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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...

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: Four Walls

3 CD / Brilliant Classics Import / 2008-10-21

Works: John Cage: Four Walls, for voice & piano; The Seasons, Ballet in One Act, for orchestra; Three Songs, for voice & piano (Gertrude Stein); Five Songs for Contralto, for voice and piano; Forever and Su...

John Cage may be known as part of the rebellious avant-garde, but he also wrote several pieces for the "traditional" combination of violin and piano....continue...