Messiaen:Fete...for 6 Ondes Martenot early electronic instrument +Milhaud SEALED

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Olivier Messiaen: Fete Des Belles Eaux (1937 for 6 Martenot) / Darius Milhaud: Suite (1932 for Martenot and piano) / Jacques Charpentier: Lalita (for Martenot and percussion) label & cat. no.:
Erato LDE 3202 pressed in:
France date:
196? format:
LP condition:
Vinyl: (sealed)
Cover: m (sealed in loose-fitting shrink) description:
Impossible-to-find still-sealed copy of this rare lp showcasing the Ondes Martenot, an early electronic keyboard instrument invented in 1928 and based on the Theremin but with additional sound-shaping controls giving it a unique proto-synthesizer sonority. The highlight is one of the first all-electronic compositions, Messiaen's stunning Fete Des Belles Eaux ("Festival of Beautiful Waters"), which takes up most of the album. Predating musique concrete, it was written for live performance on 6 Ondes Martenot accompanied by an abstract light and water show (a 'water ballet'); the piece is for the most part tonal, and masterfully exploits the sound qualities of the instrument. These recordings were made under the direction of primary Martenot soloist Jeanne Loriod, accompanied by Nelly Caron, Monique Matagne, Renee Recoussine, Karel Trow, and Henriette Chanforan on Martenot, John Philips on piano, and Didier Duclos on percussion. Highly recommended!

artist info from album notes etc.:
Known as the father of the French avant garde, Messiaen worked with Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, and was an essential teacher of Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio, Francois Bayle, and Francois Bernard Mache (among many other 20th century luminaries); he was influenced by Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Hindu music, Gamelan, and nature (birdsong), and his composing style was driven in part by his synesthesia (a brain condition that caused him to visually perceive sounds). • Milhaud studied under Vincent d'Indy, was associated with Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie, was an important teacher of Karel Goeyvaerts, Ben Johnston, Steve Reich, Morton Subotnick, Philip Glass, and Iannis Xenakis, and was a member of Les Six along with Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, Poulenc, Germaine Tailleferre, and Louis Durey. • Charpentier is an organist and composer who studied Hindu music in India as well as western classical music in Paris under Olivier Messiaen and Tony Aubin. • Other composers who have experimented with the Martenot are Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead, Alfred Honegger, Charles Koechlin, Giacinto Scelsi, Edgard Varese, Jacques Ibert, John Donald Robb, Rod McKuen, Karel Goeyvaerts, Toru Takemitsu, Andre Jolivet, Vivier, Landowski, Jacques Bondon, and Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux. • This lp should be heard by anyone interested in early electronic instruments and performers like Oskar Sala and his trautonium, John Eaton and the Syn-Ket, Robert Moog, Donald Buchla/Morton Subotnick, Clara Rockmore, Miklos Rosza, the Ondioline, Raymond Scott, Bruce Haack, the Arp, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Gershon Kingsley, John Cage, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Milton Babbitt, Max Matthews, Jean-Claude Risset, Bernard Parmegiani, Herbert Eimert, Robert Beyer, Gottfried Michael Koenig, David Tudor, and Hugh Le Caine. Check out my other items for more avant garde/experimental, early electronic/synth/electroacoustic, sound art/artist records, audiophile, microtonal, minimalist, 20th century classical, free jazz/improv, and space age pop vintage vinyl. US Shipping - Media Mail is $5.00 for up to 2 12" records, then $0.65 for each additional; Priority Mail is also available but pricing depends on zipcode (you can check eBay's calculated shipping price at the bottom of this page); other expedited shipping options and insurance are all available on request. Combine multiple items to save on shipping.
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