Credits:

Cornelius Cardew

Description:

A popular album by a British avant-garde composer that “expresses the universality of art”This album features a performance of “Paragraph 2 & 7” from *The Great Learning* by British avant-garde composer Cornelius Cardew. It was particularly popular and highly acclaimed among the 24 titles in the original Avant-Garde series released by Deutsche Grammophon between 1968 and 1971. After completing his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Cardew moved to Cologne in 1958, where he served as an assistant to Karlheinz Stockhausen at the electronic music studio of West German Radio (WDR). British pianist John Tilbury has stated that what Cardew sought to achieve with the Scratch Orchestra and *The Great Learning* was to break away from the most fundamental principles of Western art, particularly the notion that artists are a privileged class, and and that the Scratch Orchestra expresses