare
6. Fanfare For St. Edmundsbury
7. Suite For Brass Septet: Andante
8. Suite For Brass Septet: Allegro Con Moto
9. Suite For Brass Septet: Lento
10. Suite For Brass Septet: Allegro Con Anima
11. Divertimento: Prelude
12. Divertimento: Scherzo
13. Divertimento: Interlude
14. Divertimento: March
15. Fanfare For Brass Quintet
16. Four Outings For Brass Quintet: Moderato, With Energy
17. Four Outings For Brass Quintet: Blues Tempo
18. Four Outings For Brass Quintet: Slow
19. Four Outings For Brass Quintet: Vivace
20. Sonata For Horn, Trumpet And Trombone: I. Allegro
21. Sonata For Horn, Trumpet And Trombone: II. Andante
22. Sonata For Horn, Trumpet And Trombone: III. Rondeau
23. Symphony For Brass And Percussion, Op. 16: I. Andante
24. Symphony For Brass And Percussion, Op. 16: II. Vivace
25. Symphony For Brass And Percussion, Op. 16: III. Lento Desolato
26. Symphony For Brass And Percussion, Op. 16: IV. Introduction (Quasi Cadenza)- Allegro

Tracks:

1. Festfanfare
2. Sokol Fanfare
3. Fanfare For The Lord Mayor Of London
4. Fanfares Liturgiques: Procession Du Vendredi-Saint
5. Fanfare 'The Eagle Has Two Heads'
6. Symphony For Brass Instruments, Op. 123: I. Allegro Moderato
7. Symphony For Brass Instruments, Op. 123: II. Allegretto Grazioso
8. Symphony For Brass Instruments, Op. 123: III. Andante Con Moto
9. Symphony For Brass Instruments, Op. 123: IV. Allegro Con Brio
10. Morgenmusik From Ploner Musiktag: Massig Bewegt
11. Morgenmusik From Ploner Musiktag: Lied
12. Suite From Kleine Driegroschenmusik (Little Threepenny Suite): Bewegt
13. Suite From Kleine Driegroschenmusik (Little Threepenny Suite): Overture
14. Suite From Kleine Driegroschenmusik (Little Threepenny Suite): Die Moritat Von Mackie Messer (Mack The Knife)
15. Suite From Kleine Driegroschenmusik (Little Threepenny Suite): Anstatt Dass- Song
16. Suite From Kleine Driegroschenmusik (Little Threepenny Suite): Die Ballade Vom Angenhemen Leben
17. Suite From Kleine Driegroschenmusik (Little Threepenny Suite): Pollys Lied
18. Suite From Kleine Driegroschenmusik (Little Threepenny Suite): Tango-Ballade
19. Suite From Kleine Driegroschenmusik (Little Threepenny Suite): Kanonen-Song
20. Suite From Kleine Driegroschenmusik (Little Threepenny Suite): Dreigroschen Finale

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Dallas Trumpets Manufacturer: Crystal Records CD230 ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000DEL4D Release Date: 2003-07-01

Tracks:

1. Satie: Carillon Sonnerie
2. Truax: Adagio and Allegro: Adagio
3. Truax: Adagio and Allegro: Allegro
4. Tomasi: Suite for Three Trumpets: Havanaise
5. Tomasi: Suite for Three Trumpets: Lento
6. Tomasi: Suite for Three Trumpets: Danse Bolivienne
7. Persichetti: Parable XIV for Solo Trumpet
8. Persichetti: Parable XXV for Two Trumpets
9. Britten: Fanfare for St. Edmundsbury
10. Friedman: Antiphonia IV
11. Plog: Four Concert Duets: Fanfare
12. Plog: Four Concert Duets: Pastoral
13. Plog: Four Concert Duets: Scherzo
14. Plog: Four Concert Duets: Dialogue
15. Stevens: The Moudon Fanfares: Deux ix
16. Stevens: The Moudon Fanfares: B.I.M.
17. Stevens: The Moudon Fanfares: Tranquille
18. Stevens: The Moudon Fanfares: Clifford
19. Stevens: The Moudon Fanfares: Epilogue Deux ix
20. Kay: Three Fanfares for Four Trumpets

Product Description

The Dallas Symphony Trumpet section, featuring Richard Giangiulio and Andrew McCandless with Thomas Stevens and friends. Vincent Persichetti, Parable for Solo Trumpet and Parable for Two Trumpets; Henri Tomasi, Suite for Three Trumpets; Bert Truax, Adagio and Allegro; Benjamin Britten, Fanfare for St. Edmundsbury; Stanley Friedman, Antiphonia IV; Anthony Plog, Four Concert Duets; Ulysses Kay, Three Fanfares for Four Trumpets; Thomas Stevens, The Moudon Fanfares.

Average customer rating: No diggity Very original and creative electronic-influenced ambient classical music - non-fans of the genre will hate it, though A journey A great composer in the making?

Multiples Manufacturer: Kranky ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Electronic | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music | Computer General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Lisbon Playthroughs Harmony in Ultraviolet Drum's Not Dead (CD + DVD) Feels ASIN: B0007YH6CO Release Date: 2005-05-24

Tracks:

1. Stereo Music For Hi-Hat
2. Stereo Music For Serge Modular Prototype (Part One)
3. Stereo Music For Serge Modular Prototype (Part Two)
4. Stereo Music For Serge Modular Prototype (Part Three)
5. Stereo Music For Yamaha Disklavier Prototype, Electric Guitar And Computer
6. Stereo Music For Farfisa Compact Duo Deluxe, Drum Kit
7. Stereo Music For Acoustic Guitar, Buchla Music Box 100, Hewlett Packard Model 236 Oscillator, Electric Guitar And Computer (Part One)
8. Stereo Music For Acoustic Guitar, Buchla Music Box 100, Hewlett Packard Model 236 Oscillator, Electric Guitar And Computer (Part Two)

Album Description

Keith Fullerton Whitman recorded Multiples at the Harvard University studios where he had access to vintage synthesizers and electronics. The eight tracks on this album flow from piercing electronic tones to interlocking clusters of repetitive guitars.

Customer Reviews:

No diggity.......2007-03-11

I can appreciate how Whitman went to harvard and dicked around with their instrument archive more than I have to like it. Don't get me wrong, I am a massive fan of the ambient-drone-classical-noise genre a la Stars of the Lid, Jessica Rylan, david lee myers and ellen band, home made electronics, bending circuits, all that geeky know all that Keith Whitman embraces. But frankly I find his music unbearable. Which is a shame because he's probably still riding on that glowing but unknowing review @ pitchfork which has made him a demigod in many peoples eyes [oh my GOD, what thought provoking and intelligent titles 'Stereo Music For Acoustic Guitar, Buchla Music Box 100, Hewlett Packard Model 236 Oscillator, Electric Guitar And Computer (Part One) ' the kind of titles that have tried so hard to erase so much pretense that it loops back around and you want to shoot yourself).
Quite like the 'music itself'. I can imagine the guy at pitchfork, puffing at a pipe, Wittgenstein on hand, truly pretending to 'get' Stereo Music for Hi Hat. Some people say something this audacious is genius, I say something/one this audacious is scary because he could almost pass for a musician, if you forget that the first half of his career was built drilling drum-and-bass computer programming in your brain via the Hrvatski cell tower. Whitman is NOT a musician. He has no control over the often interesting sounds he produces from obscre machinery, the moment he begins to bring it together with 'stereo music for farfisa compact duo deluxe', he loses it all over again. What starts with a promising organ line and simple but satisfying drum pattern spirals into another useless mess of drone drone and drone. its as if his random clicking and chirping is a safety net for lack of compositional skills-- I would appreciate the dronage more if he had proven himself through some other avenue as a musician first, not just academically but intuitively.

Very original and creative electronic-influenced ambient classical music - non-fans of the genre will hate it, though.......2006-01-10

I bought this album only because it was on pitchforkmedia's top 50 albums of 2005 list. What makes it great is the fact that it sounds entirely original and inspired as it's very interesting to listen to. Unfortunately, I fear that non-fans of the genre will simply hate it. It took me several listens to get used to it, as a lot of the songs are pretty hard to listen to on the first try. As for what it sounds like, it's essentially electronic-influenced ambient classical music. He uses a fair amount of guitar and piano sounds here, and a LOT of electronic noises (I know this because the song titles say what he uses). I hated it the first time I listened to it, but after several listens I finally found its greatness. For those looking for some great contemporary classical ambient albums, this is a GREAT buy. Highly recommended!

Highlights include:
the entire album!

A journey.......2005-07-19

starting with tweaks, dots, loops and whistles and ending with arpgiated piano and organ drone I felt like I was on the dark side of the moon . . . . .yet warm . . .

A great composer in the making?.......2005-05-24

KFW's influences are pretty obvious, and he's happy to reveal them - Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Christoph Heeman. He knows all about tone clusters, overtones and shifting minimal rhythms. But the textures on 'Multiples' are so beautiful that it's never just an academic exercise. This is somewhere between 60s and 70s American minimalism and the more psychedelic analog drone-work of Kawabata Makoto (when he's not cracking skulls with Acid Mothers Temple) or Yamazaki Maso (when he's not cracking skulls as Masonna). One thing it's NOT is ambient, even if some of the treatments are a little Eno-esque.

There are signs here that Whitman is outgrowing his influencers, particularly on the glorious final piece (the last two tracks), and developing a really individual voice. He is certainly worth watching carefully. For now, 'Multiples' fills that nagging gap where you want something more sensual than conservatoire minimalism but more musically structured than psych-drone.

Average customer rating: Nice brass selection except for "Eonta"

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Customer Reviews:

Nice brass selection except for "Eonta".......2002-02-16

Overall, a diverse and well-performed selection. I recommend almost all the pieces, and am particularly fond of the Ruggles. But if you're a hard-core modern music enthusiast, don't get this disc for the Xenakis - the performance of Eonta is strangely flabby and punchless, kind of a "Xenakis Lite" (I've heard an excellent live performance, which was nothing like this recording). If not for the substandard Eonta, I'd have given the disc four stars.

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Stuart Laughton: Remembrance Manufacturer: Marquis Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Trios | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Britten | Britten, Sir Benjamin | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Hovhaness, Alan | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tomasi | Tomasi, Henri | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Trumpet | Brass | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Brass | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Marches | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000ZOK0Q Release Date: 2005-04-12

Tracks:

1. Fanfare For St. Edmundsbury
2. Chanson Pour Evelyne
3. Nocturne
4. Lamento 1
5. Sad Fountains
6. Lamento 2
7. Le Rossignol
8. Solitude
9. Prayer Of St. Gregory
10. Promenade
11. She's Like The Swallow
12. Canadian Folk Song Sketches
13. Pointe Pelee
14. Departure Music
15. The Silver Rose
16. The Last Post
17. Reveille

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Multiples and the Lost Project Rocco di Pietro Manufacturer: Rocco Di Pietro ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA34HE Release Date: 2004-05-04

Tracks:

1. Prison Dirges, (Model Version B) (1995)
2. Choral Injured Bird/Multiple (1997)
3. Dead Sleeping Soldiers (1995)
4. Tears of Eros, (Torso Version B) Live Multiple (2001)
5. Deconstructed Fountain from Ravel with Derrida Watching (1996)
6. Wave Fugue with Electronic Lost (2003)
7. Chamber Lost 2 for Christian Boltanski (2002) - Rayne Chase
8. Chamber Lost 2 for Christian Boltanski (2002) - Chelsea Smith
9. Chamber Lost 2 for Christian Boltanski (2002) - Shaun Hornbeck
10. Chamber Lost 2 for Christian Boltanski (2002) - Mary Smith
11. Chamber Lost 2 for Christian Boltanski (2002) - Kachina Dabney
12. Mobile Phone Dreams B with Lost (2002)

Average customer rating: Three pieces which introduce Boulez's recent blend of glittering colours and ingeniously-paced action

Rituel Eclat Multiples Pierre Boulez Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000262EN Release Date: 2003-05-08

Tracks:

1. Rituel
2. Eclat
3. Multiples

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Three pieces which introduce Boulez's recent blend of glittering colours and ingeniously-paced action.......2006-08-07

This Sony disc contains three pieces by Pierre Boulez with the composer himself conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Ensemble Intercontemporain. I think that the products of Boulez's middle period, following the Piano Sonata No. 3, are generally disappointing, showing a certain lack of focus. The pieces here, however, represent a coming back to life that was to lead to his great masterpieces of the 80s and 90s.

"Eclat" for 15 instruments (1965) continues Boulez's interest in aleatoric form. In this work consisting of a succession of elegant little motifs, the pitches, tempo, and dynamics are all predetermined, but the conductor can, on the spur of the moment, decide which motif he wants to signal next. The small ensemble is divided into two halves, those instruments whose sound dies away immediately unless trilled, and those instruments capable of sustaining there sound. In the interaction between these two groups, Boulez creates a web of beautiful colours. "Multiples", meant to always follow "Eclats" to form a single piece "Eclat/Multiples", was begun in 1971 and is still unfinished. It is an expansion of the ideas of the first piece, lasting twice as long and with the added instrumentation of nine violas, a basset horn, and a second piano. It shows a much greater variety of rhythms, and much of the writing consists of tuttis against the isolated cells of "Eclat". This second half of the joint work is one of my favourite pieces by Boulez, captivating for every minute of its duration and revealing new secrets on every listen.

"Rituel" for orchestra in eight groups (1974/75) was written in memory of Bruno Maderna, a Darmstadt figure who is nearly forgotten now but who was a close friend and inspiration to many composers who came of age in the 1950s. With its solemn pace and sad, mournful tones, the piece serves as a strong antidote to that usual conservative accusation that serialism "can't communicate anything." This is Boulez's vastest work in terms of percussion, with a large amount of exotic drums, cymbals, bells, wood blocks, and so forth on the stage. Its fifteen sections consist of highly mobile even-numbered intonations, unconducted after Boulez signals their starting points, contrasted with strict conducted responses. Over the course of the work, we move from one orchestral group to another, exploring all of its timbres even though the melodic material is intentionally limited to create a feeling of sorrow.

I should mention that appreciation of everything here can be vastly expanded through outside references. Dominique Jameux's PIERRE BOULEZ (Harvard University Press, 1991) contains a fantastic dissection, specifying what's happening minute by minute in each piece. For "Eclat" specifically, there's a documentary by Frank Schaeffer recently put out on DVD in the Juxtapositions series that shows Ed Spaanjard preparing to conduct the piece with the Nieuw Ensemble, with helpful commentary by Boulez himself.

Nothing here has quite the same grand proprtions of such later pieces as "...explosante-fixe...", "Repons", or "Sur Incises" (though "Multiples" gets close), but they are generally entertaining and represent a vast improvement over the lack of focus in "Pli selon pli" or the Piano Sonata No. 3.

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Britten: Chamber Music Manufacturer: Bis ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Trios | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Britten | Britten, Sir Benjamin | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Sinfonia | Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Cello | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Guitar | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Brass | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000001666 Release Date: 1994-09-22

Tracks:

1. Fanfare - Bo Nilsson
2. Suite No. 1 For Solo Cello - Frans Helmerson
3. Nocturnal
4. Passacaglia
5. I. The Big Chariot
6. II. The Old Lute
7. III. The Autumn Wind
8. IV. The Herd-Boy
9. V. Depression
10. VI. Dance Song
11. Poco Presto Ed Agitato - Vestjysk Kammerensemble
12. Variations: Andante Lento - Tranquillo E Rubato - Poco Agitato - Tempo Primo... - Vestjysk Kammerensemble

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