Various Artists
Clavecin 2000 (LP)
FormatLPLabelPhilipsGenreExperimental
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condition (record/cover): NM / NM
The back cover gives one instruction: play this record at full volume and in total darkness. Elisabeth Chojnacka, the Polish harpsichordist who did more than anyone to drag the instrument into the second half of the century, plays eight short pieces, half of them written for her. The best known is György Ligeti's Continuum (1968), the moiré-pattern study that sounds like a machine running too fast to see, and Marius Constant's Moulins à prière pits her live harpsichord against a recorded one.
Around them: Luciano Berio's Rounds, serial pieces by Franco Donatoni and Aldo Clementi (Intavolatura), noisier work by Francis Miroglio (Insertions) and Graciane Finzi, and Antoine Tisné's Hommage à Calder. Part of Philips' Prospective 21e siècle series, in its first pressing with foil front, white back and green labels.
Release notes
First pressing with white back cover, foil front and green labels. From the back cover : "The listener is expected to play this recording at full volume and in total darkness".
| A1 | Continuum | 3:30 | |
| A2 | Profil Sonore | 5:10 | |
| A3 | Insertions | 7:50 | |
| A4 | Intavolatura | 5:10 | |
| B1 | Moulins A Prière | 4:15 | |
| B2 | Rounds | 2:30 | |
| B3 | Hommage A Calder | 5:45 | |
| B4 | Doubles | 8:30 |
- Various Artists
- Harpsichord
