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.
First released: 1985
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Disc 1
- 1.Etudes Boreales (for piano solo): I4:21
- 2.Etudes Boreales (for piano solo): II5:49
- 3.Etudes Boreales (for piano solo): III4:24
- 4.Etudes Boreales (for piano solo): IV5:44
- 5.Etudes Boreales (for cello solo): I4:12
- 6.Etudes Boreales (for cello solo): II5:35
- 7.Etudes Boreales (for cello solo): III4:09
- 8.Etudes Boreales (for cello solo): IV5:38
Disc 2
- 2.Etudes Boreales (duo version): I4:17
- 3.Etudes Boreales (duo version): II5:45
- 4.Etudes Boreales (duo version): III4:18
- 5.Etudes Boreales (duo version): IV5:43
- 6.Ryoanji21:27











