GEORGES APERGHIS PREPARED PIANO LP JOHN CAGE-CHRISTIAN IVALDI-XENAKIS-AVANTGARDE
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GEORGES APERGHIS / PHILIPPE CAPDENAT
LE PIANO PREPARE LP
Philips Modern Music Series
Mind blowing prepared piano attacks from greek composer Georges Aperghis and Philippe Capdenat, performed by Christian Ivaldi. In the traditon of John Cage.
Some info on the release: Rare original issue, released in France back in 1970 on the great Philips Modern Music series label (Henk Badings, Dick Raaijmakers, Pierre Henry, Julian Carrillo, Luciano Berio, Toru Takemitsu, Karlheinz Stockhausen, etc.). Two stunning pieces for prepared piano, "Simata" by greek composer Georges Aperghis (a student and follower of Iannis Xenakis) and the french Philippe Capdenat. Performed by Christian Ivaldi. Like Cage, Aperghis at an early stage of his career had an interest in percussion music and made use of the piano to simulate a percussion ensemble.
The Greek composer, Georges Aperghis, was born in Athens. His father Achilles, a sculptor, and his mother Irene, a painter, gave him a rich artistic background in post-war Greece and allowed him great freedom, providing the basis for what has become a highly original, independent career as a composer. Mainly self-taught, Aperghis divided his interest between painting and music, which he discovered through radio and the occasional piano lesson from a family friend. The first experiments in musique concrete by Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry came as a revelation. By 1963, he had decided to give up painting and settled in Paris to continue studying music. There, he discovered the world of new music through the Domaine Musical and concerts at the Maison de la Radio.
Georges Aperghis’ earliest works; Antistixis, for three string quartets, Anakroussis for seven instruments (1967) and Bis for two orchestras (1968) show the influence both of serialism and of Xenakis's research. He himself described these pieces as studies; pursuing a need to develop a freer, more personal language, he gravitated towards the work of John Cage and Mauricio Kagel and towards the theatre, which he discovered through his wife, the actress Edith Scob. In 1971, Aperghis composed La tragique histoire du nécromancien Hieronimo et de son miroir, for two women's voices, speaking and singing, lute and cello. It was his first attempt at music theatre, demonstrating a fascination with the relationship between music, words and the stage, which he continues to explore today.
Since 1976, Georges Aperghis has divided his time between three central passions. After founding the Atelier Théâtre et Musique (ATEM), based in Bagnolet for 15 years, now in Nanterre, he completely changed his approach to composition. He began creating performances that used both actors and musicians; he based works; created gradually in the rehearsal process; on everyday events transported to a poetic, often absurd and satirical world. He treated voice, instrument, movement, text and staging equally, eschewing standard theatrical and orchestral hierarchies. Between La bouteille à la mer, in 1976, and 1990, he worked with the ATEM on some 20 productions, the most recent being Conversations (1985), Enumerations (1988), Jojo (1990) and H, litanie musicale et égalitaire (1992).
Condition: Vinyl lies in very good++ condition, looks clean with some light scuffs and plays nicely, while cover lies in very good++ shape, with light wear mainly on back (see picture).
Tracklist
A Simata Written-By – Georges Aperghis 21:20 B Batteries Written-By – Philippe Capdenat 18:00SHIPPING & PAYMENT
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