Other Minds: OM100304
Antheil plays Antheil
Antheil: Valentine Waltzes
Antheil: Eight Fragments from Shelley
Antheil: McKonkey’s Ferry Overture
Antheil: Symphony No.5, “Joyous”
Antheil: Two Odes of John Keats
Antheil: “The Prostitute” from the ballet Capital of the World
Antheil: Prediction of Allied Invasion of North Africa: Part One: Signposts to the Future / Part Two: The Defense of Stalingrad
Antheil: Stories for Peter: Peter Pokes a Pig / Mu-uh-uch in the Moonlight / Biggest Muscles Waltz / Captain Peter Shoots Down Nazi Air Ship
Our Price: £17.50 (£15.22 ex VAT)
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Artist(s): George Antheil, Roger Wagner Chorale, Vienna Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor(s): Herbert Haefner, F Charles Adler
Release Date: 31st August 2008
More Details on Antheil plays Antheil
Composer George Antheil is most remembered for his mechanistic piano music hailed by 1920s Paris. The obsessive repetition of his Ballet Mécanique foreshadowed the entire minimalist movement. But by 1948, when he’d become the third most played American-born composer of orchestral music, his style reflected a more emotional, more mature personality.
This centennial collection highlights selections from Antheil’s later “neo-romantic” period and includes the only recordings of Antheil himself at the piano. Also here are previously unreleased items that lend new insight into one of America’s most engrossing mavericks.
A 60-page booklet by Charles Amirkhanian, illustrated with previously unpublished photos, accompanies this two CD set.
Track Listing:
Disc 1: The Music
1-11 Valentine Waltzes (1949)
George Antheil, piano
12-19 Eight Fragments from Shelley (1950)
Roger Wagner Chorale
George Antheil, piano
20 McKonkey’s Ferry Overture (1948) 10’15
F. Charles Adler, Vienna Philharmonia Orchestra
21-23 Symphony No.5, “Joyous” (1947-48)
Herbert Haefner, Vienna Philharmonia Orchestra
Disc 2: Speech & Stories
1-2 Two Odes of John Keats (1950)
Vincent Price, narrator
George Antheil, piano
3 “The Prostitute” from the ballet Capital of the World (1953)
George Antheil, spoken introduction and piano
4 Peter Pokes a Pig
5 Mu-uh-uch in the Moonlight
(Stories for Peter, 1942)
George Antheil, voice and piano
6-7 Prediction of Allied Invasion of North Africa (1942)
Part One: Signposts to the Future
Part Two: The Defense of Stalingrad
Manchester Boddy, radio announcer
8 Biggest Muscles Waltz
9 Captain Peter Shoots Down Nazi Air Ship
(Stories for Peter, 1942)
George Antheil, voice and piano
10 George Antheil Speaks (1958)
11 The SPA Interview (1981)
Charles Amirkhanian interviews Hannah M. Adler and Norman Fox
This centennial collection highlights selections from Antheil’s later “neo-romantic” period and includes the only recordings of Antheil himself at the piano. Also here are previously unreleased items that lend new insight into one of America’s most engrossing mavericks.
A 60-page booklet by Charles Amirkhanian, illustrated with previously unpublished photos, accompanies this two CD set.
Track Listing:
Disc 1: The Music
1-11 Valentine Waltzes (1949)
George Antheil, piano
12-19 Eight Fragments from Shelley (1950)
Roger Wagner Chorale
George Antheil, piano
20 McKonkey’s Ferry Overture (1948) 10’15
F. Charles Adler, Vienna Philharmonia Orchestra
21-23 Symphony No.5, “Joyous” (1947-48)
Herbert Haefner, Vienna Philharmonia Orchestra
Disc 2: Speech & Stories
1-2 Two Odes of John Keats (1950)
Vincent Price, narrator
George Antheil, piano
3 “The Prostitute” from the ballet Capital of the World (1953)
George Antheil, spoken introduction and piano
4 Peter Pokes a Pig
5 Mu-uh-uch in the Moonlight
(Stories for Peter, 1942)
George Antheil, voice and piano
6-7 Prediction of Allied Invasion of North Africa (1942)
Part One: Signposts to the Future
Part Two: The Defense of Stalingrad
Manchester Boddy, radio announcer
8 Biggest Muscles Waltz
9 Captain Peter Shoots Down Nazi Air Ship
(Stories for Peter, 1942)
George Antheil, voice and piano
10 George Antheil Speaks (1958)
11 The SPA Interview (1981)
Charles Amirkhanian interviews Hannah M. Adler and Norman Fox
