''2 Compositions (Ensemble) 1989/1991'' is an album featuring ensemble performances of compositions by

Anthony Braxton Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American experimental composer, educator, music theorist, improviser and multi-instrumentalist who is best known for playing saxophones, particularly the alto. Braxton grew up on the South Side of Ch ...

which was recorded in Germany in 1989 and 1991 and released on the HatART label.Anthony Braxton discography
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Track listing

All compositions by Anthony Braxton. # "Composition No. 147" – 16:50 # "Composition No. 151: Part I" – 24:26 # "Composition No. 151: Part II" – 31:43

Personnel

Track 1

Ensemble Modern Frankfurt conducted by

Diego Masson Diego Masson (born 21 June 1935) is a French conductor, composer, and percussionist. The son of artist André Masson and brother of the singer and actor Luís Masson, Diego Masson was born in Tossa de Mar, Spain. He studied piano and compositi ...

*Soloists: Joachim Klemm, John Corbett, Roland Diry – clarinet *Anne La Berge, Dietmar Wiesner – flute *Catherine Milliken –

oboe The oboe ( ) is a type of double reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites. The most common oboe plays in the treble or soprano range. ...

* Wolfgang Stryi – bass clarinet,

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

*Veit Scholz – bassoon *Achim Reus, Vanessa King – cor anglais *Julian Brewer, Tony Cross –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

*Uwe Dierksen, Norbert Hardegen –

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...

*Rainer Römer, Rumi Ogawa-Helferich –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

*Karin Schmeer – harp *Hermann Kretzschmar,

Ueli Wiget Ueli Wiget (born 1957 in Winterthur) is a Swiss pianist, harpsichordist and harpist. He was prized at the 1985 Sydney Competition. Since 1986 Wiget is a member of the Ensemble Modern Ensemble Modern is an international ensemble dedicated to perf ...

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piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

*Klaus Obermauer –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

*Hilary Sturt,

Peter Rundel Peter Rundel (born 1958 in Friedrichshafen), is a German violinist and conductor. A recipient of the Grand Prix du Disque in 1998 for his recording of Jean Barraqué's complete works, he became conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Fl ...

, Sebastian Gottschick, Thomas Hofer –

violin The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

*Almut Steinhausen, Werner Dickel –

viola ; german: Bratsche , alt=Viola shown from the front and the side , image=Bratsche.jpg , caption= , background=string , hornbostel_sachs=321.322-71 , hornbostel_sachs_desc=Composite chordophone sounded by a bow , range= , related= *Violin family ...

*Friedemann Dähn, Michael Stirling –

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G ...

*Thomas Fichter –

double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar i ...

Tracks 2 & 3

Creative Music Ensemble conducted by Anthony Braxton *Adam Zablocki – flute * Wolfgang Schubert – cor anglais *Vlatko Kučan – soprano saxophone *Klaus Roemer – alto saxophone *Bernd Reincke – baritone saxophone *Georgia Charlotte Hoppe – bass clarinet *Hermann Süss, Tobias Netta, Tosten Maas – trumpet *Ferdinand v. Seebach, Heinz-Erich Gödecke – trombone *Dizi Fisher –

tuba The tuba (; ) is the lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, the sound is produced by lip vibrationa buzzinto a mouthpiece. It first appeared in the mid-19th century, making it one of the ne ...

*Andreas Nock – guitar *Dorothea Geiger, Mauretta Heinzelmann, Nicola Kruse – violin *Mike Rutledge – viola *Cornelia Gottberg, Ralf Werner – cello *Frank Skriptschinsky, Johannes Huth, Peter Niklas Wilson – double bass *"Buggy" Braune – piano *Hans Schüttler – synthesizer *Bernd v. Ostrowski –

vibraphone The vibraphone is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a ''vibraphonist,'' ''vibraharpist ...

*Dirk Dhonau –

marimbaphone The marimbaphone (not to be confused with the similarly named marimba) is an obsolete tuned percussion instrument, developed by the J.C. Deagan Company of Chicago, Illinois, U.S. in the early 20th century. The marimbaphone had either shallow steel ...

*Björn Lücker, Dieter Gostisha, Heinz Lichius – percussion

References

{{Authority control Hathut Records albums Anthony Braxton albums 1992 albums