Alert new-music maven and record producer Herb Levy notes that James Tenney’s Diapason has indeed appeared on CD, on a Col Legno collection of recordings from the 1996 Donaueschingen Festival. The catalog number is WWE 3CD 20008, but something tells me you’re not going to rush to your local CD purveyor and find it in the bin.
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