John CAGE
“Klang der Wandlungen”

3 Audio CDs in a Box & Booklet German / English.
“Seventy-Four” (1992) for orchestra. SWR Symphonic Orchester, direction by Jonathan Stockhammer. Recorded 2011 in Paris.
“103” (1991) for orchestra. WDR Symphonic Orchestra, direction by Arturo Tamayo. Recorded 1992.
“Postcard from Heaven” (1982) for one to 20 harps. Gabriele Emde, harp. Recorded 1985.
“In a Landscape” (1948) for keyboard oder harp. Gabriele Emde, harp. Recorded 1985.
“Some of The Harmony of Maine” (1978) for organ. Jakob Ullmann, organ. Recorded 1990.
“In retrospect, the references to the difference between Cage’s pieces and the (largely) European tradition, cultivated over years if not decades, seem to be based much more upon the creative process rather than the actual sonic results. What was important for Cage was not the “deviation” of certain sound shapes, an audible difference from European tradition, but rather liberation from restrictive bonds of interpretation and expression. Even when he was a student with Arnold Schoenberg, who he held in high esteem throughout his life, Cage had already been enquiring into traditions in music and art in this sense, in a highly productive way as it was mostly entirely non-polemic – long before
so-called “postmodernism” was in sight. Cage’s conclusion, namely to establish from Schoenberg’s principle of equality of all tones in a row their complete equivalence through chance operations also proved applicable to entirely different traditions and constellations.” Jakob Ullmann