Warp Works & Twentieth Century Masters is a 2-CD set consisting of live performances by the London Sinfonietta

London Sinfonietta

The London Sinfonietta is an English chamber orchestra founded in 1968 and based in London. The ensemble specialises in contemporary music and works across a wide range of genres, performing modern classics alongside world premieres, and includes music by electronica artists as well as folk and...

, released by Warp Records

Warp Records

Warp, commonly referred to as Warp Records, is a pioneering independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989, notable for discovering some of the more enduring artists in electronic music....

 in 2006. It contains a mix of contemporary classical and minimalist music by John Cage

John Cage

John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...

, György Ligeti

György Ligeti

György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...

, Conlon Nancarrow

Conlon Nancarrow

Conlon Nancarrow was a United States-born composer who lived and worked in Mexico for most of his life. He became a Mexican citizen in 1955.Nancarrow is best remembered for the pieces he wrote for the player piano...

, Steve Reich

Steve Reich

Stephen Michael "Steve" Reich is an American composer who together with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass is a pioneering composer of minimal music...

, Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...

, and Edgard Varèse

Edgard Varèse

Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse, , whose name was also spelled Edgar Varèse , was an innovative French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States....

, as well as instrumental versions of songs by Warp Records members Aphex Twin

Aphex Twin

Richard David James , best known under the pseudonym Aphex Twin, is an Irish-born electronic musician and composer described as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music"...

 and Squarepusher

Squarepusher

Squarepusher is the performing pseudonym of Tom Jenkinson, an English electronic music artist signed to Warp Records. He specialises in the electronic music genres of drum and bass and acid, with a significant jazz and musique concrète influence....

. They were recorded live between 2003 and 2005.

Track listing

CD1

#	Performer / Soloist	Composer	Song / Composition	Note
1	Clive Williamson Clive Williamson Clive Williamson formed the UK group Symbiosis in 1987, making ambient, soundtrack and healing music with founder-members flautist John Hackett and Richard Bolton...	Aphex Twin Aphex Twin Richard David James , best known under the pseudonym Aphex Twin, is an Irish-born electronic musician and composer described as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music"...	"Jynweythek Ylow Drukqs Drukqs is a 2001 double album by electronic musician Richard D. James, released under his most frequently used pseudonym, Aphex Twin... "	^
2	Clive Williamson	Aphex Twin	"Hy A Scullyas Lyf Adhagrow Drukqs Drukqs is a 2001 double album by electronic musician Richard D. James, released under his most frequently used pseudonym, Aphex Twin... "	^
3	London Sinfonietta London Sinfonietta The London Sinfonietta is an English chamber orchestra founded in 1968 and based in London. The ensemble specialises in contemporary music and works across a wide range of genres, performing modern classics alongside world premieres, and includes music by electronica artists as well as folk and...	Conlon Nancarrow Conlon Nancarrow Conlon Nancarrow was a United States-born composer who lived and worked in Mexico for most of his life. He became a Mexican citizen in 1955.Nancarrow is best remembered for the pieces he wrote for the player piano...	Study #7 (arr. Yvar Mikhashoff Yvar Mikhashoff Yvar Emilian Mikhashoff was an American virtuoso pianist and composer... )	+
4	Rolf Hind	John Cage John Cage John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...	"Sonatas I & II Sonatas and Interludes Sonatas and Interludes is a collection of twenty pieces for prepared piano by American avant-garde composer John Cage . It was composed in 1946–1948, shortly after Cage's introduction to Indian philosophy and the teachings of art historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, both of which became major... "	+
5	Clio Gould Clio Gould Clio Gould, is an English violinist, professor, director of the Royal Academy Soloists and leader of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.Gould has appeared as soloist with a number of orchestras, including the London Sinfonietta, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the...	Steve Reich Steve Reich Stephen Michael "Steve" Reich is an American composer who together with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass is a pioneering composer of minimal music...	Violin Phase	^
6	London Sinfonietta	John Cage	First Construction in Metal	^
7	London Sinfonietta	Squarepusher Squarepusher Squarepusher is the performing pseudonym of Tom Jenkinson, an English electronic music artist signed to Warp Records. He specialises in the electronic music genres of drum and bass and acid, with a significant jazz and musique concrète influence....	"The Tide Budakhan Mindphone Budakhan Mindphone is a 1999 album by Squarepusher, released on Warp Records. It follows in much the same vein as its predecessor, Music Is Rotted One Note, and is often classified as an EP due to its relative brevity - the cover refers to it as "a mini-album".-Track listing:#"Iambic 5 Poetry" –... " (arr. David Horne David Horne (composer) David Horne is a Scottish composer, pianist, and teacher.A resident composer with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for four years, he has been awarded several commissions... )	+
8	Simon Haram & Sound Intermedia	Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...	Spiral Spiral (Stockhausen) Spiral , for a soloist with a shortwave receiver, is a composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen, written in 1968. It is Number 27 in the catalogue of the composer’s works.-Conception:...	+

CD2

#	Performer / Soloist	Composer	Song / Composition	Note
1	Rolf Hind	John Cage	Sonata XII	+
2	London Sinfonietta	Edgard Varèse Edgard Varèse Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse, , whose name was also spelled Edgar Varèse , was an innovative French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States....	Ionization Ionisation (Varèse) Ionisation is a musical composition by Edgard Varèse written for thirteen percussionists, the first concert hall composition for percussion ensemble alone. The premiere was at Steinway Hall, on March 6, 1933, conducted by Nicolas Slonimsky, to whom the piece was later dedicated...	^
3	London Sinfonietta	Steve Reich	Six Marimbas	~
4	London Sinfonietta	Squarepusher	"Conc 2 Symmetriac Do You Know Squarepusher Do You Know Squarepusher is a 2002 album by Squarepusher. The title track had previously been released, in late 2001, as an untitled 12". The album was almost entirely digitally produced, with the exception of the last track, a cover of Joy Division's single "Love Will Tear Us Apart"... " (arr. Fraser Trainer & Sound Intermedia)	*
5	Rolf Hind	John Cage	Sonatas V & VI	+
6	London Sinfonietta	Aphex Twin	"AFX237 v.7 Drukqs Drukqs is a 2001 double album by electronic musician Richard D. James, released under his most frequently used pseudonym, Aphex Twin... " (arr. David Horne)	+
7	London Sinfonietta	György Ligeti György Ligeti György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...	Chamber Concerto - 1st movement: Corrente	+
8	London Sinfonietta	György Ligeti	Chamber Concerto - 2nd movement: Calmo, Sostenuto	+
9	London Sinfonietta	György Ligeti	Chamber Concerto - 3rd movement: Movimento Preciso e Meccanico	+
10	London Sinfonietta	György Ligeti	Chamber Concerto - 4th movement: Presto	+
11	London Sinfonietta	Aphex Twin	"Polygon Window Surfing on Sine Waves Surfing on Sine Waves is an electronic music album by Polygon Window, a pseudonym for recording artist Richard D. James, better known by his other alias of Aphex Twin. The album was released on 11 January 1993 on Warp Records, and is the second in its Artificial Intelligence series... " (arr. Kenneth Hesketh Kenneth Hesketh Kenneth Hesketh is a British composer of contemporary classical music in numerous genres including opera, orchestral, chamber, vocal and solo... )	^

+ recorded at Royal Festival Hall

Royal Festival Hall

The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,900-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge. It is a Grade I listed building - the first post-war building to become so protected...

, March 8, 2003

* recorded at Brighton Dome

Brighton Dome

The Brighton Dome is an arts venue in Brighton, England that contains the Concert Hall, Corn Exchange and the Pavilion Theatre. All three venues are linked to the rest of the Royal Pavilion Estate by an underground tunnel to the Royal Pavilion in Pavilion Gardens and through shared corridors to...

, March 23, 2004

^ recorded at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, March 27, 2004

~ recorded at Henry Wood Hall, April 11, 2005