Carter: Variations for Orchestra / Schuller: Spectra / Babbitt: Correspondences / Cage: Atlas Eclipticalis

Album by John Cage & Elliott Carter & Milton Babbitt & Gunther Schuller & Chicago Symphony Orchestra & James Levine

A compilation of mid‑20th‑century American orchestral works by Elliott Carter, Gunther Schuller, Milton Babbitt and John Cage, centred on avant‑garde and modernist idioms. It encompasses indeterminate procedures, complex rhythmic writing, and, in Babbitt’s Correspondences, string orchestra with taped electronics.
First released: 10th May 1994

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Variations for Orchestra
    23:13
  2. 2.
    Spectra
    20:36
  3. 3.
    Correspondences
    10:15
  4. 4.
    Atlas eclipticalis
    14:18

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