Changing Platforms: Unknown Public UP13

Book / Journal containing 2 CDs ISBN:0-954148-0-0 published 2001

Document of Music performed in Contemporary Music Network Concerts (Arts Council of England)

Mantra (excerpt only)	work number 32	1970
Bruno Canino, Antonio Ballista John Rushby-Smith: Sound Projection	11th January 1985 Barbican Hall performancee Music & Machines BBC R3 broadcast recording recording © BBC Worldwide final 6'10" of performance	6'10"
	Recording chosen to llustrate 1976 CMN tour of Mantra by same pianists

UP13 Changing Platforms is a two-CD book celebrating 30 years of the Contemporary Music Network, published by Unknown Public (© 2001) in a limited edition of 5,000. Changing Platforms offers an overview of CMN's history through a 100-page hard-back book containing essays by David Toop, Richard Steinitz, Dave Smith and Simon Emmerson, an interview with CMN founder Annette Morreau, an overview by editor Chris Heaton, with information and commentary on many of the key musicians and composers whose music has been presented by the CMN since it sprang into life in 1971. The book also includes a Time Map poster of the music. The recordings on two CDs provide a complementary survey of the outstanding range of works performed on CMN tours over the last three decades.

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CD A

1 Nenia:the Death of Orpheus, Birtwistle, The Matrix Ensemble, Jane Manning

2 Eight songs For A Mad King, (extract) Peter Maxwell Davies, Fires of London, Eastman

3 Drumming (extract), Reich, Steve Reich & Musicians.

4 Never Before of Again, Oxley, Tony Oxley Sextet

5 Tunji's Song, Tunji Oyelana, Brotherhood of Breath

6 Music in 12 Parts, (extract) Phillip Glass, Phillip Glass Ensemble

7 Mantra (extract) Stockhausen, Canino & Ballista

8 Blunt Object, Bley, Carla Bley Band

9 The Cortège, (extract), Westbrook, Mike Westbrook Orchestra

10 The Transistor radio of St Narcissus (extract) Souster, Tim Souster & John Wallace

CD B

1 Canti del Capricorno (extract), Scelsi, Michiko Hirayama

2 Des Canyons aux Étoiles (extract), Messiaen, Crossley & London Sinfonietta

3 Boolavogue, Cardew, John Tilbury & Andrew Ball

4 Scenes from A Novel (extract) Kurtág, Adrienne Csengary, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez

5 In Re Don Giovanni, Nyman, Michael Nyman Band

6 Echange (extract), Xenakis, Harry Sparnaay & Asko ensemble,

7 Facing North, (extract), M.Monk, Meredith Monk & Robert Een

8 Billy in Prison / No Moe, Copland / Rollins, Bill Frissel Band

9 Chamber Symphony (extract), John Adams, London Sinfonietta c. Adams

10 Lotus Feet (extract), John McLaughlin, McLaughlin etc.

11 Nessun Dorma, Puccini, Don Byron & Uri Caine

12 Passion, Tüür, Tallin Chamber Orchestra

13 Bai-La Mongun / Oy Adym (extracts), Kuvezin / Sevek, Yat-Kha

14 Largo Al Factorum, Rossini, La Banda

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