'900 Italia
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 (2LP)
condition (record/cover): NM/NM Gatefold sleeve with original innersleeves. 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 manifesto L'Arte dei R…
Musica Futurista (2LP)
condition (record/cover): M/M (still sealed) Gatefold sleeve with original innersleeves. 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 manifesto…
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…
Labirinti / Babele (book)
condition (book): LIKE NEW 27x21cm., full-color 144-page, softbound book. An essential publication documenting the visionary work of pianist, composer and musicologist Daniele Lombardi (1946-2017)! This volume explores Lombardi's ambitious project involving twenty-one pianos - a monumental installation and performance concept that exemplifies his expansive approach to sound, space, and the piano as both instrument and sculptural object. The book examines themes of labyrinth and Babel - metaphors…
Omaggio a Domenico Guaccero e Egisto Macchi (book)
Rare program with biographies and lyrics.