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Release Date: 2015-07-10

Label: Sony Classical

This compilation ℗ & © 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
Made in the E.U.
Total Time 9:28:43

Recording:
CD 1: London, EMI Studios, December 1968 & Paris, Studio Davout, October 1972.
CD 2: Toronto, Massey Hall, January 16, 1969 (2-1/2-4), Juanry 17, 1969 (2/3)
CD 3: Boston, Symphony Hall, April 19, 1965 (1), November 23, 1964 (2-8)
CD 4: New York City, Columbia 30th Street Studio, March 28/29, 1968 (1-4); New York City, Mary Howard Studio, April 24, 1943 (5/6/8); New York City, May 11, 1938 (7); London, Columbia Graphophone Co., June 12, 1933 (9/10).
CD 5: New York City, Columbia 30th Street Studio, March 19, 1973 (1), under the supervision of the composer; November 12, 1973 (2-5), June 4-6/23, 1975 (6-17)
CD 6: New York City, Whitney Museum, September 11, 1968 (1-3); San Diego, San Diego State College, 1969 (4-19)
CD 7: New York City, Mastertone Recording Studios, May 12, 1967
CD 8: New York City, Columbia 30th Street Studio, July 11, 1968 (1/2), February 15/16, 1968 (3/4), January 10, 1975 (5)
CD 9: Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, date unknown.
CD 10: Italy, 1967.

Original releases:

CD1: Le Marteau Sans Maître / Livre Pour Cordes

CD2: Asterism, Requiem, Green, The Dorian Horizon

CD3: Agon / 7 Studies On Themes Of Paul Klee

CD4: The "Concord" Sonata, plus six tracks originally released as side G of The 100th Anniversary box set.

CD5: Two complete LPs: Voice Of The Whale / Night Of The Four Moons and Makrokosmos Vol. II

CD6: The World Of Harry Partch, plus 16 tracks selected from 'The Instruments of Harry Partch', originally released as third disc of 3LP edition of Delusion Of The Fury.

CD7: Extended Voices

CD8: Compilation CD, no original LPs in their entirety. The Xenakis and Del Tredici tracks are from Akrata / Syzygy / The Dorian Horizon / Canciones A Guiomar; the Stockhausen and Cage tracks are from Electronics & Percussion - Five Realizations By Max Neuhaus; and the Crumb track is from Lux Aeterna, Dream Sequence, Four Nocturnes.

CD9: Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center plus the Milton Babbitt track from New Electronic Music From Leaders Of The Avant-Garde.

CD10: The New Music (Volume 2) plus the Nono and Berio tracks taken from The New Music (Volume 3).

Each CD was reissued individually in limited quantities by Sony, via arkivmusic.com, in 2013/14. Original artwork was overlaid with the series title ‘Prophets Of The New’. The series contained four further releases not included in this box set. Releases in the series were also made available as mp3 albums for download from amazon.com.

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