John Cage - Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano (Orlando Bass)
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- John Cage (1912-1992)
Sonatas and Interludes (1946-48)
for prepared piano
Orlando Bass, piano
live unedited performance in Vienna at the Konzertsaal @ Das MuTh, during Impulstanz festival.
02/08/2022
This was recorded during a performance of Lenio Kaklea's choreagraphic work Sonatas and Interludes.
More info at :
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Eric Yvelin, sound engineer.
Sonata 1 // 00:07
Sonata 2 // 02:21
Sonata 3 // 04:13
Sonata 4 // 06:20
Interlude 1 // 08:20
Sonata 5 // 11:10
Sonata 6 // 12:50
Sonata 7 // 15:08
Sonata 8 // 17:21
Interlude 2 // 19:21
Interlude 3 // 22:43
Sonata 9 // 25:22
Sonata 10 // 28:32
Sonata 11 // 30:46
Sonata 12 // 33:15
Interlude 4 // 36:25
Sonata 13 // 39:40
Sonata 14 // 42:40
Sonata 15 // 44:40
Sonata 16 // 46:45
Certainly one of the great piano works of the 20thC. It's interesting to hear how much Cage was indebted to Satie in this music.
Cage! One of the very few modern/contemporary musicians who doesn't distress me.
There is no omnipresent search for torment or the expressionism of ugliness at all costs.
Here there is amazement, measured amusement, light melancholy, a taste for beauty.
There is intelligence and Love!
I remember we played the whole collection in my music school back in 2012.
BTW, No. 5 is my favourite.
kinda random but whats the most exciting hidden gem of piano music you have found recently
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No 5 sounds like video game music. Like you're in a nome's hut or something
Beautiful interpretation. And thanks for including the score.
kinda random but whats the most exciting hidden gem of piano music you have found recently
Number 5 is the stand out initially, but all of these have a quality of their own. Great version by the way!
5 is immediately exciting, isn't it.
I love John Cage, very much not because of his talent, but because of his warm mind and compassion to the mankind. I believe that he tried to help the people who do not have enoght talent and skill of music are able to create creative work witt the help of chance operation and indeterminacy technique. I belive that recent Ai era is the very era when John Cage's philosophy and viseion can be realized easily.
fantastic performance! and enjoy the score video as well 🙏
Fantastique, Orlando. une merveille.
Wow!😍😍😍😍😍😍
Precious works
11:15 is an absolute banger 🔥
Thanks for the scores
kinda random but whats the most exciting hidden gem of piano music you have found recently
@@supasayajinsongoku4464 Theodorakis' sonatina for solo piano
@@aayyiss ill check it out, thanks
@@supasayajinsongoku4464Herma by xenakis
@@supasayajinsongoku4464Kapustin piano sonata 1
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Great performance. I have a recording by Yuji Takahashi that I really like. I would say that his version is a bit more melodical, whereas this one is more rhythmic, bringing out a different aspect of the piece.
Fascinating to follow along with the score!
Yuji Takahashi's recording is lovely, I agree!
We probably made different choices on the kind of piano to use, it sounds like he chose a concert grand, whereas I did this recording on a similar piano that Cage had in his studio at the time (Steinway M). It's incredible how different recordings of this piece sound. I wonder if the fact that he noticed every performance was so unique (according to the choice of piano, the kind of bolts and screws used...) is what pushed Cage towards aleatory music, when he realised that he couldn't control with precision the rendering of these pieces.
@@OrlandoBBassthat's fascinating - thanks for going into more detail. It's certainly a piece that allows for a variety of different performances. Maybe one day we'll have a version for prepared organ :-)
Excellent... Bravo....
based cage
24:54 ??
16va
100 toy pianos falling down a long flight of stairs. lol
That would be a sweet prompt for an AI generator!
No. 5 is overrated. My love goes for 1 and 12
Check the score! John Cage gives the following instructions to a pianist: ‘LOCO’ - a Spanish word, meaning ‘CRAZY’; or ‘RITARD’ - a Maltese word, meaning ‘WEAK IN THE HEAD’. 😂‘Sonatas and Interludes‘ is a boring, lacking imagination primitive student work. John missed an opportunity to take lessons from George Crumb who was much more talented and inventive in his compositions for amplified piano.
I thought the term was derived from Italian?? It means "location" or "place" does it not? So cage is basically saying return to original octave before that 8va?
@@berneverything1932 It was my joke about 'loco' and 'ritard'. The rest is true.
What do you recommend?
This is few of the most useless pieces of music ever writen. Music should evoke some emotion, but this evokes nothing...
Where is it ruled that music must evoke emotion? All art can be and is, by itself, experimental in nature. Pushing the boundaries of music and sound is also art.
It sounds bad, unusual, sure, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t evoke emotion. Perhaps you’re too used to traditional music? I agree that it sounds better, but it evokes no less emotion than this music.
I'd say you didn't listen to the whole thing. No.5 was pretty emotional.
It's strange, fun and exciting.
Lmao you are literally talking about a composer who didn't care about the sound. For Cage there is only his meaning of the piece: the notes aren't important, the idea behind this music is.
I think this piece is really tuneful, musical and generally great. If it's not for you then i guess it's not for you but I for one really enjoy it 🤷
I honestly wouldn't know if I would even do such a thing to my piano like this. Not that I hate this, but simply bc You can damage the piano doing something like this.
I understand the feeling, but as it is, this preparation does not not damage in any way the piano, unless you are being careless while installing it. John Cage took the time to study what would cause harm to the instrument (probably alas by trial and error), and despite there being around 80 objects in the piano, there is nothing to worry about concerning the safety of the instrument.
Actually he came up with this definition "an instrument is said to be prepared if and only if when it is unprepared the instrument stays intact" (I'm paraphrasing)
if you know what you are doing there will be no damage
@@richiebeirach3671 sounds like BDSM