A Life in Music

- Earle Brown's Contemporary Sound Series -

These legendary recordings – re-released on WERGO in six boxes including three CDs – present the extraordinary world of contemporary and avant-garde music that flourished in Europe, the United States, Latin Americaand Japanin the 1960s and early 1970s.

Recorded between 1960 and 1973, the original eighteen LPs of Earle Brown’s Contemporary Sound Series have been highly sought after in the secondary market since 1978 when they were discontinued. These rare and historically important recordings have been carefully digitized and remastered by the Earle Brown Music Foundation.


Earle Brown: A Life in Music
 

Vol. 1: WER 69282 (3 CDs)
• Concert Percussion for Orchestra – Roldán, Harrison, Russell, Cowell, Cage
• Stockhausen – Kagel
• Live Electronic Music Improvised – MEV, AMM

Vol. 2: WER 69312 (3 CDs)
• Works for Chamber Orchestra – Nono, Maderna, Berio
• New Music from London– Maxwell Davies, Birtwistle, Bedford, Orton
• Feldman – Brown
 

Vol. 3: WER 69342 (3 CDs)
• The Voice of Cathy Berberian – Berio, Bussotti, Cage
• Mayuzumi – Nirvana Symphony
• New Music for Piano(s) – Xenakis, Reynolds, Brown
 

Vol. 4: WER 69372 (3 CDs)
• New Music for String Quartet – Boulez, Scelsi, Brown
• New Music for Chamber Orchestra – Xenakis, Clementi, Nilsson, Schönberg, Kotonski, Takahashi
• The Hamburger Kammersolisten – Kelemen, Castiglioni, Fellegara, Yun

 

Vol. 5: WER 69402 (3 CDs)
• Sonic Arts Union: Electric Sound – Lucier, Ashley, Behrman, Mumma
• „Concord“ Sonata – Ives
• Music for Flute and Piano – Evangelisti, Castiglioni, Berio, Messiaen, Matsudaira, Maderna

Vol. 6: WER 69432 (3 CDs)
• Cage – Wolff
• New Music for Violin and Piano – Crumb, Yun, Wuorinen, Cage
• New Music from South Americafor Chamber Orchestra – Gandini, Bolaños, Nobre, Bazán, Enriquez, Lanza