Tracklist
1 | 1 | Éliane Radigue, Charles Curtis – Occam V | |
2 | Guillaume de Machaut, Charles Curtis – Helas! Et Comment | ||
3 | Tobias Hume, Charles Curtis – Touch Me Lightly | ||
4 | Tobias Hume, Charles Curtis – Captain Hume's Galliard | ||
5 | Tobias Hume, Charles Curtis – Mistress Tittle's Jig | ||
6 | Anonymous, Charles Curtis – Woodycock | ||
7 | Silvestro Di Ganassi, Charles Curtis – Ricercar Secondo | ||
8 | Silvestro Di Ganassi, Charles Curtis – Ricercar Quarto | ||
9 | Guillaume de Machaut, Charles Curtis – C'est Force Faire | ||
10 | Unfinished Song | ||
2 | 1 | Terry Jennings, Charles Curtis – Song | |
2 | Morton Feldman, Charles Curtis – Durations II | ||
3 | Anton Webern, Charles Curtis – Drei Kleine Stücke | ||
4 | Olivier Messiaen, Charles Curtis – Louange A L'eternite De Jesus (From Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps) | ||
5 | Alison Knowles, Charles Curtis – Rice & Beans For Charles Curtis | ||
6 | Anton Webern, Charles Curtis – Movement For String Trio Op Posthumous | ||
3 | 1 | Richard Maxfield, Charles Curtis – Perspectives For La Monte Young | |
2 | Unison Offset | ||
3 | Music For Awhile | ||
4 | Music For Lester |
Saltern presents its fifth release, Performances & Recordings 1998-2018, the first comprehensive collection of recordings surveying the career of renowned, American cellist Charles Curtis. Selected by Curtis and Tashi Wada from recordings spanning the past two decades, the collection offers a broad, inclusive view of Curtis's activities across the diverse worlds of music he inhabits, containing rare, unreleased recordings, and never-before-released music by Terry Jennings, Richard Maxfield, Éliane Radigue, Alison Knowles, and Curtis. The wide-ranging scope of this release speaks not to a musical restlessness, but to a genuine spirit of inquiry, as these areas of activity for Curtis have existed concurrently in dialogue, not simply in succession, for decades. Over two hours of music by composers and artists with whom Curtis is closely associated including Éliane Radigue, Guillaume de Machaut, Tobias Hume, Silvestro di Ganassi, Terry Jennings, Morton Feldman, Anton Webern, Olivier Messiaen, Alison Knowles, Richard Maxfield, and Curtis himself. Mastered by Stephan Mathieu with liner notes by La Monte Young, Spencer Gerhardt, and Tashi Wada. Custom packaging and screen printing by Alan Sherry.