V.A. : The American Avant-Garde In The 20th Century

☆不安定な美しさ〜不協和音☆
1906年〜1960年のアメリカの現代音楽〜実験音楽をコンパイルしたもの!!!
ケージはじめフェルドマン、ガイシン、パーチ、ヴァレーズなど豪華面子です！
この時代ならではの不安定な美しさ?不協和音を盛り込んだ曲で刺激的な内容です。



Disc 1
1. Charles Ives : Central Park in the Dark (1906)
2. Leo Ornstein : Suicide in an Airplane (1913)
3. Henry Cowell : Dynamic Motion (1916)
4. George Antheil : Sonata Sauvage (1922/23)
5. Carl Ruggles : Angels (1922)
6. George Antheil : Ballet Mecanique (1924)
7-10.Dane Rudhyar : Tetragram #8 (Primavera)(1928)
11.Edgard Varese : Ionization(1929-31)
12.Roger Sessions : From My Diary (Poco Adagio)(1940)
13.Morton Feldman : Piece For Four Pianos(1951)

Disc 2
1-19. John Cage : Sonatas and Interludes (1946-48)
20. Harry Partch : Ulysses at the Edge (1955)
21. Brion Gysin : Recalling All Active Agents (1960)

Notes
Dates of composition appended to the track titles:
1-1: 1906; 1-2: 1913; 1-3: 1916; 1-4: 1922/23; 1-5: 1922; 1-6: 1924; 1-7 to 1-10: 1928; 1-11: 1929-31; 1-12: 1940; 1-13: 1951; 1-15: 1938; 2-1 to 2-19: 1946-48; 2-20: 1955; 2-21: 1960
1-3 This performance [...] was recorded in 1963.
1-6 This version [...] was recorded in 1955.
1-13 Recorded 1959.
2-1 to 2-19 This recording [...] dates from 1950.
Compiled [...] for LTM (2012). Design and packaging [...] at Aleph Studio.
The movements of 'Tetragram #8 (Primavera)' (1-7 to 1-10) are unnamed in the release tracklist.
The titles, however, are mentioned on the LTM web site.