A Young Person’s Guide to the Avant-Garde is an accessible, comprehensive primer that surveys modernism and music in the 20th century, offering Futurist noise, dreamy Surrealism, Dada tone poetry, serialism, prepared pianos, musique concrète and early electronic composition. Digipack issue, containing an illustrated booklet with detailed historical notes.

Tracklist:

Disc 1:

1. Erik Satie Vexations (1893)
2. Leo Ornstein Suicide in an Airplane (1913)
3. Luigi Russolo Risveglio di una città (1913)
4. F. Balilla Pratella L’Aviatore Dro (1915)
5. Antonio Russolo Corale (1924)
6. F.T. Marinetti La Battaglia di Adrianopoli (1924)
7. Franco Casavola Dance of the Monkeys (1925)
8. George Antheil Mechanisms (1923)
9. Marcel Duchamp Musical Erratum (1913)
10. Francis Poulenc Mouvements perpétuels (1918)
11. Ribemont-Dessaignes Pas de la chicorée frisée (1920)
12. Francis Picabia La nourrice américaine (1920)
13. Jean Cocteau La Toison d’Or (1929)
14. Kurt Schwitters Die Sonata in Urlauten (1932)
15. Robert Desnos Description of a Dream (1938)

Disc 2:

1. Charles Ives The Unanswered Question (1906)
2. Arnold Schoenberg Sechs kleine klavierstücke (1911)
3. Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (extract) (1913)
4. Josef Matthias Hauer Tanz Op. 10 (1915)
5. Arthur Honegger Pacific 231 (1923)
6. Alexander Mosolov Iron Foundry (1927)
7. Henry Cowell The Aeolian Harp (1923)
8. John Cage 4’33” (1952)
9. Karlheinz Stockhausen Gesang der Jünglinge (1956)
10. Edgard Varèse Poème électronique (1958)
11. György Ligeti Atmosphères (1961)

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