Xenakis: Ensemble Music (mode 53-56 - 1996)
Xenakis: Ensemble Music (mode 53-56 - 1996)
ST-x Ensemble directed by Charles Zachary Bornstein
Avant-Garde | EAC (ape + cue) | 2 CD 66:55 55:14 | booklet | 240+230 MB | RS
ST-x Ensemble directed by Charles Zachary Bornstein
Avant-Garde | EAC (ape + cue) | 2 CD 66:55 55:14 | booklet | 240+230 MB | RS
Mr. Xenakis, for to achieve complete victory in his "struggle for existence", would have to create something so different that to anybody else it would be totally meaningless.
Even he has not gone that far, though he has regularly traveled a long way into the desert of incoherence, often by calculating his music so as to maximize disorder. This is the main thrust of his mathematical techniques: his spinning numbers, like John Cage's coin tossings, insure that notes are chosen and ordered by blind chance, or according to processes of change that have little to do with conventional musical perception.
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Mr. Xenakis so often equates beauty with savagery: in his fascination with weapons and armor, for instance, with the sea or with the bulls of the Camargue. In his music virtually the whole elaborate machinery of Western composition is set aside, and we are left with a brute vocabulary of other modernists - Stravinsky, Varèse, Harrison Birtwistle - avoidance of the immediate past leads to imagined contact with the archaic.Paul Griffiths, The New York Times, Sunday, January 26, 1997
Live performances, with the participation of the composer
Ensemble Music #1 (6 tracks) 66:55
01 Plekto, for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin and cello (1993) 08:19
02 Eonta, for piano solo, 2 trumpets and 2 trombones (1962-64) 17:58
03 Akanthos, for soprano, flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass-clarinet, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello and bass (1977) 10:22
04 Rebonds "b", for percussion solo (1987-89) 05:55
05 Rebonds "a", for percussion solo(1987-89)07:53
06 N'Shima, for 2 amplified peasant voices, 2 amplified french horns, 2 tenor trombones and amplified cello (1975)
16:28
Recorded live at The Thread Waxing Space, New York City, on June 21, 1995
Ensemble Music #2 (5 tracks)55:14
01 Échange, for bass clarinet solo and chamber orchestra (1989)16:57
02 Okho, pour trois djembés (1989) 14:38
03 Xas, for saxophone quartet (1987) 08:58
04 Akrata, for 8 winds and 8 brass (1965)11:18
05 A la mémoire de Witold Lutoslawski, for 2 trumpets & 2 horns (1994)03:23
Recorded live at St. Peter's Church, New York City, on April 22, September 5 and October 3, 1996
Mode Records: mode 53 - mode56
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Ensemble Music 1
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Ensemble Music 2
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Ensemble Music 1
Part1
Part2
Part3
Ensemble Music 2
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Part2
Part3
He Composes Differently, Therefore He Exists