the bauhaus
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LTM present a unique audiobook CD of archive interviews and music from the influential Bauhaus design school. To read our Bauhaus Reviewed CD sleevenote click here. To purchase CD click here.


BAUHAUS REVIEWED 1919-33 (LTMCD 2472) £10
An illuminating 72 minute audio review of the Bauhaus, based on a lengthy interview with founding architect/director Walter Gropius, together with contributions from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Josef Albers, as well as relevant musical interludes (composed 1919-1925) from Arnold Schoenberg, Stefan Wolpe, Josef Matthias Hauer, George Antheil and Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt. The featured interview extracts are all English language, and offer a comprehensive overview of Bauhaus history, staff and theory; the musical selections are performed by pianists Steffen Schleiermacher and Edward Steuermann. The deluxe booklet features archive Bauhaus images and detailed historical notes by James Hayward. To read sleevenotes click here. Full tracklist: Walter Gropius interview (9 extracts); Josef Albers interview (2 extracts); Ludwig Mies van der Rohe interview (1 extract); Josef Matthias Hauer - Phantasie Op. 17; Stefan Wolpe - Variation, Stehende Musik; George Antheil - Little Shimmy; H.H. Stuckenschmidt - Marsch Alexander des Grossen über die Brücken von Hamburg; Arnold Schoenberg - Piano Piece *1 Op 23, Suite for Piano Op 25. ISBN: 978-0-9554335-4-2

Reviews: "This excellent selection of recordings goes deep into the mythos of the Bauhaus school and the artists involved. The music is stunning and offers up some great examples of 12-tone and serial composition. A really unique disc which gives you a lot more than a simple history textbook" (Boomkat, 03/07))


NELLY (PETRO) VAN DOESBURG "REPERTOIRE DE STIJL : BAUHAUS : DADA" LTMCD 2496 £10
Born in Holland in 1899, Nelly first met Theo van Doesburg in 1920. Over the next decade the couple lived in Holland, Weimar (where Theo was associated with the influential Bauhaus school) and Paris. A Conservatory-trained pianist, Nelly accompanied her husband's lectures with selected modernist piano pieces, and also performed at Salon Dada soirees organised by Theo with Kurt Schwitters in Holland and Germany in 1922/23. Her repertoire included pieces by Satie, Hauer, Schoenberg, Poulenc, Honegger and Jacob van Domselaer, whose austere Proeven van Stijlkunst (1913-17) is a musical application of Piet Mondrian's neo-plastic principles. The 76 minute CD is performed by pianist Peter Beijersbergen van Henegouwen; the deluxe booklet features archive images and detailed historical notes. To read liner notes click here. Full tracklist: Gian Francesco Malipiero Barlumi (1917); Jacob van Domselaer Proeven van Stijlkunst (1913-16); Francis Poulenc Trois mouvements perpétuels (1918); Josef Matthias Hauer Tanz Op. 10 (1915); Vittorio Rieti Tre Marcie per le Bestie (1920); Arnold Schoenberg Sechs kleine Klavierstücke Op. 19 (1911); Arthur Honegger Trois pièces pour piano (1915-19); Erik Satie Ragtime Parade (1919); Daniel Ruyneman Hallucinate (1915); Egon Wellesz Eklogen Op. 11 (1912); Nino Formoso Ti-Ta-To

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