Cage: The Percussion Works 2

Mode records with pristine depth as a matter of pride, a strategy that bypasses the customary heart-searching about recorded sound and turns attention back on to the sonic object itself. — Gramophone Magazine, April 2013 More…

Release Date: 30th Jul 2012
Catalogue No: mode243
Label: Mode
Series: The Complete John Cage Edition
Length: 63 minutes

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Cage: Third Construction

Work length10:20

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Cage: Second Construction for four players

Work length7:53

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Cage: First Construction in Metal (1939) for seven percussionists

Work length11:27

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Greg Beyer (percussion), Ross Karre (percussion)
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Cage: Trio

Work length4:34

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Recorded: 26-28, 30 June 2011
Recording Venue: Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, Northern Illinois University, USA

Percussion Trio: I. Allegro

Track length1:00

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Percussion Trio: II. March

Track length1:52

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Percussion Trio: III. Waltz

Track length1:42

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Cage: Quartet (1935) for four percussionists

Work length21:28

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Third Coast Percussion
Recorded: 26-28, 30 June 2011
Recording Venue: Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, Northern Illinois University, USA

Quartet for 4 Percussion: I. Moderate

Track length4:19

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Quartet for 4 Percussion: II. Very Slow

Track length7:04

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Quartet for 4 Percussion: III. Axial Asymmetry - Slow

Track length5:30

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Quartet for 4 Percussion: IV. Fast

Track length4:35

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Cage: Living Room Music

Work length8:05

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Third Coast Percussion
Recorded: 29 June 2011
Recording Venue: Ruth Ford House, Aurora, Illinois, USA

Living Room Music: I. To Begin

Track length1:07

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Living Room Music: II. Story

Track length2:25

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Living Room Music: III. Melody

Track length3:10

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Living Room Music: IV. End

Track length1:23

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John Cage’s vision of the future of music was first shaped by an ntense creative period from 1935-1942, when he wrote many of the seminal works of percussion chamber music featured here. When he composed these works, the young Cage was basically the same age as the members of Third Coast Percussion.

This release includes all three of the groundbreaking 'Constructions'. 'First Construction' (in Metal) utilises dozens of metal instruments which are beaten, scraped and shaken, creating an other-worldly mixture of resonant sound unlike any heard before it. 'Second Construction' prominently features one of Cage’s greatest inventions, the prepared piano.

Finally, 'Third Construction' brings the greatest degree of complexity and the widest range of instrumental timbres yet, creating one of the first landmark pieces in the percussion chamber music literature.

-There are very few recordings of the early works 'Quartet' and 'Trio'.

-The surprisingly beautiful sounds of everyday objects come forth in Third Coast Percussion’s recording of 'Living Room Music', recorded onsite at the futuristic Ford House in Aurora, IL, designed by one of America’s most iconoclastic architects, Bruce Goff, in 1947. Third Coast utilizs the house itself as an instrument for the first movement.

All works dynamically directed and filmed by Ross Karre. The DVD features surround and stereo audio. Hailed by the Chicago Reader as “one of the finest new-music ensembles in the country,” Third Coast Percussion's performances have swiftly gained national attention for effortlessly combining the energy of a rock concert with the precision and sophistication of classical chamber music.

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April 2013

Mode records with pristine depth as a matter of pride, a strategy that bypasses the customary heart-searching about recorded sound and turns attention back on to the sonic object itself.

19th July 2012

these performances have a special fluency and zest that sets them apart from most other recorded versions. The way in which Cage's sound world steadily expands through the three Constructions...is vividly exploited, while the rhythmic cycles that are so rigorously layered in all three become a means to an exuberant end

4th August 2012

This second volume of his percussion music focuses on early works such as the hugely influential Third Construction (1941), a monumental piece incorporating instruments such as the Peruvian quijada...while in Living Room Music (1940), an actual room provides the sound sources so inventively mined here by the brilliant Chicago-based ensemble Third Coast Percussion.

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