London Sinfonietta Warp Works And Twentieth Century Masters
London Sinfonietta - Warp Works & Twentieth Century Masters
more images Label: Warp Records
Catalog#: WARP CD 144
Format: 2 x CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: 18 Sep 2006
Genre: Classical
Style: Neo-Classical, Contemporary, Post-Modern
Credits: Artwork By [Design] - Sam Blunden
Cello - Lionel Handy (tracks: 1.03, 1.07, 2.06 to 2.10)
Clarinet - Mark van de Wiel (tracks: 1.03, 2.07 to 2.10)
Clarinet, Clarinet [Bass] - Duncan Prescott (tracks: 1.03, 2.07 to 2.10)
Composed By - Aphex Twin (tracks: 1.01, 1.02, 2.06, 2.11) , György Ligeti (tracks: 2.07 to 2.10) , John Cage (tracks: 1.04, 1.06, 2.01, 2.05)
Conductor - Jurjen Hempel (tracks: 2.06, 2.02, 2.11) , Stefan Asbury (tracks: 1.03, 1.07, 2.06 to 2.10)
Cor Anglais, Oboe [D'amore] - Gareth Hulse (tracks: 2.07 to 2.10)
Double Bass - Enno Senft (tracks: 1.03, 1.07, 2.06 to 2.10)
Engineer - Marvin Ware (tracks: 1.03, 1.04, 1.07, 1.08, 2.01, 2.05 to 2.10)
Flute - Helen Keen (tracks: 1.07, 2.07 to 2.10)
Harpsichord - Shelagh Sutherland (tracks: 1.03, 2.07 to 2.10)
Horns - Pip Eastop (tracks: 1.03, 1.07, 2.06 to 2.10)
Mastered By - Noel Summerville
Oboe - Gareth Hulse (tracks: 1.03, 2.07 to 2.10)
Organ [Celeste] - Clive Williamson (2) (tracks: 2.07 to 2.10)
Organ [Electric] - Shelagh Sutherland (tracks: 2.07 to 2.10)
Other [Sleeve Notes] - Gillian Moore , Marcus Scott
Percussion - Andrew Cottee (tracks: 1.07, 2.02, 2.11) , David Hockings (tracks: 2.02, 2.04, 2.11) , Fiona Ritchie (tracks: 1.03, 2.02, 2.11) , Richard Benjafield (tracks: 1.03, 1.07, 2.02, 2.04, 2.06, 2.11) , Sam Walton (tracks: 2.02, 2.04, 2.11) , Tim Palmer (3) (tracks: 2.02, 2.04, 2.11)
Photography - David Bowen
Piano - Clive Williamson (2) (tracks: 1.01 to 1.03, 1.06, 1.07, 2.02, 2.06 to 2.11) , Rolf Hind (tracks: 1.04, 2.01, 2.05)
Piccolo Flute - Helen Keen (tracks: 1.03, 1.07, 2.06 to 2.10)
Producer - Philip Tagney (tracks: 1.03, 1.04, 1.07, 1.08, 2.01, 2.05 to 2.10)
Producer, Engineer - David Sheppard (2) (tracks: 1.01, 1.02, 1.05, 1.06, 2.02 to 2.04, 2.11)
Trombone - Simon Gunton (tracks: 1.03, 1.07, 2.06 to 2.10)
Trumpet - Bruce Nockles (tracks: 1.03, 1.07, 2.06)
Viola - Katie Wilkinson (tracks: 1.03, 1.07, 2.06 to 2.10)
Violin - Clio Gould (tracks: 1.05, 2.07 to 2.11) , David Alberman (tracks: 1.03, 1.07, 2.06 to 2.10) , Joan Atherton (tracks: 1.03, 1.07, 2.06 to 2.10)
Notes: Notes from the inner sleeve:
Born at the Royal Festival Hall on 10th March 2003, the London Sinfonietta / Warp concerts grew out of a shared desire to explore the connection between the electronic experimenters on the Warp label and the avant-garde 20th century pioneers who were their sonic grandfathers, at least on one side. New instrumental versions of Squarepusher and Aphex Twin sit side by side with avant-garde classics. This is no crossover - it's unexpected juxtaposition, in the belief that the different kinds of music shed light on each other.
The relationship between human musicians and machines, both electronic and mechanical, provides a kind of idée fixe which runs through this collection of music, recorded live from packed concert halls around the UK.
John Cage and Aphex Twin both altered the machinery of the piano: Cage by inserting rubbers, screws and bolts into the mechanism, transfoming it into a gamelan of detuned sounds, Aphex more simply, by layering chains across the strings.
Both Conlon Nancarrow and Squarepusher imagined music in their heads that no human could play. The first found his solution in player-piano rolls, the second in computers. On this recording, both composers have their music played by human beings in instrumental transcriptions.
In the 1920s, Edgard Varèse was dreaming of a time when the human musician would be no longer necessary, when music for a new machine age would be created electronically but, for the moment, he had to make do with a battery of percussion instruments to create his urban landscape.
By the 1960s, Karlheinz Stockhausen wanted his solo performer to receive cosmic musical messages via short-wave radio, and both Steve Reich and György Ligeti were striving to represent machines in music. Reich challenged live instrumentalists to create the phasing and layering which he had achieved using reel to reel tape recorders. Ligeti conjured up fantastical, Heath Robinson machines and clockworks, the other side of the same musical mind which also dreamed up floating clouds and spiders' webs of sound.
Tracks 1.01, 1.02, 1.05, 1.06, 2.02, 2.11 performed at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, 27/03/04.
Tracks 1.03, 1.04, 1.07, 1.08, 2.01, 2.05 to 2.10 performed at Royal Festival Hall, 08/03/03.
Track 2.03 performed at Henry Wood Hall, 11/04/05.
Track 2.04 performed at Brighton Dome, 26/03/04.
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