classical music: nancarrow     classical music:     Nancarrow      Sonic Rebellion: Alternative Classical Nathan Gunn, Nicholas Isherwood, ... Naxos, 2007 Start the revolution Even people who like classical music tend to run screaming when they hear names like Penderecki, Ligeti and Cage. But it's hard to blame them. The majority of concert halls and classical music stations play it safe, programming little but such familiar composers as ...             Player Piano 1: Nancarrow Vol. 1 Conlon Nancarrow MD&G Records, 2006             Kronos Quartet: Sculthorpe, Sallinen, Glass, Nuncarrow, Hendrix Aulis Sallinen, Philip Glass, ... Nonesuch, 1990 Absolutely first rate! Performance & recording are excellent I am far from knowledgable about music. However, this is a marvelous introduction to contemporary music as arranged for a string quartet. The vision and versatility of this group are really laid out here. The only piece that jars is "Purple Haze," which, sorry ...             Conlon Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano (arranged for Chamber Orchestra) / Piece No. 2 for Small Orchestra ... Conlon Nancarrow, Ingo Metzmacher, ... RCA, 1993 A fantastic testament to a great, long-neglected composer. To put it bluntly, this is some of the most original and entertaining 20th century music you will ever hear. Nancarrow's innovative player piano studies were written from the late 1940s to the early '80s and were intended, among other things, to explore ideas that ...             Warp Works & Twentieth Century Masters John Cage, Richard D. (aka Aphex Twin) James, ... Warp Records, 2006 Classic Avant-Garde...Electronic artists collide, for this release...!!! A strange one this....what transpires is a 2-CD disk of re-compostion's and arrangements, which are designed to: "explore the connection between electronic experimenters on the Warp label and their sonic grandfathers". What this amounts to, is a reinterpretation of ...             Conlon Nancarrow: Studies for player Piano Conlon Nancarrow Other Minds, 2008 The definitive recording of these works, newly remastered with spectacular sound, represents the most faithful reproduction of what Conlon Nancarrow heard, in his own studio. This is the only available recording utilizing Nancarrow's original instruments: two 1927 Ampico player pianos. "After decades of struggle and neglect, Conlon Nancarrow is ...             Thomas Adès - Piano Leos Janacek, Igor Stravinsky, ... EMI Classics Imports, 2000 A composer pianist's insights. Thomas Adès is certainly among the most original and compelling composers in today's public eye. In this recording, he demonstrates how a composer with the requisite performing skills can illuminate music in ways that might elude the "mere" performing virtuoso. But ...             Nancarrow: Player Piano Studies No. 42-48 Conlon Nancarrow Mdg, 2008             Player Piano, Vol. 6: Original Compositions in the Tradition of Nancarrow Marc-Andre Hamelin, Tom Johnson, ... Mdg, 2008             Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano Conlon Nancarrow Wergo Germany, 2000 Dizzying experiments by a brilliant maverick A true compositional original, Conlon Nancarrow is best known for these mind-blowing pieces for player piano. Why this particular instrument? Because most of these short works are utterly unplayable by human beings, unless you are capable of say, depressing all 88 ...             American Piano Music Samuel Barber, Amy Beach, ... Warner Classics, 2006 The essence of America... When people think of great piano music, they most likely think of European composers such as Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Liszt and Debussy. I don't know if American composers of piano music quite measure up to those giants, but to me, they sure are ...             Player Piano 3: Conlon Nancarrow Vol. 2 - Studies 13-32 Conlon Nancarrow MD&G Records, 2007             American Piano Music Of Our Time Volume II Conlon Nancarrow, Frederic Rzewski, ... Music & Arts, 2005 A highly enjoyable recital of American contemporary piano music and a fine tribute to Ursula Oppens This is the same entry as American Piano Music for Our Time, Vol.2, but cheaper. See my lengthy review under the other entry, of which the conclusion is: "Except for Picker then, in all these works the composers have not relinquished their compositional exigencies, ...             Player Piano 5: Conlon Nancarrow Vol. 3 - Studies 33-41c Nancarrow MD&G Records, 2008             Nancarrow, Ligeti, Dutilleux: String Quartets Henri Dutilleux, Gyorgy Ligeti, ... Wigmore Hall Live, 2006          products you might be interested in   search for classical music alternative, classical, compositions, rebellion, sarabande, sculthorpe      geepe.com    web we recommend A composer pianist's insights. randomly chosen book: Let's Crochet!