John Cage: Voice & Piano, Trombone & Piano, Violin & Piano [3CD]

Współczesna Muzyka Klasyczna / Kameralistyka
premiera polska: 2012-10-10
opakowanie: plastikowe etui
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Editor's info:
Happy Birthday! MDG has a very special treat in store for the hundredth anniversary of John Cage’s birth: three recordings featuring Steffen Schleiermacher, the Cage specialist par excellence. To get the party going, Schleiermacher has invited three friends to celebrate with him on this release, and Anna Clementi, Mike Svoboda, and Andreas Seidel do indeed offer extraordinary voice, trombone, and violin tributes to the birthday boy.

Cage’s works for voice and piano are extremely extroverted and far transcend anything the classical repertoire might have to offer. With carefree nonchalance he violates all the rules associated with this genre: the piano lid is slammed down, drumming on the piano is prescribed, and screaming is heard – and in “Four Walls” the musicians may perform side by side but not together.

The pieces for violin and piano offer an overview of the work of a lifetime. From the early “Nocturne” to the very late “Number Pieces,” the American master’s whole colourful palette of compositional and expressive resources is represented. Of special note: Cage’s admiration for Erik Satie continued unbroken over five decades.

Schleiermacher has obtained the services of a proven expert in contemporary music and admirer of John Cage in the person of Mike Svoboba. Cage’s oeuvre for trombone is quite compact – to our good fortune, since all three of its pieces, excellently performed and lovingly rendered, can be presented on a single CD.

muzycy:
Steffen Schleiermacher: piano
Anna Clementi
Mike Svoboda
Andreas Seidel

utwory:
Cage: A Flower for voice and piano
Cage: Experiences No. 2
Cage: Four Walls
Cage: Music for Two
Cage: Nocturne
Cage: Nowth upon Nacht (1984)
Cage: She is Asleep: Duet for voice and prepared piano
Cage: Six Melodies
Cage: The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
Cage: Two4
Cage: Two5 for trombone and piano
Cage: Two6
Cage: Variations I

wydano: 2012
more info: www.mdg.de