John Cage – The 25-Year Retrospective Concert Of The Music Of John Cage
Label: | WERGO – WER 6247-2 |
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Series: | Edition John Cage |
Format: | 3 x CD, Album, Reissue |
Country: | Germany |
Released: | |
Genre: | Electronic, Classical |
Style: | Contemporary, Modern, Electroacoustic |
Tracklist
1-1 | Six Short Inventions For Seven Instruments | 5:24 | |
1-2 | [First] Construction In Metal | 9:06 | |
1-3 | Imaginary Landscape No. 1 | 9:00 | |
1-4 | The Wonderful Widow Of Eighteen Springs | 2:33 | |
She Is Asleep | (13:11) | ||
1-5 | Quartet | 5:01 | |
1-6 | Duo | 8:09 | |
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 | |
3-2 | Williams Mix | 5:43 | |
3-3 | Concert For Piano And Orchestra | 26:26 |
Companies, etc.
- Recorded At – Town Hall, New York
Credits
- Composed By – John Cage
- Liner Notes – George Avakian, John Cage, Rolf W. Stoll
- Photography By – Aram Avakian
- Producer – George Avakian
- Producer [Concert] – Emile de Antonio, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg
- Recorded By – Robert E. Blake
- Remastered By [Digital Restoration] – Allan Tucker
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.
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.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode: 4 010228 624724
Other Versions (5)
View AllTitle (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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Recently Edited | The 25-Year Retrospective Concert Of The Music Of John Cage (3×LP, Mono, Box Set, ) | Not On Label | none | US | 1959 | ||
Recently Edited | The 25-Year Retrospective Concert Of The Music Of John Cage (3×LP, Stereo, Box Set, ) | Not On Label | none | US | 1959 | ||
New Submission | The 25-Year Retrospective Concert Of The Music Of John Cage (3×CD, Stereo, Box Set, Stereo) | WERGO | none | Germany | 2003 | ||
Recently Edited | The 25-Year Retrospective Concert Of The Music Of John Cage (2×LP) | Doxy | DOZ407DLP | Europe | 2011 | ||
New Submission | The 25-Year Retrospective Concert Of The Music Of John Cage (2×LP, Limited Edition, Numbered, Unofficial Release, Box Set, ) | modern silence | OI011 | Malta | 2016 |