John 1 Cage Vittorio Rieti Margaret Leng Tan - John Cage The Works for Piano Vol 7 (21 tracks) +Album Reviews

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John [1] Cage, Vittorio Rieti, Margaret Leng Tan
John Cage: The Works for Piano, Vol. 7
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (21) - Disc #1
1. Chess Pieces, for piano
2. Sonatas and Interludes, for prepared piano: Sonata 1
3. Sonatas and Interludes, for prepared piano: Sonata 2
4. Sonatas and Interludes, for prepared piano: Sonata 3
5. Sonatas and Interludes, for prepared piano: Sonata 4
6. Sonatas and Interludes, for prepared piano: First Interlude
7. Sonatas and Interludes, for prepared piano: Sonata 5
8. Sonatas and Interludes, for prepared piano: Sonata 6
9. Sonatas and Interludes, for prepared piano: Sonata 7
10. Sonatas and Interludes, for prepared piano: Sonata 8
11. Sonatas and Interludes, for prepared piano: Second Interlude
12. Sonatas and Interludes, for prepared piano: Third Interlude
13. Sonatas and Interludes, for prepared piano: Sonata 9
14. Sonatas and Interludes, for prepared piano: Sonata 10
15. Sonatas and Interludes, for prepared piano: Sonata 11
16. Sonatas and Interludes, for prepared piano: Sonata 12
17. Sonatas and Interludes, for prepared piano: Fourth Interlude
18. Sonatas and Interludes, for prepared piano: Sonata 13
19. Sonatas and Interludes, for prepared piano: Sonatas 14 & 15 'Gemini', after the work by Richard Lippold
20. Sonatas and Interludes, for prepared piano: Sonata 16
21. Chess Serenade, for piano

CD Details

All Artists: John [1] Cage, Vittorio Rieti, Margaret Leng Tan
Title: John Cage: The Works for Piano, Vol. 7
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Mode
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 3/21/2006
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Short Forms, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Instruments, Keyboard
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 764593015826

CD Reviews

A Fully Authoritative Reading of a Great Work

David N. Lewis | Ann Arbor, MI USA | 06/10/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Margaret Leng Tan has devoted much of her life to studying and performing John Cage's prepared piano music. For a prepared pianist, Cage's Sonatas and Interludes is the equivalent of J.S. Bach's "48." Leng Tan has examined the original preparations used by Cage in the 1940s as a means to get at the "truth" of this work; her playing is majesterial, buoyantly rhythmic and evokes the grand gesture, yet is gentle, incisive and intimate when the music calls for it. Leng Tan's reading of "Sonatas and Interludes" is absolutely authoritative, and has been welcomed enthusiastically even by English critics - not usually well-disposed to the work of John Cage - as enlightening and revelatory. This mode CD is a benchmark recording in the long history of the Sonatas and Interludes, and should be regarded as a "go to" option for the work; something to measure all future recordings against. It also includes the charming, long "lost" early Cage piece "Chess Pieces" and music of Vittorio Rieti. This is in every way outstanding."