Darmstadt Aural Documents Box 3 Ensembles

Barden, Barrett, Becker, Billone, Brün, Cage, Carrillo, Eloy, Erickson, Estrada, Evangelisti, Fritsch, Gentilucci, Grosskopf, Hoban, Hoffmann, Ishii, Ives, Jelinek, Johnston, Jungheinrich, Kounadis, Lauck, Lehman, von Lilienstern , Lim, Marchetti, Moguillansky, Poppe, Pousseur, Prins, Radulescu, Reudenbach, Riehm, Rzewski, Wielecki, Xenakis

CD 1
total time: 77:27

Hanns Jelinek (1901-1969)
[01-04] String Quartet No. 2 Op. 13 (1949) 25:36

Vegh Quartet
(Sándor Végh, Sandor Zöldy, Georges Janzer, Paul Szabo)

German premiere · Recording: July 13, 1952 – Darmstadt, Seminar Marienhöhe

Herbert Brun (1918-2000)
[05] String Quartet No. 3 (1960) 10:44

LaSalle Quartet
(Walter Levin, Henry Meyer, Peter Kamnitzer, Richard Kapuscinski)

European premiere Recording: 14 July 1962 – Darmstadt, Stadthalle

Franco Evangelisti (1926-1980)
[06] Aleatorio for string quartet (1959) 01:59

LaSalle Quartet
(Walter Levin, Henry Meyer, Peter Kamnitzer, Richard Kapuscinski)

World premiere Recording: 14 July 1962 – Darmstadt, Stadthalle

Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001)
[07] ST/4-1,080262 for string quartet (1956–1962) 09:10

Quatuor Parrenin
(Jacques Parrenin, Jacques Ghestem, Michel Walès, Pierre Pénassou)

German premiere Recording: 21 July 1963 – Darmstadt, Stadthalle

John Cage (1912-1992)
[08] Thirty Pieces for String Quartet (1983) 29:52

Kronos Quartet
(David Harrington, John Sherba, Hank Dutt, Joan Jeanrenaud)

World premiere Recording: 27 July 1984 – Darmstadt, Orangery

CD 2
total time: 71:13

Richard Barrett (* 1959)
[01] I open and close for string quartet (1983–1988) 19:34

Arditti Quartet
(Irvine Arditti, David Alberman, Levine Andrade, Rohan de Saram)

German premiere Recording: 22 July 1990 – Darmstadt, Orangery

Erhard Grosskopf (* 1934)
[02-06] song for bass clarinet and string quartet (1977) 12:00

Arditti Quartet
(Irvine Arditti, Lennox Mackenzie, Levine Andrade, Rohan de Saram)
Roger Heaton, bass clarinet

Recording: 19 July 1982 – Darmstadt, Georg Büchner School

Johannes Fritsch (1941-2010)
[07] String quintet (1984) 15:28

Arditti Quartet
(Irvine Arditti, Alexander Balanescu, Levine Andrade, Rohan de Saram)
Fernando Grillo, double bass

World premiere Recording: 26 July 1984 – Darmstadt, Georg Büchner School

Pierluigi Billone (* 1960)
[08] Muri IIIb for string quartet by Federico de Leonardis (2010) 24:04

Arditti Quartet
(Irvine Arditti, Ashot Sarkissjan, Ralf Ehlers, Lucas Fels)

World premiere Recording: 22 July 2010 – Darmstadt, Orangery

CD 3
total time: 68:27

Maki ishii (1936-2003)
[01] Prelude and Variations for nine players (1959–1960) 06:58

International Kranichstein Chamber Ensemble
Bruno Maderna, conductor

World premiere · Recording: 04 September 1961 – Darmstadt, Congress Hall Mathildenhöhe

Argyris Kounadis (1924-2011)
[02-04] Three Nocturnes after Sappho for soprano and ensemble (1960) 08:15

International Kranichstein Chamber Ensemble
Akémi Karaki, soprano
Bruno Maderna, conductor

Recording: July 11, 1962 – Darmstadt, Stadthalle

Henri Pousseur (1929-2009)
[05] Madrigal III for clarinet, violin, cello, two percussionists and piano (1962) 16:26

International Kranichstein Chamber Ensemble

World premiere Recording: 15 July 1962 – Darmstadt, Stadthalle

Hans Klaus Jungheinrich (* 1938)
[06] time game for chamber ensemble (1962) 08:20

International Kranichstein Chamber Ensemble
Bruno Maderna, conductor

World premiere Recording: 18 July 1962 – Darmstadt, Stadthalle

Jean Claude Eloy (* 1938)
[07] Equivalents (1st version) for 15 instruments (1963) 08:53

International Kranichstein Chamber Ensemble
Pierre Boulez, conductor

World premiere Recording: 20 July 1963 – Darmstadt, Stadthalle

Gunther Becker (1924-2007)
[08] diaglyphs for chamber ensemble (1962) 10:45

International Kranichstein Chamber Ensemble
Bruno Maderna, conductor

World premiere Recording: 24 July 1963 – Darmstadt, Stadthalle

Hans-Ulrich Lehmann (1937-2013)
[09] Composition for 19 instrumentalists (1964-1965) 08:44

International Kranichstein Chamber Ensemble
Bruno Maderna, conductor

Recording: July 25, 1965 – Darmstadt, Stadthalle

CD 4
total time: 70:36

Charles Ives (1874-1954)
[01] Psalm 24 for mixed choir (1894) 03:23

The Gregg Smith Singers
Gregg Smith, conductor

German premiere · Recording: 30 August 1961 – Darmstadt, Congress Hall Mathildenhöhe

Walter Marchetti (1931-2015)
[02] spazi II for ensemble (1958) 05:45

Ensemble Incontri Musicali
Bruno Maderna, conductor

World premiere Recording: 05 September 1958 – Darmstadt, Heiligenberg Castle

ben johnston (* 1926)
[03] Knocking piece for ensemble (1963) 05:25

Contemporary Chamber Players (University of Illinois)

European premiere Recording: 01 September 1966 – Darmstadt, Stadthalle

Robert Ericson (1917-1997)
[04] scapes II A Contest for Two Groups (1966) 10:04

Contemporary Chamber Players (University of Illinois)

European premiere Recording: 01 September 1966 – Darmstadt, Stadthalle

Frederic Rzewski (* 1938)
[05] Requiem (Part I) 12:40
for female speaker, male choir (basses), piano, tubular bells, woodblock and four drones, synthesizer, thunder stick and Jew's harp (1963–1967)

Schola Cantorum Stuttgart
Nicole Rzewski, speaker
Frederic Rzewski, piano
Bernhard Kontarsky, conductor

German premiere · Recording: 27 July 1972 – Darmstadt, municipal sports hall

Horatiu Radulescu (1943-2008)
[06] thirteen dreams ago Op. 26 for 11 strings and two tapes (1977) 33:15

Ensemble Cologne
Robert HP place, conductor

German premiere Recording: 13 July 1982 – Darmstadt, Georg Büchner School

CD 5
total time: 72:27

Thomas Lauck (* 1943)
[01] Remember, the earth is a drum... for percussion quartet (1986) 10:44

Freiburg percussion ensemble
(Isao Nakamura, Carlos Beresi, Ruediger Pawassar, Richard Lepetit)
Bernhard Wulff, conductor

World premiere · Recording: 14 July 1986 – Darmstadt, sports hall at the Böllenfalltor

Julian Carrillo (1875-1965)
[02] babbling for sixteenth-tone piano and ensemble (1958) 11:27

Orchestra to the 13th tone Nuremberg
Martine Joste, piano
Ulf Klausnitzer, conductor

Recording: 10 August 1988 – Darmstadt, Orangery

Julio Estrada (* 1943)
[03] eolo'oolin for six percussionists (1981–1984, rev. 1988) 39:58

Participants of the Darmstadt Summer Courses 1998
(Daniel Buess, Laszlo Hudacsek, Hideki Ikegami, Yoshiko Kanda, Ricardo Marini, Young-Cher Park)
Julio Estrada and Isao Nakamura, Direction

World premiere Recording: 03 August 1998 – Darmstadt, Georg Büchner School

Tadeusz Wielecki (* 1954)
[04] Whisper of the Semitones / Szmer półtonów for double bass and ensemble (2004) 10:14

Ensemble Courage
Tadeusz Wielecki, double bass
Titus Engel, conductor

World premiere Recording: 16 August 2004 – Darmstadt, Orangery

CD 6
total time: 76:48

Rolf Riehm (* 1937)
[01] Hawking for solo piano, bass drum and ensemble (1998) 34:52

ensemble research
Christoph Grund, piano
Christian Dierstein, bass drum

Recording: 21 July 2000 – Darmstadt, Orangery

Michael Reudenbach (* 1956)
[02] and but Music for String Quartet (2004) 13:37

Kairos Quartet
(Wolfgang Bender, Khachatur Kanajan, Simone Heilgendorff, Claudius von Wrochem)

World premiere Recording: 17 August 2004 – Darmstadt, Orangery

Wieland Hoban (* 1978)
[03] torn for eight instrumentalists (2006) 12:03

Participants of the Darmstadt Summer Courses 2006
Wieland Hoban, percussion
Lucas Vis, conductor

World premiere Recording: 16 August 2006 – Darmstadt, Orangery

Genoël of Lilienstern (* 1979)
[04] Adrenochrome for ensemble (2006) 09:13

Participants of the Darmstadt Summer Courses 2006
Lucas Vis, conductor

Recording: 16 August 2006 – Darmstadt, Orangery

Mark Burden (* 1980)
[05] viscera for trio basso (2010) 06:58

Fathom String Trio
(Jessica Rona, Moritz Muellenbach, Aleksander Gabrys)

World premiere Recording: 29 July 2010 – Darmstadt, Orangery

CD 7
total time: 78:18

Martha Gentilucci (* 1973)
[01] radix ipsius for ensemble and live electronics (2008) 17:31

Ensemble ascolta

Recording: 09 July 2008 – Darmstadt, sports hall at Böllenfalltor

Edward Moguillansky (* 1977)
[02] checklist for ensemble (2008) 05:39

Ensemble ascolta

World premiere · Recording: 09 July 2008 – Darmstadt, sports hall at the Böllenfalltor

Liza Lim (* 1966)
[03] City of Falling Angels for 12 percussionists (2007) 17:40

Participants of the Darmstadt Summer Courses 2008
Christian Dierstein, conductor

Recording: 14 July 2008 – Darmstadt, sports hall at Böllenfalltor

Stefan Prins (* 1979)
[04] Foreign body #1 for flute, electric guitar, percussion, cello and live electronics (2008) 11:25

Nadar Ensemble
(Katrien Gaelens, Toon Callier, Yves Goemaere, Pieter Matthynssens)
Daan Janssens, conductor

German premiere Recording: 21 July 2010 – Darmstadt, Orangery

Robin Hoffman (* 1970)
[05] anstatt-dass for chamber ensemble (2009) 09:20

IEMA ensemble
Susanne Blumenthal, conductor

Recording: 23 July 2010 – Darmstadt, Orangery

Enno Poppe (* 1969)
[06] Memory I for ensemble (2009 / 2010) 16:39

Sound Forum Vienna
Emilio Pomarico, conductor

Recording: July 31, 2010 – Darmstadt, Darmstadtium

01/2017

from: Critics' survey “Which five CDs impressed you the most last year?”

“Live recordings from almost 60 years of Darmstadt holiday courses contain treasures and milestones in equal measure. They demonstrate that even the infamous Mecca of the avant-garde relied less on dogma than on diversity.”

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