The Inbetweeners
In between the big names and often broad categorizations of lazy music history lurk many of the great composers. Who are they and why have they ended up in the gaps?
Baroque, Classical and Romantic... the big categories of music history all have their big-name composers. But what about the composers less easy to categorise, the ones who fall in between the gaps? Tom Service goes in search of the Inbetweeners from all eras and, with the help of CPE Bach aficionado Andreas Staier, discovers how these once hugely influential figures still speak directly to us now.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Ich liebe den Hochsten von ganzem Gemute BWV.174; I. Sinfonia
Performer: Bernhard Forck. Performer: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.- Harmonia Mundi.
- 90233536DI.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade in G major K.525 (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik); 1st mvt Allegro
Performer: Andrew Manze. Performer: The English Concert.- Harmonia Mundi.
- HMU807280.
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Robert Schumann
Symphony no. 3 in E flat major Op.97 (Rhenish); 1st movement Allegro
Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Performer: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique.- DG.
- 457591-2.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
Gesang der Junglinge
Performer: Studio for Electronic Music of the West German Radio Cologne.- EL RECORDS.
- ACMEM159CD.
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Bernard Herrmann
Psycho (A narrative for orchestra)
Conductor: Bernard Herrmann. Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra.- Decca.
- 436 797-2.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Concerto in G major Wq.43`5 for harpsichord and orchestra
Conductor: Petra Müllejans. Performer: Andreas Staier. Performer: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.- Harmonia Mundi.
- HMC902083/84.
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Galina Ustvolskaya
Composition I (Dona nobis pacem); First mvt.
Conductor: Reinbert de Leeuw. Performer: Schönberg Ensemble.- Philips.
- 4425322.
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Frank Zappa
Civilization phaze III; Beat the Reaper
Performer: Frank Zappa.- Zappa Records.
- CDDZAP 56.
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Meredith Monk
Ester's Song
Performer: Collin Walcott. Performer: Meredith Monk.- ECM.
- 8115472.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Symphony in B minor Wq.182 No. 5; Mvt. III Presto
Conductor: Thomas Hengelbrock. Performer: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.- Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
- RD77187.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Fantasia in F sharp minor Wq.67
Performer: Andreas Staier.- Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
- 82876673742.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
2 Fantasias Wq. 202 No. 2, Hamlet. Sein, oder Nichtsein
Performer: Klaus Mertens. Performer: Ludger Rémy.- CPO.
- 9995492.
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Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov
Symphony no. 2 in C minor Op.9; I Allegro con fuoco
Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov. Performer: USSR State Academy Orchestra.- MELODIYA.
- MELCD1002086.
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Galina Ustvolskaya
Composition II (Dies irae); III
Conductor: Reinbert de Leeuw. Performer: Schönberg Ensemble.- Philips.
- 4425322.
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Galina Ustvolskaya
Composition II (Dies irae); X
Conductor: Reinbert de Leeuw. Performer: Schönberg Ensemble.- Philips.
- 4425322.
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Meredith Monk
Turtle Dreams
Performer: Andrea Goodman. Performer: Collin Walcott. Performer: Julius Eastman. Performer: Meredith Monk. Performer: Paul Langland. Performer: Robert Een. Performer: Steve Lockwood.- ECM.
- 8115472.
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Laurie Anderson
O Superman (For Massenet)
Performer: Laurie Anderson. Performer: Perry Hoberman. Performer: Roma Baran.- Warner Bros. Records.
- 7599-23674-2.
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Frank Zappa
Civilization phaze III; Beat the Reaper
Performer: Frank Zappa.- Zappa Records.
- CDDZAP 56.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Sonata in G minor Wq.65 No.17; III Allegro Assai
Performer: Andreas Staier.- Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
- 82876673742.
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