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John Cage - Music for Prepared Piano Vol.1 (Boris Berman)

APE = 185 mb | MP3 (lame --preset standard) = 85 mb

Recorded 1998 | Released 1999

"The strange beauty of the sounds (...) makes this disc such a joy" - BBC Music

"You will be surprised by the whispered ice-crystal beauty of this music." - Musicweb

"Nothing to frighten on this release: do go out, buy and enjoy." - Birmingham Post

Personnel:

Boris Berman: piano

Recording:

11-13 July 1998, St John Chrysostom Church, Newmarket, Canada

Naxos 8.554345

Track listing:

1. Sonata I

2. Sonata II

3. Sonata III

4. Sonata IV

5. First Interlude

6. Sonata V

7. Sonata VI

8. Sonata VII

9. Sonata VIII

10. Second Interlude

11. Third Interlude

12. Sonata IX

13. Sonata X

14. Sonata XI

15. Sonata XII

16. Fourth Interlude

17. Sonata XIII

18. Sonatas XIV and XV Gemini (After Richard Lippold)

19. Sonata XVI

Reviews:

BBC Music Magazine

Cage's prepared piano music might be better known by reputation than by acquaintance, but this excellent new release, part of Naxos's praiseworthy ongoing exploration of seminal 20th-century works, should persuade more people to step into the composer's eccentric sound-world. Boris Berman gives a sensitive, closely considered performance of the Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano, written in the late Forties, and seems to relish every sound he makes. The very close recording allows the listener to hear every sound and every resonance in minute detail, and it is the strange beauty of the sounds themselves under Berman's tight control that makes this disc such a joy.

Musicweb International

You will be surprised by the whispered ice-crystal beauty of this music... Written in the stultifying atmosphere of 1940s post-war USA. A very strong contender indeed and made all the more significant by having Berman at the helm. There are no competitors at this superbargain price range and very few at any price. I recall hearing Roger Woodward's Headline Decca LP many years ago and there may be Wergo CD available but I would doubt that you will better Berman and Naxos's cleanly engaging recording.

Birmingham Post

Cage's post-war coupling of prepared-piano sonorities (strings damped with screws, rubbers, strips of plastic and the like) with Scarlattian formal miniatures is here given a wonderfully robust, genuine interpretation by Boris Berman. The Gamelan sounds so sought-after by Cage in his exploration of oriental philosophies are here vividly evoked. Nothing to frighten on this release: do go out, buy and enjoy.

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