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Aki Takahashi - Four Walls: Aki Takahashi Plays John Cage (2004) {Camerata CM-28027}

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Aki Takahashi - Four Walls: Aki Takahashi Plays John Cage (2004) {Camerata CM-28027}

Aki Takahashi - Four Walls: Aki Takahashi Plays John Cage (2004) {Camerata CM-28027}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 167 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 156 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 23 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2004 Camerata Tokyo | CM-28027
Classical / Contemporary

John Cage's austere Four Walls was composed in 1944 for Merce Cunningham's dance play of the previous year, and marks the beginning of a long and productive collaboration between the two artists. Except for the dance's structure, which was carefully planned in advance, Cage's music operated fairly independently of Cunningham's choreography, and its strictly timed sections alternated between fragmentary, song-like passages in modal harmony and aggressive bursts of expanding and contracting patterns, often in bare octaves.
Aki Takahashi - Four Walls: Aki Takahashi Plays John Cage (2004) {Camerata CM-28027}

The score provided an almost abstract background to the melodramatic action on-stage. Almost anticipating the hypnotic effect of the groundbreaking Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano (1946-1948), Four Walls is both placid and filled with suspense, because of the steady repetitions and the many silences that perforate the music; yet this early work differs because the music is played entirely on the white keys, and no novel sounds are produced on the piano's strings. Aki Takahashi plays the deceptively simple piano part with consistent dynamic control and full resonance, and soprano Megumi Hashiramoto delivers the plaintive lines of No. 7 with moving restraint. The sound quality is superb, and Camerata captures the performers with credible presence.
Aki Takahashi - Four Walls: Aki Takahashi Plays John Cage (2004) {Camerata CM-28027}


Personnel: Aki Takahashi, piano; Megumi Hashiramoto, soprano.

tracklist:
01 - Four Walls Act One. Part 1
02 - Four Walls Act One. Part 2
03 - Four Walls Act One. Part 3
04 - Four Walls Act One. Part 4
05 - Four Walls Act One. Part 5
06 - Four Walls Act One. Part 6
07 - Four Walls Act One. Part 7
08 - Four Walls Act One. Part 8
09 - Four Walls Act Two. Part 9
10 - Four Walls Act Two. Part 10
11 - Four Walls Act Two. Part 11
12 - Four Walls Act Two. Part 12
13 - Four Walls Act Two. Part 13

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 9. March 2014, 19:48

Aki Takahashi / Four Walls Aki Takahashi Plays John Cage

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Gap handling : Appended to previous track

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TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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1 | 0:00.00 | 3:39.67 | 0 | 16491
2 | 3:39.67 | 4:27.60 | 16492 | 36576
3 | 8:07.52 | 7:23.55 | 36577 | 69856
4 | 15:31.32 | 7:55.20 | 69857 | 105501
5 | 23:26.52 | 3:53.30 | 105502 | 123006
6 | 27:20.07 | 2:52.70 | 123007 | 135976
7 | 30:13.02 | 4:03.35 | 135977 | 154236
8 | 34:16.37 | 3:59.05 | 154237 | 172166
9 | 38:15.42 | 6:10.35 | 172167 | 199951
10 | 44:26.02 | 2:32.10 | 199952 | 211361
11 | 46:58.12 | 5:56.13 | 211362 | 238074
12 | 52:54.25 | 1:18.42 | 238075 | 243966
13 | 54:12.67 | 13:15.08 | 243967 | 303599


Track 1

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Track 6

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Track 8

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Track 9

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Track 12

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Track 13

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Aki Takahashi - Four Walls: Aki Takahashi Plays John Cage (2004) {Camerata CM-28027}


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