LTM: 08.13

28 August 2013

A Young Person's Guide to the Avant-Garde [LTMCD 2569]

"Opening up with a three minute encounter with Satie's Vexations and concluding with Ligeti's Atmosphères, this primer has the daunting task of evoking the shock of the new to an audience for whom inexorable tritones and the soundtrack of 2001: A Space Odyssey are anything but. Given the breadth of the subject matter, even on a 145 minute double CD, some omissions are inevitable. Still, plenty of ground is covered. Electronic music is given a cursory nod by way of Stockhausen's still startling Gesang der Jünglinge and Varèse's Poème électronique, while the fierce urgency of The Rite of Spring is effectively conveyed in an extract, leaving room for both Schoenberg's austere Sechs kleine klavierstücke and a performance of Cage's 4'33" punctuated by polite coughing."

"Between such milestones, much of the rest traces a route through the Futurists and Surrealists. Clear, highly readable sleevenotes draw out a narrative from one composer to the next: the tantalisingly brief appearances of Luigi Russolo's noise-generating intonarumori, both alone and on a 1924 recording of his brother Antonio's Corale, are given greater significance through stories of public bemusement and hostile Dadaists. The innovations of Russian-born Leo Ornstein's Suicide in an Airplane are spelled out at a time when tone clusters were as novel as air transport, and the proto-metal machine music of Alexander Mosolov's Iron Foundry is presented in the Soviet context. Most sensibly, allowing space for spoken word recordings - such as Marinetti's forceful La Battaglia di Adrianopoli and Robert Desnos' Description of a Dream - places composers firmly within their broader creative circles" (The Wire, 07/2013)

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