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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Percussion MasterpiecesLive recording, Teatro alla Scala, 28.10.2007
I Percussionisti della Scala, Renato Rivolta Stradivarius are proud to announce a first co-production with the Teatro alla Scala, Milan. It's a live recording of a concert held last October during Italy's most prestigious festival of contemporary music: Milano Musica. The ensemble of I Percussionisti was formed in 1978 at the suggestion of Claudio Abbado.The name refers to the theatre where they are based and carry most of their activity. John Cage: "Maybe there's a link between poverty and music". Percussion instruments inhabit the whole world, also and especially in its poorer parts. A meeting of cultures that provides fertile ground. None of the composers considered here spared themselves the risk of such a clash. None indulged in facile exoticism or folkloristic effects. So there! | 
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| |  | Cage - Works for Trombone and Piano
Mike Svoboda (trombone) & Steffen Schleiermacher (piano) Steffen Schleiermacher’s complete edition of the piano compositions of John Cage brought him numerous prizes and his international critical acclaim. One of the most important interpreters of contemporary music today, Schleiermacher now teams up with the superbly creative American Trombonist, Mike Svoboda. It may be that Cage did not care much for the trombone. Of over 250 compositions only 3 were written for the instrument. Or it may have been that trombone fans did not come to him with open wallets - for Cage, like all composers, preferred paying customers! |
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Rob Haskins & Laurel Karlik Sheehan (pianos) Laurel Karlik Sheehan gave the Canadian premiere of Two2 with
Jack Behrens in 1990. Rob Haskins is a respected Cage expert
and scholar.Together they bring an authority and expertise to
this performance of Two2.
Cage based Two2 on renga, a Japanese poetic design of five,
seven, five, seven, and seven syllables expressed at least thirty-six
times. Each line of music is divided into five measures, just like
the five lines of the poetry.The first measure contains five
separate musical events - chords or single tones, usually shared
between the two pianists - which correspond to the five syllables
of the first line; the second measure has seven events, and so on.There are a total of thirty-six such fivemeasure
sections in the piece.While the pianists can take any amount of time to perform each measure, each
pianist must wait until both have finished the same measure before proceeding to the next.
Given this flexibility, Haskins and Karlik Sheehan's performance is the longest of the recordings to date,
emphasising the sense of spaciousness and interest in harmony that marks many of Cage's late pieces. |
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| |  | fantaisie_fantasmePiano Music
Bach, J S: | Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue in D minor, BWV903 | Brahms: | Intermezzo in A minor, Op. 116 No. 2 Capriccio, Allegro passionato in G minor, Op. 116 No. 3 | Cage: | Sonata for Prepared Piano No. 12 | Janacek: | Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 in E flat minor 'From the Street' (The Presentiment) Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 in E flat minor 'From the Street' (The Death) | Keren: | Fantaisie, mais 2 Fantastrophes, First Fantastrophe 2007 (world premiere recording) Fantaisie, mais 2 Fantastrophes, Fantaisie Fantaisie, mais 2 Fantastrophes, Second Fantastrophe | Ligeti: | Musica Ricercata for piano (excerpts) | Schoenberg: | 6 kleine Klavierstücke Op. 19 |
David Greilsammer (piano) “The pianism is superb” Michael Church, The Independent “However it may look on paper, in practice it works incredibly well, such is Greilsammer’s magnetic ability to find mutual correspondences and attractions between opposite poles” Julian Haylock, International Piano “In this enjoyable piano montage, 16 items have been arranged symmetrically around Mozart’s Fantasy in C minor……it’s as though the alienation effect of piano “preparation” has been applied to a whole disc.” Sunday Times Contemporary Composers (No. 3) Albums of the Year | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Minimal Piano Collection
This unusual collection is dedicated to a very popular style: minimalist music. The style has evolved from austere, almost strict repetition to a more varied and free approach to material and technique.
The set includes works for solo piano by most of the famous ‘minimalist’ composers covering three generations from Cage, through Riley and Glass to Adams and Nyman. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Giancarlo Simonacci (prepared piano) Orchestra V.Galilei, Nicola Paszkowski | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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John Tilbury (prepared piano) Recorded - All Saint’s, Petersham, December 1974p One of John Cage’s most important works for prepared piano in a soughtafter recording by one of the champions of twentieth-century piano music, English pianist John Tilbury (who will be 70 in 2006) “… sensitively played by an expert and recorded with obvious fascination for the sounds as such…” Gramophone | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Chapter 20 - Music Of Today (1945-2005)
Pablo Mainetti, Philippe Bernold, RIAS-Kammerchor/Daniel Reuss, Alexandre Tharaud, Lawrence Power, Marie-Josèphe Jude, Emmanuelle Bertrand, Ens Musique Vivante, Luciano Berio, Diego Masson, Isabelle Faust, Ewa Kupiec, Les Percussions de Strasbourg; Theatre of Voices/Hillier, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester/Kent Nagano & Orquestra de Cambra Teatre Lliure/Josep Pons | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Litany for the Whale
Terry Riley Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier “A landmark for Cage” Gramophone Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | John Cage - Complete Piano Music Volume 2
Steffen Schleiermacher (piano) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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