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	Julie Steinberg John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano Genre: Classical This celebratory special edition features Cage's masterpiece, his visionary Sonatas and Interludes performed by pianist Aleck Karis, A free-bonus-disc brings us to an intimate California living room, where Cage converses a... more » « less
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All Artists: Julie Steinberg
Title: John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Music & Arts Program
Original Release Date: 1/1/2005
Re-Release Date: 2/22/2005
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Short Forms, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Instruments, Keyboard
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
Other Editions: Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano, Cage: Complete Music for Prepared Piano
UPC: 017685493720

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Album Description

This celebratory special edition features Cage's masterpiece, his visionary Sonatas and Interludes performed by pianist Aleck Karis, A free-bonus-disc brings us to an intimate California living room, where Cage converses and gives a reading of his poem-cum-manifesto, Composition in Retrospect. Aleck Karis is the pianist of Speculum Musicae, and Professor of Piano at The University of California, San Diego.

CD Reviews

Good recording of a brilliant piece

I X Key | tomorrow | 03/21/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"John Cage's score for this is fantastic -- including rhythmically exciting music & very sparing, ethereal music; & even specific instructions on how to prepare the piano: where on which strings to put the bolts & things (but every time you prepare the piano you have to do it slightly differently). I like Aleck Karis's performance of the piece, but I've heard better performances, & unless you have other recordings & just want this one too, I'd expect that you could find other recordings of this piece that you'd prefer."