Herbert Henck

*2022 stock* It's over 70 years since John Cage wrote his pivotal Music of Changes, and it's beginning to show its age. It feels very much of its time, with its uncompromising adherence to the 64 hexagrams of I-Ching, the Chinese book of changes, determining the direction of the piece and its use of sudden, percussive attacks on the strings or the body of the instrument. But for all that there is no denying the extreme stamina and concentration required of the performer, and here Herbert Henck e…

Herbert Henck plays John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano and his own improvised Festeburger Fantasien (two series), recorded at the Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt, in August 1993 and August 2000.

Herbert Henck plays the surviving piano music of Johann Ludwig Trepulka (Klavierstücke op. 2) and Norbert von Hannenheim (Sonatas Nos. 2, 4, 6, 12 and a concerto fragment). Recorded April 2005 at the Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt am Main.