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weasel walter related bands:
XBXRX
- chaotic displays of teenage hardcore abandon in frantic 10-minute-or-less
sets.
Composers:
Iannis
Xenakis -
All 140+ compositions especially "Pithoprakta", "Eonta",
"Metastaseis", "Kraanerg", "A L'ile de Goree",
"Atrees", "Akrata", " Oresteia", "Terretektorh",
"ST-10", "Nomos Gamma"
Pierre
Boulez -
Le Maitre sans Marteau, "Rituel", "Multiples/Eclat",
Pli Selon Pli, Repons
Bela
Bartok -
Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, Concerto for Two Pianos, Percussion
and Orchestra, String Quartets 1-6, The Manchurian Mandarin
Edgard
Varese -
All, especially "Deserts",
"Hyperprism" and "Ecuatorial". Varese only published
about 12 compositions in his life and they're all pretty great.
Anton
Webern -
especially String Quartet Op. 5, Six Pieces for Large Orchestra Op.
6, Six Bagatelles for String Quartet Op. 9, String Trio Op. 20, Symphony
Op 21, Quartet Op. 22, Concerto Op. 24, String Quartet Op. 28, Variations
for Orchestra Op. 30. Webern only completed 31 compositions in his life
and it's worth hearing the whole lot, either conducted by either Boulez
or Robert Craft.
Elliott
Carter -
Pretty much everything written after 1948 or so, especially Double Concerto
for Harpsichord
and Orchestra, String Quartets and all of his Concertos.
Olivier
Messiaen
- Pretty much everything written after 1945 or so, especially "Chronochromie",
"Sept Haikai", "L'Ascension" (orchestra version),
"Petites Liturgies De La Prescence Divine", "Et Exspecto
Resurrectionem Mortuorum", "Reveil De Oiseaux"
Roger
Sessions
- All Symphonies and Rhapsody.
Igor
Stravinsky
- Les Noces, Rite of Spring, Firebird Suite, The New Stravinsky (LP
of late serial works), "Threni", "Agon"
Krzysztof
Penderecki
- "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima", Utrenja, Passions
of St. Luke, "Fluorescences",
"Anaktoria","De Sonora Naturalis" 1 and 2, "Capriccio".
I'm not crazy about his stuff written after 1975.
Karlheinz
Stockhausen
- early works, especially "Zeitmasse", "Gruppen",
"Carre", "Zyklus", "Momente",
"Kontra-Punkte"
Harry
Partch -
especially "Delusion of the Fury" (first half), "...and
on the seventh day the petals fell over petaluma"
Carl
Ruggles -
All
Lucia
Dlugoszewski
- All
Peter Maxwell-Davies - 8 Songs for the Mad King
Carlos Chavez - Sinfonia No. 5 for String Orchestra/Toccata for Percussion,
Soli I-II-IV LP
Michael Colgrass - Concertmasters for Three Violins and Orchestra
George Crumb - Black Angels, Makrokosmos I, II, III
Aaron Copland - Inscape/Connotations for Orchestra (Copeland's awesome
late period 12-tone shit!)
Hanz Werner Henze - Violin Concerto No. 1 (early serial material)
Arnold Schoenberg - Wind Quintet Op. 26, Violin Concerto, Piano Concerto,
String Quartets op. 30 + 37
David Tudor plays organ music by Mumma, Wolff and Kagel LP
Quarter Tone Piano LP - music by Macero, Ives et al.
Conlon Nancarrow - Player Piano Studies
Gyorgi Ligeti - Violin Concerto, Piano Concerto
New American Music - Composers of the '70s (with Dlugoszewski, Fulkerson,
Silverman, Moore)
Ruth Crawford Seeger - String Quartet, Woodwind Quintet
Charles Ives - String Quartet no. 2, Charles Ives - Symphony No. 4,
The Unanswered Question
George Antheil - Ballet Mechanique
Toru Takemitsu - Corona - London Version
Henri Lazarof - Structures Sonores
A list of records recommended by Weasel Walter:
