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TAKAHASHI, YUJI - plays JOHN CAGE: Sonatas and Interludes

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Fylkingen Records FYCD 1010 Release Year: 1997 Note: re-issue of the first two FYLKINGEN LPs from 1966: CAGE's "Sonatas and Interludes" (1946-1948) performed by YUJI TAKAHASHI in 1965, "an attempt to express in music the 'permanent emotions' of Indian tradition"; radical prepared piano sounds & structures ! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €12.50 More Info The recordings of John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes (1946-48) with Yuji Takahashi on preparated piano was originally made in 1965 and released on two LP:s 1966. They were Fylkingen Records' first releases with the intention to make documentations of Fylkingen's concerts in public, and a test of the sound expert Stig Carlsson's thoughts about recording techniques. The Sonates and interludes are an attempt to express in music the "permanent emotions" of Indian tradition: the heroic, the erotic, the wondrous, the mirthful, sorrow, fear, anger, the odius and their common tendency to toward tranquillity. - FYCD 1010, (1966) 1997