Musiche per strumenti

This is a reduction of a chamber work that Cage did for rehearsal and occasional performance with Cunningham Company. It was discovered by Walter Zimmerman in the Cage Collection at the New York Publi...

Charming melodies capture the style of the early 20th Century dances, which are updated with mid-20th Century harmonies (including dramatic chromaticisms, and passages reminiscent of Leonard Bernsteri...

'The recently re-discovered 'Chess Pieces' by John Cage is a work unique to Cage's œuvre and indeed to twentieth-century music and art. In 1944, Cage created the painting, 'Chess Pieces', specifically...

Commissioned by the Gilmore Festival and premiered by Gilbert Kalish, this work includes J.S. Bach's original aria and 12 new variations by Del Tredici, Foss, Hersch, Bolcom, Sheng, Higdon, Gothoni, C...

In the early 1940s, John Cage was on the faculty of Mills College (in Oakland, California). While there, he wrote music to accompany the graduation theses of graduate dance students. The manuscripts f...

'The Theme and Variations is purely the work of a man in love, and it was inspired by my fiancée Cathy Fuller, my true soulmate, who fascinates me more with each passing day. As a matter of fact, the...

'In 1950-51 John Cage composed seven Haiku for piano. The manuscripts are extremely sketchy but can be deciphered, with only a few minor rhythmic details open to speculation. In contrast to the famili...

Commissionato dalla Fondazione Gilmore, per la pianista Natasha Paremski. Il tema è tratto dal secondo movimento della Sinfonia n. 4 di Čajkovskij.

Ciaccona per pianoforte solo, commissionata da Hartmut Schock per sua figlia Elisabeth. Marc-André Hamelin è un acclamato concertista e solista che si è esibito con molte delle principali orchestre de...

Questa raccolta riunisce una serie di brevi brani per pianoforte, molti dei quali non sono mai stati pubblicati prima. La maggior parte di essi si presta bene come bis.

The three movements in David Rakowski's lively piano suite Penalty Box are each named for illegal maneuvers in American sports. The first, "Encroachment" - in which the line played by the left hand sn...

This edition collects virtuoso Marc-André Hamelin's own cadenzas for the first four piano concerti of Beethoven. Each is dedicated to a different pianist: The cadenza for the First Concerto is inscrib...

Widely admired for his performances of the core piano repertoire as well as his forays into obscure and hyper-virtuosic corners of the piano repertoire, composer-performer Marc-André Hamelin has recei...

First performed November 2009, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival by Noriko Kawai.

Barcarola by Julian Philips is a 15-minute work for solo piano. It seeks to reinhabit the world of the 19th century Barcarolle as typified by Chopin, Liszt or Fauré, exploring the genre's distinctive...

Composed 1997-2002, one of the major piano works of our time. The Book of Elements Vol. 5 was awarded the 2003 Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Chamber-scale Composition.