Modern music: Xenakis (supplement)

With my main Xenakis page going through so many updates over the years — and this seems to be the fate of any listing that is attempting to be selective, at least assuming that performance practice continues apace — it is time to create this supplementary page.

I do not want to erase recording information that had previously appeared on the main page, and so I will collect it here, for historical reference. This will allow me to do updates a little more gracefully, and generally keep to a "flatter" structure.

The following recordings were either once a part of the main page, or prompted me to create specific files for them for some other reason, including recently. Some include further comments. Some comments have been edited more recently, and some have not.

Xenakis: Live 1

ASKO Ensemble - David Porcelijn
Attacca "Babel" 9054

Xenakis: Orchestral Works & Chamber Music

SWF Symphony Orchestra / Les Jeunes Solistes / Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique
Col Legno "Collage" 20504

Xenakis: Ensemble Music - 1

Plektó / Eonta / Akanthos / Rebonds / N'Shima
ST-X Ensemble USA - Charles Zachary Bornstein
Mode 53

Xenakis: Ensemble Music - 2

ST-X Ensemble USA - Charles Zachary Bornstein
Mode 56

Xenakis: Works for Piano

Aki Takahashi
Mode 80

Xenakis: Percussion Works

Steven Schick / Red Fish Blue Fish
Mode 171/173 (3 CDs)

Xenakis: Works with Piano

Xenakis Edition, Volume 11
Aki Takahashi / Calithumpian Consort / JACK Quartet / Rohan de Saram
Mode 217

Xenakis: Ensemble Works 3

Xenakis Edition, Volume 13
International Contemporary Ensemble / Red fish blue fish - Steven Schick
Mode 261

Xenakis: Orchestral Works

Xenakis Edition, Volume 15
Residente Orkest The Hague / Orchestra Sinfonica RAI - Artur Tamayo
Mode 299

Xenakis Complete Vol. 2 - Iannissimo!

ST-X Ensemble USA - Charles Zacharie Bornstein
Vandenburg 0003

The following are recordings that had been referenced on other recording pages for some reason, collected here, again for historical reference. Some newer recordings are also mentioned here, if I've heard them.

Xenakis: Kraanerg

Paul D. Miller / ST-X Ensemble - Charles Zacharie Bornstein
Asphodel Sombient 0975

Xenakis: Le legende d'eer

(electronic tape)
Auvidis Montaigne 782058

Xenakis: Pléïades

Kroumata Percussion Ensemble
Bis 482

Xenakis: Eonta, Metastaseis, Pithoprakta

Orchestre National de l'ORTF - Maurice Le Roux / Yuji Takahashi, Ensemble Instrumental de Musique Contemporaine de Paris - Konstantin Simonovic
Le Chant du Monde 278 368

Xenakis: Evryali, Herma / Messiaen: Quatre etudes

Yuji Takahashi
Denon 1052

Xenakis: Electronic Music

Diamorphoses / Concert PH / Orient-Occident / Bohor / Hibiki-Hana-Ma / S.709
Electronic Music Foundation, Albany NY
EMFCD003

Xenakis: Phlegra, Jalons, Keren, Nomos alpha, Thallein

Ensemble Intercontemporain - Michel Tabachnik & Pierre Boulez
Erato 45770

Xenakis: Kraanerg

Alpha Centauri Ensemble - Roger Woodward
Etcetera 1075

Xenakis: Pléïades

Les Percussions de Strasbourg
Harmonia Mundi "musique d'abord" 1905185

Xenakis: Medea, Nuits, Knephas, Serment, A Colone

New London Chamber Choir / Critical Band - James Wood
Hyperion 66980

Xenakis & Varèse

Dämmerschein / Persephassa / La Déesse Athéna / Amériques
Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic - Juan Pablo Izquierdo
Mode 58

Xenakis: La Légende d'Eer

Mode 148

Percussion(s)

Roland Auzet, et al.
Mode 189-192 [book+CDx3+DVD]

Xenakis: Kraanerg

Callithumpian Consort - Steven Drury
Mode 196

Xenakis: Electronic Works 2

Polytope De Cluny / Hibiki Hana Ma
Mode 203

Milano Musica Festival - 2

Xenakis / Varèse / Romitelli
Marieke Koster / ASKO Ensemble - Stefan Asbury
Stradivarius 33871

Xenakis Live in New York

ST-X Ensemble USA - Charles Zacharie Bornstein
Vandenburg 0001

Xenakis: Palimpsest, Épéi, Dikhthas, Akanthos

Spectrum Ensemble - Guy Protheroe
Wergo 6178

This is not a complete discography, but it does mention a fairly large number of recordings devoted to Xenakis. I have only listed recordings that I have heard. Many of the recordings in this latter section date to before I started this web page, in 1994 or 1995, and so never found their way to a full description.

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