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Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911-1990) - Electronic and Acoustic Music Music [Re-Upload]

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Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911-1990) - Electronic and Acoustic Music Music [Re-Upload]

Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911-1990) - Electronic and Acoustic Music [Re-Upload]
Works 1957-1972 / Film Music
Contemporary | EAC (ape + cue) | 2CD 63:55 - 58:05 | Artworks & booklets | 540 MB | RS

Vladimir Ussachevsky was one of the most significant pioneers in the composition of electronic music, and one of its most potent forces. Born in 1911 in Manchuria, China, Ussachevsky was the son of a Russian Army captain. His childhood was spent on the windswept and sparsely settled Manchurian plain, visiting with the nomadic tribesmen in their tents, and singing Old Slavonic chants as an altar boy in the local Russian Orthodox church. By the time he arrived in California, at the age of nineteen, he was a skilled pianist gifted in the interpretation of Romantic music, and a fluent improvisor. ……….
Unknown to Ussachevsky, the first experiments in tape and electronic music had begun two or three years earlier in France with the "musique concrète" of Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry and, one year before, in Germany with the founding of the Cologne electronic-music studio by Herbert Eimert. Ussachevsky's first experiments began in 1951 when the Columbia Music Department acquired an Ampex 400 tape recorder, which together with a microphone, a pair of earphones, and a borrowed Magnecord recorder, constituted the entire equipment of the first American electronic-music studio. ……..
It is perhaps not far-fetched to describe Ussachevsky as one of the most enigmatic and self-effacing figures in new American music after World War II. He was an intensely personal man who combined Old World charm and courtliness with humor and American get-up-and-go. He talked little about himself or the fact that he had been brought up in an unusual time and place that had already ceased to exist.
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Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911-1990) - Electronic and Acoustic Music Music [Re-Upload]

It is perhaps not far-fetched to describe Ussachevsky as one of the most enigmatic and self-effacing figures in new American music after World War II. He was an intensely personal man who combined Old World charm and courtliness with humor and American get-up-and-go. He talked little about himself or the fact that he had been brought up in an unusual time and place that had already ceased to exist.

New World Records 80654-2 (2007)
Electronic and Acoustic Works 1957-1972 - (14 tracks) 63:49

01 Metamorphosis [1957] 05:26
02 Linear Contrasts [1958] 03:46
03 Wireless Fantasy [1960] 04:41
04 Of Wood and Brass [1965] 04:26
05 Computer Piece #I [1968] 03:47

Two Sketches for a Computer Piece [1971] - 03:14
06 Sketch 1 00:58
07 Sketch 2 02:16

Three Scenes from The Creation [1960, rev. 1973] - (3 tracks, 20:59)
08 I Prologue: Enuma Elish 08:37
09 II Interlude (Alice Shields, mezzosoprano) 03:50
10 III Epilogue: Spell of Creation 08:32

Missa brevis [1972] (Jo Ann Ottley, soprano)- (4 tracks, 17:30)
11 I Kyrie 02:08
12 II Sanctus 06:37
13 III Benedictus 04:25
14 IV Agnus Dei 04:20

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Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911-1990) - Electronic and Acoustic Music Music [Re-Upload]

On this recording are two of Ussachevsky's most powerful and innovative scores:
Suite from No Exit (1962), from the film of Jean-Paul Sartre's play No Exit directed by Orson Welles,
and the soundtrack for Lloyd Williams's avant-garde film Line of Apogee (1967).

New World Records 80839-2 (1990)
Film Music - (13 tracks) 58:00

Suite from No Exit [1962] - (6 tracks, 14:29)
01 Part 1 03:12
02 Part 2 02:25
03 Part 3 02:57
04 Part 4 01:18
05 Part 5 01:49
06 Part 6 02:48

Line of Apogee [1967] - (7 tracks, 43:31)
07 Part 1 09:17
08 Part 2 05:44
09 Part 3 04:47
10 Part 4 05:50
11 Part 5 03:16
12 Part 6 10:14
13 Part 7 04:23

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