Etudes Boreales / Ryoanji

Album by John Cage

Etudes Boreales / Ryoanji is a release of John Cage’s contemporary classical works employing indeterminacy and graphic notation, with materials derived from star maps and the stone outlines of the Ryōan-ji garden. The album presents non-traditional scoring and chance procedures typical of Cage’s compositional methods of the period.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Etudes Boreales (for piano solo): I
    4:21
  2. 2.
    Etudes Boreales (for piano solo): II
    5:49
  3. 3.
    Etudes Boreales (for piano solo): III
    4:24
  4. 4.
    Etudes Boreales (for piano solo): IV
    5:44
  5. 5.
    Etudes Boreales (for cello solo): I
    4:12
  6. 6.
    Etudes Boreales (for cello solo): II
    5:35
  7. 7.
    Etudes Boreales (for cello solo): III
    4:09
  8. 8.
    Etudes Boreales (for cello solo): IV
    5:38

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Etudes Boreales (duo version): I
    4:17
  2. 3.
    Etudes Boreales (duo version): II
    5:45
  3. 4.
    Etudes Boreales (duo version): III
    4:18
  4. 5.
    Etudes Boreales (duo version): IV
    5:43
  5. 6.
    Ryoanji
    21:27

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