In the last years of the 1970s, Terry Riley seemed to be everywhere; it would not have been unusual for a Riley fan in 1979, through only a moderate amount of travel, to catch him in two different cities in different months of the year. At this point, Riley was delivering hours-long concerts, no two the same, playing from the advertised start time ...
For Terry Riley's 70th birthday, the Kronos Quartet commissioned him to write a piece for them, and he decided to include pipa player Wu Man (who also sings), as well as drum, rattle, various toys, and synthesizer. It's the most eclectic piece Riley has written for Kronos; he outdoes himself in the number of world music traditions, Western styles, ...
Terry Riley would certainly bristle at the idea of there being a "definitive" version of In C since it was created with the intention of having an infinite number of interpretive possibilities, but this version, a reissue of the original Columbia recording, led by the composer, has a certain authority since it was the means by which the piece was ...
Saxophonist Ulrich Krieger's Early American Minimalism: Walls of Sound II focuses on some of the earliest composed music within the minimalist style by three major figures of the genre -- Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and Terry Riley. These are some relatively rare pieces, more talked about than performed, and Reich's Reed Phase (1967) is not even ...
In the liner notes of Stradivarius' From the New World, Vol. 1, painter Paul Klee is cited as having said he wished he could return to being a newborn baby once more so that he could forget about Europe. "Forgetting about Europe" seems to be the theme of From the New World, Vol. 1, which at first glance appears to be a compilation, but is a ...
There's perhaps a touch of irony in the title of Dutch pianist and composer Jeroen van Veen's box set Minimal Piano Collection because at nine discs, it's a pretty massive collection. The program booklet notes that he recorded the entire set, which includes more than ten hours of music, in only six days, an astounding feat. In the program notes, ...
Elision Fields' Terry Riley: Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band -- All Night Flight is a reissue of a disc originally released in 1997 as part of the Terry Riley Archive Series on Gary Todd's Organ of Corti imprint. It represents the best surviving portion of a six-hour concert Riley played at an occasion designated as "Purple Modal Strobe Ecstasy ...
Guitarist Tom Kerstens' 2005 release Black Venus is the first volume in a series of albums on BGS Records devoted to original works for solo guitar, and many of the selections here are premiere recordings. Several of the pieces could be classified as modernist in their melodic angularity, ambiguous harmonies, or moodiness and unpredictability, but ...
This remarkable Stradivarius disc features Italian pianist Fabrizio Ottaviucci in performances of some of Terry Riley's earliest forays into minimalism, his Keyboard Studies (1963) and Tread on the Tail (1965), both pieces that observe a repetitive developmental strategy along the lines of In C (1964). Both works are relatively rare, having been ...
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