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aworks listening log :: 2/14/19 #hotstreak

Markus Hinterhauser - Cage: Works for Prepared Piano [Col Legno 1998]

• * The Perilous Night (1943/44)
• Two Pastorales (1952)
• Daughters of the Lonesome Isle (1945)
• A Valentine Out of Season (1944)
• Spontaneous Earth (1944)
• Root of an Unfocus (1944)
• The Unavailable Memory of (1944)
• Triple Paced (1944)
• Prelude for Meditation (1944)
• Our Spring Will Come (1943)
• And the Earth Shall Bear Again (1942)
• Bacchanale (1942)
• In the Name of the Holocaust (1942)

Cage had quite the hot streak with his piano music in the 1940s.

For some reason, only disk 1 of the 2 CD set is on Spotify.

aworks listening log :: 2/11/19

Markus Hinterhauser - Cage: Works for Prepared Piano [Col Legno 1998]

• A Valentine Out of Season (1944)
• Spontaneous Earth (1944)
• Root of an Unfocus (1944)
• Totem Ancestor (1942)

aworks listening log :: 2/10/19 @brucelevingston

Bruce Levingston [Sono Luminus 2019]

• * Three Visions: no 2, Summerland (1936). William Grant Still
• * American Citizen (). Nolan Gasse
  • Subtly evocative of things American in its fleetingly adopted snippets of blues and folk gestures. Gasser is the architect of the Music Genome Project for Pandora.
• Sacred Spaces (2017-18). C. Price Walden
• Accumulation of Purpose (2017). David T. Little 
• 3 Pieces "Locations in Time" (). Augusta Gross

John McCabe  [Metier 2019]

• Heaven to Clear When Day Did Close (1980). Barney Childs
• Piano Song (1978). David Maslanka
• Carnival Music (1976). George Rochberg
  • the only piano work by Rochberg to make use of ‘popular’ musical tropes

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nick Palmer [Toccata Classics 2019]

• Nocturne (1978). Arnold Rosner

Noël Akchoté [Noël Akchoté 2016]

• The Well-Tuned Piano - Arr. for Guitar (1974). La Monte Young
  • A guitar arrangement of The Well-Tuned Piano is bizarre.

Laurie Spiegel [Unseen Worlds, LLC 2012]

• * Appalachian Grove (1974). Laurie Spiegel

Markus Hinterhauser [Col Legno 1998]

• * Music for Marcel Duchamp (1947). John Cage
• Mysterious Adventure (1945). John Cage
• A Room (1943). John Cage
• Tossed At It Is Untroubled (1943). John Cage
• Primitive (1942). John Cage

aworks listening log :: 2/9/2019

• Michael Byron - Fabric for String Noise (2018). String Noise [Cold Blue Music] *
• Carson Cooman - Praeludium in festo S. Philippi apostoli (2017). Erik Simmons [Divine Art] *
• Steve Reich - Sextet (1984-85). Ekkozone [Mode Records] **
• Steve Reich - The Desert Music (1983). Sydney Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson, Synergy Vocals [Australian Broadcasting Corporation]
• Michael Byron - Dragon Rite (Version Without Percussion) (1973). James Bergman [Cold Blue Music] *
• Steve Reich - Six Pianos (1973). Daniel Brandt, Erol Sarp, Gregor Schwellenbach, Hauschka, John Kameel Farah, Paul Frick [FILM] *