The Twentieth Century Consort, vol. II.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Twentieth Century Consort, performer.

Contributor:

Kendall, Christopher, performer.

Emerson String Quartet, performer.

Series:

Smithsonian collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chamber music--20th century.

Chamber music.

Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble.

Solo cantatas, Secular (High voice).

String quartets.

Piano music (4 hands).

Genre:

String quartets.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

2 audio discs : 33 1/3 rpm, stereo ; 12 in.

12 in.

Other Title:

Poison tree.

Celestial mechanics.

Makrokosmos IV.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution, [1982]

System Details:

33 1/3 rpm

microgroove

stereo

Contents:

To wake the dead : six sentimental songs and an interlude after Finnegan's wake (1978) / Stephen Albert

Cantata for tenor voice, percussion, and electronic sounds (1975) / Maurice Wright

String quartet no. 4 (1980) / Mario Davidovsky (Emerson String Quartet)

A poison tree (1979) / Richard Wernick

Celestial mechanics : Makrokosmos IV (1979) / George Crumb.

Participant:

Twentieth Century Consort ; Christopher Kendall, conductor.

Notes:

Manual sequence.

Program notes, and texts of the vocal works, bound in container.

Recorded in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (1st & 5th works), and at University College, University of Maryland, College Park (2nd-4th works)

Contains:

Albert, Stephen, 1941-1992. To wake the dead.

Wright, Maurice, 1949- Cantata, tenor, percussion, electronic music.

Davidovsky, Mario, 1934-2019. Quartets, violins (2), viola, cello, no. 4

Wernick, Richard, 1934- Poison tree.

Crumb, George. Celestial mechanics.

OCLC:

8879436

Publisher Number:

N 027 Smithsonian Collection