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"Cage scored 108 for the largest number of players in any of the Number Pieces -- its duration of 43'30" makes an oblique reference to his groundbreaking 4'33' (1952). 108 can be played on its own or with either of two solo works from the same year, One (for cello) and ...
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MODE108 | MODE

""Third Construction" (1941) for percussion quartet. "Second Construction" (1940) for percussion quartet. "First Construction [in Metal]" (1939) for percussion sextet, with assistant. "Trio" (1936). "Quartet" (1935), "Living Room Music" (1940) for percussion & speech ...
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MODE243 | MODE

"FIRST RECORDINGS to use the actual 1930s Test Tone records and variable-speed turntables as specified in the score. "Credo In US" (1942) [1st version - Shostakovich], "Imaginary Landscape No. 1" (1939). "Imaginary Landscape No. 2" (1941). "Imaginary Landscape No. 3" ...
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MODE229 | MODE

AKI TAKAHASHI, PIANO "This Reissue now contains an added piece: the first recording of Xenakis's 12 minute '6 Chansons,' charming early miniatures written while Xenakis was studying in Paris with Messiaen and Milhaud. They provide a glimpse at Xenakis's early musical ...
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MODE80 | MODE

"Xenakis Edition Volume 10 - Complete String Quartets. "Tetras" (1983). "Tetora" (1990.) "ST-4-1,080262" (1956-62). "Ergma" (1994). The Jack Quartet: Christopher Otto and Ari Streisfeld, violins. John Pickford Richards, viola. Kevin McFarland, cello. The first complete ...
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MODE209 | MODE

"Empty Words (1973-74) with Music for Piano (1952-56). John Cage, voice. Yvar Mikhashoff, piano. One7 (1991) for any way of producing sounds. John Cage, voice. Mode celebrates its 200th release with a special installment in its John Cage Edition - works performed by ...
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MODE200 | MODE

1. Roaratorio: An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake (1976/79) 60:30. First cd recording John Cage voice, Joe Heaney singer, Seamus Ennis Uillean pipes, Paddy Glackin, fiddle, Matt Malloy, flute, Peadher Mercier, Mell Mercier, bodhran, with 62 track tape. 2. Laughtears: ...
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MODE28/29 | MODE

"According to Xenakis' program notes, the title also referred to the 'current youth movements' -- 1968 was a significant year in modern social history -- and to his utopian vision of the upcoming 'biological struggle between generations unfurling all over the planet, ...
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MODE196 | MODE

"2008 repress, featuring a 24-bit Hi-Definition remaster; originally released in 1991. Volume 4 in the Music of Cage series. The first audio document between Cage & Cunningham. It includes a 55-minute piece called "Five Stone Wind" performed by David Tudor (live ...
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MODE24 | MODE

"John Cage's works for prepared piano expose his earliest experimentations in finding new and exotic sounds. Brief and attractive, they are among his most accessible work. This release marks the first time all of his short works for prepared piano have been made ...
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MODE180/81 | MODE

"Syrmos" (1959, for 18 strings); "Aroura" (1971, for 12 strings); "Analogique A+B" (1958, for 9 strings & tape); "Voile" (1995, for 20 strings); "Ittidra" (1996, for string sextet); "Theraps" (1975-76, for solo contrabass). Performed by Ensemble Resonanz with Johannes ...
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MODE152 | MODE

Volume 33 of Mode's Complete John Cage Edition. Features 2 long works: "Cheap Imitation" (1977, for solo violin; peformed by Irving Arditti); "44 Harmonies from Apartment House 1776" (1976, for string quartet, performed by Arditti Quartet). World Premiere Recording of ...
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MODE144/45 | MODE

"The earliest musical memories of young Prince Istari are of his mother beautifying the home with her piano playing. She would repeatedly play the tranquil pieces of Erik Satie. Skipping school and sitting in the sun, young Prince would listen to these catchy, calm ...
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"Two darkside tunes on the Acid Skanking Volume 5. The a side brings in first a rude hardcore stomper at 150 bpm with a dub wise bassline. Flipside then drops down to a wave garage dub track on 140 bpm." (label info) 200 copies
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"The Cat's Miaow return to World Of Echo with Skipping Stones: The Cassette Years '92-'93, their second compilation for the imprint, and the fourth in a loosely defined series of reissues associated with the group (also including The Shapiros' Gone By Fall: The ...
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WOE00 | WORLD OF ECHO

"" (label info)
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GG464 | KLANGGALERIE

"" (label info)
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GG462 | KLANGGALERIE

w/ Imitation Electric Piano Remix
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TUCH083 | TUMMY TOUCH

Modeselektor Remix
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SAMPMS11343 | EPIC