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Antheil plays Antheil | Other Minds OM100304

Antheil plays Antheil

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Label: Other Minds

Cat No: OM100304

Barcode: 0084390100328

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Release Date: 1st September 2008

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Contents

Works

Antheil
Valentine Waltzes

Antheil
Eight Fragments from Shelley

Antheil
McKonkey’s Ferry Overture

Antheil
Symphony No.5, “Joyous”

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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

Artists

George Antheil
Roger Wagner Chorale
Vienna Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductors

Herbert Haefner
F Charles Adler

Works

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

Artists

George Antheil
Roger Wagner Chorale
Vienna Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductors

Herbert Haefner
F Charles Adler

About

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A 60-page booklet by Charles Amirkhanian, illustrated with previously unpublished photos, accompanies this two CD set.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

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