John Cage: Piano Works (Full Album)

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John Cage (1912–92) is regarded as one of the most influential and controversial composers of the 20th century.

It is not only his music that this reputation is based on – his ideas were revolutionary, and he cast doubt on the supremacy of European art, and music when it was unchallenged and such views were considered heretic.

Cage rejected the status held by harmony, instrumentation, and even the development of music from one point to another. He disconnected harmony from rhythm to liberate western music from its hitherto privileged hierarchies – iconoclastic stuff for 1940s America!

Cage studied with Schoenberg in Los Angeles, and although he adopted the 12-tone technique he abandoned Schoenberg’s expressionist style.

Cage was also influenced the maverick composer – Erik Satie. Satie had also ridiculed the musical establishment, and Cage arranged Satie’s longest work Socrate (a monodrama for piano and voice) for two pianos. It is worth mentioning that Cage’s favourite Satie composition was Vexations, a short work for piano, with instructions that it may be performed 840 times without pause or change.

00:00:00 Three Easy Pieces (1933): Round
00:01:54 Three Easy Pieces (1933): Duo
00:02:36 Three Easy Pieces (1933): infinite CaNon
00:03:11 Three Easy Pieces (1933): Quest
00:04:01 Metamorphosis (1938): Metamorphosis I
00:06:17 Metamorphosis (1938): Metamorphosis II
00:08:54 Metamorphosis (1938): Metamorphosis III
00:13:59 Metamorphosis (1938): Metamorphosis IV
00:15:13 Metamorphosis (1938): Metamorphosis V
00:17:43 Jazz study (1942)
00:20:20 Tripled paced (first version, 1943): Tripled paced - 1a versione I
00:21:16 Tripled paced (first version, 1943): Tripled paced - 1a versione II
00:22:07 Tripled paced (first version, 1943): Tripled paced - 1a versione III
00:22:43 Ad lib
00:25:46 Soliloquy
00:28:21 Ophelia
00:34:45 Two pieces (1946): Two pieces I
00:38:22 Two pieces (1946): Two pieces II
00:42:07 in A landscape
00:50:08 Dream
00:56:24 Suite for toy Piano - versione per Pianoforte - I
00:57:42 Suite for toy Piano - versione per Pianoforte - II
00:59:09 Suite for toy Piano - versione per Pianoforte - III
01:00:20 Suite for toy Piano - versione per Pianoforte - IV
01:01:52 Suite for toy Piano - versione per Pianoforte - V
01:02:47 Seven Haiku I
01:03:00 Seven Haiku II
01:03:11 Seven Haiku III
01:03:34 Seven Haiku IV
01:03:50 Seven Haiku V
01:04:14 Seven Haiku vi
01:04:32 Seven Haiku viI
01:04:52 For M.C. and D.T.
01:05:40 Waiting
01:09:21 Socrate (1918) Drame symphonique en trois parties Transcription for two pianos by Cage (1944–1968): I Portrait de Socrate (Le Banquet)
01:15:47 Socrate (1918) Drame symphonique en trois parties Transcription for two pianos by Cage (1944–1968): II Bords de l'Iliussus (Phèdre)
01:22:39 Socrate (1918) Drame symphonique en trois parties Transcription for two pianos by Cage (1944–1968): III Morte de Socrate (Phédon)
01:38:23 Cheap imitation (1969) I
01:44:26 Cheap imitation (1969) II
01:53:28 Cheap imitation (1969) III
02:09:39 Etudes Boreales I (Piano)
02:15:13 Etudes Boreales II (Piano)
02:20:44 Etudes Boreales III (Piano)
02:26:22 Etudes Boreales IV (Piano)
02:32:04 Etudes Boreales I (cello)
02:37:32 Etudes Boreales II (cello)
02:43:12 Etudes Boreales III (cello)
02:48:41 Etudes Boreales IV (cello)
02:54:22 Etudes Boreales I (cello & Piano)
03:00:07 Etudes Boreales II (cello & Piano)
03:05:51 Etudes Boreales III (cello & Piano)
03:11:30 Etudes Boreales IV (cello & Piano)