Cornelius Cardew Biography, Cornelius Cardew Videos, Cornelius Cardew Similar artist, Cornelius Cardew Discography, Cornelius Cardew Tags

You are in : HOME : C : Cornelius Cardew :

  • No selection has been made

    I took the train from Basel to The Hague, with a few brief stopovers, between 5 and 8 October 1995.

  • We soon forgot we were recording a CD

    Avoiding what Wilhelm Furtwängler decried as 'the hoar frost of musical routine' has become someth

  • Music exists within silence

    The five seconds of silence that precede the music on any ECM album may be the most important state

    • Biography Cornelius Cardew

    Cornelius Cardew
    Cornelius Cardew (May 7, 1936 ? London, December 13, 1981) was an English avant-garde composer, and founder (with Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons) of the Scratch Orchestra, an experimental performing ensemble. Biography Cardew was born in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. He was the second of three sons whose parents were both artists ? his father was potter Michael Cardew. The family moved to Wenford Bridge Pottery Cornwall a few years after his birth where he was later accepted as a pupil by the Canterbury Cathedral School which had evacuated to the area during the war due to bombing. His musical career thus began as a chorister. From 1953-57, Cardew studied piano, cello, and composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 1957, he performed in the British premiere of Pierre Boulez's Le Marteau sans maître (having learnt to play the guitar for the occasion as no professional guitar player was available). Having won a sc

    Discography

    We Sing For The Future!
    We Sing For The Future!


    Chamber Music 1955-64: Apartment House
    Chamber Music 1955-64: Apartment House


    Four Principles on Ireland & Other Pieces (1974)
    Four Principles on Ireland & Other Pieces (1974)


    Time Tracks
    Time Tracks


    Historical Recordings 1968-1998
    Historical Recordings 1968-1998


    Videos

    Videos not available