Label: Another Timbre - at178x4

大大大推薦！！英Another Timbreよりジョン・ケージの超重要ボックスセットがリリース！！ケージが80歳の誕生日を迎える晩年の5年間で作曲された"ナンバー・ピース"を、Another Timbreでお馴染みの最強アンサンブルApartment Houseが様々な編成で演奏した4CDボックス！！非常に美しい作品ながらも録音として残されていなかった多くの楽曲を含む最強の集成であり、とにかく全て絶妙な中型編成アンサンブルで臨んだApartment Houseの演奏内容が激ヤバ。44ページのブックレット付き。間違いなく2021年重要物件。







A beautifully produced 4-CD box set of John Cage's 'Number Pieces', played by Apartment House. With 44-page booklet and CDs in individual card wallets with original artwork by Arvinda Gray

A 4-disc box-set with Apartment House playing all of John Cage's 'number pieces' for mid-size ensembles (from 'Five' to 'Fourteen', with 'Four5' as an added extra, along with alternative versions of three of the pieces). These extraordinarily beautiful works were all composed in the last 5 years of the composer's life, as Cage approached his 80th birthday. These recordings by Apartment House are the first recordings for 15 years of almost all of the pieces. An essential release of wonderful but somewhat neglected music.
Downloads include a pdf of the 44-page booklet with extensive notes about Cage's number pieces, and the cover artwork

Apartment House
Anton Lukoszevieze - cello Heather Roche - clarinets
Chloe Abbott - trumpet George Barton - percussion
Stuart Beard - tuba Mira Benjamin - violin
Raymond Brien - clarinets Bridget Carey - viola
Pete Furniss - bass clarinet Mark Knoop - piano
Simon Limbrick - percussion Chihiro Ono - violin
James Opstad - double bass Joe Qiu - bassoon
Christopher Redgate - oboe Siwan Rhys - piano
Nancy Ruffer - flutes Laetitia Stott - horn Barrie Webb - trombone

Individual musician credits are given for each track.

Original artwork by Arvinda Gray