The Eos Ensemble / Jonathan Sheffer – Music For Merce

The Eos Ensemble - Music For Merce album cover

Label:	Catalyst – 09026-68751-2, BMG Classics – 09026-68751-2
Format:	CD
Country:	US
Released:	1997
Genre:	Electronic, Classical
Style:	Neo-Romantic, Modern, Post-Modern, Musique Concrète

Tracklist

		The Seasons	16:47
1	John Cage–	Prelude I	1:56
2	John Cage–	Winter	1:24
3	John Cage–	Prelude II	0:53
4	John Cage–	Spring	2:42
5	John Cage–	Prelude III	2:11
6	John Cage–	Summer	4:18
7	John Cage–	Prelude IV	0:55
8	John Cage–	Fall	1:34
9	John Cage–	Finale (Prelude I)	0:54
		-
10	Lou Harrison–	The Open Road	3:47
		Princess Zondilda And Her Entourage	9:54
11	Alexei Haieff–	Allegro	3:23
12	Alexei Haieff–	Andante	4:09
13	Alexei Haieff–	Allegro	2:17
		-
14	Morton Feldman–	Ixion Flute, Piccolo Flute – Helen Campo, Wendy Stern Flute, Piccolo Flute [Principal] – Kathrine Fink*	12:04
15	John Cage–	Credo In Us Composed By [Extract Symphony N°5] – Shostakovich* Conductor [Extract Symphony N°5] – Andre Previn* Orchestra [Extract Symphony N°5] – London Symphony Orchestra	12:12

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Distributed By – BMG Entertainment
Manufactured By – BMG Entertainment
Glass Mastered At – Sonopress USA – 73239-02

Credits

A&R – Bill Rosenfield, Leah Hyman
Art Direction – J.J. Stelmach*
Artwork [Cover Art] – Andy Warhol
Bass Trombone – David Taylor
Bassoon – Kim Laskowski
Bassoon [Principal] – Marc Goldberg
Cello – Peter Prosser, Roger Shell, Sarah Carter
Cello [Principal] – David Heiss
Clarinet [Principal], Clarinet [Eb Clarinet] – Todd Levy
Clarinet, Bass Clarinet – Suzanne Gekker
Composed By – Alexei Haieff (tracks: 11 to 13), John Cage (tracks: 1 to 9, 15), Lou Harrison (tracks: 10), Morton Feldman (tracks: 14)
Concertmaster [Violin] – Erico Sato* (tracks: 1 to 13)
Conductor – Jonathan Sheffer
Double Bass [Bass / Principal] – John Beal
Double Bass [Bass] – Gregg August
Edited By – Carl Talbot, Steven Deur*
Engineer [Recording] – Tom Lazarus
English Horn – Diane Lesser
Ensemble – Eos Ensemble*
Harp – Emily Mitchell
Horn – Michael Ishii
Horn [Principal] – Nancy Billman
Liner Notes [Notes On The Dance] – David Vaughan
Liner Notes [Notes On The Music] – Jonathan Sheffer
Management [Personnel Manager] – Adria Benjamin
Oboe – Diane Lesser
Oboe [Principal] – Gerard Reuter
Percussion – James Baker (4)
Percussion [Principal] – James Saporito*
Photography By [Cage] – Rex Rystedt
Photography By [Haieff] – Gene Fenn
Photography By [Harrison] – Betty Freeman
Photography By [Sheffer] – Jack Mitchell (3)
Piano, Celesta [Celeste] – Elizabeth DiFelice
Piccolo Flute – Helen Campo (tracks: 1 to 9)
Producer – Philip Traugott
Timpani – James Preiss
Timpani [Principal] – James Baker (4)
Trombone [Principal] – James Pugh*
Trumpet – John Dent (2)
Trumpet [Principal] – Dominic Derasse
Viola – David Cerutti, Richard Brice
Viola [Principal] – Adria Benjamin
Violin – Janet Brady (tracks: 1 to 13), Joel Pitchon (tracks: 10 to 13), Karl Kawahara (tracks: 1 to 9), Lisa Steinberg (tracks: 1 to 9), Lisa Tipton (tracks: 1 to 13), Ming Yeh (tracks: 1 to 9), Robert Zubryncki* (tracks: 1 to 9), Sebu Sirinian (tracks: 1 to 13)
Violin [Principal] – Joel Pitchon (tracks: 1 to 9)

Notes

Unique 20th-century music composed expressly for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Recorded on 29 July 1996 at Manhattan Center Studios, NYC.
Recorded and edited in 20 Bit Technology.
Total playing time: 55:27
Feldman photography & Ixion score reprinted by permission of C.F. Peters Corporation.
"The Seasons" dance premiere 1960
"The Open Road" dance premiere 1947
"Princess Zondilda" dance premiere 1946
"Ixion" dance premiere (as 'Summerspace') 1958, revised score 1962
"Credo in Us" dance premiere 1942

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