John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano, by Maro Ajemian

John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

by Maro Ajemian

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1.	Sonata I 03:06	buy track
2.	Sonata II 02:29	buy track
3.	Sonata III 02:46	buy track
4.	Sonata IV 03:10	buy track
5.	First Interlude 03:47	buy track
6.	Sonata V 01:31	buy track
7.	Sonata VI 02:24	buy track
8.	Sonata VII 02:36	buy track
9.	Sonata VIII 02:58	buy track
10.	Second Interlude 04:19	buy track
11.	Third Interlude 03:07	buy track
12.	Sonata IX 04:06	buy track
13.	Sonata X 03:36	buy track
14.	Sonata XI 03:29	buy track
15.	Sonata XII 04:17	buy track
16.	Fourth Interlude 02:47	buy track
17.	Sonata XIII 04:07	buy track
18.	Sonatas XIV and XV 07:11	buy track
19.	Sonata XVI 05:03	buy track

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|| Burn-on-demand CDs of this CRi reissue are available at our website: www.newworldrecords.org/products/john-cage-sonatas-and-interludes-for-prepared-piano ||

“Oh, damn it! I wish I'd thought of that!”
— Lou Harrison, on the invention by John Cage of the prepared piano.

John Cage (1912-1992) wrote the Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano gradually between 1946 and 1948. Maro Ajemian, to whom the work is dedicated, premiered the first four in performance at Town Hall in 1946, and she gave the first New York performance of the full set at a celebrated concert in Carnegie Recital Hall on January 12, 1949. The concert was considered a milestone in Cage’s career, the Sonatas and Interludes instantly recognized as both the culmination of Cage’s decade of writing for the prepared piano and as his first genuine masterpiece.

“John Cage came into his own last night both as an innovator and a composer,” Ross Parmenter wrote the next day in the New York Times. “It left one with the feeling that Mr. Cage is now one of the country’s finest composers and that his invention has now been vindicated musically.” Although the Sonatas and Interludes has become among the most performed and recorded of Cage’s works, the original recording of it by Ajemian in 1951 for Dial Records and reissued here for the first time was always considered by Cage, who had often at the time played the work himself, definitive.

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released January 1, 1995

Maro Ajemian, piano

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