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Complete John Cage Edition 45: Works for Percussion 2 (mode243)

by John Cage

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Third Construction 10:20
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Second Construction 07:53
3.
First Construction (in Metal) 11:27
4.
Trio - I. Allegro 01:00
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Trio - II. March 01:52
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Trio - III. Waltz 01:42
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Quartet - I. Moderate 04:19
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Quartet - II. Very Slow 07:04
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Quartet - III. Slow - Axial Asymmetry 05:30
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Quartet - IV. Fast 04:35
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Living Room Music - I. To Begin 01:07
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Living Room Music - II. Story 02:25
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Living Room Music - III. Melody 03:10
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Living Room Music - IV. End 01:23

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Ensemble [Third Coast Percussion] – David Skidmore, Owen Clayton Condon, Peter Martin, Robert Dillon

John Cage’s vision of the future of music was first shaped by an intense creative period from 1935-1942, when he wrote many of the seminal works of percussion chamber music featured here. When he composed these works, the young Cage was basically the same age as the members of Third Coast Percussion.

This release includes all three of the groundbreaking Constructions. First Construction (in Metal) utilizes dozens of metal instruments which are beaten, scraped and shaken, creating an other worldly mixture of resonant sound unlike any heard before it. Second Construction prominently features one of Cage’s greatest inventions, the prepared piano. Finally, Third Construction brings the greatest degree of complexity and the widest range of instrumental timbres yet, creating one of the first landmark pieces in the percussion chamber music literature.

There are very few recordings of the early works Quartet and Trio.

The surprisingly beautiful sounds of everyday objects come forth in Third Coast Percussion’s recording of Living Room Music, recorded onsite at the futuristic Ford House in Aurora, IL, designed by one of America’s most iconoclastic architects, Bruce Goff, in 1947. Third Coast utilize the house itself as an instrument for the first movement.

All works dynamically directed and filmed by Ross Karre. The DVD features surround and stereo audio.

Liner notes by Gregory Beyer and David Skidmore.

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released June 21, 2012

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