約翰．凱吉／魯比莫夫 John Cage / Alexei Lubimov: As it is (CD) 【ECM】

A fresh approach to one of contemporary composition’s most iconoclastic and inventive figures, issued on the occasion of John Cage’s 100th birthday. Early Cage is thesubject here,strikingly original songs and piano pieces from the 1930s and 1940s. Songs in which Cage sets words by writers whose vision was as independent as his own – James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, E. E. Cummings. As Paul Griffiths writes, “The music exists in singing that has a raw, living edge, and it exists in piano tone that can be utterly simple and utterly remarkable. There is also a third presence that of the producer, bringing forward the extraordinary resonances that come from Lubimov’s piano, with preparation or without.” Lubimov championed Cage’s work in Russia and later had a close working relationship with the composer. He grasps both the playfulness of the music and its message of freedom. Recorded December 2011 in Zürich.

Alexei Lubimov - piano, prepared piano
Natalia Pschenitschnikova - voice

【曲目】
01. Dream 8:28

02. The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs

03. The Unavailable Memory of

04. A Flower

05. Music for Marcel Duchamp

06. Experiences No. 2

07. A Room

Three Songs
08. I. Twenty years after
09. II. Is it as it was
10. III. At East and ingredients

Two Pieces for Piano
11. I.
12. II.

Five Songs
13. 1 - little four paws
14. 2 - little Christmas tree
15. 3 - in Just-
16. 4 - hist whist
17. 5 - Tumbling hair

18. Prelude for Meditation

19. She is Asleep

20. Nowth upon nacht

21. Dream var.

Total duration: 71:33

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編號：ECM2268
條碼：0028947649335