John Cage // Hymnkus Thoreau Drawings Two CDs

This is an album by Apartment House that played John Cage's relatively late works.

Two (1987) was the first work of his number piece, and "Hymnkus" (1986) was the work of the previous year. "Thoreau Drawings" (1974) is a very rare two-part work.The first halfAn ensemble of shapes taken from Henry David Thoreau's paintings, the latter half of which is the composerA field recording (monaural) by David Behrman at Stony Point, a small town in New York, at dawn in August 1974.

Apartment House:
Anton Lukoszevieze, cello
Mira Benjamin & Gordon MacKay, violins
Kerry Yong, piano & keyboard
Gavin Morrison, alto flute
Heather Roche, clarinet
Raymond Brien, bass clarinet
Mark Knoop, piano
Kathryn Williams, flute
David Behrman, field recording

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Another Timbre:

"Three relatively late works by John Cage, performed by Apartment House.
'Two' (1987) was the first of his number pieces, while'Hymnkus' (1986) is an one-off from the year before.'Thoreau Drawings' (1974) is a very rarely performed work in two halves. In the first section the ensemble interpret shapes taken from drawings by Henry David Thoreau, and the second half is a (mono) field recording made at dawn in August1974 by the composer David Behrman in the small town of Stony Point, NY. "

Artist: John Cage

Label: Another Timbre