Cage Music of Changes
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Composer or Director: John Cage
Label: Wergo
Magazine Review Date: 8/1989
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 46
Mastering:
ADD
Catalogue Number: WER60099-50

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Music of Changes |
John Cage, Composer
Herbert Henck, Piano John Cage, Composer |
Composer or Director: John Cage
Label: Wergo
Magazine Review Date: 8/1989
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
ADD
Catalogue Number: WER60099

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Music of Changes |
John Cage, Composer
Herbert Henck, Piano John Cage, Composer |
Author:
The technical difficulties of these pieces are not of the order of Boulez's or Stockhausen's, but they still take some sorting out, not least because of Cage's spidery orthography; and although faster tempos than Herbert Henck's are difficult to conceive, he is still a good 15 per cent slower than the scores specify (how Cage reconciles such manic activity with a quietist philosophy I have no idea). Apart from ducking an isolated instruction to scrape the string lengthwise, Henck is a dedicated and dexterous exponent, and he adds a perceptive short essay (as well as a rather embarrassingly truistic prose-poem).
The recording, from Radio Bremen in 1982, has a fairly quiet background; the instrument is somewhat metallic in quality, but never unacceptably so.'
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