The seventh volume of John Cage's piano works -- or Volume 34 of the Complete John Cage Edition, if you prefer -- features a transcendent performance of the Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (1948) meticulously rendered by avant-garde keyboardist extraordinaire, Margaret Leng Tan. Yet Volume 2 in this series features a 1994 recording of ...
Makrokosmos I and II for amplified piano (1972-1973) are vintage works by George Crumb, composed during the highly productive period that yielded his mystical Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death; Ancient Voices of Children; and Black Angels -- an impressive output that had a tremendous influence on the experimental music of the 1970s. This 2004 ...
Ge Gan-Ru is widely identified as the first Chinese composer to work in an avant-garde style, a Western conceit once completely prohibited in China, especially during China's Cultural Revolution, the era in which Ge grew up and served three years in an agricultural labor camp. Ge has lived in the United States since 1983; BIS' Super Audio CD ...
Chinese composer Ge Gan-Ru has experienced in his lifetime the full rite of passage in the bewildering and terrifying legacy of China's Cultural Revolution. In love with the violin from childhood, Ge was "re-educated" at 17 and served in a work camp where he nonetheless managed to study under a master violinist. After three years alternating ...
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