classical music: Nancarrow     classical music:     Nancarrow      Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano Conlon Nancarrow Wergo Germany, 2000 Dizzying experiments by a brilliant maverick A true compositional original, Conlon Nancarrow is best known for these mind-blowing pieces for player piano. Why this particular instrument? Because most of these short works are utterly unplayable by human beings, unless you are capable of say, depressing all 88 ...             Player Piano 1: Nancarrow Vol. 1 Conlon Nancarrow MD&G Records, 2006             Player Piano 5: Conlon Nancarrow Vol. 3 - Studies 33-41c Nancarrow MD&G Records, 2008             Player Piano 3: Conlon Nancarrow Vol. 2 - Studies 13-32 Conlon Nancarrow MD&G Records, 2007             Kronos Quartet: Sculthorpe, Sallinen, Glass, Nuncarrow, Hendrix Aulis Sallinen, Philip Glass, ... Nonesuch, 1990 Absolutely first rate! Performance & recording are excellent I am far from knowledgable about music. However, this is a marvelous introduction to contemporary music as arranged for a string quartet. The vision and versatility of this group are really laid out here. The only piece that jars is "Purple Haze," which, sorry ...             Conlon Nancarrow: Studies for player Piano Conlon Nancarrow Other Minds, 2008 The definitive recording of these works, newly remastered with spectacular sound, represents the most faithful reproduction of what Conlon Nancarrow heard, in his own studio. This is the only available recording utilizing Nancarrow's original instruments: two 1927 Ampico player pianos. "After decades of struggle and neglect, Conlon Nancarrow is ...             Sonic Rebellion: Alternative Classical Nathan Gunn, Nicholas Isherwood, ... Naxos, 2007 Start the revolution Even people who like classical music tend to run screaming when they hear names like Penderecki, Ligeti and Cage. But it's hard to blame them. The majority of concert halls and classical music stations play it safe, programming little but such familiar composers as ...             American Piano Music Of Our Time Volume II Conlon Nancarrow, Frederic Rzewski, ... Music & Arts, 2005 A highly enjoyable recital of American contemporary piano music and a fine tribute to Ursula Oppens This is the same entry as American Piano Music for Our Time, Vol.2, but cheaper. See my lengthy review under the other entry, of which the conclusion is: "Except for Picker then, in all these works the composers have not relinquished their compositional exigencies, ...             Warp Works & Twentieth Century Masters John Cage, Richard D. (aka Aphex Twin) James, ... Warp Records, 2006 Classic Avant-Garde...Electronic artists collide, for this release...!!! A strange one this....what transpires is a 2-CD disk of re-compostion's and arrangements, which are designed to: "explore the connection between electronic experimenters on the Warp label and their sonic grandfathers". What this amounts to, is a reinterpretation of ...             Player Piano, Vol. 6: Original Compositions in the Tradition of Nancarrow Marc-Andre Hamelin, Tom Johnson, ... Mdg, 2008             Leaving Home: Orchestral Music in the 20th Century, Vol. 3 - Colour Sir Simon Rattle, Stravinsky Ligeti Arthaus Musik, 2005 Covers quite a bit, but still only fifty minutes of video, and the series shows its age COLOUR is the third episode of Sir Simon Rattle's "Leaving Home", a television programme introducing 20th century orchestral music. We go between the brief lectures of Rattle, seated at a piano, and excepts from various pieces in performance by the City of Birmingham ...             Fascinatin' Rhythm Bix Biederbecke, Rube Bloom, ... Polygram Records, 1995 This seems to be the last survivor of Alan Feinberg's wonderful collections of American piano music. It's a typically fascinating program, mixing music by people thought of as jazz composers (Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, James P. Johnson) with others considered "real" composers (Gershwin, Cowell, Nancarrow, Gottschalk). It's all jazz to Feinberg, ...             Conlon Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano, Vols. 3 & 4 Conlon Nancarrow Wergo Germany, 1993 The best of the best I've been trying for the last five years to summarize Nancarrow's appeal as a composer -- an especially hard thing to do when he's still so woefully unknown or underappreciated by a wider audience. It has to be listened to to be believed. If you're looking for music ...             Continuum Performs Nancarrow Conlon Nancarrow, Continuum, ... Music Masters Jazz, 1994 Nancarrow without the player piano: an essential addition to our knowledge of the composer Recorded in 1989, This is the original 1991 release, by Musicmasters, of a CD that was recently reissued by Naxos and is available cheaper in that form (Nancarrow: Pieces Nos. 1 & 2; ¿Tango?; String Quartet No. 1). It is a fascinating addition to our knowledge of ...             Arditti: pieces by Beethoven, Nancarrow, Crawford-Seeger, Reynolds, Xenakis Arditti Quartet, Nancarrow, ... Gramavision, 1992 A great introduction to an adventurous group Some rate the Arditti as the best string quartet in the world, and with recordings like this, you can see why. Indeed, the Beethoven sounds almost modern here, and makes an interesting introduction to the rest of these works. (NB: this includes only the "Grosse ...          products you might be interested in   search for classical music alternative, compositions, crawford-seeger, fascinatin, orchestral, sculthorpe      toavi.com    web we recommend Covers quite a bit, but still only fifty minutes of video, and the series shows its age randomly chosen book: Enlightened Leadership: Getting to the Heart of Change