The complete works /
Edgard Varèse.
- 2 audio discs : stereophonic ; 4 3/4 in.
- 023036
World premiere recordings of Amériques (original version), Tuning up, Dance for Burgess. Program notes and texts for the vocal works in booklet (62 pages) inserted in container.
Tuning up / reconstruction and editing by Chou Wen-chung -- Amériques: original version / performing edition prepared from the original manuscript by Chou Wen-chung -- Poème électronique / transfer from the original master by Konrad Boehmer and Kees Tazelaar -- Arcana -- Nocturnal / edited and completed by Chou Wen-chung -- Un grand sommeil noir / orchestration by Antony Beaumont -- Un grand sommeil noir: original version -- Offrandes -- Hyperprism / revised by Richard Saks -- Octandre / revised and edited by Chou Wen-chung -- Intégrales / revised and edited by Chou Wen-chung - Ecuatorial / corrections from the original manuscript by Chou Wen-chung -- Ionisation -- Density 21.5 -- Déserts / original tape provided by the Columbia University Computer Music Center -- Dance for Burgess / the completed edition by Chou Wen-chung)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra ; ASKO Ensemble ; Riccardo Chailly, conductor ; Sarah Leonard, soprano ; Men of the Prague Philharmonic Choir ; Mireille Delunsch, soprano ; François Kerdoncuff, piano ; Kevin Deas, bass ; Jacques Zoon, flute.
Recorded: at Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, Amsterdam, in April, 1992 and in April and December, 1996, and in May, 1997 and in May, 1998 ; at Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, Amsterdam in May, 1998 ; at Musikcentrum Vredenberg, Utrecht in May, 1997 ; at Henry Wood Hall, London in June, 1997.