- Group 180 · 1983
- North American Ballads & Squares · 1989
- We Sing For The Future! · 2001
- Wolff: For Piano 1, For Pianist, Burdocks · 2012
- Speaking Rzewski (feat. Stephane Ginsburgh) [Pieces for Speaking Pianist Performed by Stephane Ginsburgh] · 2022
- Rzewski: Night Crossing · 1997
- Ostrava Days Live 2019–2021 · 2022
- MEV 40 (1967-2007) · 2008
- Rzewski: Four Pieces, Which Side Are You on? · 1982
- Speaking Rzewski (feat. Stephane Ginsburgh) [Pieces for Speaking Pianist Performed by Stephane Ginsburgh] · 2022
- Speaking Rzewski (feat. Stephane Ginsburgh) [Pieces for Speaking Pianist Performed by Stephane Ginsburgh] · 2022
- Speaking Rzewski (feat. Stephane Ginsburgh) [Pieces for Speaking Pianist Performed by Stephane Ginsburgh] · 2022
- Speaking Rzewski (feat. Stephane Ginsburgh) [Pieces for Speaking Pianist Performed by Stephane Ginsburgh] · 2022
- 2022
- 2021
Compilations
About Frederic Rzewski
Frederic Rzewski was among the major figures of the American musical avant-garde to emerge in the 1960s, and he was highly influential as a composer and performer. Rzewski's music helped define postwar American new music. He consistently gave exuberant boyish pleasures of a composer like Copland within the rigorously experimental framework of a composer like Cage. Often unapologetically tonal and fun, Rzewski's music cuts right through the frequent churlishness of avant-garde music. He was also an important educator. Two of his most popular pieces are Attica, which includes the recitation of a prison letter, and The People United Will Never Be Defeated, a virtuosic set of piano variations. In 2016, Rzewski wrote Songs of Insurrection, a sequel to The People United Will Never Be Defeated, which was heard on a recording by Thomas Kotcheff in 2021. That year, the Imani Winds featured Rzewski's Sometimes on its album Bruits.
- HOMETOWN
- Westfield, MA, United States
- BORN
- 13 April 1938
- GENRE
- Classical