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John Cage - A Tribute - Joshua Pierce

MS 1400 (2 discs)

DDD
COMPILATION

Playing time: 78'16" / 77'28" - TT 155'44"
Tracks: 22 + 32
Booklet pages: 16
© 2000, 2012 Joshua Pierce
Reviewer: Ron Bierman
Review of John Cage - A Tribute - Joshua Pierce published on 24 April 2013

Listen: John Cage: Ophelia (CD1 track 22, 0:00-0:53)

Joshua Pierce, piano and prepared piano

Robert White, tenor (CD1 track 9 and CD2 tracks 20-22)

American Festival of Microtonal Music Ensemble (CD1):
Johnny Reinhard, bassoon
John Nelson, trumpet
David Eggar, cello
Andrew Bolotowsky, flute
Gregor Kitzis, violin (track 21)

John Cage (1912-1992):

CD1

Four Walls (1944)
Act One
1 I
2 II
3 III
4 Dance
5 IV
6 Dance
7 V
8 VI
9 VII
10 VIII

Act Two
11 IX
12 X
13 XI
14 XII
15 XIII
16 XIV

17 Primitive (1942)

18 In the Name of the Holocaust (1942)

19 Quest (1935) (first recording)

20 Our Spring Will Come (1948) (first recording)

21 Piano Sextet - Prelude for 6 Instruments in A minor (1946) (first recording)

22 Ophelia (1946)

CD2

Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (1946-48)
1 Sonata I
2 Sonata II
3 Sonata III
4 Sonata IV
5 First Interlude
6 Sonata V
7 Sonata VI
8 Sonata VII
9 Sonata VIII
10 Second Interlude
11 Third Interlude
12 Sonata IX
13 Sonata X
14 Sonata XI
15 Sonata XII
16 Fourth Interlude
17 Sonata XIII
18 Sonata XIV and XV 'Gemini - after the work by Richard Lippold'
19 Sonata XVI

Three Early Songs (1933) (first recording)
20 Twenty Years After
21 It Is As It Was
22 At East and Ingredients

Two Pieces for Piano (1946)
23 I
24 II

25 Music for Marcel Duchamp (1947)

26 Spontaneous Earth (1944)

Three Easy Pieces for Piano (1933) (first recordings)
27 Round for E P S
28 Duo for M M
29 Infinite Canon for C M

30 The Unavailable Memory of (1944)

Two Pieces for Piano (1935, revised 1974)
31 I
32 II

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