John Cage - The 25-Year Retrospective Concert Of The Music Of John Cage

Label:

WERGO

Catalog#:

WER 6247-2

Format:

3 x CD, Album, Reissue

Country:

Germany

Released:

1994

Genre:

Classical, Electronic

Style:

Musique Concrète, Contemporary, Modern

Tracklist

1-1	Six Short Inventions For Seven Instruments	5:24
	Cello - Joan Brockway Clarinet - Albert Kaufman Flute [Alto] - Andrew Lolya Trumpet - Melvyn Broiles Viola - Burton Fisch , William Gromko Violin - Anahid Ajemian
1-2	[First] Construction In Metal	9:06
	Percussion - Douglas Allan , Manhattan Percussion Ensemble , Marvin Rosenberg (2) , Michael Colgrass , Warren Smith Piano - David Tudor Piano [Assistant] - Merce Cunningham
1-3	Imaginary Landscape No. 1	9:00
	Performer - Doris Dennison , John Cage , Margaret Jansen , Xenia Cage
1-4	The Wonderful Widow Of Eighteen Springs	2:33
	Alto Vocals [Contralto] - Arline Carmen Piano - John Cage
	She Is Asleep (13:11)
1-5	Quartet	5:01
	Percussion - Michael Colgrass , Paul Price , Philip Brown , Warren Smith
1-6	Duo	8:09
	Alto Vocals [Contralto] - Arline Carmen Piano - John Cage
	Sonatas And Interludes (28:35)
2-1	Sonata I	2:50
2-2	Sonata II	2:19
2-3	Sonata III	2:53
2-4	Sonata IV	2:56
2-5	First Interlude	3:29
2-6	Sonata V	1:28
2-7	Sonata VI	2:11
2-8	Sonata VII	2:25
2-9	Sonata VIII	2:52
2-10	Second Interlude	5:07
	-
3-1	Music For Carillon [No.1]	4:46
	Electronics [Electronic Carillon] - David Tudor
3-2	Williams Mix	5:43
	Performer [Realization] - David Tudor , Earle Brown , John Cage Technician [Technical Assistance] - Colonel Richard Ranger , Louis A. Stevenson, Jr.
3-3	Concert For Piano And Orchestra	26:26
	Bass - Jesse Taiko* Bassoon, Saxophone [Baritone] - Sy Schwartzberg Cello - Joan Brockway Clarinet [In B Flat] - Albert Kaufman Conductor - Merce Cunningham Flute [Alto], Flute, Piccolo Flute - Andrew Lolya Piano - David Tudor Trombone [Sliding] - Frank Rehak Trumpet [Trumpets In F, E Flat, D, C And B Flat] - Melvyn Broiles Tuba [In F And B Flat] - Don Butterfield Viola - Burton Fisch , William Gromko Violin - Allan Martin* , Anahid Ajemian , Isadore Cohen*

Credits

Composed By - John Cage
Mastered By [Digital Restoration] - Allan Tucker
Other [Liner Notes] - George Avakian , John Cage , Rolf W. Stoll
Photography - Aram Avakian
Piano - Maro Ajemian (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
Producer - George Avakian
Producer [Concert] - Emile de Antonio , Jasper Johns , Robert Rauschenberg
Recorded By - Robert E. Blake

Notes

First release of "Imaginary Landscape No, 1", composed by Cage in 1939.
This piece is the oldest published composition in history to be considered as an electronic work. It combined pre-recorded sinus frequencies (played on two variable speed turntables) with some percussions.

Re-issue of a 3-record set, which was privately issued by George Avakian and contains recordings made at the "25-Year Retrospective Concert of the Music of John Cage", at Town Hall, New York, May 15, 1958. Includes a 94-page booklet with notes by in English and German.

Monaural.

Six Short Inventions for Seven Instruments (1934)
[First] Construction in Metal (1939)
Imaginary Landscape No. 1 (1939) - a recording for constant and variable frequency records, cymbal and piano
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (1942) - text adapted from Finnegans Wake
She is Asleep (1943)
Sonatas and Interludes (1946-48)
Music for Carillon [No.1] (1952)
Williams Mix (1952) - four stereophonic magnetic tape playbacks, eight loudspeakers

This edition is dedicated to John Cage, Emile de Antonio and Maro Ajemian.

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