Karlheinz Stockhausen / Krzysztof Penderecki / Earle Brown / Henri Pousseur
The New Music
RCA Victoria (UK) 1968
VICS 1239 (LP) coated sleeve.
sleeve : EX-(SRW, wear on corner, light color-faded.)
media : EX-/EX-(some light noise caused by slightly hairlines.)
Released in 1968 as the very first entry in RCA Victor’s The New Music series, which introduced contemporary music. The album features works by Karlheinz Stockhausen (Germany), Krzysztof Penderecki (Poland), Earle Brown (USA), and Henri Pousseur (Belgium). Performed by the Rome Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Italian maestro Bruno Maderna. Stockhausen’s A1 is a composition for ten instruments, featuring pianist Frederick Rzewski, a frequent interpreter of Stockhausen’s work—this piece can even be approached with a free-jazz sensibility. Penderecki’s A2 is a composition themed around the Hiroshima atomic bombing, a striking work built on expanded sonorities with extensive use of tone clusters. Pousseur’s B2 is another standout, evoking the sensation of being cast adrift into outer space, with sounds that at times resemble pure electronics.
A1: Karlheinz Stockhausen “Kontra-Punkte
A2: Krzysztof Penderecki “Therenody for the Victims of Hiroshima”
B2: Henri Pousseur “Rimes Pour Differentes Sources Sonores”
The New Music
RCA Victoria (UK) 1968
VICS 1239 (LP) coated sleeve.
sleeve : EX-(SRW, wear on corner, light color-faded.)
media : EX-/EX-(some light noise caused by slightly hairlines.)
Released in 1968 as the very first entry in RCA Victor’s The New Music series, which introduced contemporary music. The album features works by Karlheinz Stockhausen (Germany), Krzysztof Penderecki (Poland), Earle Brown (USA), and Henri Pousseur (Belgium). Performed by the Rome Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Italian maestro Bruno Maderna. Stockhausen’s A1 is a composition for ten instruments, featuring pianist Frederick Rzewski, a frequent interpreter of Stockhausen’s work—this piece can even be approached with a free-jazz sensibility. Penderecki’s A2 is a composition themed around the Hiroshima atomic bombing, a striking work built on expanded sonorities with extensive use of tone clusters. Pousseur’s B2 is another standout, evoking the sensation of being cast adrift into outer space, with sounds that at times resemble pure electronics.
A1: Karlheinz Stockhausen “Kontra-Punkte
A2: Krzysztof Penderecki “Therenody for the Victims of Hiroshima”
B2: Henri Pousseur “Rimes Pour Differentes Sources Sonores”