Complete Piano Music, Volume 4: Pieces 1950-1960

Album by John Cage & Steffen Schleiermacher

The fourth volume in a series of John Cage’s complete piano works, it assembles pieces from 1950–1960, a period when he adopted chance operations, indeterminacy, and prepared‑piano and other extended techniques. It belongs to experimental and avant‑garde contemporary classical music, with an emphasis on open forms and flexible temporal structures.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Winter Music (1957) (version for 10 Pianos for Bob Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns)
    15:01
  2. 2.
    Arolsen, February 8, 1998 (Water Music 1952)
    6:47
  3. 3.
    For MC and D.T. (1952)
    1:23
  4. 4.
    For Paul Taylor and Anita Dencks (1957)
    3:02
  5. 5.
    TV Koeln (1958)
    1:06
  6. 6.
    Waiting (1952) (For Louise Lippold)
    3:26
  7. 7.
    Seven Haiku: For Elsa
    0:23
  8. 8.
    Seven Haiku: For Merle Armitage
    0:26
  9. 9.
    Seven Haiku: For Aghavni Uomini
    0:25
  10. 10.
    Seven Haiku: For Richard Lippold
    0:27
  11. 11.
    Seven Haiku: For Maro
    0:23
  12. 12.
    Seven Haiku: For Willem de Kooning
    0:24
  13. 13.
    Seven Haiku: For Sonia Sekula
    0:18
  14. 14.
    Haiku: For My Dear Friend, Who
    1:11
  15. 15.
    Haiku: What Stillness
    0:52
  16. 16.
    Haiku: The Green Frog's Voice
    0:50
  17. 17.
    Haiku: The River Phurabelle
    0:37
  18. 18.
    Haiku: [untitled]
    0:24
  19. 19.
    Musik Walk (1958) (version for 3 Pianists)
    9:03

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Solo for Piano (1958) (For Elaine de Dooning): I
    0:53
  2. 3.
    Solo for Piano (1958) (For Elaine de Dooning): II
    0:59
  3. 4.
    Solo for Piano (1958) (For Elaine de Dooning): III
    1:12
  4. 5.
    Solo for Piano (1958) (For Elaine de Dooning): IV
    0:58
  5. 6.
    Solo for Piano (1958) (For Elaine de Dooning): V
    2:04
  6. 7.
    Solo for Piano (1958) (For Elaine de Dooning): VI
    2:19
  7. 8.
    Solo for Piano (1958) (For Elaine de Dooning): VII
    1:20
  8. 9.
    Solo for Piano (1958) (For Elaine de Dooning): VIII
    1:48
  9. 10.
    Solo for Piano (1958) (For Elaine de Dooning): IX
    1:22
  10. 11.
    Solo for Piano (1958) (For Elaine de Dooning): X
    1:52
  11. 12.
    Solo for Piano (1958) (For Elaine de Dooning): XI
    1:27
  12. 13.
    Solo for Piano (1958) (For Elaine de Dooning): XII
    1:05
  13. 14.
    Solo for Piano (1958) (For Elaine de Dooning): XIII
    3:23
  14. 15.
    Solo for Piano (1958) (For Elaine de Dooning): XIV
    1:09
  15. 16.
    Solo for Piano (1958) (For Elaine de Dooning): XV
    2:39
  16. 17.
    Solo for Piano (1958) (For Elaine de Dooning): XVI
    0:52
  17. 18.
    Solo for Piano (1958) (For Elaine de Dooning): XVII
    2:25
  18. 19.
    Solo for Piano (1958) (For Elaine de Dooning): XVIII
    2:50
  19. 20.
    Solo for Piano (1958) (For Elaine de Dooning): XIX
    0:52
  20. 21.
    Solo for Piano (1958) (For Elaine de Dooning): XX
    0:24
  21. 22.
    Solo for Piano (1958) (For Elaine de Dooning): XXI
    2:10
  22. 23.
    34'46.776" for Two Pianists (1954) (Simultaneous version of 34'46.776" for Paul and Vera Williams)
    34:50

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