Benjamin Boretz - Recordings

Recordings

Boretz's work as composer and writer is available on CDs, DVDs, and printbooks issued by Open Space Publications, a cooperative formed by Boretz with Elaine Barkin and J. K. Randall. Recent publications include BEING ABOUT MUSIC, a 2-volume anthology of textworks written between 1960 and 2003 by Randall and Boretz; a CD of Boretz's piano music played by Michael Fowler (Open Space CD 18); the 2-CD album OPEN SPACES 2005: MUSIC AROUND BENJAMIN BORETZ (Open Space CD 20, issued in collaboration with Perspectives of New Music); Open Space DVD1, containing the text-music-video pieces Black /Noise III and music / consciousness / gender; and Open Space DVD2, containing video-text-music collaborations by Boretz, Dorota Czerner, and Russell Richardson (GROUP VARIATIONS; POPPIES). POSTLUDE, WITH JIM RANDALL IN MIND, for string quartet (2005) appears in the 2-CD album JKR 3 (Open Space CD 21). String Quartet (1957-1958-2005), performed by the DAFO Quartet, produced by Dorota Czerner and Malgorzata Polanska is issued on Open Space CD 23. Caves, a poem-reading by Dorota Czerner with music by BB, is on Open Space CD 24; Open Space DVD 1 includes Black Noise III, music/consciousness/gender, as well as collaborations with Dorota Czerner and RUssell Richardson (Poppies, Group Variations); Violin Concerto, played by Charles Castleman, violinist, and the Eastman Composers' Orchestra, conducted by Geoffrey Pope, is on Open Space CD 27.