Cage: Complete Music for Prepared Piano - CD

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<br><br>John Cage was one of the most influential composers of the twentieth century with a highly original approach to music. <br /> <br /> Oriental influences and a lack of harmonic progress are main features of this music. As are rhythmic regularity and a lack of tension.<br /> <br /> Remarkably the pieces cover a relatively short period of time: 1940-1951. After this Cage moved on to different means of expression including both conventional ensembles and forms and certainly at the time unconventional materials like plants, telephones and taped music.<br /> <br /> This set offers an opportunity to (re)discover one of the pioneers of 20th-century music. Cage was definitely an avant-garde composer, but especially this repertoire for prepared piano proves to be unexpectedly accessible.<br /> <br />