Found Objects / Sound Objects

Do Frank Zappa and John Cage really belong on the classical piano album? To anyone who might be harbouring doubts, the answer is an emphatic ‘yes’, especially when the pianist is Marc-André Hamelin, whose own Hexensabbat brings to a riotous conclusion a programme of music—and instruments, in the case of Cage’s prepared piano—which radically disrupts Western traditions.

Tracklisting:

1. Zappa/Askin: Ruth is sleeping
2. Martirano: Stuck on Stella
3. Oswald (J): Tip
4. Cage: The perilous night - 1: Crotchet = 176
5. Cage: The perilous night - 2: Minim = 92
6. Cage: The perilous night - 3: Minim = 80
7. Cage: The perilous night - 4: Minim = 80
8. Cage: The perilous night - 5: Minim = 92
9. Cage: The perilous night - 6: Crotchet = 176 (or faster)
10. Wolpe: Four Studies on basic rows - 4: Passacaglia
11. Wyner: Refrain
12. Hamelin: Hexensabbat