zeitkratzer [old school] John Cage
performed by zeitkratzer
all music by John Cage
CD zkr0009
Barcode: 881390642922
Release Date: April 16, 2010
[DOUBLE RELEASE w/ zkr0010 Morton Feldman]
Distributed by:
A – Trost || AU – intertia || BE / NL – News || DE - Broken Silence || FR – La Baleine || IT – audioglobe || JP – Disk Union || PT – Flur || Scandinavia - Border || UK – Shellshock || USA - Forced Exposure ||
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1| John Cage Four6 [1992] 30:00
2| John Cage Five [1988] 5:00
3| John Cage Hymnkus [1986] 30:00
zeitkratzer
directed by Reinhold Friedl
|| Frank Gratkowski < bassclarinet, clarinet || Hayden Chisholm < clarinet || Franz Hautzinger < trumpet || Reinhold Friedl < piano || Maurice de Martin < percussion || Burkhard Schlothauer < violin || Anton Lukoszevieze < cello || Uli Phillipp < doublebass || Ralf Meinz < sound ||
recorded live at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, UK, November 26, 2006
recorded and mixed by Ralf Meinz and Reinhold Friedl, produced by Burkhard Schlothauer, executive producer: Reinhold Friedl
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“zeitkratzer are creating a New Music, worthy of the name!”
[Rob Young, The Wire Magazine]
The internationally acclaimed “hilarious releases” [vital weekly] of zeitkratzer records will continue with the new series [old school]. The first two CDs, dedicated to the music of John Cage [zkr0009] and James Tenney [zkr0010] are now released together. The collaboration of zeitkratzer with William Bennett /Whitehouse [zkr0007], recorded live in 2009 in Marseille/France and Den Haag/Netherlands, will follow this summer. Later in 2010, the [old school] series will continue with two more releases, dedicated to the music of Alvin Lucier [zkr0011] and Morton Feldman [zkr0012] respectively.
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John Cage’s compositions have been part of zeitkratzer’s repertoire since the very first day. The pieces presented here justify zeitkratzer’s reputation as sound specialists. Avant-garde composer Cage is played in a conservative, precise and sensual way, apart from all philosophical ambitions, and hopefully as seductive as a Schubert quintet! The “Wire Magazine” acclaimed: zeitkratzer convinced us that Cage‘s music can still live with all its complexities, stripped of the debris of its iconic-ironic status, if we only give ourselves time, space and ears to hear!
John Cages Werke gehören seit der Gründung von zeitkratzer zum festen Repertoire. Die vorliegenden Aufnahmen machen hör- und erlebbar, was zeitkratzers Ruf als Sound-Fetischisten begründet: der Avantgarde-Komponist Cage wird hier in ganz konservativer Weise genau und klang-sinnlich gespielt, schlicht und einfach jenseits aller philosophischen Ambitionen - hoffentlich für die Ohren so verführerisch wie ein Schubert-Quintett! Das britische „Wire Magazine“ jubelt: zeitkratzer convinced us that Cage‘s music can still live with all its complexities, stripped of the debris of its iconic-ironic status, if we only give ourselves time, space and ears to hear!"
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File under: c/cage/classic or c/cage/contemporary music; z/zeitkratzer/modern classic, new music, or avantgarde
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