Harry Partch is an American visionary and stubborn individualist... He has built his own musical world out of microtones, hobo speech, elastic octaves and percussion instruments made from hubcaps and nuclear cloud chambers. Recently ... an army of young music lovers stormed New York’s Whitney Museum to hear Harry Partch and his thirteen disciples produce a music that was totally personal and eclectic in the best sense. African polyrhythms, and ancient Greek modes, bits of Babylonia and the pulse of the American diesel engine all gathered into a richly erotic, primitive, fresh and stirring drama of sound.

-- Newsweek


Includes bonus tracks: The Instruments of Harry Partch.

For Claudio Abbado, the European youth orchestras he founded and conducted were always an affair of the heart. + With them he could live out his enthusiasm without compromising either quality or repertoire. + Mr. Abbado, who died in January 2014, conducted many concerts and operas in Salzburg, and not just with the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics. + He also led international youth orchestras to major Festival successes. + This CD impressively documents his live recording of the very first concert of the European Community Youth Orchestra from 1979 in a program both varied and ambitious, ranging from Beethoven via Prokofiev and Stravinsky to Schoenberg’s Survivor from Warsaw with the Vienna Jeunesse Choir and the great actor Maximilian Schell as narrator. + The program is complemented by a 1994 recording of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in the ‘Night on Bald Mountain’ by Modest Mussorgsky – a composer whom Abbado did much to rehabilitate through championing the original versions of his works.

Jutta Hipp, with her incredible talent and striking looks, made a name for herself during the 1950s. After her brief rise to fame, she fell out of music until her death in 2003, and much of her volume of work is erratic and sporatic. This release includes German recordings from the early 1950s, before she moved to New York City.