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Cage: Winter Music - Complete Version for One Pianist
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Cage: Winter Music - Complete Version for One Pianist

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Composer
John Cage
Artist
Sabine Liebner
Format
CD
Label
Wergo
Released
Jan 10, 2025
Catalog #
WER74112
UPC
4010228741124

About

John Cage's importance for a comprehensive aesthetic reorientation of New Music after the Second World War can hardly be overestimated. His self-discovery and compositional articulation took place particularly in the field of piano music: in the art-merging experimental laboratory of New York around the dancer Merce Cunningham, the painter Robert Rauschenberg and the congenial performer and pianist David Tudor. It is good fortune that Sabine Liebner, who has already released several internationally acclaimed, award-winning albums with WERGO, has thrown herself into the complex pianistic and artistic demands of interpreting another of Cage's great works. The result is the first recording of the complete "Winter Music" for one pianist: all notated events (aggregates) from each of the 20 unnumbered pages are played consecutively. The additional, fascinating expansion of the sound space through "harmonics" - overtone vibrations - creates a very differentiated sounding, kaleidoscope-like music of surprisingly idiosyncratic beauty. Dedicated to the artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, "Winter Music" calls for a new way of listening: listening to sound with crystalline clarity and permanent change both inside and outside the sound. This integral recording, which is set against the tide of a strongly event-driven cultural life, represents a milestone and point of reference for the further impact of "Winter Music"!

Tracklist 4 tracks

  1. 1 Fraction 1 13:34
    Track
    1
    Title
    Fraction 1
    Duration
    13:34
    Composer
    John Cage
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  2. 2 Fraction 2 16:29
    Track
    2
    Title
    Fraction 2
    Duration
    16:29
    Composer
    John Cage
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  3. 3 Fraction 3 16:50
    Track
    3
    Title
    Fraction 3
    Duration
    16:50
    Composer
    John Cage
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner
  4. 4 Fraction 4 20:10
    Track
    4
    Title
    Fraction 4
    Duration
    20:10
    Composer
    John Cage
    Performer
    Sabine Liebner