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John Cage - Portrait

Track listing:
Volume 1
  1. Four 10:33
  2. Cheap Imitation 32:11
  3. Atlas Eclipticalis 20:07
  4. Prelude 4:40
  5. Living Room Music 1 1:07
  6. Living Room Music 2 2:03
  7. Living Room Music 3 4:49
  8. Living Room Music 4 1:23
Volume 2
  1. A Book Of Music 31:53
  2. 45 Minutes For A Speaker 46:04
Volume 3
  1. Sixteen Dances 48:59
  2. Sixty - Eight 30:15
Volume 4
  1. Third Construction 10:48
  2. Quartets I-Viii 39:38
  3. Freeman Etude Nr 11 3:57
  4. Atlas Eclipticalis 15:20
Volume 5
  1. Sonatas And Interludes For Prepared Piano 59:14
  2. Music Of Changes Book I 5:08

Notes


all titles are from various FM broadcasts, except CD4, track 04 which is from a 192kbps webcast


CD1
01. Four (1989) (10:33)
Zephyr Kwartet
Felix Meritis, Amsterdam, June 26, 2004

02. Cheap Imitation (1969) (32:11)
03. Atlas Eclipticalis (1961-62) (20:07)
Ives Ensemble, Riciotti Ensemble (03) - Richard Rijnvos
Felix Meritis, Amsterdam, February 14, 2003

04. Prelude for 6 instruments in A Minor (1946) (5:03)
Ives Ensemble - Richard Rijnvos
Felix Meritis, Amsterdam, February 23, 2005

Living Room Music, for percussion and speech quartet (1940)
05. Movement 1 (for household objects) (1:07)
06. Movement 2: Once Upon a Time The World is Round (Gertrude Stein), dedicated To Xenia (2:03)
07. Movement 3 (solo) (4:49)
08. Movement 4 (for household objects) (1:23)
Percussion Group The Hague: Fedor Teunisse, Emiel Matthijse, Tom van der Loo, Marcel Andriessen, Martin Ansink
on various (household) objects (pots & pans, broom-stick, bottles, vacuum cleaner etc.), vocals
Klap op de Vuurpijl 1997, Werkteater, Amsterdam, December 29, 2007



CD2
01. A Book of Music (1944) (31:53)
John Snijders - prepared piano
Reinier van Houdt - prepared piano
De IJsbreker, Amsterdam, February 16, 2003

02. 45' for a speaker (46:04)
Barbara Hannigan - speaker
Ives Ensemble
Huis aan de Werf, Utrecht, April 2, 2000


CD3
01. Sixteen Dances (1950-51) (48:59)
- Anger
- Interlude
- Humor
- Interlude
- Sorrow
- Interlude
- The Heroic
- Interlude
- The Odius
- Interlude
- The Wondrous
- Interlude
- Fear
- Interlude
- The Erotic
- Tranquility
Schönberg Ensemble – Reinbert de Leeuw
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, January 13, 2003

02. Sixty-Eight (1992) (30:15)
Ives Ensemble, Brabants Conservatorium, Ricciotti Ensemble
Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, February 15, 2003


CD4
01. Third Construction (1941) 10:48
02. Quartets I - VIII (1976) 40:56
ASKO/Schönberg Ensemble - Reinbert de Leeuw
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, November 4, 2002

03. Book 1: Etude 11 (from Freeman Etudes) (1977-80/1989-90) (3:57)
Josje ter Haar, Janneke van Prooijen, Bas Wiegers, Mark Sabbah - violins
De Rode Hoed, Amsterdam, February 16, 2003

04. Atlas Eclipticalis (1961-62) (15:20)
Modelo62 - Ezequiel Menalled
Muziekcentrum de Toonzaal, Den Bosch, November 13, 2008


CD5
01. Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano (1946-48) (59:14)
Rene Eckhardt - prepared piano
Jurriaanse zaal, De Doelen, Rotterdam, May 15, 2006

02. Music of Changes, Book I (5:08)
Ralph van Raat - piano
Felix Meritis, Amsterdam, August 16, 2001