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John Cage: Voice & Piano; Trombone & Piano; Violin & Piano / Anna Clementi, voice; Mike Svoboda, trombone; Andreas Seidel, violin

3 CD / MD&G / 2012-11-13

Works: John Cage: Four Walls, for voice & piano; A Flower, for voice & closed piano; Experiences no 2, for voice; She is Asleep, for voice, prepared piano & 4 percussion; The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Spr...
Performers: Clementi, Anna; Schleiermacher, Steffen; Seidel, Andreas

Happy Birthday! MDG has a very special gift in store for the hundredth anniversary of John Cage's birth: three recordings featuring Steffen Schleiermacher, the Cage...continue...
Recording information: Ehemaliges Ackerhaus der Abtei Marienmünster (06/26/2007); Fürstliche Reitbahn Bad Arolsen (06/26/2007); Ehemaliges Ackerhaus der Abtei Marienmünster (10/01/2008)...continue...

The Viennese School: Teachers & Followers of Schoenberg, Vol. 2

1 CD / MD&G / 2011-01-25

Works: Arnold Schoenberg: Pieces (2) for piano, Op. 33; Natalia Prawossudowitsch: Primitivi, for piano, Op. 17; Peter Schacht: Kinderstücke, for piano; Nikos Skalkottas: Suite for piano no 3; Marc Blit...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

With Vol. 2 of Schönberg & Schüler Steffen Schleiermacher, the leading interpreter of piano music of the twentieth century, rounds off the MDG series featuring...continue...
Recording information: Ehem. Ackerhaus der Abtei Marienmünster (2007-11-09&2007-01-20&2009-)....continue...

Cage: Violin & Piano

1 CD / MD&G / 2010-03-09

Works: John Cage: Six Melodies, for violin & keyboard; Two 4 for Violin and Piano/Sho; Nocturne, for violin & piano; Two6, for violin & piano
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen; Seidel, Andreas

Steffen Schleiermacher’s recording of the complete piano works of John Cage has brought him his international breakthrough. These recordings earned the pianist numerous prizes, including...continue...
Recording information: Ehemaliges Ackerhaus der Abtei Marienmünster (10/01/2008)....continue...

SCENE Cage: Trombone and Piano Music / Svoboda, Schleiermacher

1 CD / MD&G / 2008-08-05

Works: John Cage: Two 5 for Trombone and Piano; Variations no 1, for any number of players and means; Music for...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen; Svoboda, Michael

The entirety of music for the trombone by maverick composer John Cage is on this one CD. For nearly 20 years, Mike Svoboda has committed...continue...

SCENE Cage: Piano Music Vol 10 / Steffen Schleiermacher

1 CD / MD&G / 2002-11-26

Works: John Cage: Opening Dance (Entrance), for piano (for Sue Laub); Furniture Music Etcetera, for 2 pianos; Suite for Toy Piano, for toy piano or piano; Works of Calder, film score for prepared piano & ta...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen; Seidel, Andreas

SCENE Cage: Complete Piano Music Vol 9 / Schleiermacher

3 CD / MD&G / 2002-09-24

Works: John Cage: Études australes, for piano
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

"In addition to the idea of writing etudes of increasing difficulty for the pianist, these and other series of etudes for cello and violin are...continue...

SCENE Cage: Complete Piano Music Vol 8 / S. Schleiermacher

1 CD / MD&G / 2002-04-23

Works: John Cage: Perpetual Tango, for piano; In a Landscape; Suite for Toy Piano, for toy piano or piano; Cheap Imitation, for piano; Dream; Swinging, for piano
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

SCENE Cage - Voice and Piano / Clementi, Schleiermacher

1 CD / MD&G / 2001-11-20

Works: John Cage: Four Walls, for voice & piano; A Flower, for voice & closed piano; Experiences no 2, for voice; She is Asleep, for voice, prepared piano & 4 percussion; The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Spr...
Performers: Clementi, Anna; Schleiermacher, Steffen

SCENE Cage: Complete Piano Music Vol 7 / Schleiermacher

1 CD / MD&G / 2001-08-28

Works: John Cage: Soliloquy, for piano; Ophelia; The Seasons, Ballet in One Act, for orchestra; Pieces (2) for Piano [ca 1935, rev 1974]; Jazz Study, for piano (authorship uncertain); Metamorphosis, for pia...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

SCENE Cage: Complete Piano Music Vol 6 / Schleiermacher

2 CD / MD&G / 2001-05-22

Works: John Cage: One2, for 1- 4 pianos; One, for piano; Etudes Boreales I-IV, for piano; The Beatles 1962-1970, for six taped channels of piano (materials drawn from The Beatles Songbook); ASLSP, for piano...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

"The music on Volume 6 is late Cage, supremely abstract and otherworldly. Given over almost entirely to atmosphere and overtone, the music floats from one's...continue...

John Cage: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 5 (Two Pianos)

2 CD / MD&G / 2000-08-22

Works: John Cage: A Book of Music, for 2 prepared pianos; Experiences no 1, for 2 pianos; Music for...; Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate); Three Dances, for 2 prepared amplified pianos
Performers: Christof, Josef; Schleiermacher, Steffen

"Schleiermacher's Cage series arrives at the music for two pianos, and the pair of discs serve up one delight after another. Sonic pleasures meet immaculate...continue...

SCENE Cage: Complete Piano Music Vol 4 / Schleiermacher

2 CD / MD&G / 2000-01-25

Works: John Cage: Winter Music, for 1 to 20 pianos; Water Music, for one or more players, piano, radio, whistles, water containers & a deck of cards; For M. C. and D. T., for piano; For Paul Taylor and Anit...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

Cage: Complete Piano Music Vol 3 / Steffen Schleiermacher

1 CD / MD&G / 1999-06-22

Works: John Cage: Music of Changes, for piano
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

SCENE Cage: Complete Piano Music Vol 2 / Schleiermacher

2 CD / MD&G / 1998-07-21

Works: John Cage: Music for...; Music for Piano 1, for piano; Music for Piano 2, for piano; Music for Piano 3, for piano; Music for Piano 4 - 19, for piano or any number of pianos; Music for Piano 20, for p...
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

Gramophone Classical Music Guide
This set is devoted to the Music for Piano series almost entirely written in the 1950s, which is neglected and mostly unavailable....continue...

Cage: Music for Eight / Ensemble Avantgarde

1 CD / MD&G / 1996-10-15

Works: John Cage: Music for...; Five, for any 5 voices or instruments; Aria, for solo voice (any range); Quartet for Strings in Four Parts
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble Avantgarde; Leipziger Streichquartett

"...The sound is excellent, with particularly well-placed spatial separation of instruments. Not only will Cage collectors want this for the performances of the late works,...continue...