DAVID TUDOR : Music for Piano

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Format: 2CD [edRZ1018-19]
Shipping Weight: 0.12lbs
Label: Edition RZ

5,480円

'Crucial compilation of David Tudor's most historic performances of avant-garde and minimalist piano compositions, featuring works by these composers: John Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, Sylvano Bussotti. Mostly seminal recordings from the mid-'50s, total date range of 1955-1963. Includes "Music For Piano 21-36," "Variations 1," "Variations II," "Winter Music," "Piece For Four Pianos" (including performance by Feldman). "David Tudor, pianist -- a profession, a vocation, a life. From 1950 until around 1965, David Tudor was the epitome of the pianist who could simply play anything. In fact, David Tudor was no longer a name, but an indication for instrumentation as dozens of pieces were written 'for David Tudor.' As early as 1960, after having conquered all of the challenges posed by serial piano music, Tudor began to differentiate between composers who filled him with life and those who left him cold -- the focus of his repertory became crystallized. The main criterion for his choices were shaped by the part he would play as interpreter in the composition. He distinguished carefully between having a free choice among prefabricated parts -- generally called aleatoric, as for example, Stockhausen's 'Klavierstuck XI' (dedicated, as his 'Klavierstucke V-VIII', to Tudor) -- and indeterminate actions. In the first case, they have a tendency to 'put me to sleep,' whereby pieces that are less limiting led him to say, 'I feel that I'm alive in every part of my consciousness.' The program of these CDs portrays these distinctions." --Frank Hilberg'

Tracklist
1-1 John Cage - Music For Piano 27 7:40
Producer ? Mogens Heimann
1-2 John Cage - Music For Piano 22, 21, 32, 36 8:37
Producer ? Dr. Herbert Hubner
1-3 John Cage - Music For Piano 27, 21, 32, 36 10:08
Producer ? Hans Otte
1-4 John Cage - Variations I 2:08
Producer ? Mogens Heimann
1-5 Christian Wolff - Duo For Pianists I, Version I 4:04
Producer ? Hans Otte
1-6 Christian Wolff - Duo For Pianists I, Version II 4:06
Producer ? Hans Otte
1-7 Sylvano Bussotti - Piano Piece For David Tudor III 7:16
Producer ? Hans Otte
1-8 John Cage - Winter Music 5:01
Engineer ? Walter LustigProducer ? Otto Tomek
1-9 Morton Feldman - Piece For Four Pianos 7:30
Piano ? Edwin Hymovitz, Morton Feldman, Russell Sherman
Producer ? David Oppenheim
2-1 John Cage - Variations II 26:31
Producer ? David Behrman
2-2 John Cage - Music For Piano 27, 21, 32, 35, 36 12:21
Producer ? Hans-Wilhelm Kulenkampf
2-3 John Cage - Music For Piano 21, 22, 26, 29, 34, 36 13:10
Engineer ? Walter Lustig
Producer ? Otto Tomek
2-4 Christian Wolff - Duo For Pianists I 10:13
Producer ? Mogens Andersen
2-5 David Tudor - O-Ton Im Interview 1:50
Interviewer ? Mogens Andersen
Voice ? David Tudor, John Cage

Credits
Liner Notes ? Frank Hilberg
Liner Notes [Translation] ? Laurie Schwartz
Piano ? David Tudor, John Cage (tracks: 1-1, 1-4 to 1-6, 1-8, 2-4)

Notes
Includes 12-page booklet with liner notes in German and English.