Wire Rewind 2006--contemp composers CDs

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I'll buy the issue but I'm in Beijing. What recordings were listed first for modern composition?

mike dotson (buzz), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

O-Key, Mike-y. Here yous goes:

Moder Composition:

Julian Anderson, Book Of Hours (NMC)
Luciano Berio, Sequenzas (Mode)
Gloria Coates, Symphonies 1, 7, 14 (Naxos)
Julius Eastman, Unjust Malaise (New World)
Luigi Dallapiccola/ Goffredo Petrassie, Musica Da Camera (Mode)
Beat Furrer, Fama (Kairos)
Bernhard Lang, Das Theater Der Wiederholungen (Kairos)
György Ligeti, Complete Piano Music (Bis)
Anthony Paters & Robin Fox, Flux Compendium (Editions Mego)
Steve Reich, Different Trains (Black Box)
Wolfgang Rihm, String Qurtets Nos 12 & 14 (Col Legno)
Spunk, En Andeles Forferdelig Sykdom (Rune Grammofon)
Jakob Ullman, Catalogue Of Sounds (Editions RZ)
Iannis Xenakis, Music For strings (Mode)

tiit (t**t), Friday, 5 January 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks for the transcription effort. I would like to say 'oh yeah, 7 of those were in my top 10' but all I can say vis a vis the critic is he shoulda exercised a little more judgement rather than listing them all in a-z order. I guess the economic lesson is that it is cheaper to subscribe to The Wire and read the reviews so one can make one's own shoice than to buy all ten of these and try them. Less enlightening though.


mike dotson (buzz), Friday, 5 January 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link


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