Brilliant Classics 8189 (3CD's)

John Cage
Complete Music for Prepared Piano



John Cage:

CD 1:
1. Bacchanale (1938/40?) 7:29
2. And the Earth Shall Bear Again (1942) 2:55
3. Primitive (1942) 3:53
4. In the Name of the Holocaust (1942) 5:32
5. Our Spring will come (1943) 4:15
6. Totem Ancestor (1943) 1:48
7. A Room (1943) 1:50
8. Tossed as it is Untroubled (1943) 2:20
9-14. The Perilous Night (1943 - 44) 12:20
    9. I 2:30
    10. II 0:55
    11. III 3:28
    12. IV 1:14
    13. V 0:37
    14. VI 3:36
15. Root of an Unfocus (1944) 4:52
16. The Unavailable Memory of (1944) 2:11
17. Spontaneous Earth (1944) 3:04
18. Tripled Paced (second version) (1944) 1:56
19-21. A Valentine Out of Season (1944) 3:28
    19. I 1:25
    20. II 0:55
    21. III 0:57
22. Prelude for Meditation (1944) 0:50
23. Mysterious Adventure (1945) 8:25

CD 2:
1-19. Sonatas and Interludes (1946 - 48) 50:55
    1. Sonata I 2:14
    2. Sonata II 1:35
    3. Sonata III 2:16
    4. Soanata IV 1:38
    5. First Interlude 2:48
    6. Sonata V 1:31
    7. Sonata VI 1:40
    8. Sonata VII 1:37
    9. Sonata VIII 2:26
    10. Second Interlude 3:01
    11. Third Interlude 2:13
    12. Sonata IX 3:32
    13. Sonata X 2:49
    14. Sonata XI 3:21
    15. Sonata XII 2:29
    16. Fourth Interlude 2:27
    17. Sonata XIII 3:35
    18. Sonata XIV and XV "Gemini" after the work by Richard Lippold 5:50
    19. Sonata XVI 3:53
20-23. Amores for Prepared Piano and Percussion (1943) 9:04
    20. I 1:09
    21. II 3:09
    22. III 1:12
    23. IV 3:34

CD 3:
1. Daughters of the lonesome Isle (1945) 8:29
2. Music for Marcel Duchamp (1947) 5:23
3-4. Works of Calder (1949 - 50) 14:07
    3. I 4:27
    4. II 9:40
5-6. Two Pastorales (1952) 12:29
    5. No. 1 5:43
    6. No. 2 6:46
7-9. Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra (1950 - 51) 18:51
    7. First part (1 - 62) 7:49
    8. Second part (62 - 124) 7:02
    9. Third part (124 - 158) 4:00

Giancarlo Simonacci, prepared piano.
Amores: Ars Ludi Lab: Tommaso Capuano, Patrizio Palmacci, Flavio Tanzi, percussion. Antonio Caggiano, conductor.
Concerto: Orchestra V. Galilei. Nicola Paszkowski, conductor

Digital recording: June 2005 in Rome (Italy) - 6/2005. Concerto for Prepared Piano recorded in April 2006 at Auditorium Latini, Fiesole (Italy).
Producer: Gian Andrea Lodovici
Sound Engineers: Silvio Piersanti - Open Sound; Matteo Costa (Concerto for Prepared Piano)
CD2 also released in 100CD box 'The Piano': Brilliant Classics 9005
CD released in September 2006

Sources: Original CD and Brilliant Classics website