Charles Curtis – Performances & Recordings 1998-2018

Label:	Saltern – SLT-005
Format:	3 x CD
Country:	US
Released:	Jan 24, 2020
Genre:	Electronic, Rock, Classical
Style:	Medieval, Renaissance, Modern, Contemporary, Minimal, Experimental

Tracklist

1-1	Éliane Radigue*, Charles Curtis–	Occam V Composed By – Éliane Radigue*	17:26
1-2	Guillaume de Machaut, Charles Curtis–	Hélas! Et Comment Composed By – Guillaume de Machaut	3:28
1-3	Tobias Hume, Charles Curtis–	Touch Me Lightly Composed By – Tobias Hume	2:53
1-4	Tobias Hume, Charles Curtis–	Captain Hume’s Galliard Composed By – Tobias Hume	2:28
1-5	Tobias Hume, Charles Curtis–	Mistress Tittle’s Jig Composed By – Tobias Hume	0:35
1-6	Anonymous, Charles Curtis–	Woodycock Composed By – Anonymous	3:28
1-7	Silvestro Di Ganassi*, Charles Curtis–	Ricercar Secondo Composed By – Silvestro Di Ganassi*	1:32
1-8	Silvestro Di Ganassi*, Charles Curtis–	Ricercar Quarto Composed By – Silvestro Di Ganassi*	2:48
1-9	Guillaume de Machaut, Charles Curtis–	C’est Force, Faire Composed By – Guillaume de Machaut Recorded By – Daniel Deshays	3:00
1-10	Charles Curtis–	Unfinished Song Composed By – Charles Curtis Recorded By – Tobias Levin	8:47
2-1	Terry Jennings, Charles Curtis–	Song Composed By – Terry Jennings Featuring [With], Piano – Michael J. Schumacher* Recorded By – Tom Erbe	6:30
2-2	Morton Feldman, Charles Curtis–	Durations II Composed By – Morton Feldman Featuring [With], Piano – Özgür Aydin Recorded By – Tom Erbe	7:22
2-3	Anton Webern, Charles Curtis–	Drei Kleine Stücke, Op. 11 Composed By – Anton Webern Featuring [With], Piano – Özgür Aydin Recorded By – Andrew Munsey	2:40
2-4	Olivier Messiaen, Charles Curtis–	Louange À L’Éternité De Jésus (From Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps) Composed By – Olivier Messiaen Featuring [With], Piano – Reiko Uchida Recorded By – Tom Erbe	8:28
2-5	Alison Knowles, Charles Curtis–	Rice And Beans For Charles Curtis Composed By – Alison Knowles Recorded By – Tom Erbe	11:48
2-6	Anton Webern, Charles Curtis–	Movement For String Trio, Op. Posthumous Composed By – Anton Webern Featuring [With], Viola – Che-Yen Chen Featuring [With], Violin – Jeff Thayer (2) Recorded By – Tom Erbe	2:32
3-1	Richard Maxfield, Charles Curtis–	Perspectives For La Monte Young Composed By – Richard Maxfield Featuring [With], Cello – Reynard Rott	24:00
3-2	Charles Curtis–	Unison Offset Composed By – Charles Curtis Recorded By – Josef Kucera	6:24
3-3	Charles Curtis–	Music For Awhile Bass – Peter Imig Composed By – Charles Curtis Drums – Henry Grant Guitar, Organ – Charles Curtis Recorded By [Additional Recording], Mixed By [Additional Mixing] – Anthony Burr	17:33
3-4	Charles Curtis–	Music For "Lester" Composed By – Charles Curtis	3:15

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Licensed From – The MELA Foundation
Copyright © – Saltern
Recorded At – ISSUE Project Room
Recorded At – Chapelle De L'hôpital Notre Dame De Bon Secours
Recorded At – Electric Avenue Studio
Recorded At – Warren Studios
Recorded At – Conrad Prebys Concert Hall
Recorded At – CPMC Studio, UC San Diego
Recorded At – Schleswig Holstein Musikfestival

Credits

Design – Marco Del Rio, Tashi Wada
Liner Notes – Charles Curtis, La Monte Young, Spencer Gerhardt
Liner Notes [Edited With] – Marian Zazeela
Mastered By – Stephan Mathieu
Mixed By [Additional Mixing] – Anthony Burr
Performer – Charles Curtis
Photography By [Cover Photo] – Jutta Brandt
Photography By [Photo By] – Bernhard Oe, Frieda Curtis, Jutta Brandt
Producer [Produced By] – Tashi Wada
Screen Printing – Alan Sherry
Sleeve Notes – Tashi Wada

Notes

[Fold-out insert]
1-1 (2012); 1-2, 1-9 (14th century); 1-3 to 1-6 (circa 1607); 1-7, 1-8 (1542); 1-10 (1998); 2-1, 2-2 (1960); 2-3 (1914); 2-4 (1941); 2-5 (2008); 2-6 (1925); 3-1 (1961-62); 3-2 (2001); 3-3 (1999); 3-4 (2009)

1-1 Recorded live at ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, September 20, 2013.
1-9 Recorded [...] at Église de Notre Dame de Bon-Secours, Paris, May 2008.
1-10 Recorded [...] at Electric Avenue, Hamburg, 1998.
2-1 Recorded [...] at Warren Studio A, UC San Diego, March 2005. Licensed from MELA Foundation.
2-2 Recorded [...] at Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, UC San Diego, 2014. Originally released in 2019 by Important Records in the collection "Chamber Music: Alvin Lucier & Morton Feldman" (IMPREC468).
2-3 Recorded [...] at Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, UC San Diego, 2014.
2-4 Recorded live at Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, UC San Diego, April 2015 [...].
2-5 Recorded [...] at CPMC Studio, UC San Diego, October 2009.
2-6 Recorded live at Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, UC San Diego, November 2015 [...].
3-1 Recorded live at Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Hamburg, August 4, 2000. Licensed from MELA Foundation.
3-2 Recorded [...] at Warren Studio A, UC San Diego, 2001. Originally released in 2006 by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, in the compilation "Music Overheard."
3-3 Recorded in Hamburg, August 2000. [...] Originally released in 2002 by Beau Rivage (BR-014).
3-4 Recorded in San Diego, 2009. Originally composed for Luke Fowler's "Tenement Films".

[Liner notes 2-1 and 3-1]
La Monte Young (edited with Marian Zazeela)

[Inner O-case]
Thanks to La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, Jung Hee Choi, Eliane Radigue, Alison Knowles, Spencer Gerhardt, Stéphane Roux, Anthony Burr, and Tom Erbe.

"Song" (1960) by Terry Jennings and "Perspectives for La Monte Young" (1961-62) by Richard Maxfield licensed from MELA Foundation.

[Outer O-case]
Cover photo [...], Charles Curtis, Westwerk, Hamburg, May 15 1999.

[O-cases, discs and fold-out insert]
© 2020 SALTERN

Incidental information:
Three discs in protective sleeves and 14.2″ x 14.2″ fold-out insert packaged in an inner O-case, housed in an outer O-case. Barcode printed on sticker affixed to the resealable plastic sleeve (back).
On hype sticker (plastic sleeve, front): "First comprehensive collection of recordings by renowned cellist Charles Curtis, including never-before-released music by Terry Jennings, Richard Maxfield, Éliane Radigue, Alison Knowles, and Curtis himself. Over two hours of music."

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