★Deutsche Grammophon
Aus Den Sieben Tagen (7LP box)
Sensational 7LP box set with the full intuitive music masterpiece performed by the composer with Carlos Roqué Alsina, Michel Portal, Rolf Gehlhaar, Peter Eötvös and Michael Vetter among others, released in 1973 by DGG. With booklet.
Drei Lieder / Sonatine / Spiel / Schlagtrio (LP)
1977 DGG LP with recent recordings of compositions form the early 1950's respectively for alto and chamber orchestra, violin and piano, orchestra, and piano and percussion. With insert.
Passacaglia Op. 1 / Fünf Sätze Op. 5 / Sechs Stücke Für Orchester Op. 6 / Symphonie Op. 21 (LP)
Four historical compositions for orchestra soanning from 1908 to 1930 performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Herbert von Karajan and released on DGG in 1974.
Terminus II / Funktion Grün / Phonothese / Chants De Maldoror (LP)
Four fantastic electonic compositions produced at Utrecht's Studio voor Elektronische Muziek between 1965 and 1969, released on DGG's famed "Avantgarde" contemporary/electronic music series in 1970.
Tres Gráficos / Tablas (LP)
Two concertos for guitar and orchestra composed respectively in 1957 and 1975 performed by Narciso Yepes and the London Symphony Orchestra.
Invisible Connections (LP)
Vangelis most experimental album, from 1985 on Deutsche Grammophon, an absolute electro-acoustic masterpiece closer to the electronic avant-garde than to his 'cosmic' electronic output.
Where to From
Where to From marks the much-anticipated solo return of Hildur Guðnadóttir, a composer-collaborator equally versed in spectral pop, avant-garde, and soundtrack work. Reaching beyond her acclaimed film and TV scores, Guðnadóttir crafts nine intimately reflective pieces for strings and choir—drawn from years of voice memos and melodic fragments—where minimalist restraint meets moments of luminous warmth. The album’s texture hovers between Scandinavian melancholy, sacred choral atmosphere, and a me…
.....Sofferte Onde Serene... / A Floresta È Jovem E Cheja De Vida (LP)
condition (record/cover): M/EX Includes 4-page LP-size insert. This essential Deutsche Grammophon release presents two defining works by Luigi Nono (1924-1990), towering figure of post-war Italian modernism. .....sofferte onde serene... (1976), dedicated to Pollini and his wife Marilisa, is a haunting meditation for piano and magnetic tape, recorded at Munich's Herkulessaal. Inspired by the bells of Venice's Giudecca and marked by personal tragedy, the work achieves profound beauty through the d…
Como Una Ola De Fuerza Y Luz / Y Entonces Comprendió (LP)
condition (record/cover): EX/EX. Luigi Nono's shattering Como una ola de fuerza y luz (1971-72) mourns Luciano Cruz, young leader of Chile's Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), who died tragically at 27. This monumental work for soprano, piano, orchestra, and magnetic tape – dedicated "para vivir" (that he may live) – unleashes waves of orchestral violence, haunting tape interventions, and piercing vocal lines from texts by Argentine poet Julio Huasi. Maurizio Pollini's piano cuts through with ha…
Free Improvisation (3LP box)
Landmark release on Deutsche Grammophon from 1974, an amazing 3LP box set with booklet with the cream of European improvisation: New Phonic Art (Carlos Roqué Alsina, Jean-Pierre Drouet, Michel Portal, Vinko Globokar), Iskra 1903 (Barry Guy, Derek Bailey, Paul Rutherford), Wired (Karl Heinz Böttner, Mike Lewis, Michael Ranta, Conny Plank). Fundamental and ever re-issued on either CD or LP as a set.
Luminous
*2024 stock* "Two brothers, Roger Eno and Brian Eno, released their first collaboration in more than a few decades. Released in March of 2020,, the brothers reunited for a full-length album called Mixing Colours. (For those unaware that Brian Eno has a creative brother out there, well, he does. In 1985, Roger Eno released a brilliant set of piano treatments called Voices.) It’s easy to think that the released album wasn’t all of the music they worked on. Deutsche Grammophon's release is called L…
Longer shadows, softer stones
Icelandic composer Snorri Hallgrímsson releases "Longer Shadows, Softer Stones", his debut for Deutsche Grammophon. The EP will be released on 180g vinyl and contains six tracks written and produced by him. The multi-instrumentalist Hallgrímsson, who has already impressed with his skillful reinterpretations of works by Satie, Schumann and Boulanger, takes on the vocals and plays piano as well as electronic elements. He is supported by strings from the Reykjavík Orchestra under the direction of V…
Tár
"Tár is a concept album consisting of 20 tracks, curated, composed and produced by Icelandic musician Hildur Guðnadóttir. Featuring contributions from Cate Blanchett and cellist Sophie Kauer, and performances from Dresden Philharmonic, London Contemporary Orchestra (conducted by Robert Ames), and London Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Natalie Murray Beale), the album served as the soundtrack to Todd Field's 2022 psychological drama film, Tár, starring Blanchett in the lead role as Lydia Tár.
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The Avantgarde Series
The legendary DG Avantgarde vinyl series (1968-1971) is turning 55! In order to celebrate this occasion, the series is now released on 21 CDs for the first time. The Avantgarde series serves as a historical document for a time of radical change in musical thinking and the breaking of artistic boundaries. The question "What is music?" confronted many of the composers and musicians involved in the series, and the anti-authoritarian spirit of the 1960s and 1970s was a palpable influence. Deutsche G…
Mixing Colours - Expanded Edition
"Roger and Brian Eno explore the nature of sound in their first ever duo album, Mixing Colours. The album’s eighteen soundscapes invite listeners to immerse themselves in the infinite space that lies below their surface. Coming out on Deutsche Grammophon. Mixing Colours grew over a number of years, with both artists drawing on their long experience as composers, performers and producers. The creative process began with Roger Eno playing individual pieces and recording them using a MIDI keyboard.…
Mixing Colours
Empathetic ambient siblings Roger & Brian Eno gently experiment with synaesthetic sound-colour pieces inspired by Schubert on 18 MIDI visions recorded over the last 15 years. It’s super sweet stuff, a necessary balm for current states of psychic anxiety. “Roger and Brian Eno explore the nature of sound in their first ever duo album, Mixing Colours. The album’s eighteen soundscapes invite listeners to immerse themselves in the infinite space that lies below their surface. Coming out on Deutsche …
Moondog
Manhattan in the Sixties. Every day, at the corner of 54th and Sixth, stood an imposing blind man with a druidic beard, dressed and helmeted like a Viking. Every day, he played music with home-made percussion instruments and declaimed poems. A simple eccentric or picturesque figure? No. Louis Thomas Hardin, called 'Moondog', was one of the true geniuses of his time. And even one of the geniuses of all time, prolific and visionary, capable of linking Bach, jazz and Amerindian rhythms, writing min…
Drumming
Steve Reich’s Drumming , more than forty years after its composition, stands as a watershed document of modern music. In its ambitious scope, intellectual rigor, and artistic seriousness, this piece, along with Terry Riley’s In C and Philip Glass’s Music in Twelve Parts, went a long way toward establishing minimalism’s quickly expanding influence in the early 1970s.Most of Steve Reich’s early music is focused on phase patterns, in which a fixed rhythmic pattern is layered and moved in and out of…
Uli, Mein Ponyhof/Movement 8
Exclusive remixes from Ricardo Villalobos and Carl Craig, 23 extended minutes in total. Brilliant, epic new mixes of Carl Craig and Moritz von Oswald's sleekly magnificent Recomposed.
The Great Learning / Two Poems
Cornelius Cardew's "The Great Learning," is a great example of his struggles to reconcile his innate musical aesthetics and his intellectual belief that the "avant-garde" was inherently elitist. Written for a mix of musicians & non-musicians, it is a grand improvisatory work that nicely exploits the talents of whomever is performing it. Two of the seven "Paragraph's" are performed here by The Scratch Orchestra, who give the expected first rate performance. Bedford is known to many in the rock w…