Tango Studies

On this CD:

1. Tango Studies (12) for accordian
Composed by Sven Erik Werner
Performed by Majken Bell, Heidi Hansen, Carsten Holbek, Hans Jorgen Holbek, Lelo Nika, Morten Rossen, Anders Vesterdahl

2. Tie-Break, for accordian ensemble
Composed by Sven Erik Werner
Performed by Majken Bell, Heidi Hansen, Carsten Holbek, Hans Jorgen Holbek, Lelo Nika, Morten Rossen, Anders Vesterdahl, Danish Accordion Ensemble, Danish Accordion Ensemble
Conducted by Jeanette Dyremose

Tango Studies, Music, Werner, Nika, Holbek, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical
Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano
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  • symphony of a thousand (pianos)
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 Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano

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ASIN: B000031W5A
Release Date: 2000-01-11

Tracks:

  1. Vol. I: Study For Player Piano No. 3a
  2. Vol. I: Study For Player Piano No. 3b
  3. Vol. I: Study For Player Piano No. 3c
  4. Vol. I: Study For Player Piano No. 3d
  5. Vol. I: Study For Player Piano No. 3e
  6. Vol. I: Study For Player Piano No. 20
  7. Vol. I: Study For Player Piano No. 44
  8. Vol. I: Study For Player Piano No. 41a
  9. Vol. I: Study For Player Piano No. 41b
  10. Vol. I: Study For Player Piano No. 41c

Tracks:

  1. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano No. 4
  2. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano No. 5
  3. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano No. 6
  4. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano No. 14
  5. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano No. 22
  6. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano No. 26
  7. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano No. 31
  8. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano No. 35
  9. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano No. 32
  10. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano No. 37
  11. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano Tango?
  12. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano No. 40a
  13. Vol. II: Study For Player Piano No. 40b

Tracks:

  1. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 1
  2. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 2a
  3. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 2b
  4. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 7
  5. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 8
  6. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 10
  7. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 15
  8. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 21
  9. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 23
  10. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 24
  11. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 25
  12. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 33
  13. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 43
  14. Vol. III: Study For Player Piano No. 50

Tracks:

  1. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 9
  2. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 11
  3. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 12
  4. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 13
  5. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 16
  6. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 17
  7. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 18
  8. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 19
  9. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 27
  10. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 28
  11. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 29
  12. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 34
  13. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 36
  14. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 46
  15. Vol. IV: Study For Player Piano No. 47

Tracks:

  1. Vol. V: Study For Player Piano No. 42
  2. Vol. V: Study For Player Piano No. 45a
  3. Vol. V: Study For Player Piano No. 45b
  4. Vol. V: Study For Player Piano No. 45c
  5. Vol. V: Study For Player Piano No. 48a
  6. Vol. V: Study For Player Piano No. 48b
  7. Vol. V: Study For Player Piano No. 48c
  8. Vol. V: Study For Player Piano No. 49a
  9. Vol. V: Study For Player Piano No. 49b
  10. Vol. V: Study For Player Piano No. 49c

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To speak of Conlon Nancarrow's music for player piano shouldn't be mistaken to suggest some still broader range of musical output of which the composer's piano rolls are but a subset. Quite the contrary: Nancarrow's meticulous scores--generally unplayable, at least by most primates--are the body of his life's work. This five-CD set contains dozens upon dozens of his studies, each a fairly self-contained exploration of tempo, pitch, rhythm, counterpoint--and the interaction between pairings of those core musical categories. Certainly, this is "difficult" music, hard on the ears, off-kilter in a manner that both demands attention and may repulse listeners unfamiliar with experimental composition. After initial exposure, this collection is the sort of thing that sits on the shelf for some time, before your imagination breaks its internal code. Once that code is broken, though, the vast life inherent in this "mechanical" music becomes almost intoxicating. On some of the quieter pieces, the piano's tone is similar to that of a harpsichord. On others, the palimpsest of ragtime is undeniable. Yes, some pieces seem overly chaotic, but spend some time with them and you'll see, in your mind's eye, dozens of hands working the keys. --Marc Weidenbaum

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars symphony of a thousand (pianos).......2004-11-15

Imagine for a moment that you have entered a room full of slightly beat-up upright pianos. These pianos begin to come to life by sputtering out unusual, irregular melodies. The melodies don't fit together exactly, but somehow they seem right sounding together. Before you know it, there are so many pianos playing that you can't keep track of them all and they begin to accrue into an impossibly dense spray of sound. Even if you had a roomful of humans playing these pianos they wouldn't get the overwhelming, unswerving independence of each individual line in each piano. The pianos stop playing and you wonder what just happened....

Hopefully this description will give you some indication of what you're in for with these wonderful studies for player piano. Because Nancarrow was working with these mechanical instruments, he could combine complex ratios of rhythms against each other. Some are so subtle that no human could replicate them exactly. This is not to say that the music is dehumanized. It has a great deal of warmth and humor. What Nancarrow gains from the very mechanical nature of these instruments is part of the appeal.

These studies are as rugged and individual as the composer and, as mentioned earlier, Ligeti's Etudes would never have been possible without Nancarrow's wonderful music.

5 out of 5 stars piano revelations........2004-02-22

This stuff influenced Ligeti's "Etudes" for solo piano. The music is mind-blowing.

5 out of 5 stars Dizzying experiments by a brilliant maverick.......2004-01-09

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 keys at the same time. While later in life Nancarrow also wrote a few small pieces for chamber ensembles, his work here is the core of his output and where his imagination truly took flight.

You may not be quite lucid after hearing something like Study No. 25, which has 1,028 notes in its final 12 seconds, or one of my favorites, the so-called "Canon X" (No. 21). It begins with two musical lines at opposite ends of the keyboard: the bass starts slowly and gradually accelerates, the treble begins in a super-fast blur of notes at the highest end and gradually descends, becoming ever-slower. In the middle of the piece, these two lines cross each other before they continue on their separate ways.

In study after study, Nancarrow explores complex relationships between meter and pitch, most of the time with absolutely astounding results. Some of these pieces are a bit more relaxed, with blues and jazz elements giving them an almost homespun quality. But soon the blizzard of notes returns, as the composer makes full use of the player piano's capabilities. You almost can't believe what you are hearing.

A word of caution: You probably don't want to program all five discs straight through. Well recorded as it is, the timbre of the instrument becomes wearing on the ear after awhile. Give your ears a break and to listen to something completely different, like Debussy, Copland -- or maybe Bob Dylan.

An essential collection for some -- I'm not sure whom! -- but something every listener should hear at least once.

4 out of 5 stars Intriguing Ideas, Experiment upon Experiment.......2000-12-30

Conlon Nancarrow is one of those composers who could exist only in real life, as he would be too implausible for fiction. Nancarrow was a composer for player piano, who spent much of his life an expatriate in Mexico, composing music steeped in both early 20th C. jazz and "modernist" classical traditions, and yet music that is entirely individual.

For me, Nancarrow's work functions best when he illustrates the sheer possibility of the keyboard freed from the limitations of a human player or players. The player piano in Nancarrow's work is an acrobat, ready to twirl on wires from which human piano players are unable to dangle. I find least satisfying the experimental works which are centered less on the possibility of the player piano, and more on the synthesis of 30s jazz into a unique classical aesthetic. I freely confess to being a listener rather than a musician in my own right, and some of the experiments just don't keep me hooked.

Still, if you're longing for something quite different and of high quality, Nancarrow may be what you are seeking.

5 out of 5 stars Expand your thinking about music construction.......2000-07-27

Re-open any closed ideas you had about musical structure, architecture, harmony, rhythm, melody -- and what brings pleasure to your brain. Listening to these pieces inspires whole new forms of composition.
Nude Rolling Down an Escalator: Studies for Disklavier
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  • Is Modernity over? the Disklavier will tell you
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 Nude Rolling Down an Escalator: Studies for Disklavier

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ASIN: B0009RYGPO
Release Date: 2005-06-07

Tracks:

  1. No. 5, Texarkana (2000)
  2. No. 3, Nude Rolling Down an Escalator (1997-99)
  3. No. 9, Petty Larceny (2003)
  4. No. 6, Bud Ran Back Out (2001)
  5. No. 7, Cosmic Boogie-Woogie (2000-2001)
  6. No. 1, Despotic Waltz (1997) 2:13
  7. No. 4, Folk Dance for Henry Cowell (1999)
  8. No. 2, The Waiting (1997)
  9. No. 8, Tango da Chiesa (2002)
  10. No. 10, Unquiet Night (in memoriam Jonathan Kramer) (2004)

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“Some of the rhythms developed through the present acoustical investigation could not be played by any living performer; but these highly engrossing rhythmical complexes could easily be cut on a player-piano roll. This would give a real reason for writing music specially for player-piano . . .” —Henry Cowell Like many composers of subsequent generations, Kyle Gann (born 1955) was captivated by Cowell’s theories and Nancarrow’s music. His book, The Music of Conlon Nancarrow, is the essential source for any serious study of Nancarrow’s work. Knowing so much about Nancarrow’s music, it’s hardly surprising that it would occur to Gann to consider the question of how he might make the mechanical piano his own. His answer is the music on this recording. The instrument isn’t exactly the same. Nancarrow employed the old-fashioned player piano, driven by paper rolls with holes punched in them. Gann uses the more recent Disklavier, which is controlled by a computer via MIDI data. However, like Nancarrow, Gann employs the mechanical piano for both musical and practical reasons. The musical attraction, of course, is the one Cowell observed: The instrument allows the composer to compose with tempo relationships and rhythmic velocities not readily playable by human performers. The practical appeal is that Gann felt that not enough people were playing his music. So in the do-it-yourself spirit of Nancarrow, Lou Harrison, Harry Partch and so many other American composers, he decided to take matters into his own virtual hands. But although Gann’s reasons for working with the mechanical piano are similar to Nancarrow’s, the musical results are quite different. Gann picks up where Nancarrow left off, developing his own personal methods of working with multiple tempo layers, and weaving elements of popular and classical music into his vivid and distinctive musical tapestries. Gann’s music embraces a wide range of influences but sounds like no other. His fascination with complex tempo structures and microtonal tunings places him in the experimentalist tradition from Cowell to La Monte Young. Yet the directness and accessibility of his music reveal his affinity with American populists such as Roy Harris and Virgil Thomson. In this highly personal blend of experimentalism and populism, Gann’s closest musical forebears are Partch and Charles Ives. In the spirit of Ives, Gann’s music invokes ragtime, jazz, folk music and Native American music on equal footing with classical music and purely abstract sonic speculations.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Is Modernity over? the Disklavier will tell you.......2006-01-20

At the Alemeda Festival in the Eighties, after a concert with John Cage, a ticket holder went backstage, there was a question & answer period,"dear Mr. Cage, you know anyone can do what you do, pluck a string, tap the piano body,what makes your work so unique?. . ." Cage responded, " . . .
I do it and you don't " those that claim this is not music, nor interesting, arbitrary, boring,no high levels of craft engaged,of sophistication, uninteresting etc, should see that modernity is over,or simply we are still realizing aspects of modernity transcended in its former life, as Jameson says someplace, modernity is about fixing a time, temporality,so everyone's modernity begins at different times,for many the music of Phil Glass is the Year Zero for the history of music, anything prior is marginal in importance. I think Gann looks much deeper the trajectories within the history of music and tries to find useful interesting contexts for which to write music. For context, form and concept is really all we have.Adorno said someplace that "Form" is the true test of longevity in music, what we shape and how we think about what we shape and give form to, is all we have in the neo-liberal order; and Gann's pieces here prooves that the agenda for music creativity should simply proceed,proceeding, keeping going, has an "ethics" about it, surrounding the subject with conviction; Gann's music prooves the late Deleuze in some respects that without the aid, the comfort of the "grand narrative" all creators do now is attentuate "fragments, particles" from the lifeworld unpretenciously, and meaning relevance can be found anywhere. I think in much of the music that gets promoted many times the concept is stronger than the actual musical results,especially within the "complexity" cadre, where the music resembles an elaborate elegant dinner setting where the food never comes; but in Gann's case he is a sensitive musician always looking at the real time realization of what his music does.
Keyboard timbres,electric,clavichords, and Discklaviers re-tuned or otherwise has become a sort of a signature focus of his work. His use of farfisa organs in his Eighties music for example has a kind a cheapness to it,a particle timbre from the American lifeworld that has a fascination, like it is an integral part of the meaning of the landscape itself with "greasy-spoon diners",or secondhand gift stores,the homeless panhandlers On another level the poverty/hypocrisy of ideology in American entertainment is another fragment we live with and make music with everyday. The "real" is always simple just that unless it undergoes fetishization, and how can we live without the fetish of the object.But we have become fixed on myth in some respects the glorification of "junkspace" as Rem Koolhaas might say. Gann doesn't quite go full-tilt in that direction for his work does not relish in the commonplace, it merely suggests it;He does believe in the power still of the musical genre,its form and accessibility of the character pieces as retaining substance. The Discklavier is also an uncharted genre, Srockhausen's latter klavierstuck #15 and 16 make use of it as well, but beyond that Gann has discovered a useful space here.

I found these pieces quite with the landscape,perhaps these works are telling us that this is reality, democracy is here and now, there is no future, or if there is one well create it. Certainly the influence of Nanacarrow is prevalent here, the early music automata of the Player Piano, another quite useful invention for the American social lifeworld, it was the focus the center for family entertainment, as the sheets rolling from Tin Pan Alley, WEll, here Gann explores the landscape with his own personal blends of Southwest culture.

1 out of 5 stars The best of intentions .......2006-01-06

It's nice to know that the composer is aware of all these wonderful techniques and methodologies, but making them sound like something requires a skill that is not evident here.

5 out of 5 stars Profound, Accessible, Beautiful.......2005-08-01

For anyone interested in experiencing new musical pleasures, there is hardly a more appealing disc than this one, featuring 10 works for Disklavier. Kyle Gann is high on a short list of America's most significant--and most significantly undervalued composers. These extraordinary pieces ought to go a long way toward confirming Gann's place as an American original and one its finest composers. Understandably, much is made of Gann's extensive musical and academic background, but what sets his music apart is his innate talent, the strength of his ear, and the breadth of his musical imagination. Gann's seamless integration of popular and classical elements, together with his sense of humor make these pieces easy to hear, even by listeners who do not often encounter new music. But just beneath a veil of levity and accessibility are deep layers of complexities that make these pieces an ongoing joy for serious listeners. It's a disc that can be heard repeatedly with pleasure. These are works of probable historical importance by one of our best composers.

5 out of 5 stars Wonderful!.......2005-07-28

For a supposedly avant-garde disc, this one's a lot of fun, though there are serious parts as well - in general the first half is fun, the second serious. The music is all for Disklavier, which is a modern-day player piano. Gann is author of a book on Conlon Nancarrow, the expat recluse who wrote tons of music for player piano, and he obviously learned a lot about the instrument from that experience. But while his music sounds like Nancarrow's in places, it is more melodic, more conventionally harmonic, more whimsical - and maybe even easier to listen to for people who find Nancarrow forbidding. The pieces are very diverse - there's a tango, a stride piano piece, a bebop piece, and a waltz, among other things, all made eccentric by having the melodies and accompaniments at different tempos. Sometimes Gann's sense of humor is remarkable, as in the piece (Petty Larceny) composed entirely of quotations from Beethoven sonatas, cleverly superimposed. The last piece, Unquiet Night, accounting for 16 out of 61 minutes, uses the sustain pedal all the way through, and is an impressionist blur of changing harmonies. There are many beautiful moments, many funny ones, and I think the disc could appeal to a lot of people not usually interested in modern music.

1 out of 5 stars Abysmal.......2005-07-23

I was amazed that a great label like New World Records would release such a dreadful recording. This is one of those CDs that one would have hoped would never see the light of day---no such luck. What Mr. Gann has done here is work out a few (extremely dull) musical patterns, transferred them over to a computerized keyboard and then sped them up to make them sound important. If it were interesting music it would be one thing. It is, however, terrible music.(...)
Conlon Nancarrow: Studies and Solos
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    		Conlon Nancarrow: Studies and Solos

    Manufacturer: Wergo
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    ASIN: B0002E48SO
    Release Date: 2004-01-01
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      Release Date: 1998-03-17

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      1. Six Spanish Dances: No.1 - Rena Kyriakou
      2. Six Spanish Dances: No.2 - Rena Kyriakou
      3. Six Spanish Dances: No.3 - Rena Kyriakou
      4. Six Spanish Dances: No.4 - Rena Kyriakou
      5. Six Spanish Dances: No.5 - Rena Kyriakou
      6. Six Spanish Dances: No.6 - Rena Kyriakou
      7. Ste Espanola Op.47: Granada (Allegretto) - Rena Kyriakou
      8. Ste Espanola Op.47: Cataluna (Allegro) - Rena Kyriakou
      9. Ste Espanola Op.47: Sevilla (Allegro Moderato) - Rena Kyriakou
      10. Ste Espanola Op.47: Cadiz (Allegretto Ma Non Troppo) - Rena Kyriakou
      11. Ste Espanola Op.47: Aragon (Allegro) - Rena Kyriakou
      12. Ste Espanola Op.47: Cuba (Allegro) - Rena Kyriakou
      13. Four Seasons: Spring - Rena Kyriakou
      14. Four Seasons: Summer - Rena Kyriakou
      15. Four Seasons: Autumn - Rena Kyriakou
      16. Four Seasons: Winter - Rena Kyriakou
      17. Spanish Souvenirs: Prld - Rena Kyriakou
      18. Spanish Souvenirs: Asturias - Rena Kyriakou

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      1. Espana: Feuilles D'Album - Rena Kyriakou
      2. Cataluna - Irina Kircher
      3. Rhap Cubana Op.66 - Rena Kyriakou
      4. Ste Espanola: Sevilla - Irina Kircher
      5. Amalia: Mazurka Op.95 - Rena Kyriakou
      6. Cantos De Espana: Cordoba - Irina Kircher
      7. Rhap Espanola - Rena Kyriakou
      8. Ste Espanola: Granada - Irina Kircher
      9. Tango Espanol - Rena Kyriakou
      10. Espanola: Tango No.2 - Irina Kircher
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      12. Danza - Anna Barbara Speckner
      13. Chevelier Mult Estez Quariz - Otto Pingel
      14. Toccata De Ma Esquerra - Helmuth Rilling
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      16. Tiento in D - Helmuth Rilling

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      1. La Justa - Collegium Vocale Coloniensis/Wolfgang Fromme
      2. The Marriage Of Luis Alonso: Intermedio - Wurttemberg PO/Salvador Mas-Conde
      3. Goyescas, No.1: Los Requiebros - Marylene Dosse
      4. Goyescas, No.2: Coloquio En La Reja - Marylene Dosse
      5. Goyescas, No.3: El Fandango De Candil - Marylene Dosse
      6. Goyescas, No.4: Que Jas Om La Maja Y El Ruisenor - Marylene Dosse
      7. Goyescas, No.5: El Amor Y La Muerte - Marylene Dosse
      8. Goyescas, No.6: Epilogo (Ser Del Espectro) - Marylene Dosse
      9. Allegro De Con - Marylene Dosse

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      2. Danzas Espanola Op.37: Oriental - Marylene Dosse
      3. Danzas Espanola Op.37: Zarabanda - Marylene Dosse
      4. Danzas Espanola Op.37: Villanesca in G - Marylene Dosse
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      12. Danzas Espanola Op.37: Arabesca - Marylene Dosse
      13. Estudios Expresivos: No.1: in C - Marylene Dosse
      14. Estudios Expresivos: No.2: in C - Marylene Dosse
      15. Estudios Expresivos: No.3: in E/El Fandango De Candil - Marylene Dosse
      16. Estudios Expresivos: No.4: in G/Quejas O La Maya - Marylene Dosse
      17. Estudios Expresivos: No.5: in a - Marylene Dosse
      18. Estudios Expresivos: No.6: in F/Epilogo - Marylene Dosse
      19. Danza Lenta - Marylene Dosse
      20. Nino Dios D'Amor Herido - Collegium Vocale Coloniensis/Wolfgang Fromme

      Tracks:

      1. Gypsy Melodies, Op.20 - Hans Kalafusz
      2. Vars On 'Marlborough' - Irina Kircher
      3. Andante - Artur Faihs/Frida Faihs
      4. Allegretto - Artur Faihs/Frida Faihs
      5. Gran Jota - Pedro Ibanez
      6. Empuries: Sardana - Wurttemberg CO/Salvador Mas-Conde
      7. O Cuam Dulce/Aire De Danza - Otto Pingel
      8. Aire De Danza/Fantastic Dances: Exhaltation - Collegium Musicum Krefeld/Robert Haass/Wurttemberg Phil/Salvador Mas-Conde
      9. Fantastic Dances: Ensueno - Wurttemberg Phil/Salvador Mas-Conde
      10. Fantastic Dances: Orgia - Wurttemberg Phil/Salvador Mas-Conde
      11. Garrotin - Irina Kircher
      12. Soleares - Irina Kircher
      13. Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay, Que Ravio Y Meuro - Collegium Vocale Coloniensis/Wolfgang Fromme
      14. Kyrie - Chor Of The Stiftskirche Einsiedeln/Magister Pater Roman Bannwart
      Stefan Wolpe: Piano Music - Geoffrey Douglas Madge
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • Inconsistent,and works more as masterfull stepping stones
      		 Stefan Wolpe: Piano Music - Geoffrey Douglas Madge

      Manufacturer: Cpo Records
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B000001RSK
      Release Date: 1995-01-25

      Tracks:

      1. Gesang, Weil Ich Etwas Teures Verlassen Muss
      2. Stehende Musik
      3. Tango
      4. Rag-Caprice
      5. Cinq Marches Carateristiques, Op 10 No.1: Energico Ed Animato
      6. Passacaglia-Study On An All-Interval Row In Conjuction With Eleven Basic Rows
      7. Dance In Form Of A Chaconne
      8. Toccata In Three Parts
      9. Battle Piece
      10. Displaced Spaces, Shocks, Negoations, A New Sort Of Relationship...
      11. Form IV: Broken Sequences For Piano

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Inconsistent,and works more as masterfull stepping stones.......1999-04-06

      For my money the only good pieces here are the "Passacaglia" and "Battle Piece". In the "Passacgalia" Wolpe's aesthetic strategy was to merely create an incessant unfolding of various intervals collected in each self-contain section or for each comment on the main passacgalia idea. The overwhelming power comes through slowly in an accumulative like argument. As a performer you really need to have a global vision of this unfolding otherwise you will dilute the on-going forward moving momentum. You need to set yourself almost like a slow lugubrious locomotive pulling and puffing itself out of the station. Madge doesn't quite get it, and I found some expressive holes here where the momentum became dissapated. The work has a gruff, unrelenting roaring power, and if you loose this gestural quality you never get it back. I am prejudiced in hearing the early David Tudor recording from the late Fifties. Tudor created a seamless one-dimensional gesture without ever allowing the piece to slow or dilute its impassioned momentum. The "Battle Piece" as well is a work that should literally make you shake. John Cage said this at an early performance of it in New York. Here Madge gets the idea more comprehensively. Wolpe's creativity was inconsistent. He began profoundly,but then saw his work as an odyssey creating sketch-like works.
      Conlon Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano (arranged for Chamber Orchestra) / Piece No. 2 for Small Orchestra / Trio / Sarabande & Scherzo
      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
      • Beautiful
      • mostly worthless
      • Something to behold
      • A fantastic testament to a great, long-neglected composer.
      		 Conlon Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano (arranged for Chamber Orchestra) / Piece No. 2 for Small Orchestra / Trio / Sarabande & Scherzo
      Conlon Nancarrow , Ingo Metzmacher , Thomas Fichter , Hermann Kretzschmar , Wolfgang Stryi , Ueli Wiget , Rumi Ogawa-Helferich , Rainer Romer , Mathias Tacke , Noriko Shimada , Catherine Milliken , and Ensemble Modern
      Manufacturer: RCA
      ProductGroup: Music
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      ASIN: B000003F9B
      Release Date: 1993-07-13

      Tracks:

      1. Studies for Player Pno: Study No. 5 - Wolfgang Stryi/Hermann Kretzschmar/Ueli Wiget/Thomas Fichter
      2. Studies for Player Pno: Study No. 2 - Wolfgang Stryi/Hermann Kretzschmar/Ueli Wiget/Thomas Fichter
      3. Studies for Player Pno: Study No. 1 - Wolfgang Stryi/Hermann Kretzschmar/Ueli Wiget/Thomas Fichter
      4. Studies for Player Pno: Study No. 6 - Wolfgang Stryi/Hermann Kretzschmar/Ueli Wiget/Thomas Fichter
      5. Studies for Player Pno: Study No. 7 - Wolfgang Stryi/Hermann Kretzschmar/Ueli Wiget/Thomas Fichter
      6. Studies for Player Pno: Study No. 3c - Wolfgang Stryi/Hermann Kretzschmar/Ueli Wiget/Thomas Fichter
      7. Studies for Player Pno: Study No. 9 - Wolfgang Stryi/Hermann Kretzschmar/Ueli Wiget/Thomas Fichter
      8. Studies for Player Pno: Study No. 14 - Wolfgang Stryi/Hermann Kretzschmar/Ueli Wiget/Thomas Fichter
      9. Studies for Player Pno: Study No. 12 - Rumi Ogawa-Helferich/Ueli Wiget
      10. Studies for Player Pno: Study No. 18 - Rumi Ogawa-Helferich/Ueli Wiget
      11. Studies for Player Pno: Study No. 19 - Rumi Ogawa-Helferich/Rainer Romer/Ueli Wiget/Hermann Kretzschmar
      12. Tango - Rumi Ogawa-Helferich/Rainer Romer/Ueli Wiget/Mathias Tacke
      13. Taccata - Rumi Ogawa-Helferich/Rainer Romer/Ueli Wiget/Mathias Tacke
      14. Piece No. 2 for Small Orchestra - Roland Diry/Noriko Shimada/Herman Kretzschmar
      15. Trio: Presto - Roland Diry/Noriko Shimada/Herman Kretzschmar
      16. Trio: Andantino - Roland Diry/Noriko Shimada/Herman Kretzschmar
      17. Trio: Allegro molto - Roland Diry/Noriko Shimada/Herman Kretzschmar
      18. Sarabande & Scherzo: Sarabande - Catherine Milliken/Noriko Shimada/Hermann Kretzschmar
      19. Sarabande & Scherzo: Scherzo - Catherine Milliken/Noriko Shimada/Hermann Kretzschmar

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars Beautiful.......2004-05-26

      The previous reviewers said enough about Nancarrows history so that I won't touch on it. I like the orchestrated versions of the player piano pieces much more than the originals, they're more emotional, have greater dynamics, are less robotic (they swing at times) and the variety of timbres adds a lot to the listening experience. What were originally studies are now fully realized pieces. Perhaps not groundbreaking in the way the originals were, but so what. The beauty of Nancarrows' melodic and sometimes humorous music is really brought out by the orchestration. Very nice.

      2 out of 5 stars mostly worthless.......2003-07-21

      I couldn't get into this CD. I've heard some of Nancarrow's piano pieces and found them interesting, but when taken to a larger scale with an orchestra or ensemble, it sounds formless, senseless, and lazy. The piano trio is alright, but not worth getting the CD for.

      5 out of 5 stars Something to behold.......1999-10-15

      Certainly a departure from his work on the player piano, these are very delicious arrangements of some of his most interesting studies. It was one of my first forays into the world of "serious music" and i have, frankly, never listened to anything, anything, quite the same ever again. I had had no idea music could be like this, like what it sounds like inside my mind. If you are even looking at this page, there is some curiousness; become its slave, and buy this here cd. There is no way you could regret it, even if you do.

      5 out of 5 stars A fantastic testament to a great, long-neglected composer........1998-10-02

      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 were beyond the capacity of human performance. As electronic music was in its infancy when he began these studies, the player piano was Nancarrow's only outlet for these experiments. Unfortunately, their rhythmic complexities and furious tempos, as well as the unconventional instrument for which they were created, have limited their exposure. Nancarrow's audience in the US is still woefully small.

      This recording by the Ensemble Modern does Nancarrow a remarkable service. They've taken pieces long believed to be too difficult for live performance, and play them with the exhileration of a great jazz band. The arrangements, prepared mostly for brass, woodwinds, piano, harpsicord, and percussion, are bright and beautifully played. This music is constantly inventive and enormously entertaining (Nancarrow is serious music's greatest humorist since Charles Ives). Personally, the performance of "Study No. 7" on this CD is my all-time favorite piece of music, period. Included with the dozen arrangements of player piano pieces are selections that Nancarrow wrote for convential instruments.

      If you enjoy the more serious side of Frank Zappa, recent works of John Adams, Stravinsky, Bird, Bartok, Raymond Scott, Carl Stalling, or just want to hear a set of jaw-dropping ensemble performances, you've got to hear this recording.
      Alfred Cortot Plays Short Works
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        		Alfred Cortot Plays Short Works

        Manufacturer: Biddulph Records
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        ASIN: B000009KEP
        Release Date: 1994-08-19
        Werner: Tango Studies, Tie-Break
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          		Werner: Tango Studies, Tie-Break

          Manufacturer: Marco Polo
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

          GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
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          ASIN: B00000466M
          Release Date: 1995-05-23

          Tracks:

          1. I Denmark Er Jeg Fodt, No.1
          2. Nu Ruger Pa Reden, No.5
          3. Vor Sol Er Bleven Kold, No.7
          4. Tidlig Var, No.11
          5. Det Er I Dag Et Vejr, No.12
          6. Staeren, No.16
          7. Om Vore Bolgende Sletter, No.30
          8. Afsked Med Sommeren, No.31
          9. Igen En Aften Naermere Min Dod, No.32
          10. Sig Maermer Tiden, No.33
          11. Alle Mine Honningbier, No.1
          12. Du Kaere, Blide Danske Baek, No.4
          13. Pa Chiemsoen, No.5
          14. Skoven Sang, No.1
          15. Hedens Sang, No.2
          16. Vuggevise, No.3
          17. Verdugo Es Mi Pensamiento, No.4
          18. Barcarole, No.5
          19. Vignet, No.1
          20. Undervejs, No.2
          21. Her La En Gard, No.3
          22. Bogfinken, No.4
          23. Kaerminde, No.5
          24. Hindbaer, No.6
          25. Sa Jeg Dem Atter, No.7
          26. Her Vat Det, No.8
          27. Svobt I Diset Solvskin, No.9
          28. Efterklang, No.10
          The Spinning Girl
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            		The Spinning Girl

            Manufacturer: Brana Records
            ProductGroup: Music
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            ASIN: B0007Y34BG
            Release Date: 2005-03-14

            Tracks:

            1. Moniuszko (arr. Melcer): The Spinning Girl
            2. J.S. Bach (arr. Galston) : Siciliana
            3. Corelli: Sarabanda
            4. Gluck: Menuet d' Orphee
            5. Beethoven: Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 Moonlight - Adagio
            6. Beethoven: Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 Moonlight - Allegretto
            7. Beethoven: Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 Moonlight - Presto
            8. Kuhlau: Sonatine in C, Op. 20, No. 1 Allegro
            9. Kuhlau: Sonatine in C, Op. 20, No. 1 Andante
            10. Kuhlau: Sonatine in C, Op. 20, No. 1 - Rondo
            11. Schubert: Impromptu op. 142, No. 1
            12. Chopin: Mazurka, Op. 68, No. 2
            13. Szymanowski: Etude No. 1
            14. Szymanowski: Etude No. 3
            15. Szymanowski: Prelude Op. 1, No. 1
            16. Szymanowski: Prelude Op. 1, No. 7
            17. Villa-Lobos: The Three Marias - Alnitah
            18. Villa-Lobos: The Three Marias - Alnilam
            19. Villa-Lobos: The Three Marias - Mintika
            20. Khachaturian: Toccata
            21. Kabalewski: Sonatine
            22. Kurt Weill: Tango Ballade

            Product Description

            This is a beautiful collection of rare piano works by Moniuszko, Szymanowski, Kuhlau, Villa-Lobos among others. This new album by Felicja Blumental sees her drawing on her Polish background, demonstrating her deep understanding of the works by Moniuszko, Chopin and Szymanowski, while exposing her dexterity through Villa-Lobos’ Three Maries, her dramatic version of Kabalewski’s Sonatine and in the Presto of Beethoven’s infamous “Mooonlight Sonata.” The title track of the album is a particular highlight that is also available as a vocal work. Moniuszko often used the melodies and rhythmic patterns of Polish folk tunes for his compositions and this work demonstrates shows just that. The poignant Siciliana by Bach and the Menuet d’Orphee by Gluck provide some light refreshments among a bustle of fantastically vibrant piano pieces.
            Russian Piano School, Vol. 11-20
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              		Russian Piano School, Vol. 11-20

              Manufacturer: Melodiya
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              ASIN: B000001HDA
              Release Date: 1996-09-17

              Music Review:

              1. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2
              2. Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings Op48; String Quartet No1, Op11
              3. Tchaikovsky/Stravinsky: Violin Concertos
              4. Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 2; The Tempest
              5. The Art of Edwin Fischer, Vol. 1
              6. Three Suites for Guitar
              7. Tippett: A Child of Our Time
              8. Vagn Holmboe: Complete Chamber Concertos, Vol. 2
              9. Weber: Symphony No. 1; Mendelssohn: Sinfonia No. 10; Wolf: Italian Serenade; Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
              10. Wedding Celebrations

              Music Review

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