New World Records' John Cage: Music for Keyboard and Morton Feldman: The Early Years combines two long unavailable CBS recordings that collectors and even the most casual followers of these seminal American composers have sought for two generations or more. The originals of these two CBS albums have an extended history that is in itself interesting: the Feldman was first issued in 1959 in CBS' Modern American Music Series and swiftly sank without a trace; it fared much better when reissued in Columbia's later Odyssey series ...
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New World Records' John Cage: Music for Keyboard and Morton Feldman: The Early Years combines two long unavailable CBS recordings that collectors and even the most casual followers of these seminal American composers have sought for two generations or more. The originals of these two CBS albums have an extended history that is in itself interesting: the Feldman was first issued in 1959 in CBS' Modern American Music Series and swiftly sank without a trace; it fared much better when reissued in Columbia's later Odyssey series, wherefore it earned the title The Early Years, by which it has become familiar. The Cage was issued as a two-record set in 1970, and for a time after it went out of print, one could still order it as a Columbia Special Products release but that too disappeared in the 1980s. John Cage: Music for Keyboard 1935-1948 was the first comprehensive survey of Cage's prepared piano music and contained many first recordings of pieces that are now well more than familiar. Morton Feldman: The...
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