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Artist:	MOTHER MALLARD'S PORTABLE MASTERPIECE CO.
Title:	Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co.
Label:	ARBITER
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	ARB 136CD

First release of these recordings from 1975-76. An historic document of early analog synthesizer minimalism that importantly places David Borden's role in the movement. Done with Arbiter's attention to detail, with lengthy liner notes by Borden. "A leading force In the roots of Minimalism and soundtrack composer for the Exorcist. David Borden began Mother Mallard as a pioneering group using Moog's prototype synthesizers in-live performance. The live and studio performances reveal Borden's unique layering of parts and rhythms. Borden is a legendary figure in the electronic and minimalist music scene, a contemporary of Glass, Reich, and Riley. Text by Borden discusses how the Moogs developed a new music."

Artist:	STRAVINSKY, IGOR
Title:	Music for Four Hands
Label:	ARBITER
Format:	2CD
Price:	$34.00
Catalog #:	ARB 155CD

"Petrouchka" (four-hand version); "Three Pieces for String Quartet"; "Concerto for Two Pianos"; "Three and Five Easy Pieces"; "Zvietochnoy Waltz." Paul Jacobs & Ursula Oppens, pianists; Paul Jacobs In Recital: Igor Stravinsky: "Four Etudes"; "Piano Rag Music"; "Tango"; "Ragtime"; Claude Debussy (1862-1918): "Two Preludes"; Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951): "Piano Pieces"; "Op. 33"; Aaron Copland (1900-1990): "Four Piano Blues"; Malcolm Bolcom (*1946): "Three Ghost Rags"; Frederic Rzewski (*1938): "Down by the Riverside," Paul Jacobs & Aaron Copland, pianos; Aaron Copland: "Danzon Cubano"; Conversation with Jacobs. "Paul Jacobs and Ursula Oppens recorded Stravinsky's piano music for four hands in 1977 and 1981. It receives its first CD release, restored from Nonesuch's masters. In addition, are excerpts from a recital of jazz-influenced works, along with what may be Copland's last public performance as a pianist. Extensive liner notes by Jacobs analyze the music with rare photos of the creators of "Petrushka" (Nijinsky, Karsavina, etc., with Stravinsky and Tcherepnine at the piano)."

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