Cage: Etudes Boreales

[Knoop] plays a new idea of virtuosity. Where to pluck that string exactly, hit the wooden frame exactly; how to place those isolated, out-of-context chords on a keyboard for maximum impact -... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2010 More…

Release Date: 28th Jun 2010
Catalogue No: WER67182
Label: Wergo
Length: 59 minutes

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Cage: Harmony XXVII for Violoncello and Piano

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Friedrich Gauwerky, Mark Knoop

Cage: Etudes Boreales for a Percussionist Using a Piano I

Work length5:01

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Friedrich Gauwerky, Mark Knoop

Cage: Etudes Boreales for a Percussionist Using a Piano II

Work length3:58

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Friedrich Gauwerky, Mark Knoop

Cage: Etudes Boreales for a Percussionist Using a Piano III

Work length4:36

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Friedrich Gauwerky, Mark Knoop

Cage: Etudes Boreales for a Percussionist Using a Piano IV

Work length4:30

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Friedrich Gauwerky, Mark Knoop

Cage: Harmony XXXII for Violoncello and Piano

Work length4:38

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Friedrich Gauwerky, Mark Knoop

Cage: 10'40.3" (from 26’1.1499’’) for a String Player

Work length10:49

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Friedrich Gauwerky, Mark Knoop

Cage: Harmony XXIV for Violoncello and Piano

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Friedrich Gauwerky, Mark Knoop

Cage: Etudes Boreales for Cello and Piano I

Work length5:07

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Friedrich Gauwerky, Mark Knoop

Cage: Etudes Boreales for Cello and Piano II

Work length4:57

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Friedrich Gauwerky, Mark Knoop

Cage: Etudes Boreales for Cello and Piano III

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Friedrich Gauwerky, Mark Knoop

Cage: Etudes Boreales for Cello and Piano IV

Work length4:49

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Friedrich Gauwerky, Mark Knoop

Cage: Harmony XIII for Violoncello and Piano

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Friedrich Gauwerky, Mark Knoop

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Enormous technical requirements make the Cage's Etudes Boreales a highly virtuosic work, which requires an extreme sensitivity of feeling for the coordination of fingers, instrument, and intellect. On this CD it is presented in versions: for piano solo and later for cello solo with piano solo. As in the sister works, Etudes Australes and Freeman Etudes, Cage based the Etudes Boreales on a star chart. He used the chart of the northern sky that the Czech astronomer Antonín Becvár made in 1962. The time length piece 26'1.1499'' – Friedrich Gauwerky chooses the first 640.3 seconds for this recording – documents the composer’s retreat from an intentional determination of the sounds. And also the Harmonies welcome the creative possibilities of whatever happens next.

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October 2010

[Knoop] plays a new idea of virtuosity. Where to pluck that string exactly, hit the wooden frame exactly; how to place those isolated, out-of-context chords on a keyboard for maximum impact - each sound first felt, then diligently executed and heard.

24th June 2010

[The two performances] are very different and both are extraordinary, constantly drawing the ear into the minutiae of the sounds: isolated, lingering events in Mark Knoop's piano-solo version; more continuous with the involvement of Friedrich Gauwerky's cello.

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