These performances of two seminal works by John Cage by the Italian new music group Ensemble Prometeo, conducted by Marco Angius, date from 2009, but the release of the recording was coordinated to coincide with Cage's Centennial year in 2012. Cage made electronics a key element in each of his five Imaginary Landscapes, written between 1939 and 1952, although several of the movements include an assortment of traditional and found instruments such as muted piano, cymbal, lion's roar, African thumb piano, bass drum, tin cans, ...
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These performances of two seminal works by John Cage by the Italian new music group Ensemble Prometeo, conducted by Marco Angius, date from 2009, but the release of the recording was coordinated to coincide with Cage's Centennial year in 2012. Cage made electronics a key element in each of his five Imaginary Landscapes, written between 1939 and 1952, although several of the movements include an assortment of traditional and found instruments such as muted piano, cymbal, lion's roar, African thumb piano, bass drum, tin cans, conch shell, and metal waste basket. The most famous (or notorious) are No. 4, for 24 performers using 12 radios, and No. 5, for tape recordings of any 42 phonograph records. The use of turntables, radio broadcasts, and recordings chosen by the players guarantees that no two performances will be alike. Sixteen Dances, for flute, trumpet, four percussionists, piano, violin, and cello (1950-1951) was one of the first, if not the first work in which Cage began incorporating...
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Add this copy of Imaginary Landscapes to cart. $22.01, new condition, Sold by Importcds rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sunrise, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Stradivarius.
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