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Cage: The Works For Percussion Vol 2 / Third Coast Percussion

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Details

Composer
CAGE, JOHN
Artist
Third Coast Percussion, Beyer, Karre
Format
CD
Label
Mode Records
Released
Jun 05, 2012
Catalog #
MOD-CD-243
UPC
764593024323

About

John Cage’s vision of the future of music was first shaped by an intense creative period from 1935-1942, when he wrote many of the seminal works of percussion chamber music featured here. When he composed these works, the young Cage was basically the same age as the members of Third Coast Percussion.

This release includes all three of the groundbreaking Constructions. First Construction (in Metal) utilizes dozens of metal instruments which are beaten, scraped and shaken, creating an other worldly mixture of resonant sound unlike any heard before it. Second Construction prominently features one of Cage’s greatest inventions, the prepared piano. Finally, Third Construction brings the greatest degree of complexity and the widest range of instrumental timbres yet, creating one of the first landmark pieces in the percussion chamber music literature.

There are very few recordings of the early works Quartet and Trio.

The surprisingly beautiful sounds of everyday objects come forth in Third Coast Percussion’s recording of Living Room Music, recorded onsite at the futuristic Ford House in Aurora, IL, designed by one of America’s most iconoclastic architects, Bruce Goff, in 1947. Third Coast utilize the house itself as an instrument for the first movement.

Liner notes by Gregory Beyer and David Skidmore.

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. 1 Third Construction 10:17
    Track
    1
    Title
    Third Construction
    Duration
    10:17
    Composer
    John Cage
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  2. 2 Second Construction 07:50
    Track
    2
    Title
    Second Construction
    Duration
    07:50
    Composer
    John Cage
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  3. 3 First Construction (in Metal) 11:25
    Track
    3
    Title
    First Construction (in Metal)
    Duration
    11:25
    Composer
    John Cage
    Performer
    Greg Beyer, Ross Karre
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  4. 4 I. Allegro 00:59
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    00:59
    Composer
    John Cage
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  5. 5 II. March 01:51
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. March
    Duration
    01:51
    Composer
    John Cage
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  6. 6 III. Waltz 01:40
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Waltz
    Duration
    01:40
    Composer
    John Cage
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  7. 7 I. Moderate 04:19
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Moderate
    Duration
    04:19
    Composer
    John Cage
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  8. 8 II. Very slow 07:04
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Very slow
    Duration
    07:04
    Composer
    John Cage
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  9. 9 III. Axial Asymmetry - Slow 05:29
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Axial Asymmetry - Slow
    Duration
    05:29
    Composer
    John Cage
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  10. 10 IV. Fast 04:33
    Track
    10
    Title
    IV. Fast
    Duration
    04:33
    Composer
    John Cage
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  11. 11 I. To Begin 01:06
    Track
    11
    Title
    I. To Begin
    Duration
    01:06
    Composer
    John Cage
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  12. 12 II. Story 02:25
    Track
    12
    Title
    II. Story
    Duration
    02:25
    Composer
    John Cage
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  13. 13 III. Melody 03:10
    Track
    13
    Title
    III. Melody
    Duration
    03:10
    Composer
    John Cage
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion
  14. 14 IV. End 01:23
    Track
    14
    Title
    IV. End
    Duration
    01:23
    Composer
    John Cage
    Ensemble
    Third Coast Percussion