Cage: Metamorphosis

This page lists all recordings of Metamorphosis, by John Cage (1912-92) on CD. Generally, more recent CDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock.

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Metamorphosis

Tossed as it is Untroubled

A Valentine Out of Season

Root of an Unfocus

Two Pieces

Prelude for Meditation

Music for Marcel Duchamp

Suite for Toy Piano

Dream

Feldman:

Piece for Four Pianos

Intermission 3

Extensions 4 for Three Pianos

Two Pieces for Two Pianos

Projection 4

Structures for String Quartet

Extensions 1

Three Pieces for String Quartet

Cage works: Jeanne Kirstein (prepared piano, piano, and toy piano); Feldman works: David Tudor, Morton Feldman, Edwin Hymovitz, Russell Sherman (pianos), Matthew Raimondi & Joseph Rabushka (violins), Walter Trampler (viola) & Seymour Barab (cello)

This double-CD set combines two of the key titles of Columbia Records’s legendary “Music of Our Time” series curated by David Behrman. Jeanne Kirstein’s recording of Cage’s early keyboard works remains a touchstone of Cagean interpretation notwithstanding the passage of time. Christian Wolff recalls, "I remember Cage saying that Jeanne Kirstein’s playing caught the spirit in which the pieces were written at the time he wrote them—a kind of simple excitement and enthusiasm (also, surely, out of the discovery of the preparing of the piano and the great new sounds)."

New World - 806642

(CD - 2 discs)

£21.49 (£18.29 ex. VAT)

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