J. Cage - String quartet in four parts, Arditti Quartet (w/score)

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John Cage (1912-1992), composed between 1949-50.
The Arditti Quartet
Irvine Arditti, violin
David Alberman, violin
Levine Andrade, viola
Rohan de Saram, cello
Recorded in 1989.
00:07 - I. Quietly Flowing Along
04:14 - II. Slowly Rocking
08:56 - III. Nearly Stationary
18:53 - IV. Quodibet
It is a work of great simplicity, reminiscent of Erik Satie and in a way a further step toward Cage’s abandonment of self-expression. As in his Sonatas and Interludes, it deals with the nine permanent emotions of Indian philosophy, as well as the Indian notion of the seasons: creation, preservation, destruction, and quiescence. In the first movement, the subject is Summer in France, in the second it is Fall in America. The third movement is about Winter, and the fourth, about Spring, is a welcome and quite sprightly quodlibet.

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@singlesideman 5 жыл бұрын

This is SO, SO GOOD... I just adore John. I met him in his apartment in the late eighties. And for all the right reasons, don't you know... There are stories worth telling....

@simoneweil1 4 жыл бұрын

please tell me few stories of cage. he is as good as a saint

@jeffryphillipsburns Жыл бұрын

Cage spent a week in residence at my undergraduate college. Before he came, two professors on separate occasions made melodramatic ranting embarrassingly foolish speeches about him, one in opposed, one in favor, but equally cringe-inducing. Cage himself when I finally saw him, lecturing in a small intimate classroom, seemed contrastingly low-key and playful. He was about seventy at the time, thin, and wearing extremely tight jeans. I wondered why a seventy-year-old man would dress like that. In any case, it seems to me that virtually no one really likes or dislikes Cage’s music all that much: they just like to make speeches about him. It’s all posturing.

@jeffryphillipsburns Жыл бұрын

Addendum: Since two is statistically a very small sample, maybe I should give another example. Some years later I had a job as a piano accompanist for university ballet classes. The dance instructor announced to her class that the choreographer and John-Cage-associate Merce Cunningham was coming to town with his dance troop. Some student took this as his cue to make a faux-impassioned speech about how “Merce Cunningham and John Cage are the real Americans”-whatever that was supposed to mean. The next week the ballet instructor asked the student how he liked Merce Cunninghm’s concert. “Oh, I didn’t go,” he answered.

@markbrooks7157 2 ай бұрын

@@simoneweil1he was no saint.

@adamizakpospisil3486 Жыл бұрын

Yes, he was a great composer, not just a philosopher!

@hierunda 5 жыл бұрын

Thanxs for posting!!

@playingmusiconmars 4 жыл бұрын

This one of Cages pieces that is actually nice in concept and in Listening. Usually it's sadly only the first one.

@magicknight13 8 ай бұрын

What do you mean? I'm a bit bewildered

@hierunda 5 жыл бұрын

John Cage 5.9.1912 - 12.8.1992 and the Arditti Quartet recorded it sure not 1898, perhaps the 1989 recording ?

@RabbiZamyatin 4 жыл бұрын

The Arditti quartet have always been ahead of their time

@aarontravers6411 3 жыл бұрын

Looks like they wrote Schoenberg's birth and death years instead of Cage's. Easy mistake to make, I guess...

@janetroy5489 3 жыл бұрын

Written the year before he died.

@lrlarsonBrooklyn 3 жыл бұрын

That is not true ... 1950

@janetroy5489 3 жыл бұрын

@@lrlarsonBrooklyn You're right. Don't know what I was thinking.

@davidbuddin2383 2 жыл бұрын

USA to the max! JC might've said he wanted USA to be "just another country", but he was just talking his trash

@lastofthe4horsemen279 Жыл бұрын

My man

@silver1788 27 күн бұрын

Jeez

@gomro 7 ай бұрын

The last really fine piece from his pen. Shortly he would abrogate meaning in his music, making it just a didactic exercise. We lost a great composer when he made that decision. And the pieces that still get performed prove that.