Pierre Henry in
collaboration
As musique concrete became more established, composers using
traditional means began to incorporate concrete music into their scores. Henry
occasionally worked in collaboration with others producing the tape component
of a recording consisting of musique concrete and
other means.
- Mariage de la feuille et du cliche by Darius Milhaud with musique concrete by Pierre Henry (France LP, Vega DR
30 S 1) fantastic package; the work was a collaboration between Milhaud,
Henry, and visual artist Max Gerard; gatefold cover with elaborate package
containing 1LP in book-like package, with statements from Draeger Freres (the printer)
and Milhaud, the text of the piece and photos of Milhaud, Henry, and
Gerard. Also included are two inserts on embossed paper with French text
from Draeger Freres
and a small card mentioning Draeger Freres.1
Paul Sarisson
Présente Deux Textes Inédits de Claude
Pascal (France,
Discolivre 33 LD 111/222) Henry provides musical
component for spoken text.6- Los Grandes Temas de la Musica vol. 60 (Spain LP, Philips 68
51 259, 1982) red labels; realizations by Henry of works by Kagel (Transition 1) in collaboration with
ORTF & WDR, Berio (Momente)
in collaboration with RAI studios and ORTF, Xenakis
(Orient Occident) in collaboration with ORTF and WDR.2 There is a disucssion of these recordings on the compilation database.
L'Homme du XXIe Siecle (France 17.5cm, 33rpm, Unidisc EX 33 145 / 146) Theatre des Quinze. Texte de Monsieur
Albert Ducrocq. Musique
Pierre Henry. Henry's music accompanies spoken work. Eight page booklet in
French Analyse du Texte dated 1959.34
Les Tribulations d'un chinois en Chine by Jules Vernes. (France LP,
Festival FLDZ 196) Collection le Disque d'Aventure. Une histoire de
Jules Vernes raconté par Guy Pierauld,
Jean Carmet, Roger Carel,
Jean Rochefort, etc... Adaptation phonographique et réalisation de Pierre Henry.25 
Koumra - Conte Africain (France 17.5cm, 33rpm, Clartes
CLA 1027) Pierre Henry: "direction artistique."
A conscious French spoken tale for children to learn about hunger. 1960s?25 
Traité des Objects Musicaux (France 3x30cm, O.R.T.F.SR2, 1967 as indicated by the
CD reissue) A three record set of musical
examples and speech that serves to illustrate Pierre Schaeffer's text of
the same title. Contains 282 short musical examples some of which are by
Pierre Henry. Cover image.30
The image is of the booklet that accompanied the records.22
Le Petit Train (France 17.5cm, Unidisc EX 33259) children's story by Pierre Jolly
read by Vincent Hury. Music by Pierre Henry. Gatefold cover with an illustrated booklet including
the complete story text.25
La petite etoile
trop coquette
(France 17.5cm, 33rpm, Unidisc EX 33 183 / 184) Théâtre des Quinze – Marie
Colette Mainé (texte)/
Henri Marck (musique).
Gatefold cover with eight page booklet.
Presumably “Henri Marck” is P.Henry.34
Ma faim et vous (France 7", Unidisc EX 33 195 / 196 M) Théâtre
des Quinze – Daniel Sorano (voix) / Robert de Montvalon
(texte) / Henry Marck
(musique) Presumably “Henri Marck”
is P.Henry.34
Saint-Exupéry
(France 25cm, Unidisc UD 25 103 / 104 M) Théâtre
des Quinze – Luc Estang (texte)/ Pierre Henry (musique)34
Le Martyre de Polycarpe et Ignace d'Antioche (France 25cm, Unidisc UD 25 123 / 124 M) Danielle Ajoret et la Théâtre des Quinze. No information about the musical production is
stated on the cover, but the Hugh Davies book cites this as Henry.34
Henry contributed
musical interludes to dramatic readings of several Catholic religious texts.
These have been issued a number of ways.
L'Évangile selon St Jean (France 4xLP, Pastorale et Musique PM Jn 01-08) with booklet.34
L'Évangile selon St Luc (France 4xLP, Pastorale et Musique PM Lc 09-18) with booklet.34
- L'Évangile selon St Matthieu (France 4xLP, Unidisc PM 30 Mt 19/21/23/25)6
- L'Évangile selon St Marc (France 4xLP, Unidisc PM 30 Mc
27/29/31/33)6
L’Évangile (France LP, Pastorale
et Musique PM 30 Mc 31)
promotional LP for the series of box sets on Disques
Pastorale et Musique,
listing of complete series on back-sleeve, contains record 3 of L’Évangile selon Saint
Marc (see sticker)34
L’Évangile selon Saint Matthieu (France LP, Decca 163.702) adapted by
Raymond Rouleau; musique:
Jean-Jacques Grünenwald; musique
concrète: Pierre Henry34
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