The Pestova/Meyer Piano Duo's 2010 recording of Stockhausen's Mantra for Naxos was praised as 'a highly accomplished presentation of one of the landmark pieces in the second half of the twentieth century' by The Guardian.
Compositional Technique
John Cage embraced 'chance techniques' to access all sonic possibilities of instrumentation, moving away from the idea that notes should reflect a composer's personal taste or language.
Composition History
John Cage composed Two 2, a Number Piece for the Double Edge piano duo, in response to a conversation with composer Sofia Gubaidulina about the 'inner clock' in musical timekeeping.
Compositional Technique
Winter Music, a piece by John Cage, is scored for any number of pianos between one and twenty, with performers choosing how many of the twenty pages of notation to play.
Composer Biography
John Cage, a student of Arnold Schoenberg, famously declared he would devote his life to 'beating his head against that wall' when Schoenberg warned him about his lack of feeling for harmony.
Compositional Technique
John Cage's 'indeterminacy' techniques mean that two performances of the same piece might sound almost unrecognizably different.
Composer's Artistic Vision
John Cage's musical interests centered on structuring time, which he saw as replacing harmony as the primary issue in composition.
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