Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

Album by John Cage & Nora Skuta

Sonatas and Interludes is a cycle for prepared piano by John Cage, in which the instrument is modified with screws, bolts, rubber and other objects to create varied percussive sonorities. Drawing on the Indian rasa aesthetic, it explores contrasting emotional states within an avant-garde/experimental classical idiom.

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  1. 1.
    Sonata No. 1
    2:45
  2. 2.
    Sonata No. 2
    2:15
  3. 3.
    Sonata No. 3
    2:20
  4. 4.
    Sonata No. 4
    2:28
  5. 5.
    First Interlude
    3:18
  6. 6.
    Sonata No. 5
    1:29
  7. 7.
    Sonata No. 6
    2:23
  8. 8.
    Sonata No. 7
    2:03
  9. 9.
    Sonata No. 8
    2:53
  10. 10.
    Second Interlude
    4:01
  11. 11.
    Third Interlude
    2:26
  12. 12.
    Sonata No. 9
    3:57
  13. 13.
    Sonata No. 10
    3:22
  14. 14.
    Sonata No. 11
    3:36
  15. 15.
    Sonata No. 12
    3:17
  16. 16.
    Fourth Interlude
    2:57
  17. 17.
    Sonata No. 13
    4:48
  18. 18.
    Sonatas No. 14 & 15 "Gemini" (after the Work by Richard Lippold)
    6:04
  19. 19.
    Sonata No. 16
    4:37

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