John Cage
Atlas Eclipticalis With Winter Music (4LP box)
Volume 2 of Mode's Complete John Cage Edition released in 1986, a monumental 4LP box set with the simultaneous performance of 1961's Atlas Eclipticalis (version for chamber orchestra) with 1957's Winter Music (version for 3 pianos) sparsely performed by The New Performance Group conducted by the composer himself.
condition (records/box): NM / NM
Insert included. One of the most ambitious recordings in John Cage's discography. Atlas Eclipticalis - composed in 1961 by tracing astronomical star charts onto transparent paper and using the resulting patterns as notation - is scored for any ensemble drawn from a full orchestra, each part independent and simultaneous. Winter Music for one to twenty pianos operates on similar principles of indeterminate coexistence. Mode Records gave the work a documentation commensurate with its scale: a 4LP box that attempts to capture something of the spatial complexity of a work conceived for live acoustic space, not fixed recording.
Details
File under: ContemporaryAvant-Garde
Cat. number: mode 3/6
Year: 1986
Notes:
Atlas Eclipticalis (1961) version for chamber orchestra
with
Winter Music (1957) version for three pianos
The two works are performed simultaneously.
World Premiere recording of the complete edition.
Recorded live at the Cornish Theater of the Cornish Institute; Seattle, Washington on December 11, 1983.
Includes 4-page booklet with liner notes in English and German.
Made & printed in Germany by Teldec
