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 Bruno Maderna, featuring the ensemble writing that would lead to his founding of the New Phonic Art improvisation group. Franco Donatoni's Etwas Ruhiger Im Ausdruck (1967) – "Somewhat Peaceful in Outlook" – marks the Italian master's breakthrough after a creative crisis, proliferating fragments from Schoenberg's piano works into entirely new territory.

Aldo Clementi's Informel 2 (1962) represents the composer's "informal" period, creating musical equivalents to the painting of Pollock, Fautrier, and the Arte Informale movement – a continuous sonic canvas without beginning or end. Henri Pousseur's Mnemosyne II (1968-1969) exemplifies the Belgian composer's exploration of musical memory and transformation.

The Continuum Ensemble Dortmund, based at TU Dortmund University, specialized in contemporary music under Werner Seiss, who studied with Hans Swarowsky and worked with Bruno Maderna and Herbert von Karajan. This gatefold release on Edizioni Suvini Zerboni's Collana series captures Italian serialism and post-serial experimentation at its most rigorous.