John Cage: The Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2

John Cage: The Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2

John Cage: The Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2
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Composer: John Cage
Performer: Arditti String Quartet
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1993-03-15
Music Label: Mode
Soundtracks:
  1. Str Qt in Four Parts: Quietly Flowing Along
  2. Str Qt in Four Parts: Slowly Rocking
  3. Str Qt in Four Parts: Nearly Stationary
  4. Str Qt in Four Parts: Quodlibet
  5. 'Four': Part One
  6. 'Four': Part Two

Music reviews of John Cage: The Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2

Music Review: none better, reinvents the genre
Rating: 5 Stars

The early String Quartet is a summary work, or one where the musical creativity in other places, as the piano solo music and the prepared piano music transmigrated its way into the strings here. Cage was fascinated by "distributions" of single tones, and two, three, relations of tones, why they should come together or not, and the resulting beauty of this agenda.This is a creative narrative full of surprises,for Cage felt that this "unknown" element should take full centre stage in the proceedings. Each individual string here on the various string instruments is treated is thought through as an entity; an element to its own, materials to be distributed on a sonic grid.This is a grid of harmonics, simply bowed tones, and Cage limits the tones on each, so that it marks out a place, much like the light distributions one finds in light going through a cube, and geometric proportions found there. So the metaphor was to make an entity a situation determinate, yet free in that the cello can and does play the same tones as the violins, but the timbre is indeed slighly transformed. You have then simplistic traditional beauty here,wonderful to simply hear a slowly drawn bow across a string, you can sense the friction of this.The context of this work resides in the after war years,and was a response to the brutal relative ugly music the Europeans were writing as this time, as Boulez's Artaudian "piano sonatas", or Stockhausen's machine like "klavierstuck". The intervals in Cage here suggest this open-ness and you cannot help hearing a little Copland,here his fifths and fourths, from the Appalachia music. But the reference really has no weight of forbearance on what Cage was interested in.

The "Four" as well is from the Eighties, a time when Cage had renewed his interest in the "process" of things, how materials can literally cross each other. Here for example the part from one, say the violoncello part is passed like a racing form to another player for a reading. It is all slow music anyway, but the indeterminate simultaneous interplay is what makes this music fascinating to listen to.

Arditti seem to have more here to engage their performative demeanors than the more ugly string quartet music in Volume Two for the Mode Label, the "Thirty Pieces for String Quartet" (1983) half an hour of thorny expressionistic, tumultuous renderings.

All the recordings here were (supervised) by Cage. Well Cage was there at this recording place.
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