John Cage, Joëlle LéandreFeaturing: Lê Quan Ninh
The Wonderful Widow Of Eighteen Springs (CD)
LabelMontaigneGenreExperimental
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Four pieces by John Cage in versions for double bass by Joëlle Léandre, who worked with him from the late 1970s. In The Wonderful Widow Of Eighteen Springs (1942), on a text from Joyce's Finnegans Wake, and in the wordless A Flower (1950), Léandre sings and plays at once, while 59½ (1953) is the short work for any string instrument.
The long centre of the disc is Ryoanji, where the bass traces slow glissandi against the sparse strokes of Lê Quan Ninh's percussion. Léandre closes with her own tape piece Hommage À J… (1984). Recorded at Sender Freies Berlin in 1995 and issued by Montaigne.
Release notes
Co-production Sender Freies Berlin SFB - Auvidis Montaigne Recorded and mixed at Sender Freies Berlin, May, July 1995 Track 5 produced at Guifford University (G.B.) trilingual booklet - original French text with English and German translations cover photograph: John Cage & Joëlle Léandre - Columbia University, New York The Wonderful Widow Of Eighteen Springs (1942 ) version for voice and contrabass Ryoanji (1984) version for contrabass and voice with percussion A Flower (1950)…
| 1 | The Wonderful Widow Of Eighteen Springs | 2:29 | |
| 2 | Ryoanji | 24:39 | |
| 3 | A Flower | 3:56 | |
| 4 | 59½ | 1:00 | |
| 5 | Hommage À J… | 4:13 |
- John Cage
- Composed By (1 to 4)
- Joëlle Léandre
- Composed By (5), Double Bass [Contrabass], Voice, Liner Notes
- Wolfgang Zülch
- Engineer [Sound], Mastered By, Mixed By, Edited By
- Martin Demmler
- Executive-Producer
- Jean-Noël von der Weid
- Liner Notes
- Peter Avar
- Mixed By, Edited By
- Bruno Wagner
- Photography By
- Dagmar Gebers
- Photography By
- Rita Babo
- Supervised By [Artistic Supervision]
- Antje Maibom
- Technician
- Reinhard Schickel
- Technician
