John Cage Two2

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Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2008-03-04
Music Label: Mode
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Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 1
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 2
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 3
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 4
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 5
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 6
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 7
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 8
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 9
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 10
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 11
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 12
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 13
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 14
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 15
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 16
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 17
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 18
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 19
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 20
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 21
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 22
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 23
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 24
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 25
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 26
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 27
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 28
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 29
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 30
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 31
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 32
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 33
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 34
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 35
Two2, for two pianos (indeterminate): Movement 36

Music reviews of John Cage Two2

Music Review: A late Cagean masterpiece.
Rating: 5 Stars

In the last years of his life Cage devoted his compositional energies almost exclusively to "the number pieces", works whose titles give the number of performers. As there were numerous occasions where he composed works for the same number of players (but usually different combinations of instruments, or soloists in the case of the "One" pieces) he would append a superscript number to indicate the sequence of pieces in a particular number catagory. So it is with this work, Two2, for two pianos. All of the "number" pieces also utilize the same compositional type, which consist of a staff with one or a few pitches, with timings before and after indicating a flexible range of times where the material can be played. In the case of works with two or more performers the individual parts are not co-ordinated, but allowed to combine freely, as the individual performers each follow their own timetable, so to speak. This work is a long and beautiful soundscape of sustained pitches weaving in and out together and apart, for over 70 minutes. I would almost call this "Feldmanesque" except that there is no repetition of material, as so often is the case with Feldman (especially late Feldman.) One excellent feature of this recording is that the many sections have their own track index, and it is possible to make this a very long realization by setting your CD player on "shuffle" and "repeat". So far as I can tell there is no indication that Cage meant it to be played in this way, but it is in the spirit of Cage that it could be, and I have played this piece for hours on end in the aforementioned "shuffle" and "repeat" mode, with the result of it being a meditative and seemingly timeless soundscape.

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