★Harmonia Mundi
Un Coup De Dés (LP)
Absolutely fantastic 1981 composition for 5 choirs, 2 double basses, 2 percussionists, 2 kettledrums and electronic tape, released on Harmonia Mundi's "Evénement / Musique française d'aujourd'hui" series in 1984.
Erzsebet (LP)
A contemporary "opera for a lonely woman" inspired by the Blood Countess, composed and released in 1983 on Harmonia Mundi's "Evénement / Musique française d'aujourd'hui" series.
Relevé D'esquisse / Le Cygne / Sinfonietta (LP)
Two compositions for ensemble and one for solo alto recorder from the early 80's, released bon Harmonia Mundi's contemporary music series in 1985.
Diagonal / Maipú 994 / Epilogue / Paral.Lel (LP)
Four pieces for solo instruments or small ensembles composed in the 1980's and released on Harmonia Mundi's "Evénement / Musique française d'aujourd'hui" series in 1986.
Fluide / Ausstrahlungen / Atemstudie (LP)
Three compositions spanning from 1967 to 1971 requiring improvisation and extended instrumental techniques, respectively for 20 musicians and a soloist, 9 brass instruments and 3 percussions, solo oboe, released in 1972.
Variations Pour Une Porte Et Un Soupir / Voile D'Orphée (CD)
1987 first CD re-issue of two early masterpieces, respectively from 1963 and 1953.
Pour Mémoire II / Allégories D'Exil IV / We Approach The Sea (LP)
Three pieces respectively for orchestra, ensemble and piano compositions from 1977 to 1982 released on Harmonia Mundi's "Evénement / Musique française d'aujourd'hui" series in 1984.
La Scène (LP)
Five compositions from 1977 to 1983 for several combinations of instruments (from cello solo to big ensemble) released on Harmonia Mundi's "Evénement / Musique française d'aujourd'hui" series in 1984.
H.H. Ulysse (2LP box)
Contemporary opera released as a 2LP box set on Harmonia Mundi's "Evénement / Musique française d'aujourd'hui" series in 1985. With booklet.
Trio À Cordes / Quatuors À Cordes (LP)
Contemporary music for string trio and quartet performed by the Arditti Quartet and released on Harmonia Mundi's "Evénement / Musique française d'aujourd'hui" series in 1984.
Laborintus 2 (LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/EX (minimal cover wear). Includes 8-page silk-screened insert. Luciano Berio's Laborintus 2 (1965) is an epic sonic labyrinth created for the 700th anniversary of Dante's birth. This extraordinary composition weaves together Dante's texts, fragments from T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, and contemporary poetry by Edoardo Sanguineti into a stunning tapestry for voices, instruments, and tape. Featuring speaker, three female voices, eight actors, and ensemble, Laborintus 2 is…
Astralis / Choral Works
2012 release ** "Complex and expressive vocal writing, blending elements of traditional choral music with more modern, experimental techniques. Wolfgang Rihm has not usurped the immense reputation he enjoys in contemporary artistic life. The works of this worthy heir to the German musical tradition invariably oscillate between monumentality – immutable blocks of sound – and ethereal movement – instrumental or vocal lines opening towards the infinite. His choral music is characterised by a syncre…
Les Émigrés
1991 release **Vinko Globokar (born 7 July 1934) is a French-Slovenian avant-garde composer and trombonist. Globokar's work is noted for its use of unconventional and extended techniques, closely allying him to contemporaries Salvatore Sciarrino and Helmut Lachenmann. His music places great emphasis on spontaneity and creativity, and, unlike the work of Sciarrino and Lachenmann, often requires improvisation. His extensive output is largely unknown outside of experimental music circles. As a trom…
Variations Pour Une Porte Et Un Soupir / Voile D'Orphée
1994 release ** "A beautiful batch of spare electronics from this mad French genius! Titled "Variations Between A Door & A Sigh" – the piece is exactly that. One track will evoke strange creaking door sounds, the next will have a breathy, sigh-like quality – and then the whole thing starts all over again. Maddening, but wonderful in its own way! "
Early Electronic Works -- Nommos Visiting
Nommos is an electronic work based in speculative fiction. It was inspired by a 1970s New York exhibition devoted to the art of the Dogon people of Mali. The Dogon are renowned for their cosmogony and for their sculptures evoking their religious beliefs, received from extraterrestrial visitors, known as the Nommos, a group of amphibian humanoids who came to them from the region of the double star Sirius. This very unusual work was written in 1979 by the American-born record producer, composer an…
Laborintus 2
Music performed by the Ensemble Musique Vivante, laying down a turbulent racket of avant-crinkle, over which the 4-piece Chorale Experimentale bellows vocal confusion. Berio has also succeeded in discovering sounds, phrasings, effects of all kinds which have permitted him to venture further and further into areas which had so far been thought impermissible or impossible for the human voice. These investigations are magisterially reflected in the larger works and particularly in 'Laborintus II.
Pléïades
Cheap mid-line pricing on these classic avant garde titles out of the Harmonia Mundi catalog. Pleiades is a percussion piece performed by Les Percussions de Strasbourg (vibraphones, marimbas, xylophones, etc.); richly defined, timeless music that will sound good for the rest of your life. "The whole source of this polyrhythmic composition is the idea of periodicity, repetition, duplication, faithful, pseudo-faithful, unfaithful copy... still greater variations of an even greater complexity, due …