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Release Date: 06/13/2000 Label: Ecm Catalog #: 465140 Spars Code: DDD Composer: John Cage Performer: Margaret Leng Tan Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies Orchestra/Ensemble: American Composers Orchestra
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Who would ever dream of arranging John Cage's tinkly little Suite for Toy Piano from 1948 for full symphony orchestra? Probably no one but Lou Harrison, whose virtuosic arrangement provides the most surprises on this already surprising album. Harrison not only perfectly renders the toy piano's unique timbre through combinations of plucked strings and mallet instruments, but he veers far from the toy sound while retaining the suite's spirit: he opens the second movement, for instance, with a majestic fanfare of brass and gongs. His orchestration is so adept that you forget the extremely limited pitch range of this inventive suite. Pianist Margaret Leng Tan provides a poetic rendition of the original. We hear a dizzying range of Cage here, from the Stravinskian palette of The Seasons to 1992's Seventy-Four (in two versions) which sounds like it could be a Mahler slow movement slowed down to the extreme. Dennis Russell Davies matches Tan's pointillistic precision in Cage's Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra, and invests each performance with kaleidoscopic brilliance and full-blooded conviction. [8/26/2000] --Sarah Cahill, ClassicsToday.com |
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Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra by John Cage | ||||
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Performer:
Margaret Leng Tan (Prepared Piano)
Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies Orchestra/Ensemble: American Composers Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1951; USA |
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Date of Recording: 01/1997 Venue: Performing Arts Center, SUNY Purchase Length: 20 Minutes 39 Secs. |
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The Seasons by John Cage | ||||
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Conductor:
Dennis Russell Davies
Orchestra/Ensemble: American Composers Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1947; USA |
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Date of Recording: 01/1997 Venue: Performing Arts Center, SUNY Purchase Length: 16 Minutes 35 Secs. |
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Seventy-Four by John Cage | ||||
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Conductor:
Dennis Russell Davies
Orchestra/Ensemble: American Composers Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1992; USA |
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Date of Recording: 01/1997 Venue: Performing Arts Center, SUNY Purchase Length: 12 Minutes 3 Secs. |
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Notes: This selection was recorded twice on this CD. This entry refers to the performance described as "Version II." |
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Suite for Toy Piano by John Cage | ||||
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Conductor:
Dennis Russell Davies
Orchestra/Ensemble: American Composers Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1948; USA |
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Date of Recording: 01/1997 Venue: Performing Arts Center, SUNY Purchase Length: 7 Minutes 10 Secs. |
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| Notes: Orchestrated: Lou Harrison | |||||
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