The Musical Recycling Plant
Many composers re-use music from their earlier works in their later ones. But why? And what do these 'recycled' versions sounds like? Tom Service explores this 'green' phenomenon.
For centuries, composers have re-used music from their earlier works in their new ones. But why? Were they simply pressed for time, or might there be another reason? And what do these 'recycled' versions sounds like? Does music become diluted and weaker with each reincarnation, or could the opposite be true? Together with expert musical recycler Saul Eisenberg of The Junk Orchestra, Tom Service explores this 'green' musical practice.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony no. 2 in C minor (Resurrection) for soprano, alto, chorus and orchestra
Performer: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.- EMI.
- 575100 2.
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The Junk Orchestra & Saul Eisenberg & Friends
Tank & Trumpet
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B minor BWV.232
Performer: Monteverdi Choir. Performer: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- ARCHIVE.
- 415 514-2.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B minor BWV.232
Performer: Monteverdi Choir. Performer: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- ARCHIVE.
- 415 514-2.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata no. 12 BWV.12 (Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen)
Performer: Japan Bach Collegium. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.- BIS.
- CD 791.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B minor BWV.232
Performer: Monteverdi Choir. Performer: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- ARCHIVE.
- 415 514-2.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B minor BWV.232
Performer: Monteverdi Choir. Performer: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- ARCHIVE.
- 415 514-2.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Die Geschopfe des Prometheus - ballet music Op.43
Performer: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
- HMM 90244647.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no. 3 in E flat major Op.55 (Eroica)
Performer: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
- HMM 902421.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
15 Variations and a fugue on a theme from Prometheus in E flat major Op.35 (Eroica) for piano
Performer: Ronald Brautigam.- BIS.
- 2403.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no. 3 in E flat major Op.55 (Eroica)
Performer: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
- HMM 902421.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no. 7 in A major Op.92
Performer: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- ARCHIV.
- E4470632.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no. 5 in C minor Op.67
- ALIA VOX.
- AVSA 9937.
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Steve Reich
Electric counterpoint for 13 guitars [1 live & 12 on tape]
Performer: Pat Metheny.- Nonesuch.
- 7559791762.
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The Junk Orchestra & Saul Eisenberg & Friends
Tank & Trumpet
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The Junk Orchestra & Saul Eisenberg & Friends
Jazz under the Overground
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Missa salisburgensis for 53 voices [formerly attrib. Benevoli, possibly by Hofer]
Performer: Gabrieli Consort. Performer: Gabrieli Players. Performer: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Conductor: Paul McCreesh. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.- ARCHIV.
- 471 632-2.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no.3 in E flat major Op.55 'Eroica' (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Nizhny Novgorod Soloists Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.- APARTE.
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James MacMillan
The Tryst - song, arr. Whistlebinkies for folk ensemble
Performer: James Macmillan. Performer: The Whistlebinkies.- GREENTRAX.
- CDTRAX-159.
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James MacMillan
James MacMillan: St Anne's Mass: Sanctus (excerpt)
Performer: Cappella Nova. Performer: Alan Tavener.- LINN.
- CKD 633.
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James McMillan
Tuireadh (Lament for the dead) for clarinet and string orchestra or quartet
Performer: Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer. Orchestra: Radio Kamer Filharmonie. Conductor: James McMillan.- CHALLENGE.
- CC-72638.
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James MacMillan
The Gallant weaver for unaccompanied chorus
Performer: Gabrieli Consort. Performer: Paul McCreesh.- SIGNUM CLASSICS.
- SIGCD 490.
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James MacMillan
James MacMillan: Lassie wad ye loe me?
Performer: Elysian Singers. Conductor: Sam Laughton.- SIGNUM CLASSICS.
- SIGCD-575.
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James MacMillan
St John passion for baritone, choir and orchestra
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.- LSO LIVE.
- LSO-0671.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no. 7 in A major Op.92
Performer: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- ARCHIV.
- E4470632.
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