Metastasis; Pithoprakta; Eonta
by Iannis Xenakis
- Type: Album
- Released: 1965
- Label: Le Chant Du Monde
- Country: France
- Length: 38:10
- Community rating: 4.06/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Iannis Xenakis applies mathematical probability models and architectural principles to orchestral composition on these three mid-century pieces. The music abandons traditional melodic development, utilizing massed string glissandos and dense brass clusters to generate terrifying, atonal sound masses.
Genres
Descriptors: atonal, avant-garde, complex, orchestral, dissonant, polyphonic, percussive
Tracklist
- Metastasis (8:55)
- Pithoprakta (9:45)
- Eonta (19:30)
Credits
- Iannis Xenakis - primary artist, liner notes
- Andr茅 Masson - artwork, design
- Maurice Le Roux - conductor
- Jean-Etienne Marie - engineer
- Aaron Copland - liner notes
- Antoine Gol茅a - liner notes
- Bohdan Pociej - liner notes
- Clarendon - liner notes
- Claude Samuel - liner notes
- Hermann Scherchen - liner notes
- Jacques Bourgeois - liner notes
- Leonard Bernstein - liner notes
- Maurice Fleuret - liner notes
- Olivier Messiaen - liner notes
- Robert Siohan - liner notes
- Shinichi Matsushita - liner notes
- Suzanne Demarquez - liner notes
- Orchestre National De France - orchestra
- Konstantin Simonovitch - conductor
- Jean Deloron - engineer
- Ensemble Instrumental de Musique Contemporaine - orchestra
- Yuji Takahashi - piano [steinway]
- G. Moisan - trombone
- J. Toulon - trombone
- M. Chapellier - trombone
- L. Longo - trumpet
- Pierre Thibaud - trumpet