Cage, John : One

Par CAGE JOHN. Bacchanale, John Cage\'s first work to exploit his influential \'prepared piano\' technique, arose from a request for musical accompaniment by dancer Syvilla Fort. Intending to write her a percussion piece, Cage discovered that the theater in which the premiere was to take place was too small to accommodate any instruments beyond the piano already present, and instead adapted the piano into a palette of percussive sounds by placing small foreign objects among the strings. A new arrangement by guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan translates this six-minute work from the prepared piano to an even more novel instrumentation: a duo of prepared guitars, the sound of their vibrating strings transformed by the addition of alligator clips, washers, and slips of paper. This performing score (EP 6784a) includes detailed, illustrated instructions from the arranger on how to prepare the instruments. The original version of Bacchanale is now available for sale in John Cage\'s Prepared Piano Music 1940-47, Vol. 1 (EP 67886a). Along with fellow guitarist Adam Levin, Aaron Larget-Caplan gave the world premiere of this arrangement in December 2018 at Arlington Street Church in Boston. / Date parution : 2022-09-07/ Répertoire / 2 Guitares Préparées

The recently re-discovered 'Chess Pieces' by John Cage is a work unique to Cage's ?uvre and indeed to twentieth-century music and art. In 1944, Cage created the painting, 'Chess Pieces', specifically for 'The Imagery of Chess' exhibition at the Julien Lev /

More than the Score-more than the score… is a series of classic piano music covering much of the essential repertoire from Bach through Mozart Schubert Mendelssohn Chopin and Debussy right up to John Cage. Each volume focuses on one piece with written masterclasses and background information encouraging an exploration of the music beyond the printed score. All titles in the Edition Peters more than the score…series include written masterclasses from one of our panel of internationally-renowned pianists including Joanna MacGregor Roy Howat Daniel Grimwood Clare Hammond and Adam Tendler.J. S. BACH Prelude and Fugue in C major from The Well-tempered Clavier includes the printedscore a written masterclass from international concert pianist Daniel Grimwood in which he considers how to approach the playing of baroque harpsichord music on the piano a biography of the composer and a short history of the music all illustrated in full colour.