- Audio CD (Dec 14 1992)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
- ASIN: B0000007BR
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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Track Listings
| 1. Three Compositions (1947-48) |
| 2. Duet (1956) |
| 3. Semi-Simple Variations (1956) |
| 4. Partitions (1957) |
| 5. Post-Partitions (1966) |
| 6. Tableaux (1973) |
| 7. Reflections (1974) for piano and synthesized tape |
| 8. Canonical Form (1983) |
| 9. Lagniappe (1985) |
Customer Reviews
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By scarecrow
Format:Audio CD
Can't add much to the Babbitt brethren here,except merely to comment on 'ex cathedra' the 'Three Compositions',has still a compelling fascination, it's loose,high convulsive energy wonderful for a post war piece, 1947-1948.
Can't say enough about the threadbare 'Duet', a mere 36 seconds duration a gestural bon-bon,arpeggiated mildly atonaly chords, to his daughter.
'Semi-Simple Variations' from 1956 continued from the earlier excursions into violently controlled energy. I suppose we will listen to violent import in music differently with the new age terror permeating our consciousness now.
Like wise 'Tableaux' and 'Canonical Form' are seminal works encompassing relatively longer durational frames, where Babbitt learned to layer the registers of piano timbre frequently writing on four separate lines.The beauty I think is the focus on particular tones, with dynamic indication as far as a fffff, as loud as possibly to barely perceptible. Elegance is the result as opposed to coldy wrought spatial distributions of tones as Stockhausen so successfully accomplished in his early "klavierstuck" 1 to 5 in particualr.
Robert Taub simply comprehends this music wonderfully, a high level of precision mixed with profound muscianship renders great synergistic processes.
Format:Audio CD
Babbitt's music has often enough not been well served by its interpreters, who sometimes take his wide intervallic leaps and occasionally difficult rhythmic structures as an excuse for reading discontinuity into the music. True, Babbitt's music is not for everyone, at least at the moment--the finest art music often excludes much of the listening public, as it requires some real knowledge of or at least sympathy with the musical idiom and goals of the composer: there are many honest artists, like Babbitt, who choose not to work on the easiest level of accessibility. This recording will probably not convert those who customarily listen to less complex music, but the most wonderful quality of this particular issue is the linear continuity and formal tautness that Taub brings out in Babbitt's work. And no, Taub doesn't invent these things, they are there for any musician to hear who has some grasp of later 20th-century classical idioms, or (perhaps) who is simply willing to listen carefully.
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
This CD is really cool. The melodies and notes just jump out and grab you, taking you along for quite a ride. I've heard Taub in concert too, playing Babbitt and other things (Beethoven, I think) and his playing is awesome. I'm definitely drawn in to whatever he does. The sound on this CD is great. Whoever has a free mind will love this!
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Babbitt picks his nose and his feet smell.
And his music is even more revolting than Babbitt's boogers and yes, his music stinks - worse than his feet. Read more
Published on July 3 2000 by U. R. Stupid
5.0 out of 5 stars
Babbitt creates music of rare depth and beauty.
Babbitt's music is not an easy listen. It is complex, powerful, and sometimes strange. But never ugly, or complex for it's own sake. Read more
Published on May 10 2000 by Tom Furgas
5.0 out of 5 stars
Highly structured, but full of Humor
We need not be so quick to classify this music as "not for everyone." It's true that it is very demanding of its listener, quite complex, and highly structured in an... Read more
Published on Oct 22 1999 by Kekevan
4.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant.
These solo piano pieces are dense, complex works, written in a 12-tone style, and are devilishly fast, intricate, and difficult to play. Read more
Published on May 20 1999
1.0 out of 5 stars
don't believe the self-serving nonsense written by the......
...artist. this cd contains atonal, amusical combinations of sounds by a mathematician who lacks the slightest fragment of a musical bone in his body. Read more
Published on April 3 1999 by eyeamthewalrus@hotmail.com
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