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two devoted to the compositions of Christian Wolff, who was born of
German parentage in France in 1934, and has lived in the USA from age
7. These two installments are offered in answer to a request by an AGP
partisan. Wolff's style in these works is rather spare and cerebral,
with careful use of silence and directed improvisation. My favorite of the five works in this installment is Burdocks, in part because it is performed in this recording by the most diverse ensemble (Wolff scored it for any number of players) and so features a broader range of timbres. Tracks 01 and 02 are performed by Frederick Rzewski on piano, track 03 is performed by the Societa Cameristica Italiana string quartet (from Wergo WER 60053), and track 04 is performed by David Tudor on organ (from Odyssey 32 16 0158). Tracks 01, 02, and 05 comprise Wergo WER 60063. Some of the compositions in this installment are available in other recordings, but Wolff's music is so open-ended in both scoring and performance that each recording is unique. The installment includes a PDF file with scans of the liner notes from the two LPs from which most of the tracks in AGP80 and AGP81 were transcribed. To download
AGP80 files, right-click on each of the following links and select SAVE
LINK AS. 02 - For Pianist, 1959 [14:37] 04 - For 1, 2 or 3 People [9:36] 05 - Burdocks, 1970-71 [23:40] |
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