John Cage
Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music (4LP Box)
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Insert included. One of the most ambitious recordings in John Cage's discography. Atlas Eclipticalis - composed in 1961 by tracing astronomical star charts onto transparent paper and using the resulting patterns as notation - is scored for any ensemble drawn from a full orchestra, each part independent and simultaneous. Winter Music for one to twenty pianos operates on similar principles of indeterminate coexistence. Mode Records gave the work a documentation commensurate with its scale: a 4LP box that attempts to capture something of the spatial complexity of a work conceived for live acoustic space, not fixed recording.
Format
Atlas Eclipticalis (1961) version for chamber orchestra
with
Winter Music (1957) version for three pianos
The two works are performed simultaneously.
World Premiere recording of the complete edition.
Recorded live at the Cornish Theater of the Cornish Institute; Seattle, Washington on December 11, 1983.
Includes 4-page booklet with liner notes in English and German.
Made & printed in Germany by Teldec
Release notes
Atlas Eclipticalis (1961) version for chamber orchestra with Winter Music (1957) version for three pianos The two works are performed simultaneously. World Premiere recording of the complete edition. Recorded live at the Cornish Theater of the Cornish Institute; Seattle, Washington on December 11, 1983. Includes 4-page booklet with liner notes in English and German. Made & printed in Germany by Teldec
| Atlas Eclipticalis With Winter Music | |||
| A | Part 1 (Beginning) | 19:58 | |
| B | Part 1 (Continued) | 19:35 | |
| C | Part 1 (Continued) | 19:19 | |
| D | Part 1 (Conclusion) | 21:14 | |
| E | Part 2 (Beginning) | 19:39 | |
| F | Part 2 (Continued) | 20:00 | |
| G | Part 2 (Continued) | 20:10 | |
| H | Part 2 (Conclusion) | 20:46 | |
- Walter Gray
- Cello
- William O. Smith
- Clarinet
- John Cage
- Conductor, Composed By, Liner Notes
- Brian Brandt
- Design [Cover & Booklet], Producer
- John Anton
- Design [Cover & Booklet], Producer
- David Avidor
- Engineer [Post-production]
- Paul Taub
- Flute
- Matthew Kocmieroski
- Liner Notes, Percussion
- Jarrad Powell
- Percussion
- The New Performance Group
- Performer
- Eileen Daley
- Photography [Photo Of John Cage], Producer
- Bun-Ching Lam
- Piano
- Roger Nelson
- Piano
- Thomasa Eckert
- Piano
- Julian Priester
- Trombone
- James Knapp
- Trumpet
- Linda Snider
- Typography [Typesetting]
- Ella Gray
- Violin
