Kagel:1898 for custom-built instruments avant garde '73

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Mauricio Kagel: 1898 (1973 for custom built string instruments, chamber ensemble, and children's voices)




label & cat. no.:
Deutsche Grammophon 2543 007 pressed in:
Germany date:
1973 format:
LP condition:
Vinyl: ex (just a couple of faint scuffs)
Cover: ex+ (minor lamination wrinkles) description:

Beautiful gatefold lp with a superb experimental work commissioned by the Deutsche Grammophon company to commemorate their 75th anniversary. For this piece, Kagel collaborated with violin-maker Franz-Ernst Peschke to explore the strange sounds of custom-built string instruments fitted with the bells of brass instruments, creating overtone-rich acoustic amplification. These are mixed with a handful of more traditional instruments playing from a partly indeterminate score, and snippets of a wild assortment of sounds made by a group of untrained, unrehearsed school children recorded by Kagel. The performers are Aloys Kontarsky, piano, Christoph Caskel, percussion, Saschko Gawriloff, custom violin, Siegfried Palm, custom cello, Adam Bauer, trumpet, Kurt Schwertsik, horn, Armin Rosin, trombone, Robert Tucci, tuba, Brigitte Sylvestre, harp, Gerard Ruymen, custom viola, Georg Nothdorf, custom contrabass, and conductors Kagel and Silvio Foretic. The fantastic cover has a vinyl deconstruction fetishist design that must have been influenced by the Broken Music ideas of Fluxus artist Milan Knizak; no cover artist is credited, but it seems almost certainly to have been designed by Kagel himself.

Kagel is a composer of experimental music and music-theater, conductor, and filmmaker who studied literature under Jorge Luis Borges; he was influenced by Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, Erik Satie, and Harry Partch, he worked on early electronic music at the WDR Koln studios alongside Herbert Eimert, Robert Beyer, Gottfried Michel Koenig, Bruno Maderna, Konrad Boehmer, Herbert Brun, Karel Goeyvaerts, Bengt Hambraeus, Henri Pousseur, Anestis Logothetis, Gyorgi Ligeti, and Franco Evangelisti, and he lectured at the famous Darmstadt courses where he mingled with Luigi Nono, Earle Brown, Pierre Boulez, and Olivier Messiaen. Check out my other auctions this week for more avant garde/experimental, early electronic/electroacoustic, jazz/improv, psych, sound art, and 20th century classical lps. US Shipping - Media Mail is 5.00 for 1-2 single records, then 0.65 for each additional; Priority Mail is also available but pricing depends on zipcode and will be calculated after auction closes (or you can email me with your address for a quote); other expedited shipping options and insurance are all available on request. Combine multiple items to save on shipping.
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