Savinio, Musicien 1914 (Récital Mi-scénique Par Luigi Rognoni) (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/EX- Gateford sleeve. Includes 16-page LP-size book. Alberto Savinio (1891-1952), born Andrea Francesco Alberto de Chirico, was the polymorphous younger brother of Giorgio de Chirico – painter, writer, musician, composer, and co-founder of the Scuola Metafisica. This rare Cramps/Multhipla LP (1978) documents the 1976 Milan realization of Les chants de la mi-mort (Songs of the Half-Death), Savinio's 1914 avant-garde operetta originally staged in Apollinaire's Les Soiré…
Quattro Pezzi / Pranam II / Okanagon / Kya (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/EX Gatefold sleeve. Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), one of the most enigmatic figures of 20th-century music, presents four essential works exploring his revolutionary approach to sound. Scelsi's radical music focuses on the microtonal universe within single pitches – sound as living, breathing matter rather than melodic material.
Quattro Pezzi (su una nota sola) showcases his groundbreaking chamber orchestra aesthetic built on single notes. Pranam II creates ritual int…
Musique Sacrée (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/NM Gatefold sleeve. A profound exploration of sacred music by one of Italy's most enigmatic composers! Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), whose work remained largely unknown until late in his career, created a unique compositional language centered on microtonal explorations and the inner life of single sounds. This rare Fy release presents his sacred works, revealing Scelsi's deeply spiritual approach to composition. Moving beyond traditional harmonic structures, these pi…
Sonetti A Orfeo (LP)
condition (record/cover): VG+ (light surface noise) / EX- (small tag on front) Gatefold sleeve. A remarkable collaboration between composer Fernando Sulpizi and virtuoso flutist Roberto Fabbriciani! This release explores contemporary possibilities of the flute through works inspired by Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus. Fabbriciani, one of Italy's leading interpreters of new music and a close collaborator with composers including Luigi Nono, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Sylvano Bussotti, brings his excepti…
La Viola Contemporanea (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/EX- (very small white tag on front) Distinguished violist Aldo Bennici presents works by five towering figures of the Italian avant-garde: Salvatore Sciarrino, Sylvano Bussotti, Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna, and Franco Donatoni. This collection represents the finest contemporary viola writing from Italy's post-war generation of composers, each exploring the instrument's expressive possibilities through distinctive compositional languages. From Sciarrino's delicate so…
Oboe (LP)
condition (record/cover): VG (record looks near mint but has surface noise throughout) / VG (2" stripe on front + spine wear + minimal ring wear). Distinguished oboist Lothar Faber presents world premiere recordings of works commissioned specifically for him by leading Italian composers and international figures. The program features Francesco Valdambrini's Dioie, Yoritsuné Matsudaira's Somakash, Lawrence Singer's Musica A 2, Giuseppe Sinopoli's Numquid, Bruno Maderna's Aulodia, and Bruno Bartol…
Luca Mosca - Pianoforte
condition (disc/cover): NM/NM A significant release featuring works by composer Luca Mosca (born 1957)! Mosca, who studied with Franco Donatoni at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and later with Gérard Grisey in Paris, developed a distinctive compositional voice that synthesizes Italian post-war modernism with French spectral influences. Contemporary Italian music for piano by: Arduino Gottardo, Bruno Cerchio, Nicloas Bacri, Elisabetta Brusa, Alessandro Lucchetti, Paolo Ugoletti, Riccard…
Il Flauto Contemporaneo (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/EX A definitive document of contemporary flute repertoire by two legendary Italian interpreters! Severino Gazzelloni (1919-1992), the most celebrated flutist of the post-war avant-garde, collaborated with virtually every major composer of his generation, inspiring countless works and redefining the instrument's possibilities. Joined by pianist Bruno Canino, this recording presents an extraordinary program balancing Italian masters with Japanese composers: Niccolò Cas…
Music For Solo Flute / Music For Flute And Piano (LP)
condition (record/cover): VG+ (surface noise) / EX (minimal spine wear) Gatefold sleeve. An essential collaboration between two titans of contemporary music interpretation! Severino Gazzelloni (1919-1992), the legendary Italian flutist who redefined the instrument's possibilities in the post-war avant-garde, joins forces with Aloys Kontarsky (1931-2017), the German pianist renowned for his definitive interpretations of Stockhausen, Boulez, and the European serialist repertoire. This Time Records…
Autori Italiani Per Clarinetto (LP)
condition (record/cover): M/M (still sealed) An important survey of contemporary Italian clarinet repertoire! Distinguished clarinetist Gaspare Tirincanti presents works by leading Italian composers, documenting the rich output for clarinet in post-war Italian music. A remarkable program beginning with Gaetano Donizetti's Studio and Nino Rota's Sonata in Re, then moving into the contemporary avant-garde with Niccolò Castiglioni's Daleth, Alearco Ambrosi's Iara, Luciano Berio's landmark Sequenza …
Continuum Ensemble Dortmund (LP)
condition (record/cover): VG (record looks near mint but has surface noise throughout) / VG+ (creasing + small tag on front + spine wear + minimal general wear). Italian post-war avant-garde meets the new music pioneers! This rare Italia label release documents the Continuum Ensemble Dortmund under conductor Werner Seiss performing landmark works from the European experimental vanguard. Carlos Roqué Alsina's Funktionen (1965) showcases the Argentine-French composer's work with Luciano Berio and …
Alle Vittime Di Hiroshima (LP)
condition (record/cover): VG+ (record looks near mint but has some surface noise) / VG+ (small tag on front + light wear) Political consciousness meets avant-garde innovation. This Italian RCA Red Seal release dedicates itself to the victims of Hiroshima through landmark compositions of social protest and sonic experimentation. Bruno Maderna (1920-1973), conductor and co-founder of Milan's Studio di Fonologia, leads the Soloists of the Rome Symphony Orchestra with flutist Severino Gazzelloni in …
Folk Songs (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/EX . Contemporary composers reimagine folk traditions. Commissioned by the Festival Musica '900 (Trento) and Incontri Internazionali di Musica Contemporanea (Bolzano), premiered November 14, 1988.
Salvatore Sciarrino arranges Ary Barroso's Brazil. Luca Francesconi, Carlo Galante, Claudio Ambrosini, and Andrea Mascagni contribute new works alongside international voices: Betty Olivero (Israel), Zygmunt Krauze (Poland), Walter Zimmermann (Germany), Hubert Stuppner, and…
Musica Cameristica Italiana Contemporanea (LP)
condition (record/cover): EX- (minimal surface noise) / VG+ (small tag on front + ring wear) Gatefold sleeve. Italian post-war chamber music at its finest. Marcello Panni conducts the Solisti di Teatromusica, the ensemble he founded in 1971, in essential works by four masters of Italian modernism. Recorded Rome, March 1972. Collana Edizioni Suvini Zerboni.
Franco Donatoni's Souvenir (Kammersymphonie, Op.18) showcases his serial period before the compositional crisis of the mid-1960s. Camillo To…
Musica Futurista (8CD box)
condition (discs/cover): M/EX (still sealed but box has minimal wear) A pioneering voice in Italian experimental music! Daniele Lombardi (1946-2017), distinguished pianist, composer and musicologist, dedicated much of his career to preserving and reinterpreting the revolutionary music of Italian Futurism. This comprehensive 8-CD box set presents a complete survey of his work in this field - from meticulous reconstructions of Luigi Russolo's intonarumori compositions to performances of works by F…
Musica Futurista (2CD)
condition (discs/cover): NM/NM Includes 20-page booklet with text in Italian and English. The sound of the Italian avant-garde 1909-1935! First edition on Multhipla Records, Gianni Sassi's label dedicated to avant-garde music and performance. Music and words from the Italian Futurist movement, featuring original recordings and contemporary performances.
Luigi Russolo's Esempi Sonori documents his revolutionary Intonarumori (noise intoners) – mechanical noise-generators that realized his manifes…
Musica nuova a Siena (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/EX - this album captures world premieres and rare works performed by Gruppo Octandre under Alain Meunier and other distinguished ensembles. The program features Salvatore Sciarrino's Due Nuove Melodie, Andrea Mannucci's Adagio Sostenuto, Franco Donatoni's Françoise Variationen, Maurizio Ferrari's Berceuse, Gilberto Bosco's Aria delle Carte (based on Carmen), and Giacomo Manzoni's Due Sonetti Italiani - a complex choral work from 1961 receiving its belated first perfo…
7 Per Petrassi - Festival Fontino Di Musica 1984 (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/NM Gatefold sleeve. A remarkable tribute to one of Italy's most influential composers! This album honors Goffredo Petrassi (1904-2003) with his own Inno alongside six commissioned works by distinguished international composers: Elliott Carter's Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi, Armando Gentilucci's Metafore del Tempo, Gérard Grisey's Anubis et Nout, Donald Martino's Canzone sul Nome Petrassi, Luis de Pablo's Dos Epigramas de Marcial, Cristóbal Halffter's Dialogo, a…
La Musica Moderna 101 (10")
condition (record/cover): VG (record looks near mint but has surface noise throughout) / EX- Oversize gatefold sleeve - no magazine. A landmark coupling of two masters of European post-war modernism! Luciano Berio's Circles (1960), one of his most celebrated works, sets texts by e.e. cummings for soprano, harp, and two percussionists - a virtuosic exploration of phonetic and semantic dimensions performed by the incomparable Cathy Berberian, for whom the work was written. Berio's spatial disposi…
La Musica Moderna 108 (10")
condition (record/cover): VG (record looks near mint but has surface noise throughout) / EX- Oversize gatefold sleeve - no magazine. An important document of Italian post-war modernism from the prestigious educational series! Niccolò Castiglioni (1932-1996), one of Italy's most refined and poetic composers, presents Tropi - a work revealing his characteristic sensitivity to timbre and his ability to merge avant-garde techniques with lyrical impulse. Castiglioni studied with Goffredo Petrassi an…