John Cage's violin and piano music falls into two camps; two pieces written at the end of his early period -- Nocturne (1947) and Six Melodies (1950) -- and two more at the end of his life: the Number Pieces Two4 (1991) and Two6 (1992). This MDG release, John Cage: Violin & Piano, features the four works as performed by violinist Andreas Seidel and ever-ubiquitous pianist Steffen Schleiermacher. As annotator, Schleiermacher draws a parallel between Cage's Nocturne and his small subset of works inspired by the example of ...
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John Cage's violin and piano music falls into two camps; two pieces written at the end of his early period -- Nocturne (1947) and Six Melodies (1950) -- and two more at the end of his life: the Number Pieces Two4 (1991) and Two6 (1992). This MDG release, John Cage: Violin & Piano, features the four works as performed by violinist Andreas Seidel and ever-ubiquitous pianist Steffen Schleiermacher. As annotator, Schleiermacher draws a parallel between Cage's Nocturne and his small subset of works inspired by the example of Satie. One might argue that it seems kind of singular in his worklist, being an essentially impressionistic study that vaguely relates to Cage's Sonatas and Interludes in a rhythmic sense but to no other Cage work in that the relationship between soloist and accompaniment is clearly defined. Cage's Six Melodies for violin and piano relate more directly to the String Quartet in Four Parts (1950) a bit more than Schleiermacher indicates in the notes, as the two works share the same...
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