Number Pieces, by John Cage / Apartment House

Number Pieces

by John Cage / Apartment House

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Tim perfectly calm - it sobers the mind

John Shaeffer I long for the day that numbers are one every symphony's subscription series and are enthusiastically received. The would will be a better place.

William Denton Good piece in the Guardian about this set: www.theguardian.com/music/2021/aug/25/how-john-cage-the-great-disrupter-had-the-last-laugh-by-writing-beautiful-music

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4-CD box set of John Cage's Number Pieces played by Apartment House, with 44-page booklet & original artwork

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A beautifully produced 4-CD box set of John Cage's 'Number Pieces', played by Apartment House. With 44-page booklet and CDs in individual card wallets with original artwork by Arvinda Gray

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1.	Five (version 1) 05:06	info
2.	Five2 05:06	info
3.	Five5 05:05	info
4.	Fourteen 20:05	info
5.	Five3 40:01	info
6.	Five (version 2) 05:08	info
7.	Seven 20:09	info
8.	Seven2 52:09	info
9.	Five (version 3) 05:03	info
10.	Five4 05:03	info
11.	Thirteen 30:04	info
12.	Six 03:07	info
13.	Ten 30:03	info
14.	Five (version 4) 05:07	info
15.	Eight - part 1 43:00	info
16.	Eight - part 2 17:07	info
17.	Four5 12:02	info
18.	Five (alternative version) 05:14	info	buy track
19.	Four5 (alternative version) 12:04	info	buy track
20.	Seven (alternative version) 20:04	info	buy track
21.	Fourteen - EXTRACT FOR STREAMING ONLY 09:43	info
22.	Seven2 - EXTRACT FOR STREAMING ONLY 12:12	info
23.	Thirteen - EXTRACT FOR STREAMING ONLY 10:48	info

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A 4-disc box-set with Apartment House playing all of John Cage's 'number pieces' for mid-size ensembles (from 'Five' to 'Fourteen', with 'Four5' as an added extra, along with alternative versions of three of the pieces). These extraordinarily beautiful works were all composed in the last 5 years of the composer's life, as Cage approached his 80th birthday. These recordings by Apartment House are the first recordings for 15 years of almost all of the pieces. An essential release of wonderful but somewhat neglected music.
Downloads include a pdf of the 44-page booklet with extensive notes about Cage's number pieces, and the cover artwork

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released August 13, 2021

Apartment House
Anton Lukoszevieze - cello Heather Roche - clarinets
Chloe Abbott - trumpet George Barton - percussion
Stuart Beard - tuba Mira Benjamin - violin
Raymond Brien - clarinets Bridget Carey - viola
Pete Furniss - bass clarinet Mark Knoop - piano
Simon Limbrick - percussion Chihiro Ono - violin
James Opstad - double bass Joe Qiu - bassoon
Christopher Redgate - oboe Siwan Rhys - piano
Nancy Ruffer - flutes Laetitia Stott - horn Barrie Webb - trombone

Individual musician credits are given for each track.

Original artwork by Arvinda Gray

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