The Complete Music of Carl Ruggles (2024 Remastered Version) Michael Tilson Thomas

• Carl Ruggles (1876 - 1971): Toys (For Voice and Piano) (2024 Remastered Version):
• 1 Ruggles: Toys (For Voice and Piano) (2024 Remastered Version) 01:40
• Vôx Clamans in Deserto (For Chamber Orchestra and Mezzo Soprano):
• 2 Ruggles: Vôx Clamans in Deserto (For Chamber Orchestra and Mezzo Soprano): I. Parting at Morning (2024 Remastered Version) 01:18
• 3 Ruggles: Vôx Clamans in Deserto (For Chamber Orchestra and Mezzo Soprano): II. Son of Mine (2024 Remastered Version) 01:36
• 4 Ruggles: Vôx Clamans in Deserto (For Chamber Orchestra and Mezzo Soprano): III. A Clear Midnight (2024 Remastered Version) 03:24
• Men (2024 Remastered Version):
• 5 Ruggles: Men (2024 Remastered Version) 02:17
• Angels (Original Trumpet Version) (2024 Remastered Version):
• 6 Ruggles: Angels (Original Trumpet Version) (2024 Remastered Version) 02:54
• Men and Mountains:
• 7 Ruggles: Men and Mountains: I. Men (2024 Remastered Version) 02:46
• 8 Ruggles: Men and Mountains: II. Lilacs (2024 Remastered Version) 03:00
• 9 Ruggles: Men and Mountains: III. Marching Mountains (2024 Remastered Version) 04:32
• Angels (Trumpet/Trombone Version) (2024 Remastered Version):
• 10 Ruggles: Angels (Trumpet/Trombone Version) (2024 Remastered Version) 03:18
• Sun-Treader (2024 Remastered Version):
• 11 Ruggles: Sun-Treader (2024 Remastered Version) 16:23
• Portals (For String Orchestra) (2024 Remastered Version):
• 12 Ruggles: Portals (For String Orchestra) (2024 Remastered Version) 06:40
• Evocations (Original Piano Version):
• 13 Ruggles: Evocations (Original Piano Version): I. Largo (2024 Remastered Version) 01:57
• 14 Ruggles: Evocations (Original Piano Version): II. Andante Con Fantasia (2024 Remastered Version) 02:52
• 15 Ruggles: Evocations (Original Piano Version): III. Moderato Appassionato (2024 Remastered Version) 01:41
• 16 Ruggles: Evocations (Original Piano Version): IV. Adagio Sostenuto (2024 Remastered Version) 03:00
• 17 Ruggles: Evocations (Orchestral Version): I. Largo (2024 Remastered Version) 02:33
• 18 Ruggles: Evocations (Orchestral Version): II. Andante Sempre Poco Rubato (2024 Remastered Version) 03:41
• 19 Ruggles: Evocations (Orchestral Version): III. Moderato Appassionato (2024 Remastered Version) 01:43
• 20 Ruggles: Evocations (Orchestral Version): IV. Adagio Sostenuto (2024 Remastered Version) 03:54
• Organum (2024 Remastered Version):
• 21 Ruggles: Organum (2024 Remastered Version) 06:19
• Exaltation (For Brass, Chorus and Organ) (2024 Remastered Version):
• 22 Ruggles: Exaltation (For Brass, Chorus and Organ) (2024 Remastered Version) 06:17
• Total Runtime 01:23:45

Info for The Complete Music of Carl Ruggles (2024 Remastered Version)

Carl Ruggles (1876-1971) was an innovative American composer who used ‘dissonant counterpoint’ to fashion a body of work both finely crafted and wrought with emotional power. For fans of Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, and Edgard Varèse, this reissue includes world-renowned conductor Michael Tilson Thomas with the Buffalo Philharmonic, the original liner notes plus a rare essay on Ruggles by Lou Harrison and historic photos of the composer.

"It can also be said that anyone who says yes to American music has to own "The Complete Music of Carl Ruggles," a reissue (on Other Minds) of the legendary recordings by Michael Tilson Thomas and the Buffalo Philharmonic, which were originally released on two LPs by CBS Masterworks in 1980." (The New Yorker)

Judith Blegen, soprano
Beverly Morgan, mezzo-soprano
Speculum Musicae
Brass Ensemble
Gerard Schwarz, leader
John Kirkpatrick, piano
Leonard Raver, organ
The Buffalo Philharmonic
Michael Tilson Thomas, piano, conductor

Digitally remastered

Michael Tilson Thomas
is Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, Founder and Artistic Director of the New World Symphony, America’s Orchestra Academy, and Conductor Laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra. Born in Los Angeles, he is the third generation of his family to follow an artistic career. His grandparents, Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, were founding members of the Yiddish Theater in America. His father, Ted Thomas, was a producer in the Mercury Theater Company in New York before moving to Los Angeles where he worked in films and television. His mother, Roberta Thomas, was the head of research for Columbia Pictures.

Mr Tilson Thomas began his formal studies at the University of Southern California where he studied piano with John Crown and conducting and composition with Ingolf Dahl. At age nineteen he was named Music Director of the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra. He worked with Stravinsky, Boulez, Stockhausen and Copland on premieres of their compositions at Los Angeles' Monday Evening Concerts. During this same period he was the pianist and conductor for Gregor Piatigorsky and Jascha Heifetz.

In 1969, after winning the Koussevitzky Prize at Tanglewood, he was appointed Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. That year he also made his New York debut with the Boston Symphony and gained international recognition after replacing Music Director William Steinberg in mid-concert. He was later appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra where he remained until 1974. He was Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic from 1971 to 1979 and a Principal Guest Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1981 to 1985. In February 1988 he inaugurated the New World Symphony, a post-graduate orchestral academy. In addition to their regular season in Miami Beach, they have toured in Europe, South America, Japan, Israel, and the United States. New World Symphony graduates have gone on to major positions in orchestras worldwide. In 1991 Mr Tilson Thomas and the orchestra were presented in a series of benefit concerts for UNICEF in the United States, featuring Audrey Hepburn as narrator of From the Diary of Anne Frank, composed by Mr Tilson Thomas and commissioned by UNICEF. This piece has since been translated and performed in many languages worldwide. In 2011 the New World Symphony moved into a new campus designed by Frank Gehry.

In August 1995 he led the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra in the premiere of his composition Showa/ Shoah, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. Thomas Hampson premiered his settings of poetry by Walt Whitman, Renee Fleming premiered his settings of the poetry of Emily Dickinson and the San Francisco Symphony premiered his concerto for contrabassoon entitled Urban Legend. As a Carnegie Hall Perspectives Artist from 2003 to 2005, he had an evening devoted to his own compositions which included Island Music for four marimbas and percussion, Notturno for solo flute and strings and a new setting of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke. Other compositions include Street Song for brass instruments and Agnegram, an overture for orchestra.

As Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra from 1988 to 1995, Mr Tilson Thomas led the orchestra on regular tours in Europe, the United States and Japan as well as at the Salzburg Festival. In London he and the orchestra have mounted major festivals focusing on the music of Steve Reich, George Gershwin, Johannes Brahms, Toru Takemitsu, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov and the School of St. Petersburg, Claude Debussy and Gustav Mahler.

Mr Tilson Thomas became the Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in 1995 and his tenure has been broadly covered by the international press. With the San Francisco Symphony he has presented eighteen festivals including ones devoted to the music of Mahler, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Wagner and American Mavericks.

His recorded repertoire of more than 120 discs includes works by composers such as Bach, Beethoven, Mahler, Prokofiev and Stravinsky as well as his exploration of the music of Charles Ives, Carl Ruggles, Steve Reich, John Cage, Ingolf Dahl, Morton Feldman, George Gershwin, John McLaughlin and Elvis Costello. With the San Francisco Symphony label, SFS Media, his on-going series of recordings include the symphonies of Gustav Mahler, West Side Story, and works of Beethoven, Ives, and John Adams.

Mr. Tilson Thomas's television work includes a series with the London Symphony Orchestra for BBC Television, the television broadcasts of the New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts from 1971 to 1977 and numerous productions on PBS Great Performances. Mr Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony produced a multi-tiered media project, Keeping Score, which includes a television series, web sites, radio programs and programs in schools.

Mr Tilson Thomas is a Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France, was Musical America's Musician of the Year and Conductor of the Year, Gramophone Magazine's Artist of the Year and has been profiled on CBS's 60 Minutes and ABC's Nightline. He has won eleven Grammy Awards for his recordings. In 2008 he received the Peabody Award for his radio series for SFS Media, The MTT Files. In 2010, President Obama awarded him with the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the United States. 2016/2017

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