Cage / Asmussen / Thorel American Percussion Works CD

American Percussion Works is a rare collection of seldom heard works each with specific rules or themes as a basis for the compositions. In John Cage's First Construction the principle is based on the figure 16. Alberto Ginatera's work Cantata para America Magica, uses pre-Columbian texts based on the conditions of human life, with war, natural phenomena, daybreak, night and love. Lou Harrison mixes non-European forms which 'follow the pattern of having a single melodic part accompanied (or enhanced) by rhythmic percussion' in his Koncherto. Varese's Ionisation also enters a new land being his first solely percussive work where 'he finds a new grammar for the language of music.'

1. First Construction (In Metal) 2. Cantata Para Am?rica Mßgica, Op. 27 3. I. Preludio y Canto a la Aurora 4. II. Nocturno y Canto de Amor 5. III. Canto Para la Partida de los Guerreros 6. IV. Interludio Fantßstico 7. V. Canto de Agon?a y Desolaci?n 8. VI. Canto de la Profec?a 9. Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra 10. I. Allegro Maestoso, Allegro Vivace 11. II. Largo, Cantabile 12. III. Allegro Vigoroso, Poco Presto 13. Ionisation