Cage, John

John Cage: Variations V

1 DVD Video / Mode Records / 2013-06-18

Works: John Cage: Variations II, for any number of players & any sound producing means

The John Cage Edition Vol. 47: The Complete Organ Works - "The Harmony of Maine"; Souvenir; ASLSP, Organ2/ASLSP / Gary Verkade, organ

2 CD / Mode Records / 2013-02-26

Works: John Cage: Souvenir, for organ; Some of "The Harmony of Maine" (Supply Belcher), for organ & 6 assistants; ASLSP, for piano; Organ2/ASLSP
Performers: Vèrkade, Gary

The organ is ideally suited to Cage's aesthetic - its multiple of stops make it the ultimate prepared instrument. And the fact that sound emanates...continue...
Recording information: Nederluleå Church, Gammelstad, Sweden (2007-11-08&2007-11-09&2007-)....continue...

John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes / Svrcek, piano

1 CD / Centaur / 2012-11-19

Works: John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
Performers: Svrcek, Susan

Recording information: Zipper Hall, the Colburn School, Los Angeles (05/02/2006)....continue...

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...

Da Lontano - Music of Scelsi, Cage, Stockhausen & Nono / Michael Svoboda, trombone and tuba; Holger Stenschke, live electronics

1 Super Audio CD / Wergo / 2012-11-13

Works: Giacinto Scelsi: Mantram; John Cage: Solo, for sliding trombone (with Frank Rehak, incorporated into "Concert for piano & orchestra'); Karlheinz Stockhausen: Signale zur Invasion; Luigi Nono: Post-pr...
Performers: Stenschke, Holger; Svoboda, Michael

Trombonist Mike Svoboda's Da Lontano (from a distance) surveys rarely heard works written by four heroes of new music that are 'outside' of the ordained...continue...
Recording information: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal (11/25/2011-11/27/2011)....continue...

Souvenir d'Amérique / Andreas Froelich, piano; Friedemann Eichhorn, violin

1 CD / Oehms / 2012-11-13

Works: George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess; William Kroll: Banjo and Fiddle; Stephen Foster: Jeannie with the light brown hair; Henri Vieuxtemps: Souvenir d'Amérique, variations on "Yankee Doodle", for v...
Performers: Eichhorn, Friedemann; Frölich, Andreas [Piano]

Recording information: Aula Minor, Monastery Rolduc, Kerkrade (NL) (02/22/2012-02/24/2012)....continue...

Journeys in Sound - A documentary tribute to avant-garde composer John Cage by Allan Miller and Paul Smaczny featuring rare archival footage [Blu-Ray]

1 Blu-Ray Video / Accentus / 2012-10-30

Works: John Cage: Second Construction for 4 Percussionists; Water Music, for one or more players, piano, radio, whistles, water containers & a deck of cards
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen
Conductors:
Ensemble: Schlagquartett Köln

A sonic innovator or an expert on chance? This documentary by Oscar-winning director Allan Miller and Emmy-winner Paul Smaczny pays tribute to the most fascinating...continue...
Run Time: 110 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: Blu-Ray, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): DTS HD Master Audio,
Subtitles: English, German, French
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John Cage: Indeterminacy / Susanne Kessel, piano; Joachim Krol, narrator

1 CD / Oehms / 2012-10-30

Works: John Cage: Indeterminacy, for reader & tapes (collaboration with David Tudor)
Performers: Kessel, Susanne

Susanne Kessel has dedicated this CD to the works of John Cage, the American Composer, Zen Buddhist and passionate mushroom eater. John Cage would be...continue...
Recording information: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal (01/25/2012-01/27/2012)....continue...

Journeys in Sound - A documentary tribute to avant-garde composer John Cage by Allan Miller and Paul Smaczny featuring rare archival footage [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Accentus / 2012-10-30

Works: John Cage: Second Construction for 4 Percussionists; Water Music, for one or more players, piano, radio, whistles, water containers & a deck of cards
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

A sonic innovator or an expert on chance? This documentary by Oscar-winning director Allan Miller and Emmy-winner Paul Smaczny pays tribute to the most fascinating...continue...
Run Time: 110 min.
Region: 0
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo,
Subtitles: English, German, French
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John Cage: Freeman Etudes, Books One and Two / Irvine Arditti, violin

1 CD / Mode Records / 2012-10-16

Works: John Cage: Freeman Etudes Book 1, for solo violin; Freeman Etudes Book 2, for solo violin
Performers: Arditti, Irvine

Recording information: Crowell Hall, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (02/13/1990)....continue...

John Cage: 100 / Joshua Pierce; Malcolm Goldstein; Matthias Kaul, Mark Knoop [5 CDs]

5 CD / Wergo / 2012-10-09

Works: John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano; Concert, for piano & orchestra, for piano & 13 other instruments in any combination; Atlas eclipticalis; James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie;...
Performers: Cage, John; Corner, Philip; Curran, Alvin; Didge, Charles [Spoken Word]; Fay, Park Too; Gauwerky, Friedrich; Goldstein, Malcolm; Gould, Melissa; Higgins, Dick; Johnson, Mimi; Kaul, Matthias; Knoop, M...
Conductors: Schoning, Klaus; Kotik, Petr
Ensemble: ; Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble

Wergo was one of the first labels to recognize the avant-garde genius of Cage and offered the début recordings of some of his most important...continue...

John Cage: A Tribute / Joshua Pierce, piano & prepared piano; Robert White, tenor

2 CD / MSR Classics / 2012-10-09

Works: John Cage: Four Walls, for voice & piano; Primitive, for string piano; In the Name of the Holocaust, for prepared piano; Quest; Our Spring Will Come; Prelude, for piano, flute, bassoon, trumpet, viol...
Performers: Pierce, Joshua [Piano]; White, Robert [Bagpipes/Wind Instr.]
Conductors: Reinhard, Johnny;
Ensemble: American Festival of Microtonal Music Ensemble

Pianist Joshua Pierce's highly expressive and rhythmic approach to the music of John Cage is a result of his 30-year association with Cage's music, an...continue...

Happy Birthday John! Chamber Music with Harp by John Cage / Floraleda Sacchi, harp; John Cage, speaker

1 CD / Amadeus Arte / 2012-10-09

Works: Spoken Word: John Cage speaks; John Cage: Primitive, for string piano; In a Landscape; A Room, for piano or prepared piano; Variations no 1, for any number of players and means; Waiting, for piano; 4...
Performers: Sacchi, Floraleda

September 5, 2012 marked the 100th birthday of the remarkable American composer, theorist and experimentalist John Cage, infamous, at the very least, for his unorthodox...continue...
Recording information: Como, Italy....continue...

Darmstadt Aural Documents Box 2 - Music for voice & piano by John Cage; Christian Wolff; Bo Nilsson / John Cage, David Tudor

1 CD / Neos Production / 2012-10-06

Works: Spoken Word: Communication (Third part of John Cage's 1958 Darmstadt lecture "Composition as Process"); Christian Wolff: For Piano with Preparations; Bo Nilsson: Quantitäten, for piano duet; Joh...
Performers: Cage, John; Tudor, David [Composer/Piano]

Late summer, 1958. For the first time the American composer John Cage attended the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. As so often in those...continue...

John Cage: Song Books

2 CD / Sub Rosa Studio / 2012-09-25

Works: John Cage: Song Books
Performers: Lixenberg, Loré; Rose, Gregory [Conductor]; Worby, Robert

Recording information: The Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's Colleg (2012)....continue...

John Cage: As It Is / Natalia Pschenitschnikova, voice; Alexei Lubimov, piano

1 CD / ECM / 2012-09-25

Works: John Cage: Dream; The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs, for voice & closed piano; The Unavailable Memory of, for prepared piano; A Flower, for voice & closed piano; Music for Marcel Duchamp, for p...
Performers: Lubimov, Alexei [Piano]; Pschenitschnikova, Natalia

A fresh approach to one of contemporary composition's most iconoclastic and inventive figures, issued on the occasion of John Cage's 100th birthday. Early Cage is...continue...
Recording information: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich (12/2011)....continue...

John Cage: Music for an Aquatic Ballet; Music for Carillon No. 6 / Jonathan Faralli, percussion; Roberto Fabbriciani, flutes

1 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2012-08-28

Works: John Cage: Music for an Aquatic Ballet, for flutes, percussion & tape (reconstruction); Dialogues, for bass flute & percussion; 27'10.554", for percussion; Atlas Eclipticalis; Two, for flute & piano;...
Performers: Fabbriciani, Roberto; Faralli, Jonathan

In addition to electrifying performances and exciting repertoire, this fascinating disc offers several world premiere recordings to the Cage canon. Flautist and Cage expert Roberto...continue...
Personnel: Jonathan Faralli (electronics).

Recording information: Montevarchi, Arezzo, Italy (2011)....continue...

John Cage: Roaratorio - An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake / Ars Acustica, John Cage, voice

1 CD / Wergo / 2012-08-14

Works: John Cage: Roaratorio; Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake
Performers: Ennis, Seamus; Glackin, Paddy [Fiddle]; Heaney, Joe [Vocals]; Malloy, Matt; Peador Mercier
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ars Acustica

American composer John Cage's famous radio production entitled Roaratorio - An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake was an international sensation following its premiere in 1979....continue...

John Cage: Sonatas & Interludes for prepared piano / John Tilbury, piano

1 CD / Decca / 2012-07-31

Works: John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
Performers: Tilbury, John

Sonatas and Interludes, composed in 1946-48, is John Cage's most important work for prepared piano.

John Cage described the work as an attempt to express

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Recording information: All Saints Church, Petersham, London, England (12/09/1974-12/11/1974)....continue...

John Cage: Music for Piano, Vol. 4 - 1 - 84; ASLSP; One; One2; One5 / Giancarlo Simonacci, piano

3 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2012-07-31

Works: John Cage: Music for Piano, 1-84; ASLSP, for piano; One, for piano; One2, for 1- 4 pianos; One5, for piano
Performers: Simonacci, Giancarlo

With this 3-CD set Cage specialist and champion Giancarlo Simonacci continues his foray into the piano works of John Cage. Perhaps most interesting about this...continue...
Recording information: Fazioli Concert Hall, Sacile, Italy (11/28/2011-12/01/2011)....continue...

String Quartets by Ligeti, Pintscher, Cage, Xenakis / Jack Quartet

1 CD / Wigmore Hall Live / 2012-07-17

Works: György Ligeti: Quartet for Strings no 2; Matthias Pintscher: Study no 4 for Treatise on the Veil, for string quartet; John Cage: Quartet for Strings in Four Parts; Iannis Xenakis: Tetras, for st...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Jack Quartet

Dedicated to performing cutting-edge, up-to-the-minute music, the supremely cool, New York based JACK Quartet electrifies audiences worldwide with "explosive virtuosity" (Boston Globe) and "viscerally...continue...
Recording information: Wigmore Hall, London (07/30/2011)....continue...

American Song

1 CD / Traditions Alive / 2012-07-10

Works: George Gershwin: Girl Crazy; A Foggy Day (in London Town), song (from A Damsel in Distress, film); They All Laughed, song (from Shall We Dance?, film); Elliott Carter: Poems (3) of Robert Frost, for ...
Performers: Dickinson, Meriel; Dickinson, Peter

John Cage: Imaginary Landscapes 1-5; Sixteen Dances / Ensemble Prometeo

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2012-07-10

Works: John Cage: Imaginary Landscape no 1, for 2 variable speed turntables, frequency records, muted piano & cymbal; Imaginary Landscape no 3, for 6 percussionists; Imaginary Landscape no 5, for any 42 rec...
Conductors: Angius, Marco
Ensemble: Ensemble Prometeo

Landscape and dance, the two themes proposed by this CD - conceived as the prolongation of the homage to John Cage performed on October 22,...continue...
Recording information: Casa del Suono di Parma (10/2009); Casa della Musica, Trieste (10/2009)....continue...

DeConstruction - Music for 2 pianos - Cage: Perilous Night; Bacchanale; Rose & Dianova: First DeConstruction; Satie: Socrate I; Gnosienne IV et al. / Tsenka Dianova, Sara Watkins: pianos

1 CD / Atoll / 2012-07-10

Works: John Cage: The Perilous Night, for prepared piano; Bacchanale for Prepared Piano; Tzenka Dianova: First DeConstruction (The Perilous Night), for unpreparing piano & electronics; Erik Satie: Socrate; ...
Performers: Dianova, Tzenka; Rose, Charlotte [Composer]; Watkins, Sarah [Piano]

Atoll is proud to present Tsenka Dianova, considered to be the greatest exponent of prepared piano. The title Deconstruction started just as the name of...continue...
Personnel: Sarah Watkins (piano)....continue...

John Cage: Sonatas & Interludes / Cédric Pescia, piano

1 CD / Aeon / 2012-06-12

Works: John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
Performers: Pescia, Cedric

With this new disc, æon celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of John Cage, born on September 5, 1912 in the United States. This...continue...
Recording information: Saal 3, Funkhaus Berlin Nalepastrasse (10/07/2011-10/08/2011)....continue...

Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series, Vol. 6 / Paul Zukofsky, violin; Gilbert Kalish, piano [3 CDs for the price of 2]

3 CD / World Village / 2012-06-12

Works: John Cage: Cartridge Music, for amplified 'small' sounds; Six Melodies, for violin & keyboard; Christian Wolff: Duo for violinist & pianist; Duet II, for horn & piano; Summer for string quartet; Geor...
Performers: Cage, John; Hillyer, Howard; Kalish, Gilbert [Piano]; Kobayashi, Kenji; Raimondi, Matthew; Soyer, David; Trampler, Walter; Tudor, David [Composer/Piano]; Zukofsky, Paul
Conductors: Lanza, Alcides
Ensemble: New Sound Composers-Performers Group; The New Sound Composers Performers Group

The sixth and final volume in Wergo's acclaimed series of recordings, Earle Brown - A Life in Music completes the label's reissue of the eighteen...continue...
Recording information: 1960-1973....continue...

John Cage: Works For Percussion, Vol. 2 / Third Coast Percussion

1 CD / Mode Records / 2012-06-05

Works: John Cage: Third Construction, for 4 percussionists; Second Construction, for 4 percussionists; First Construction (In Metal), for 6 percussionists; Trio, for 3 percussionists; Quartet, for 4 percuss...
Performers: Beyer, Gregory; Karre, Ross

The Guardian, July 2012
These performances have a special fluency and zest that sets them apart from most other recorded versions. The way in which Cage's...continue...

John Cage: The Works for Percussion, Vol. 2 / Third Coast Percussion [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Mode Records / 2012-06-05

Works: John Cage: First Construction (in Metal) for 6 Percussionists; Second Construction for 4 Percussionists; Third Construction for 4 Percussionists; Quartet, for 4 percussionists; Trio, for 3 percussion...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Third Coast Percussion

Run Time: 64 min.
Region: 1
Picture Format: NTSC, Color
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John Cage: Freeman Etudes, Books 3 & 4 / Marco Fusi, violin

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2012-05-08

Works: John Cage: Freeman Etudes Books 3 & 4, for solo violin
Performers: Fusi, Marco [Violin]

A year after his first encounter with the "Freeman Etudes" by John Cage, Marco Fusi faces Books 3 & 4!...continue...
Recording information: Studio Ferro, Milano (08/14/2011-08/15/2011)....continue...

Electric Seraphim - Singer Pur & Go Guitars - works by Perotinus, Dufay, Pipelare, Da Venosa and Cage

1 CD / K&K / 2012-04-24

Works: Pérotin: Sederunt principes; Fredrik Zeller: PeroPop Sederunt, for voices & electric guitars; Bernhard Weidner: Schwebende Lerchen; Matthaeus Pipelare: Memorare Mater Christi; John Cage: Work(s)...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Go Guitars

This unique musical constellation, "Electric Seraphim", launches the listener into uncharted soundscapes. The program of vocal and vocal/guitar pieces is an experiment that forms a...continue...
Recording information: Maulbronn Monastery (06/2003)....continue...

Song of the Black Swan: works by Villa-Lobos, Nielsen, Cage, Debussy, Tharp et al. / Jonathan Keeble, flute; Ann Yeung, harp

1 CD / Albany Records / 2012-04-10

Works: Gareth Farr: Taheke, for flute & harp; Shafer Mahoney: Shining River, for flute & harp; Cesar Sanchez: Fantasia Andina, for flute; Susann McDonald / Linda Wood: Haiku for the Harp; Kent Kennan: Night...
Performers: Keeble, Jonathan; Rostad, Masumi Per; Yeung, Ann
Conductors:
Ensemble: Aletheia Duo

This recording presents works for flute and harp that seamlessly arc between the natural world and the human spirit, serving as reminders of the fragility...continue...
Recording information: Foellinger Great Hall of the Krannert Center for the Pe (2010-12-??&2011-05-??&2011-)....continue...

Cage: The Number Pieces, Vol. 6: Five, Seven, Thirteen / John Kennedy, Charles Wood

1 CD / Mode Records / 2012-02-14

Works: John Cage: Five, for any 5 voices or instruments; Seven, for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola & cello; Thirteen, for chamber orchestra
Conductors:
Ensemble: Essential Music

Recording information: SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY (05/09/1993/01/18/1994)....continue...

John Cage: Etudes Australes / Sabine Liebner, piano

4 CD / Wergo / 2012-02-14

Works: John Cage: Études australes, for piano
Performers: Liebner, Sabine

John Cage's Etudes Australes, performed here by pianist Sabine Liebner, launched a series of virtuoso studies born out of the composer's renewed interest in traditional...continue...
Recording information: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal (2010-05-10_2010-05-14&2010-)....continue...

In Due Tempi

1 CD / ECM Import / 2012-01-31

Works: Kaija Saariaho: Nymphea (Jardin secret III), for string quartet & electronics; John Cage: Quartet for Strings in Four Parts; Bruno Maderna: Quartet for Strings ("in due tempi")

Music Of The Night - Bartok, Chou, Petersen, Cage,norgard, Goehr, Nordh / Elisabeth Klein

1 CD / Scandinavian Classic / 2012-01-31

Works: Béla Bartók: Out of Doors, suite for piano, Sz. 81, BB 89; Chou Wen-Chung: Willows Are New for piano; Nils Petersen Holger: Question Marks, for piano; Für Åse, for piano; John Cag...
Performers: Klein, Elisabeth

Bassonoble / Klaus Stoll, Jose Vitores

1 CD / Phil.Harmonie / 2012-01-31

Works: Jose Vitores: Canzona for contrabass (after Frescobaldi); Cancion sin Palabras, for contrabass; Diego Ortiz: Recercada no 1 (Trattado de glosas); Giovanni Battista Vitali: Toccata, for violone & cont...

A lifetime's affection for the double bass has inspired Klaus Stoll, first solo bassist of the Berlin Philharmonic, to prepare a musical plea for his...continue...
Recording information: Schalloran Tonstudio, Berlin, Germany (04/13/2011-04/15/2011)....continue...

Antonia Vivaldi & John Cage: 8 Seasons / Rodolfo Richter

2 CD / EtCetera Records / 2012-01-10

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin in E major, Op. 8 no 1/RV 269 "Primavera"; John Cage: Quartet for Strings in Four Parts
Performers: Richter, Rodolfo
Conductors: Richter, Rodolfo
Ensemble: Baroque Orchestra B'Rock

The immediate cause for this CD is the direction Cage gave in his score of the String Quartet in Four Parts: "Play without vibrato and...continue...
Recording information: Monastery of Saint Vincentius, Aalst, Belgium (02/2011)....continue...

Time Piece: Stenhammer, Parkman, Lindberg / Singer Pur

4 CD / Ars Musici / 2011-11-15

Works: Tomás Luis de Victoria: O Domine Jesu Christe, motet for 6 voices; Orlande de Lassus: In monte Oliveti, motet for 6 voices, M. vi (S. xi/187); Allala la pia calia; Media vita in morte sumus, mot...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Singer Pur

In a short period of time, Singer Pur has advanced to become one of the best German vocal combination ensembles. Singer Pur consists of 5...continue...

Minimal Piano Collection - Glass, etc / Jeroen van Veen

9 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2011-11-15

Works: Philip Glass: Opening; Metamorphoses (5); Mad Rush; Wichita Vortex Sutra; The Hours; The Truman Show; The Olympian; Modern Love Waltz; How Now; Trilogy Sonata for Piano; John Adams: China Gates; Arvo...
Performers: Van Veen, Jeroen

"This unusual collection is dedicated to a very popular style: minimal music. Over the years this has evolved from austere, almost strict repetition with tiny...continue...

Modern American Bass / Robert Black, Joseph Iadone, Halsey Stevens, Quincy Porter, Jerome Moross

2 CD / New World / 2011-11-08

Works: Joseph Iadone: Sonata for double bass & piano; Halsey Stevens: Arioso & Etude, for double bass & piano; Quincy Porter: Lyric Piece, for contrabass & piano; Jerome Moross: Sonatina for double bass & p...
Performers: McDonald, John

In the twentieth century, a series of instruments and ensembles have found their repertoire expanding exponentially, and their place on the classical stage suddenly front...continue...
Recording information: Rogers City Center for the Arts, Merrimack College, Nor (08/24/2006-08/25/2006)....continue...

20 Jahre Inventionen II

1 CD / Edition Rz / 2011-10-11

Works: Hildegard Westerkamp: Whisper Study, for 2-channel tape; Salvatore Sciarrino: Codex purpureus, for string trio; John Cage: Music for Piano 1- 85, for piano; Sainkho Namtchylak: Roots and Vibration, f...
Performers: Cage, John; Driscoll, John; Fujita, Masanori; Jones, Joe; Namtchylak, Sainkho; Scelsi, Giacinto; Sciarrino, Salvatore; Westerkamp, Hildegard

Cage, Nancarrow: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

2 CD / Warner Classics / 2011-09-27

Works: John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano; The Perilous Night, for prepared piano; Bacchanale for Prepared Piano; Robin Hartwell: Piano Piece no 2 (after John Cage), for piano; Matthew Fai...
Performers: Bates, Lulu; MacGregor, Joanna [Piano]; Singh, Talvin; Turnbull, Keith

American composer, philosopher, poet, theorist, artist and amateur mushroom collector, John Cage was a pioneering man, excited to explore new ideas, sounds and interests. A...continue...

Only

1 CD / Sub Rosa Studio / 2011-08-02

Works: John Cage: The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs, for voice & closed piano; Experiences no 2, for voice; Morton Feldman: Only; Hanns Eisler: Von der Freundlichkeit der Welt, for voice & piano; Giac...
Performers: Echardour, Maxime; Pousseur, Marianne

Personnel: Marianne Pousseur (vocals).

Henri Pousseur, one of the most significant avant-garde composers of the mid-20th century, left an impressive artistic progeny: composer Denis, theater di...continue...

John Cage: Freeman Etudes Books 1 & 2

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2011-06-14

Works: John Cage: Freeman Etudes Book 1, for solo violin; Freeman Etudes Book 2, for solo violin
Performers: Fusi, Marco [Violin]

The first cycle of the collection of Freeman Etudes on this CD represents the latest of many Cyclopean projects, calibrated by Cage with a well-known...continue...
Recording information: Studio Ferro, Milano (09/14/2009-09/15/2009)....continue...

Ostravská Band on Tour

2 CD / Stickfigure Distribution / 2011-05-31

Works: Luca Francesconi: Riti Neurali, for violin & ensemble; Petr Bakla: Serenade, for ensemble; Paulina Zalubska: Dispersion, for ensemble; Somei Satoh: The Passion, for chorus & ensemble; John Cage: Conc...
Performers: Buckner, Thomas [Baritone Vocals]; Kotková, Hana; Kubera, Joseph; Purnhagen, Gregory

Stories: Berio and friends

1 Super Audio CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2011-05-10

Works: Luciano Berio: A-Ronne; John Cage: Living Room Music; Jackson Mac Low: Young Turtle Asymmetries, for voice or vocal ensemble; Roger Marsh: Not a Soul But Ourselves, for 4 amplified voices; Sheldon Fr...
Conductors: Hillier, Paul

Paul Hillier leads Theatre of Voices in a fascinating program centered on the artistic milieu of the contemporary composer Luciano Berio. Hillier says, "Although not...continue...
Recording information: Garnisons Church, Copenhagen, Denmark (11/2009)....continue...

John Cage Edition, Vol. 43: Works for Percussion I / Percussion Group Cincinnati [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Mode Records / 2011-04-26

Works: John Cage: Imaginary Landscape no 1, for 2 variable speed turntables, frequency records, muted piano & cymbal; Imaginary Landscape no 2, for 5 percussionists; Imaginary Landscape no 3, for 6 percussi...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Percussion Group Cincinnati

John Cage: 108; 109 (One8 and 108); 110 (Two3 and 108)

1 DVD Audio / CD Baby Independants / 2011-04-05

Works: John Cage: 108, symphony for large orchestra; 109 (One8 and 108), concerto for cello & orchestra; 110 (Two3 and 108), double concerto for sho, conch shells & orchestra
Performers: Freeman, Glenn; Krummel, Karen; Tono, Tamami

Pierre Boulez & John Cage: Structures & Music For Piano

1 CD / Hat Art Import / 2011-04-05

Works: John Cage: Music for Piano; Pierre Boulez: Structures, Premier livre; Structures, Deuxième livre
Performers: Pace, Ian; Pi-hsien, Chen

Recording information: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal (10/02/2007-10/05/2007).

REVIEWS:

The Wire (p.62) - "Memorably incandescent interpretations of both books of Boulez's two-pia...continue...

An Irish Songbook / Ailish Tynan

1 CD / Signum UK / 2011-04-03

Works: Thomas Dunhill: Cloths of Heaven for voice & piano, Op. 30/3; Samuel Barber: Solitary Hotel, song for voice & piano (Despite and Still), Op. 41/4; Hermit Songs, Op. 29; The Desire for Hermitage, song...
Performers: Burnside, Iain [Piano]; Tynan, Ailish

Iain Burside and Ailish Tynan return to Signum with their second disc of Irish Songs and arrangements - this time from a range of different...continue...
Recording information: St Paul's Church, Deptford, London (04/22/2009-04/24/2009)....continue...