Enormous technical requirements make John Cage's "Etudes Boreales" a highly virtuosic work, which requires an extreme sensitivity of feeling for the coordination of fingers, instrument, and intellect. On this CD it is presented in versions: for piano solo and later for cello solo with piano solo. As in the sister works, "Etudes Australes" and "Freeman Etudes", Cage based the "Etudes Boreales" on a star chart. He used the chart of the northern sky that the Czech astronomer AntonÃn BecvÃ¡r made in 1962. The time length piece 26'1.1499' - Friedrich Gauwerky chooses the first 640.3 seconds for this recording, thus giving the piece the titel 10'40.3' - documents the composer's retreat from an intentional determination of the sounds. And also the "Harmonies" welcome the creative possibilities of whatever happens next.

Tracklist:

Harmony XXVII For Violoncello And Piano
Etudes Boreales For A Percussionist Using A Piano I
Etudes Boreales For A Percussionist Using A Piano II
Etudes Boreales For A Percussionist Using A Piano III
Etudes Boreales For A Percussionist Using A Piano IV
Harmony XXXII For Violoncello And Piano
10'40.3" (From 26’1.1499’’) For A String Player
Harmony XXIV For Violoncello And Piano
Etudes Boreales For Cello And Piano I
Etudes Boreales For Cello And Piano II
Etudes Boreales For Cello And Piano III
Etudes Boreales For Cello And Piano IV
Harmony XIII For Violoncello And Piano

UPC: 4010228671827
Label: Wergo Germany
Release Date: 7.13.10
Format: CD

Friedrich Gauwerky - Etudes Boreales / Harmonies (CD)