The Works for Piano 8: Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano

Album by John Cage & Philipp Vandré

This volume in the Works for Piano series presents John Cage’s complete short works for prepared piano, using screws, bolts, rubber and other materials inserted between the strings to alter timbre within an experimental, avant-garde classical context.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Perilous Night: I.
    2:31
  2. 2.
    The Perilous Night: II.
    0:51
  3. 3.
    The Perilous Night: III.
    3:58
  4. 4.
    The Perilous Night: IV.
    2:22
  5. 5.
    The Perilous Night: V.
    0:36
  6. 6.
    The Perilous Night: VI.
    3:46
  7. 7.
    Tossed as It Is Untroubled (Meditation)
    2:43
  8. 8.
    A Room
    2:56
  9. 9.
    Primitive
    4:13
  10. 10.
    Bacchanale
    9:38
  11. 11.
    In the Name of the Holocaust, Part 1
    4:09
  12. 12.
    In the Name of the Holocaust, Part 2
    2:14
  13. 13.
    Totem Ancestor
    2:10
  14. 14.
    Our Spring Will Come
    4:38
  15. 15.
    And the Earth Shall Bear Again
    3:25

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
    9:39
  2. 3.
    Spontaneous Earth
    2:55
  3. 4.
    Music for Marcel Duchamp
    5:55
  4. 5.
    Mysterious Adventure
    8:42
  5. 6.
    A Valentine Out of Season, Part 1
    1:38
  6. 7.
    A Valentine Out of Season, Part 2
    1:02
  7. 8.
    A Valentine Out of Season, Part 3
    1:13
  8. 9.
    The Unavailable Memory Of
    3:27
  9. 10.
    Prelude for Meditation
    1:07
  10. 11.
    Root of an Unfocus
    5:05
  11. 12.
    Two Pastorales, Part 1
    5:55
  12. 13.
    Two Pastorales, Part 2
    7:21

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