ANESTIS LOGOTHETIS+GUNTHER BECKER+SIEGFRIED BEHREND ORIG.LP THOROFON-AVANT-GARDE

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ANESTIS LOGOTHETIS / SIEGFRIED BEHREND / GUNTHER BECKER / CESAR BRESGEN / KURT SCHWAEN / HERBERT BAUMANN / HERMANN AMBROSIUS

 DAS DEUTSCHES ZUPFORCHESTER LP

Thorofon 

gatefold special cover

Very rare experimental avant-garde album of the Deutsches Zupforchester performing the monumental "Styx" from Anestis Logothetis, plus works from Siegfried Behrend, Gunther Becker, Kurt Schwaen, Cesar Bresgen and others.

Some info on the release:  Rare original issue, released in Germany sometime in the early 70's on the great Thorofon Records label (Mauricio Kagel, Siegfried Fink, Friedhelm Dohl, Werner Heider, Janos Negyesy, etc.). Beautiful graphic notations of the inside of the gatefold by Anestis Logothetis.

Anestis Logothetis (27 October 1921–6 January 1994) was a greek avant-garde composer, noted both for his musical works and his invention of his own graphic notation system.  He was born in Burgas, Bulgaria, of Greek parents, and moved with his family to Thessaloniki in 1934. After graduating from the German School of Thessaloniki, he left Greece in 1942 in order to study engineering at Vienna Polytechnic Institute. However, his interests soon turned to music, and he began studying composition at the Vienna Academy of Music, graduating with distinction in 1951. Logothetis then worked as a private music tutor. He received several scholarships to study composition in Rome, and took part in international seminars on modern music in Darmstadt, where he became influenced by modern composers such as John Cage, Earle Brown, and Bruno Maderna. Initially he wrote a number of works using conventional musical notation and different combinations of instruments and orchestrations. Around 1957 he started developing electronic music in Gottfried Michael Koenig's studio in Cologne, producing his composition Fantasmata in 1960.  By the late 1950s he also developed his own system of graphic notation incorporating visual symbols, relying on their interpretation and improvisation by performers. It is said that "Logothetis employs this system to different ways of imprinting the contemporary sound on the score in order to express the sense of space in musical notation and redefine the roles of the composer, the performer and the audience, during the composition and performance of a piece."  He produced works for orchestral ensembles as well as electronic and multimedia music, and a series of radio operas. He composed his first computer-based work, Wellenformen, in 1981 in Stockholm. Concerts of his work have taken place throughout Europe, the USA and Asia.

Siegfried Behrend was born in Berlin. He studied piano, harpsichord, conducting and composition at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin and taught himself classical guitar. At the age of 30 he already was a world-renowned artist with this instrument, playing for the Shah of Persia, the Emperor of Japan and Gamal Abdel Nasser in Cairo.  In 1962, he met singer Belina during the making of a TV Show and they endeavoured to create some musical projects together. With their chansons, folk songs and Yiddish songs, they became highly respected and well-known representatives of German culture in the aftermath of World War II. They performed in more than 120 countries and were regular guests on German television and talkshows. In these years, they recorded several LP albums. Behrend was also renowned as a teacher for classical guitar. Martin Maria Krüger began studying the instrument with Behrend. In later years, Behrend and Krüger became famous as 'The German Guitar Duo'. In the 1970s, Behrend gave several "International Masterclasses for Artistic Guitar Play" which were attended by individuals such as Michael Tröster and Manuel Negwer.  Behrend was (co-)editor of several books aimed at a professional audience, including Volkslieder aus aller Welt (Folk Songs from the World) and Gitarrenstunden für Kinder (Guitar Lessons for Children).  Together with Konrad Wölki, Herman Ambrosius, Heinrich Konietzny and others, Behrend was one of the leading proponents in the development of mandolin and plucked string music towards higher quality and enhanced expressivity in Germany after the war. Apart from many arrangements of baroque and folk music for plucked string instruments, Behrend focused on contemporary music. He conducted many premieres of works of Anestis Logothetis, Heinrich Konietzny, Klaus Hashagen, Dietrich Erdmann, Friedrich Gaitis and others. In the years 1960 to 1973, Behrend was conductor of the Saarland Plucked String Orchestra – at that time the leading Plucked String Orchestra in Germany. From 1968 to 1990, he conducted the newly founded German Plucked String Orchestra.  As a performer with an interest in the contemporary avant-garde, Behrend encouraged a number of composers to write works for the guitar. These included Xavier Benguerel (born 1931), Brian Boydell (1917–2000), Sylvano Bussotti (born 1931), Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968), Tomás Marco (born 1942), Isang Yun (1917–1995), and Thea Musgrave (born 1928).

Condition: Vinyl and cover lie in very good+ condition, cover has light age wear and discoloration at a part of the title on the front which make the title less visible, while vinyl has a lot of hairline marks, but plays close to EX, very clean reproduction with light crackle (see picture).

Tracklist

A1 Festlicher Auftakt Composed By – Bernd Scholz 0:51 A2 Zwei Sätze Aus Der Suite No.2 Op.31 Composed By – Konrad Wölki 3:48 A3 Badinerie Aus Der Suite No.6 Composed By – Hermann Ambrosius 1:48 Saarländische Zupfmusik 6:33 A4 Allegro Non Tropo Composed By – Herbert Baumann A5 Allegro Moderato Composed By – Herbert Baumann A6 Polka Composed By – Herbert Baumann Tanzstück A7 Tanzstück Composed By – Cesar Bresgen 2:21 A8 Araba Composed By – Siegfried Behrend 3:24 A9 Tanzstück Composed By – Kurt Schwaen 2:06 B1 Rumba Catalan Composed By – Siegfried Behrend 1:54 Zwei Tänze Aus Der Griechischen Tanzsuite 2:40 B2 Tsamikos Composed By – Günther Becker B3 Tsirigotikos Composed By – Günther Becker Japanische Impressionen B4 Wiegenlied Composed By – Siegfried Behrend B5 Tempeltanz Composed By – Siegfried Behrend B6 Intermezzo An Der Quelle Composed By – Siegfried Behrend B7 Tanzlied Composed By – Siegfried Behrend B8 Figuration Composed By – Siegfried Behrend 2:24 B9 Styx Composed By – Anestis Logothetis

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