Steffen Schleiermacher & Josef Christof
Release Date: 04 June 2021
Label: Phil Harmonie
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 4250317416261
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
In the last years of his life, John Cage wrote a great many so-called 'Number Pieces' – the title indicating the number of performing musicians. While most of these pieces indicate which instruments are to be played, as well as the sounds that are to be produced, other pieces offer only general tone
descriptions or a framework for choosing the tones oneself. What these pieces do have in common is time-organization: Cage designates the measure within which the tones must be played. Should one play these sound-sequences within the interval quickly, then one must wait fort he beginning of the
next measure in order to continue; should one play with an even slowness, the separate intervals are joined without interruption. And so, each performance of the same piece is different: in one instance an even flow of sounds, in another a pulsation of rapid responses accompanied by pauses
(including all variations). An exception is 'Two²'. Here the two pianists do not play according to a stopwatch, but rather by reacting to one another: Although the piece indicates measure, it does not assign tempo or even pulse. While both interpreters play independently of each other, they may
continue on to the next measure only when the other player has finished his. Cage decided on the number of tones within a measure by drawing upon the rules of Renga, Japanese linked poetry, in which the number of syllables per verse are set at 5, 7, 5, 7, 7. As the pedal is continuously depressed,
the notes sound into one another and this inner structure remains undetected.
Tracklisting
Kolja Blacher & Gerty Herzog
Martin Stegner & Tomoko Takahaski
Marcelo Nisinman & Vogler Quartet
Clara Haskil, Radio Symphonie Orchester Of Stuttgart & Carl Schuricht
Ensemble Berlin & Christoph Hartmann
Vogler Quartett
Kazda & Indigo String
Kolja Blacher
Sally Walker
David Daly, Duncan Honeybourne, Ondrej Vrabec, Daniel Wiesner, Graham Walker, David Trippett
Andreas Willwohl & Daniel Heide
Rachel Talitman, Jean-Marc Fessard, Mavoudes Troullos, Pierre Quiriny, Ensemble Mendelssohn
La Real Camara; Emilio Moreno
Ektoras Tartanis
Theo Plath, Armand Djikoloum, Olivier Stankiewicz, Sakoto Doi, Jordi Carrasco Hjelm
Novi Piano Duo
