★Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
Viola In My Life / False Relationships (LP)
Two breathtakingly beautiful meditative copmpositions for small ensemble from the late 1960's and early 70's, performed by David Tudor and Karen Phillips among others, and released by CRI in 1971. Essential.
Viola In My Life / False Relationships (LP)
Two breathtakingly beautiful meditative copmpositions for small ensemble from the late 1960's and early 70's, performed by David Tudor and Karen Phillips among others, and released by CRI in 1971. Essential.
Times Five / Octet I / December 1952 / Novara (LP)
Great collection of experimental works spannong from 1952 to 1963, including an electronic piece, two open form compositions for ensemble (one with tape) conducted by the composer himself and one for piano performed by Davis Tudor, released on CRI's "Contemporary Music" series in 1974.
Suite / Persian Set (LP)
1970's re-issue of the 1957 LP on CRI with the pairing of two cross-cultural works composed on the 1950's by the two original and innovative composers, beautifully incorporating respectively Indonesian and Iranian music elements.
And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma (LP)
1970's re-press with red labels of the 1967 CRI LP of the maverick composer's mid-1960's studies for his unique microtonal instruments performed by his own Gate 5 Ensemble, producing some of the strangest otherworldly avant-garde music ever.
Symphony No. 3 / The Song Of Songs (LP)
1972 split LP on CRI with the pairing of two modernist/neoclassical orchestral works composed in the 1940's.
Instrumental Music (LP)
Contemporary pieces for piano and ensemble composed in the 1970's and released on CRI's "American Contemporary" series in 1976.
O, O, O, O, That Shakespeherian Rag / String Quartet No. 2 With Soprano (LP)
A 1958 composition for mixed chorus and chamber ensemble backed with a 1961 string quartet with soprano, released by CRI in 1963.
10th Anniversary Recording (LP)
Contemporary chamber music composed in the 1980's and performed by the Musical Elements ensemble, released on CRI in 1987.
New Trends (LP)
1975 LP on CRI presenting four contemporary instrumental pieces from the 1970's for solo instrument, duo or ensemble with vocals, plus Cross' Three Etudes For Magnetic Tape.
Autumn Rhythms (New Flute Music)
1996 release ** "The works on this recording are recently composed flute pieces by six distinguished senior American composers from the generation born in the fist quarter of the 20th century (1900-1926). All of the works have been written by these composers at age 65 or older - autumn rhythms and all represent a new departure for each. Four of the works are for the one keyed wooden baroque flute - the flute for which Bach and Mozart composed their flute music. The instrument is now enjoying a r…
Orbits • Western Springs • Hieroglyphics 3
1999 release ** "In 1950 Henry Brant began to write spatial music of a particular kind in which the planned positioning of the performers throughout the hall, as well as on stage, is an essential factor in the composing scheme. This procedure, which limits and defines the contrasted music assigned to each performing group, takes as its point of departure the ideas of Charles Ives. Brant's principal works since 1950 are all spatial; his catalogue now comprises nearly 100 such works, each for a di…
The Microtonal Music Of Ezra Sims
1993 release ** "Between 1963 and 1973, because there were almost no instrumentalists who I could interest in my music, I wrote very little instrumental music, contenting myself with making taped pieces, often for dancers. Since then I have been fortunate enough to find players for whom to write. At the same time, I have seen developing in my music what I think is really a revolutionary system of tonality. It is a system with all the structural, rhetorical and affective capabilities of classica…
The Bewitched: A Ballet Satire
Original copy of CRI's 1973 double LP re-issue of Harry Partch alien sounding avant-garde major opus recorded in 1953.