EDGARD VARèSE (1883 1965)
The Complete Works

CD 1 
1. Tuning Up
(reconstruction and editing by Chou Wen chung, jointly COMMIsSIOned by
 RCOA, Casa Ricordi and The Decca Record Company Limited)
2. Amériques original version
(performing edition prepared from the original manuscript by Chou Wen-Chung
3. Poème electronique
(transfer from the original master by Konrad Boehmer and Kees Tazelaar,
 Institute of Sonology, Royal Conservatory, The Hague, The Netherlands@ 1998
4. Arcana
5. Nocturnal
(edited and completed by Chou Wen chung)
Sarah Leonard soprano
Men of the Prague Philharmonic Choir
6. Un grand sommeil noir
(orchestration by Antony Beaumont, commissioned by Riccardo Chailly and RCOA)
Mireille Delunsch soprano

CD 2 
1. Un grand sommeil noir original version 
Mireille Delunsch soprano   François Kerdoncuff piano

Offrandes
2. I Chanson de là haut
3. II La croix du Sud
	Sarah Leonard soprano

4. Hyperprism
(revised by Richard Saks)

Octandre
(revised and edited by Chou Wen chung)
5. I Assez lent
6. II Très vif et nerveux
7. III Grave   Animé et jubilatoire

8. Integrales
(revised and edited by Chou Wen chung)

9. Ecuatorial
(corrections from the original manuscript by Chou Wen chung)
Kevin Deas bass

10. Ionisation

11. Density 21.5
Jacques Zoon flute

Déserts
(original tape provided by the Columbia University Computer Music Canter)
12. 1st episode
13. 1st interpolation of organised sound
14. 2nd episode
15. 2nd interpolation
16. 3rd episode
17. 3rd interpolation
18. 4th episode

19. Dance for Burgess
(the completed edition by Chou Wen chung was jointly commissioned by RCOA, Casa Ricordi and The Decca Record Company Limited)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (CD 1)
ASKO Ensemble (CD 2)
RICCARDO CHAILLY

Recordings:
Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, Amsterdam,
April 1992 (Arcana),
April 1996 (Offrandes, Intégrales),
December 1996 (Amériques, Nocturnal),
May 1997 (Ecuatorial),
May 1998 (Dance for Burgess, Tuning Up, Un Grand Sommeil Noir (orchestral version));
Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, Amsterdam,
May 1998 (Un Grand Sommeil Noir (original version));
Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht,
May 1997 (Hyperprism, Ionisation, Déserts, Octandre);
Henry Wood Hall, London,
June 1997 (Density 21.5).