abstractions, monochromes and minimalism, part 3 (music & drone related)

erik satie

la monte young: the well-tune piano

performance space for luigi nono's prometeo, architect: renzo piano

the classical library of theartofmemory contributor arthur de eriomém.
a more up-to-date list here.

john luther adams
-in the white silence

béla bartók
-mikrokosmos
-bartok plays bartok: bartok at the piano 1929-41
-44 duos for two violins
-complete string quartets (quatuor végh)

benjamin britten
-cello suites (steven isserlis, dedicated to mstislav rostropovich)

gavin bryars
-the sinking of the titanic/jesus' blood never failed me yet (lp version)
-three viennese dancers
-jesus' blood never failed me yet
-the sinking of the titanic
-vita nova
-farewell to philosophy

harold budd
-the pavilion of dreams
-avalon sutra / as long as i can hold my breath (with akira rabelais)
-music for 3 pianos

john cage
(mode)
-the number pieces 1 (four3, one5, two6)
-the piano concertos (concerto for prepared piano, concert for piano, fourteen)
-the piano works 2 (sonatas & interludes for prepared paino)
-the piano works 3 (the season, cheap imitation, aslsp)
-the works for violin 4 (arditti string quartet)
-the works for violin 6, the string quartets 4 (44 harmonies from apartment house 1779, cheap imitation)
(hat art)
-imaginary landscapes
-two, five and seven
-ten, ryoanji, fourteen
-prelude for meditation
-sixty-eight, quartets I-VIII
-fifty-eight
(mdg)
-complete piano music vol. 1 (the prepared piano 1940-1952)
-complete piano music vol. 2 (music for piano 1-85, electronic music for piano)
-complete piano music vol. 8 (hommage a satie)
(wergo)
-john cage: two4
-john cage: works for piano, toy piano & prepared piano vol. III
(misc)
-thirteen (ensemble 13)
-john cage: in the landscape (stephen drury piano)
-dream: stefan jussong plays john cage (accordion)
-john cage: late piano works (one, two2, one)
-etudes australes for paino (grete sultan)
-ear for ear (choral)
-litany for the whale
-harmonies (accordion & trombone)

tony conrad
-early minimalism: volume one, 1964-65
-joan of arc

alvin curran
-maritime rites

patrick & thomas demenga
-lux aeterna (includes works by alexander knaifel, thomas demenga, jean barrière, roland moser and barry guy)

stuart dempster
-in the great abbey of clement vi

marcel duchamp
-conversations (with alain jouffroy)

brian eno
-no pussyfooting (with robert fripp)
-evening star (with robert fripp)
-discreet music
-music for films
-music for airports
-the plateaux of mirror
-on land
-music for films, volume 2
-music for airports (bang on a can version)
-more music for films
-apollo: atmospheres & soundtracks
-77 million paintings
-the pearl (with harold budd)

morton feldman
(mode)
-string quartet no. 2
-aki takahashi plays morton feldman
(hat art)
-neither
-patterns in a chromatic field
-atlantis
-for john cage
-piano (marianne schroeder)
-for christian wolff
-piano, violin, cello
-why patterns?, crippled summetry
-works for piano 2
-trio
-string quartet (II)
-for bunita marcus
-for philip guston
-for samuel beckett
-clarinet and string quartet
(cpo)
-piano and orchestra, flute and orchestra, oboe and orchestra, cello and orchestra
-for samuel beckett
-durations I-V, coptic light
(col legno)
-for bunito marcus
-piano and orchestra, palais de mari, piano
-triadic memories
(misc.)
-morton feldman: all piano (john tilbury)
-violin and string quartet (christina fong, rangzen quartet)
-piano, palais de mari (ronnie lynn patterson)
-triadic memories (aki takahashi)
-for john cage (yasushi toyoshima, aki takahashi)
-morton feldman: piano and string quartet (kronos quartet with aki takahashi)
-music of morton feldman (the viola in my life, fals relationships and the extended ending, why patterns?)
-crippled symmetry (the california ear unit)
-tufran frangments
-rothko chapel, why patterns?
-triadic memories by jean-luc fafchamps
-morton feldman (morton feldman plays)
-string quartet (the group for contemporary music)
-coptic light (mtt)
-something wild in the city (soundtrack, from cd something wild: music for film)
-madame press died last week at ninety
-works for two pianists

henryk mikołaj górecki
-symphony no. 3 'symphony of sorrowful songs'
-string quartet 1,2 (kronos quartet)

g.i. gurdjieff
-seekers of the truth/reading of a sacred book: the complete piano music of georges i. gurdjieff and thomas de hartmann vol. 1 & 2 (cecil lytle)
-harmonic development: the complete harmonium records
-gurdjieff, tsabropoulos: chants, hymns and dances (ecm)
-gurdjieff / de hartman: music for piano vol. 1 & 2 (wergo)
-gurdjieff / de hartman (herbert henck)

barry guy
-ceremony
-john dowland: in darkness let me dwell
-folio
(and numerous jazz discs not totally unrelated)

herbert henck
-improvisation IV in drei teilen fur klavier (1986)

david hykes & the harmonic choir
-harmonic meetings

charles ives
-charles ives: symphony no. 2 / the gong on the hook & ladder, or firemen's parade on main street / tone roads no. 1 / hymn: largo cantabile, for string orchestra / hallowe'en / central park in the dark / the unanswered question - leonard bernstein / new york philharmonic

jóhann jóhannsson
-abeceda with larsen
-ibm 1401, a user's manual
-the sun’s gone dim and the sky’s turned black
-virthulegu forsetar
-englabörn

giya kancheli
-abii ne viderem
-caris mere
-exil
-vom winde beweint (and tracks by schnittke)

alexander knaifel
-amicta sole
-make me drunk with your kisses

zoltan kodaly
-sonata for cello

komitas
-komitas performed by komitas (1912)
-hayren: music of komitas and tigran mansurian

gyorgy kurtag
-sings, games, messages
-jatekok (with marta kurtag)
-musik fur streichinstrumente
-potraitkonzert salzburg 10.8.1993 (col legno)

helmut lachenmann
-helmut lachenmann 1: reigen seliger geister, tanzsuite mit deutschlandlied (arditti string quartet)
-helmut lachenmann 3: solo pieces
-helmut lachenmann: pression, guero, gran torso, pression

richard lainhart
-10,000 shades of blue (works 1975-1989)
-staring at the moon

david lang
-the passing measures

gyorgy ligeti
-three pieces for two pianos (alfons and aloys kontarsky)
-chamber concerto (pierre boulez)

alvin lucier
-i am sitting in a room
-music on a long thin wire
-silver streetcar for the orchestra
-wind shadows
-sferics

witold lutoslawski
-musique funèbre

olivier messiaen
-messiaen par lui-meme
-the complete organ works (gillian weir)
-meditations sur le mystere de la sainte trinite (christopher bowers-broadbent)
-complete organ works vol. 4: meditations sur le mystere de la sainte trinite (rudolf innig)
-olivier meditations sur le mystere de la sainte trinite: jon gillock (diptyque & les corps glorieux)
-oliver messiaen: the organ works (almut rossler)
-messiaen: illuminations of the beyond
-quartet for the end of time (daniel barenboim)
-quartet for the end of time (yvonne loriod)
-visions de l'amen pour deux pianos (yvonne loriod et oliver messiaen)
-visions de l'amen for two pianos (peter serkin and yuji takahashi)
-vingt regards sur l'enfant jesus (yvonne loriod)
-vingt regards sur l'enfant jesus (john ogdon)
-catalogue d'oiseaux, la fauvette des jardins (anatol ugorski)
-saint françois d'assise

conlon nancarrow
-studies for player piano (wergo)
-the music of conlon nancarrow volume two

phill niblock
-four full flutes
-music by phill niblock
-touch works, for hurdy gurdy and voice
-touch food
-guitar too, for four
-disseminate
-touch three

hermann nitsch
-das orgien mysterien theater musik der 80. aktion
-komposition fur orgel in 5 satzen
-harmoniumwerk volume 1,2,3,4,

luigi nono
-la lontananza nostalgica utopica futura, "hay que caminar" sonando (with gidon kremer)
-das atmende klarsein, con luigi dallapiccola, ...sofferte onde serene...,
-fragment-stille, an diotima, "hay que caminar" sonando
-guai ai gelidi mostri, omaggio a gyorgy kurtag
-prometeo
-for pierre, cerulean blue silence
-when they are dying, 2nd polish diary
-post-prae-ludium per donau

pauline oliveros/stuart dempster/panaiotis
-deep listening

charlemagne palestine
-four manifestations on six elements
-godbear (the lower depths, strumming music, timbral assualt)
-strumming music
-karenina
-schlingen-blangen
-schlongo!!!daLUVdrone (solo pipe organ)
-holy 1 & holy 2/ alloy
-music for big ears
-charlemagne at sonnabend
-charlemagne palestine/ tony conrad; an aural symbiotic mystery
-espoir guerison (from 5cd set not alone)

arvo pärt
(ecm)
-de profundis
-tabula rasa (with gidon kremer and alfred schnittke)
-arvo pärt: arbos
-orient occident
-alina
-miserere
-arvo pärt: passio
-arvo pärt: te deum
-lamentate
(misc.)
-pärt: tabula rasa; fratres; symphony no. 3 (with gil shaham)
-arvo pärt (vladimir spivakov, moscow virtuosi)
-arvo pärt: da pacem
-organ works of arvo pärt and the music of the 16th century and the sound of bells

krzysztof penderecki
-penderecki: anaklasis; threnody; etc. (krzysztof penderecki conducts)

zbigniew preisner
-trilogy: blue, white, red
-la double vie de veronique

eliane radigue
-trilogie de la mort
-adnos 1-3

ernst reijseger
-colla parte

max richter
-memoryhouse
-the blue notebooks
-songs from before
-the art of mirrors - 7hings
-brilliant noise sountrack

erik satie
-erik satie selected works ars nova ensemble orchestral works (maybe the most important of the whole post)
-satie: piano works (aldo ciccolini)
-after the rain...the soft sounds of erik satie (pascal rogé)
-satie: the early piano works (reinbert de leeuw)
-erik satie compositeur de musique (teodoro anzellotti: accordian)
-erik satie: piano music, vol. 1-5 (steffen schleiermacher)
-pieces pour piano (yuji takahashi)
-vexations (alan marks)

giacinto scelsi
-suites nr. 9 and nr. 10 for piano
-giacinto scelsi (triphon, three latin prayers, pranam II, antifona, in nomme lucis I, tre canti sacri, in nomine lucis V)
-elegia per ty, divertimento n. 3 pour violon, l'ame ailee l'ame ouverte, coelocanth, trio a cordes
-quattro illustrazioni, xnoybis, cinque incantesimi, cuo pour violon et violoncelle
-ouvre integrale pour choeur et orchestre symphonique
-ensemble 2e2m/dir. paul mefano
-bot-ba
-suite n. 8"bot-ba" (tibet) suite n. 9 "ttai" (paix)
-giacinto scelsi: music for cello, trilogia, ko-tha
-okanagon
-music for wind instruments and percussion
-the complete works for clarinet
-chamber works for flute and piano
-yamaon, anahit, i presagi, tre pezzi, okanagon
-natura renovatur (ecm)

alfred schnittke
-the complete string quartets (kronos quartet)
-konzert für viola und orchester
-paslms of repentance
-schnittke: choir concerto; voices of nature; minnesang
-requiem: concerto for mixed chorus

marianne schroeder
-lasciando

stefano scodanibbio
-voyage that never ends
-geografica amorosa

dimitri shostakovich
-the string quartets (fitzwilliam string quartet)

valentin silvestrov
-silent songs

mathias spahlinger
-extension
-three in one
-...im klang...

david sylvian
-approaching silence
-when loud weather buffeted naoshima
-flux & mutability (with czukay)
-plight and premonition (with czukay)

john tavener
-the protecting veil (steven isserlis)
-the hidden face/nipson/sanctus & benedictus
-svyati: steven isserlis plays the music of john tavener

james tenney
-bridge & flocking

frances-marie uitti
-uitti 2 bows

mihaly vig
-filmzenek-tarr bela

anton webern
-anton webern: complete works, opp. 1-31 (pierre boulez)
-webern: complete string trios and quartets (arditti string quartet)

henry wolff & nancy hennings
-tibetan bells

iannis xenakis
-chamber music 1955-1990 (arditti string quartet)

la monte young
-the black record ("31 VII 69 10:26-10:49 PM/23 VIII 64 2:50:45-3:11 am") (with marian zazeela)
-the well-tuned piano 81 X 25
-the melodic version of the second dream of the high-tension line stepdown transformer from the four dreams of china
-the tamburas of pandit pran nath (with marian zazeela)


misc.

-jacques tati: soundtrack cd
-early music (lachrymae antiquae) (kronos quartet with john cage, arvo pärt, alfred schnittke and others)
-zeit: zeitgenossische orgelmusik (organ music including morton feldman, giacinto scelsi)
-xenakis evryali/herma & messiaen quatre etudes de rythme
-misterioso (arvo pärt, valentin silvestrov, galina ustvolskaya)
-erik satie socrate/john cage cheap imitation (wergo with herbert henck)
-erik satie sports et divertissements/george antheil la femme 100 tetes
-dolorosa (shostakovich, vasks, schnittke)
-after mozart (with valentin silvestrov)
-the new york school (hat art)
-the bad boys (hat art)
-david tudor: the piano avant-garde 1956-1960 (hat art)
-u.s.a, nancarrow, carter, ives, yim, feldman, lucier, young, cage (arditti string quartet)
-glocken russisch-orthodoxer kirchen (russian church bells)
-maderna, beuger, von schweinitz, stiegler (edition wandelweiser records)
-beuger, cage (edition wandelweiser records)
-lucier, wolff, schlothauer, frey (edition wandelweiser records)
-cage, pisaro, frey, beuger (edition wandelweiser records)

(head librarian of the collection: the german scholar [scottish born] herr t. moore leeh)
((a few are burns, if some titles look abridged or funny))

musique pour d.g.