Cage: Works for Percussion

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Label
Wergo
Release Date
July 1, 1991
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      CAGE, JOHN
    • PERFORMER
      Quatuor Helios, Gaston Sylvestre
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 01, 1991
    • UPC
      4010228620320
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      WER62032
    • LABEL
      Wergo
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Second Construction

      Composer: John Cage

      Ensemble: Quatuor Hêlios

    2. Imaginary Landscape No. 2

      Composer: John Cage

      Ensemble: Quatuor Hêlios

    3. I. Solo (prepared piano)

      Composer: John Cage

      Ensemble: Quatuor Hêlios

    4. II. Trio (9 tom-toms)

      Composer: John Cage

      Ensemble: Quatuor Hêlios

    5. III. Trio (7 woodblocks, not Chinese)

      Composer: John Cage

      Ensemble: Quatuor Hêlios

    6. IV. Solo (prepared piano)

      Composer: John Cage

      Ensemble: Quatuor Hêlios

    7. Double Music

      Composer: John Cage, Lou Harrison

      Ensemble: Quatuor Hêlios

    8. Third Construction

      Composer: John Cage

      Ensemble: Quatuor Hêlios

    9. I. Quartet (12 tom-toms)

      Composer: John Cage

      Ensemble: Quatuor Hêlios

    10. II. Duo (voice and prepared piano)

      Composer: John Cage

      Ensemble: Quatuor Hêlios

      Performer: Martine Viard

    11. First Construction (in Metal)

      Composer: John Cage

      Ensemble: Quatuor Hêlios

      Performer: Philippe Chaignon, Anne Berteletti


The significance of the seven pieces brought together here is that they both generate a striking panorama of the intelligence of the material presented, over a period of four years, from 1939 to 1943, by the composer whom the critic Fred Goldbeck described as "the greatest Giraudouxian of our age", and clarify in an extraordinarily oblique manner the prehistory of this "automation" of the creative act, towards which one can detect the perpetual temptation in the young Cage.