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| Oehmsclassics Debut CD (2009)
 $11.69 |
| Dave Brubeck - Jazz Icons DVD (2007)
 $13.49  
Standard Screen; Soundtrack English Starring: Dave Brubeck;
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| Xenakis: Complete Works For Percussion / Schick CDs (2006)
$44.45  |
| Geoffrey Doug Madge Xenakis: Synaphai; Aroura; Antikhthon CD (2006)
$9.55 |
| Xenakis - Ensemble Music Vol 2 / Charles Z. Bornstein, St-X CD (1996)
$14.45 |
| Iannis Xenakis Xenakis: La Légende D'Eer CD (2005)
Iannis Xenakis Composer
$14.45
There's plenty of additional information to be had, both in the accompanying booklet and on the DVD version, which includes Bruno Rastoin's striking archive photographs of the original Diatope extravaganza and an entertaining if rather woolly chat between Xenakis and Harry Halbreich, but it's the music that matters most. This extraordinary sonic universe of thumb pianos, Jew's harps, Japanese drums, and bricks banged and rubbed against each other is as impressive as it is expressive, but what makes the 45-plus-minute span of music so effective is the composer's unerring precision in combining concrete elements with his own computer-assisted electronic music in a superbly proportioned and aesthetically satisfying formal design. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one," wrote Iannis Xenakis in his introductory notes to the performance of his sound-light Diatope installation at Paris's Pompidou Centre in 1978, for which he composed the seven-channel tape work La Légende d'Eer (after Plato). It's hardly surprising that Xenakis should compare music to a boulder: he was first and foremost an architect, and the formal aspects of huge sprawling electronic works like Persepolis and La Légende d'Eer were worked out in meticulous detail and are as solid as a Gothic cathedral. "Music is not a language.
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| Xenakis: Medea, Nuits, Etc / Wood, New London Chamber Choir CD (1998)
Iannis Xenakis classical music
$17.35 |
| Iannis Xenakis Xenakis Edition Vol 9 - Electronic Works Vol 2 - Hibiki Hana Ma, Polytope De Cluny CD (2008)
Iannis Xenakis Composer
$15.05 |
| Peltz Xenakis: Works For Piano / Takahashi, Peters, Et Al CD (1999)
Iannis Xenakis classical music
$14.75 |
| Gert Mortensen Xenakis: Pléiades / Psappha CD (1991)
Iannis Xenakis Composer
$16.09
Mortensen,Gert (Perc) Kroumata Perc Ens
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| Xenakis - Ensemble Music Vol 1 / Charles Z. Bornstein, St-X CD (1996)
Iannis Xenakis classical music
$14.75 |
| Most Frightening Music In The Universe CDs (2004)
Iannis Xenakis Composer
$9.55  |
| American Festival Microtonal Music Chamber Chamber / American Festival Of Microtonal Music CD (2005)
Iannis Xenakis classical music
$18.99 |
| Century 20 Music Of Today - Musical Creation 1945 Century Vol 20 - Music Of Today CD (2006)
Iannis Xenakis Composer
$9.89 |
| Mortensen Per Norgård: I Ching; Iannis Xenzkis: Psappha; Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Triptykon CD (1989)
Iannis Xenakis classical music
$16.69
Danish Radio Sym.Orch./Jorma Panula
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