CHRISTIAN WOLFF (b.1934): Sonata for 3 Pianos (two versions), LUIGI DALLAPICCOLA (1904-1975): Quaderno Musicale de Annalibera, CHOU WEN-CHUNG (b.1923): The Willows are new, JOSEF MATTHIAS HAUER (1883-1959): Zwölftonspiel 28. Juli 1952, BERND ALOIS ZIMMERMANN (1918-1970): Konfigurationen, PAUL DESSAU (1894-1979): 3 Intermezzi, SYLVANO BUSSOTTI (b.1931): Per Tre Sul Piano, WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI (1913-1994): Bucolics, GUNNAR BERG (1909-1989): Éclatement V, HANS ULRICH ENGELMANN (1921-2011): Suite No. 1, GALINA USTVOSLKAYA (1918-2006): Sonata No. 4.
Catalogue Number: 12P067
Label: MD&G
Reference: 613 1821-2
Format: CD
Price: $18.98
Description: Inspired by John Cage's and Alison Knowles' book "Notations" (1967), which printed facsimiles of various types of modern musical notation, this collection of modern piano music written in the 1950s ranges from strict dodecaphony (Zimmermann) to less-strict (Dallapiccola) to indeterminacy (Wolff) to graphic notation (Berg), graphic mixed with conventional notation (Bussotti) to the relatively tonal Lutoslawski. Anyway, you get the idea: no easy listening here. Steffen Schleiermacher (piano).
