Monday, July 23, 2012

Two Pages (1968)

PIECE: Two Pages

YEAR: 1968

CAST: Piano or electric keyboard

PREMIERE: unknown

RECORDINGS:
Philip Glass: Two Pages / Contrary Motion / Music in Fifths / Music in Similar Motion (1994)
Steffen Schleiermacher: Philip Glass Early Keyboard Music (2001)
Bang on a Can: Philip Glass: Music in Fifths / Two Pages (2004)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS: none

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS:
Dominic Frasca: Deviations (2005) [guitar arrangement]

Dominic Frasca - Deviations (2005)


DOMINIC FRASCA
Deviations
Cantaloupe CA21032

MARC MELLITS
1. Dark Age Machinery (arr. Frasca)

DOMINIC FRASCA
2. Forced Entry

MARC MELLITS
3. Lefty's Elegy (arr. Frasca)

PHILIP GLASS
4. Two Pages (arr. Frasca)

MARC MELLITS
5. Metaclopramide (arr. Frasca)

DOMINIC FRASCA
6. Deviations

MELLITS / FRASCA
7. Dometude


Dominic Frasca, guitar

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Music in Fifths (1969)

PIECE: Music in Fifths

YEAR: 1969

CAST: Ensemble

PREMIERE: unknown

RECORDINGS:
Philip Glass: Two Pages / Contrary Motion / Music in Fifths / Music in Similar Motion (1994)
Bang on a Can: Music in Fifths / Two Pages (2004)
Ulrich Krieger: Walls of Sound II, Early American Minimalism (2004)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS: none

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS:
DJ Spooky: Sound Unbound (2007) [remix of the Ulrich Krieger Version]
Steffen Schleiermacher: How Now (2010) [Organ version]

DJ Spooky - Sound Unbound (2007)


DJ SPOOKY
Sound Unbound
Sub Rosa SR261

1. Radio Mentale / Matthew Herbert
2. Amrtyn Bates / Allen Ginsberg
3. Jean Cocteau
4. Sun Ra
5. Mikhail / Gertrude Stein
6. DJ Spooky vs Robert Swift
7. Marcel Duchamps / Master Musicians of Joujouka
8. Raymond Scott
9. Alter Echo / Pamela 2
10. Liam Gillick / Aphex Twin
11. James Joyce / Erik Satie
12. Steve Reich by Ulrich Krieger
13. Shukar / Radio Mentale /Raoul Hausmann
14. Augustos de Campos / Bill Laswell
15. John Cage
16. Antonin Artaud
17. DJ Spooky
18. Sussan Deyhim
19. Raymond Scott
20. Marcel Duchamps / George Lewis / Ake Takase
21. Bill Laswell / Rene Magritte
22. Anthony Braxton & Evan Parker / Pauline Oliveros
23. Dora Yoon
24. Pierre Schaeffer
25. Daniel Bernard Roumain / Ryuichi Sakamoto
26. Philip Glass by Ulrich Krieger [Music in Fifths]
27. Edgar Varese
28. Iannis Xenakis
29. Ryoji Ikeda
30. Sonic Youth
31. Alter Echo / Doug Lim
32. Terry Riley by Ulrich Krieger
33. Luigi Russolo / DJ Spooky
34. Fanfare Savale / Vladimir Mayakovsky
35. Pilgrim Song Mixed / Trilok Gurtu and Bill Laswell
36. Nam June Paik
37. Morton Subotnick / Acid Bassline
38. The Master Musicians of Joujouka / Boujeloud / Hans Arp
39. Sub Swara / Kurt Schwitters
40. Walter Ruttman
41. Raymond Scott
42. Martin Bates
43. Otto Luening / Wladimir Ussachevsky
44. Carsten Nicolai
45. William S. Burroughs and Iggy Pop with Techno Animal

Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky), remixes



Friday, July 20, 2012

Brian Sacawa - American Voices (2007)


BRIAN SACAWA
American Voices
Innova 675

PHILIP GLASS
1. Piece in the Shape of a Square

LEE HYLA
2. Pre-Amnesia

ERIK SPANGLER
3. Pastlife Laptops and Attic Instruments

CHRIS THEOFANIDIS
Netherland
4. A Stream of Pulses, labored, intense
5. Brutal; swirling, out of focus

DEREK HURST
6. Bacchianalia Skiapodorum

KEERIL MAKAN
7. Voice Within Voice

MICHAEL GORDON
8. The Low Quartet


Brian Sacawa, saxophone


Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Serenade for Solo Flute (1969)

PIECE: Serenade for Solo Flute

YEAR: 1969

CAST: flute

PREMIERE: unknown

RECORDINGS:
Duo Cavatina: Songs and Dances of the Americas (1998)
Laurel Zucker: Inflorescence II - Music for Solo Flute (2003)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS: none

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS: none

Duo Cavatina - Songs and Dances of the Americas (1998)


DUO CAVATINA
Songs and Dances of the Americas
Cadence Classics CC1001

ASTOR PIAZZOLLA
"L'Histoire du tango"
1. Bordell 1900
2. Café 1930
3. Nightclub 1960
4. Concert d'aujourd'hui

RODRIGO RIERA
5. Canción Caroreña for Solo Guitar

ALFREDO VIANNA
Five Choros
6. Dininha-valsa (for solo guitar)
7. Cheguei
8. Tico-valsa
9. Um a Zero (for piccolo and guitar)
10. Passa Tempo

PHILIP GLASS
Serenade for Solo Flute
11. Prelude
12. Caprice
13. Intermezzo
14. Lament
15. Arioso
16. Finale

ROBERT BEASER
From "Mountain Songs"
17. Barbara Allen
18. The House Carpenter
19. He's Gone Away
20. Hush You Bye
21. Cindy

DUO CAVATINA
Carol Shansky, flute, piccolo
Seth Himmelhoch, guitar


Sunday, July 8, 2012

Sentieri Selvaggi Plays Gavin Bryars & Philip Glass (2008)


SENTIERI SELVAGGI
Plays Gavin Bryars & Philip Glass
Cantaloupe CA21048

GAVIN BRYARS
1. Sub Rosa

PHILIP GLASS
2. Façades

SENTIERI SELVAGGI
Danilo Bosio, recorder
Fabrizio Meloni, clarinet
Mirco Ghirandini, clarinet
Andrea Dulbecco, vibraphone
Andrea Rebaudengo, piano
Thomas Schrott, violin
Riccardo Memore, viola
Marco Decimo, cello
Stefano Da´Ora, double-bass
Carlo Boccadoro, conductor