Earle Brown A Life In Music Vol.1 (3CD)

Earle Brown - A Life in Music - Vol. 1
Earle Brown's Contemporary Sound Series

composer: AMM - John Cage - Henry Cowell - Lou Harrison - Mauricio Kagel - MEV - Musica Elettronica Viva - Amadeo Roldan - William Russell - Karlheinz Stockhausen
editor: Earle Brown
interpreter: Alan Bryant - John Cage - Cornelius Cardew - Christoph Caskel - Alvin Curran - Lou Gare - Christopher Hobbs - Aloys Kontarsky - Bernhard Kontarsky - Eddie Prevost - Keith Rowe - Frederic Rzewski - Richard Teitelbaum - David Tudor - Ivan Vandor
booklet writer: Cornelius Cardew - D.J. Hoek - Mauricio Kagel - Frederic Rzewski - Karlheinz Stockhausen
conductor: John Cage - Paul Price

The Manhattan Percussion Ensemble / conductors: John Cage and Paul Price / Christoph Caskel: percussion / David Tudor: piano / Aloys Kontarsky: piano, wood blocks / Bernhard Kontarsky: celeste, antique cymbals / MEV (from Rome: Ala Bryant / Alvin Curran / Frederic Rzewski / Richard Teitelbaum / Ivan Vandor): electronics / AMM (from London: Cornelius Cardew / Lou Gare / Christopher Hobbs / Eddie Prevost / Keith Rowe): electronics

Earle Brown's legendary Contemporary Sound Series will be released on WERGO CDs. Recorded between 1960 and 1973, the original eighteen LPs have been highly sought after in the secondary market since 1978 when they were discontinued. These rare and historically important recordings of international avant-garde music have been carefully digitized and remastered by the Earle Brown Music Foundation.
Beginning in July 2009, WERGO will release six 3-CD sets of these recordings until the end of 2011. The series presents the extraordinary world of contemporary and avant-garde music that flourished in Europe, the United States, Latin America and Japan in the 1960s and early 1970s.
The first CD set contains works by, among others, John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel, performed by Christoph Caskel, David Tudor, Aloys and Bernhard Kontarsky, The Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, Paul Price and the ensembles for electronic music, AMM from London (with: Cornelius Cardew, Lou Gare, Christopher Hobbs, Eddie Prevost, and Keith Rowe) and MEV Musica Elettronica Viva from Rome (with: Alan Bryant, Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski, Richard Teitelbaum, and Ivan Vandor).

Earle Brown - A Life in Music - Vol. I:

CD 1: Concert Percussion for Orchestra
Amadeo Roldan: Ritmicas Nos. 5 & 6
Lou Harrison: Canticle No. 1
William Russell: Three Dance Movements
Henry Cowell: Ostinato Pianissimo
William Russell: Three Cuban Pieces
John Cage and Lou Harrison: Double Music
John Cage: Amores

CD 2: Stockhausen - Kagel
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Zyklus / Refrain
Mauricio Kagel: Transicion II

CD 3: Live Electronic Music Improvised
MEV: Spacecraft
AMM