Polish Collection of the Warsaw Autumn 1956-2005
A 10-CD series entitled Polish Collection of the Warsaw Autumn 1956-2005 was produced and released by the Polish Music Information Centre for the Festival’s 50th anniversary (2006), the 50th Warsaw Autumn (2007), and the 60th anniversary (2005) of the Festival’s organiser, Polish Composers’ Union.
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A grand edition, limited to 500 copies, for promotional use only (not for sale). Presented here in lossless format (.APE), complete with accompanying written material, as a torrent, due to the size of it (~3gigs). The torrent was found (not created by dmtls) and must be kept alive, given the nature and the small distribution of the release. Merzbau will seed it on a regular basis. [It will be immediately removed, if there are any complaints received by the artists featured in it or by owners of the material contained within]
for instruments, actors and voices (continuum and events) was commissioned by the 3rd Hellenic Week Of Contemporary Music in Athens and premiered on December 20, 1968 in the Hilton Hotel in Athens. That first performance lasted approximately one hour and included a film by the painter Kosmas Xenakis running parallel to it. In the spirit of a happening, everyone was invited to participate in the piece. Epicycle is perhaps the most improvisational of Christou musical scores : playing rules are fixed, whereas the duration and type of musical and theatrical events are arbitary. Tension results from the convergence of random, improvised or planned actions with an even, undisturbed musical continuum.
