Not exactly "new," but a reissue due out on Tuesday, August 13 as part of Deutsche Grammophon's new "20/21 Echo" series, which is packaged to look like the regular "20/21" line of new recordings. The Ligeti volume includes: 1. Volumina (1961/62-1966) 2. Organ Study No. 1, "Harmonies" (1967) Gerd Zacher 3. Three Pieces for Two Pianos (1976) Alfons and Aloys Kontarsky 4. Aventures (1962/63) 5. Nouvelles Aventures (1962-65) Ensemble InterContemporain/Pierre Boulez 6. Mysteries of the Macabre (1987) Hakan Hardenberger, Roland Pontinen There are four other reissues released the same day: Sofia Gubaidulina: Offertorium; Homage a T.S. Eliot (Gidon Kremer) Steve Reich: Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards; Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ; Six Pianos (San Francisco Symphony; Steve Reich and Musicians) Toru Takemitsu: In an Autumn Garden; Voyage; Autumn (excerpt); Novemeber Steps (10th Step); Eclipse (Music Department, Imperial Household) Leo Brouwer: Solo (Brouwer as guitarist, plays his own music and pieces by Cardew, Henze, Bussotti, Ohana and others) The new recording of Wolfgang Rihm's 'Jagden und Formen' that we discussed several months ago is coming out the same day on DG '20/21.' Future "20/21 Echo" releases in November will include: Luciano Berio: Coro (Cologne Radio Sym/Berio) Cornelius Cardew: The Great Learning (Scratch Orchestra), paired with David Bedford: Two Poems on Words of Kenneth Patchen (NDR Choir) Witold Lutoslawski: Piano Concerto; Partita; Chain II (Krystian Zimerman, Anne-Sophie Mutter; BBC Sym/Lutoslawski) Siegfried Palm: Intercommunicazione (cello recital; works by Brown, Kagel, Penderecki, Webern, Xenakis, Yun and Zimermann) Alfred Schnittke: Concerti grossi 1 & 5; Quasi una sonata (Gidon Kremer) The regular series of new "20/21" recordings will be issuing fresh recordings of Kagel's Interview avec D. and Variations with a Fugue and Del Tredici's Vintage Alice in spring 2003, with a new Boulez-led recording of Marteau san Maitre and Derives II sometime after that. Steve Smith ssmith36@sprynet.com NP - Osvaldo Golijov, 'Yiddishbbuk' - St. Lawrence String Quartet (EMI Classics) -----Original Message----- From: zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Patrice L. Roussel Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 1:13 PM On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 13:03:55 -0400 "Steve Smith" wrote:
NP - Ligeti, Three Pieces for Two Pianos - Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky (Deutsche Grammophon)
Is it new?