Epitaph Für Aikichi Kuboyama / Sechs Studien
(Wergo - 67332) Used CD $15.00
Powerful spoken-word based tribute to Japanese fisherman Aikichi Kuboyama, who died of radiation poisoning incurred when the first hydrogen bomb was tested in the South Pacific in 1954, paired with seven studies derived from the same source material, using only abstract musical sounds in a spectrum where the spoken word can no longer be recognized.
Canti di Vita E D’Amore / Per Bastiana / Ommagio A Vendova
(Wergo) Used CD $20.00
Released in 1993 as part of the label’s Music Of Our Century series. On Canti di Vita E D’Amore, Michael Gielen conducts Sinfonieorchester Des Saarländischen Rundfunk (featuring soprano Slavka Taskova and tenorist Loren Driscoll), and on Per Bastiana, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Omaggio A Vedova is a magnetic tape piece from 1960.
Polifonica-Monodia-Ritmica
(Wergo) Used CD $15.00
For six instruments and percussion, composed in 1951. Also includes “Canti Per 13” for thirteen instruments, composed in 1955; “Canciones A Guiomar” for soprano solo, twelve voices, female chorus, and instruments, composed in 1962-63; and Nono’s final compition “Hay Que Caminar Soñando” for two violins, composed in 1989. From 1998