COMPOSERS: Xenakis
LABELS: EMI
WORKS: Atréees; Morsima-Amorsima; Nomos Alpha; Herma; ST/4; Polla Ta Dhina etc
PERFORMER: Georges Pludermacher (piano); Instrumental Ensemble of Contemporary Music, Paris
CATALOGUE NO: EMI 687 6742 (1967-9)
It’s good to see these pioneering recordings on CD – there’s an authentic roughness and excitement in the playing. Pludermacher’s virtuosic reading of Herma is a classic. Martin Cotton