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Ionisation

Varese (Artist), Penderecki (Artist), Ligeti (Artist) Format: Audio CD
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Track Listings

Disc: 1

  1. Intégrales, for 11 winds & 4 percussionists
  2. Offrandes, for soprano & chamber orchestra: Chanson de la haut
  3. Offrandes, for soprano & chamber orchestra: La croix du sud
  4. Density 21.5, for flute solo
  5. Octandre, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, and double bass
  6. Hyperprisme, for winds and percussion
  7. Ionisation, for 13 percussionists
  8. Emanations, for 2 string orchestras
  9. Sonata for cello & orchestra
  10. String Quartet No.1

Disc: 2

  1. Stabat Mater, for 3 choruses
  2. Miserere, for chorus
  3. Miniatures (3) for violin & piano
  4. Nouvelles aventures, for 3 voices & 7 instruments: Aventures
  5. Nouvelles aventures, for 3 voices & 7 instruments: Nouvelles aventures
  6. Volumina, for organ
  7. Study No. 1 'Harmonies,' for organ

Product Details

  • Audio CD (July 9, 1996)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Vox
  • ASIN: B000001K4Z
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #477,531 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 starsOne of recorded music's greatest bargains!
By Amazon Customer on February 2, 2000
I bought this recording because I was looking for a sound version of Varese's Ionisation. What I got was a wonderful version, perhaps the best, plus an additional 125 minutes of incredible 20th Century music! This bargain-priced two-disc set surveys three of the previous centuries most exciting composers, Varese (French), Penderecki (Polish), and Ligeti (Hungarian). All works share one thing in common, they are all extraordinarily ground-breaking compositions. From the intense percussion of 'Ionisation', the tense, paranoid strings of 'Emanationen' and vocal extremes of Ligeti's 'Adventures' to the quiet beauty of Penderecki's 'Stabat Mater' and 'Misere', this recording covers a lot of compositional territory. And thankfully it provides great notes to help you along the journey. Now that we've left the 20th Century behind, perhaps its finally safe for the world to explore its fine music. Mahler's outstanding, but aren't we ready to move on?
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5.0 out of 5 starsMost perfect recording of Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures
By A Customer on June 22, 1999
The Varèse has been never recorded better than with "die reihe". The most perfect recording of my "Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures" is on "Vox Box" says György Ligeti
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat sample of 20th century modernism
By Autonomeus on August 26, 2001
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Just as I was familiar with Gyorgy Ligeti's music because of "2001," I was familiar with the name Varese through Frank Zappa long before I learned much of anything else about 20th century composition. It wasn't until this disc, though, that I finally heard Varese's music. Frankly it took several listens before I really heard it -- I didn't find it as immediately compelling as, say, Carter or Ligeti. But give it time, and you can hear why such uncompromising later radicals as Xenakis considered Varese to be absolutely pivotal in developing a new language of space, rhythm and intensity. "Ionisation" for percussion is the culminating piece here, complete with sirens! I wish Varese had been more prolific, and realized his "vision" more fully with electronics.

I'm not sure what the logic was of including Penderecki and Ligeti with Varese, but the music is great! Penderecki's instrumentation is conventional compared to Varese, and the music is somber and tragic, with bursts of terrifying dissonance. The string quartet is splendid. Then comes Ligeti with music first for vocals, and then for organ, and any previous concept of music is out the window. I can't help but laugh at "Adventures"! Here is an excerpt from the equally amusing liner notes on Ligeti by Dr. William B. Ober: "...Ligeti's "Poeme Symphonique"..., certainly atonal, directs the 'listener' to meter without distracting his ear by melody or harmony... [H]e escapes the solecism of structural coherence, enabling the 'listener' to concentrate on texture."

I was led by this disc to seek out more 20th century music. It serves as an excellent bargain introduction, and I'm now discovering how right Stravinsky was to emphasize the importance of multiple interpretations of compositions, so it's great to eventually duplicate some of these pieces on other recordings.
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5.0 out of 5 starsVarese was the first record Frank Zappa ever bought.
By Jon H. Thompson on August 25, 2001
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This is a personal note, not a review. I am only just now buyng this CD. My interest is in tracing the influences on Frank Zappa. In his autobiography, Zappa explains that a Varese album, "The Complete Works of Edgard Varese, Volume I," was the first record he ever bought while still a teenager in El Cajon, California. He talks of the profound affect it had on him and often credited Varese on his album covers in the 60's and 70's. I find Zappa's music rich, deep, and incredibly original -- as well as funny. The pieces in his album, "Hot Rats," give evidence of a composer able to find inspiration in doo-wop, dada, rock, and, apparently, Varese.
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2.0 out of 5 starsTake your bottle of aspirin; you'll need it
By Ingles on November 7, 2000
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I figured I would find at least one interesting and LISTENABLE piece of contemporary music on this value priced two cd set so I bought it. Boy, was I wrong! This is some of the most annoying, nerve deadening music (I use that term loosely) I have ever heard. The Ligeti organ piece sounds like someone pulling the plug on an electric organ as it slowly dies out. The Varese pieces are just unlistenable. Penderecki is praised by a number of modern music lovers but I could not find one redeeming fragment in the works contained here. The liner notes show how far gone contemporary music has gone. They appear to be a veiled apology for the crimes committed here. The author of them seems to make one excuse after another for why these pieces will appeal to so few people, as if that was something to be proud of. If composers of "serious" music don't care if their music has an audience, that's fine with me. Perhaps, in their minds, having people who actually enjoy their music is a sign of failure or serious miscalculation on their parts. They can all join the list of contemporary poets who are writing for no one but other contemporary poets as no one bothers with them either. I just do not believe that this music will survive the decades to come. No one even listens to it or buys it now. Farewell, and good riddance!
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