John Cage, Lukas Foss

condition (record/cover): NM / NM  Gatefold sleeve with original innersleeve.

Two composers at very different angles to the avant-garde, paired on Nonesuch - the American label that through the late 1960s and 70s issued some of the most important experimental and contemporary music available to a wider public. John Cage's Concerto For Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra (1950-51) sits at a transitional moment in his development, the last work in which he and the orchestra share the same harmonic materials, before chance operations severed the composer's intention from the musical result. Lukas Foss's Baroque Variations takes existing baroque material as its raw substance, subjecting it to fragmentation, superimposition, and indeterminate treatment - a different route to a not entirely dissimilar destination.