Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

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

WINNER: BEST OF YEAR - AUDIOPHILE AUDITION, BEST OF YEAR - GRAMOPHONE

"Cage's prepared piano music might be better known by reputation than by acquaintance, but this excellent new release, part of Naxos's praiseworthy ongoing exploration of seminal 20th-century works, should persuade more people to step into the composer's eccentric sound-world. Boris Berman gives a sensitive, closely considered performance of the Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano, written in the late Forties, and seems to relish every sound he makes. The very close recording allows the listener to hear every sound and every resonance in minute detail, and it is the strange beauty of the sounds themselves under Berman's tight control that makes this disc such a joy." - BBC Music Magazine, September 1999