The Perilous Night / Four Walls

Album by John Cage & Margaret Leng Tan & Joan La Barbara

This release pairs John Cage’s prepared-piano work The Perilous Night with Four Walls, a theatre-dance score for piano and voice. Both works belong to Cage’s experimental avant-garde classical idiom, emphasising timbre, percussive prepared-piano sonorities and sparse repetition.
First released: 1991

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    The Perilous Night: 1
    2:27
  2. 2.
    The Perilous Night: 2
    0:49
  3. 3.
    The Perilous Night: 3
    4:32
  4. 4.
    The Perilous Night: 4
    1:07
  5. 5.
    The Perilous Night: 5
    0:38
  6. 6.
    The Perilous Night: 6
    3:28
  7. 7.
    Four Walls: Act I: Scene I
    3:07
  8. 8.
    Four Walls: Act I: Scene II
    3:59
  9. 9.
    Four Walls: Act I: Scene III
    6:35
  10. 10.
    Four Walls: Act I: Scene IV
    6:46
  11. 11.
    Four Walls: Act I: Scene V
    4:03
  12. 12.
    Four Walls: Act I: Scene VI
    3:14
  13. 13.
    Four Walls: Act I: Scene VII
    2:26
  14. 14.
    Four Walls: Act I: Scene VIII
    3:30
  15. 15.
    Four Walls: Act II: Scene IX
    5:36
  16. 16.
    Four Walls: Act II: Scene X
    2:05
  17. 17.
    Four Walls: Act II: Scene XI
    4:10
  18. 18.
    Four Walls: Act II: Scene XII
    1:13
  19. 19.
    Four Walls: Act II: Scene XIII
    11:23

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