John Cage, Erik Satie, Herbert Henck, Deborah Richards, Hilke Helling Socrate / Cheap Imitation
1991 CD
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WERGO, WERGO
co-producer [eine co-produktion von] Radio Bremen
co-producer [eine co-produktion von] WERGO Schallplatten GmbH
cover Georges Braque
engineer [toningenieurin] Frauke Schulz
liner notes Herbert Henck
liner notes [english translation by] Deborah Richards
liner notes [traduit en français par] Louise Duchesneau
producer [redaktion] Solf Schaefer
recording supervisor [aufnahmeleitung], edited by [schnitt] Andreas Heintzeler
technician [tontechnikerin] Gisela Menzlaff
Produced For Radio Bremen
Produced For WERGO Schallplatten GmbH
Recorded At Radio Bremen
Phonographic Copyright (p) WERGO Schallplatten GmbH
Copyright (c) WERGO Schallplatten GmbH
Copyright (c) Éditions Max Eschig
Copyright (c) Éditions de La Sirène
Copyright (c) Henmar Press Inc.
Copyright (c) VG Bild-Kunst
Published By Edition Peters
Socrate (1918)
Drame symphonique en trois parties avec voix sur des dialogues de Platon traduits par Victor Cousin. Ouvrage composé pour les représentaions de la Princesse Edmond de Polignac
A Madame la Princesse Edmond de Polignac Et à la Mèmoire du Prince Edmond de Polignac. E.S.
Notenausgabe: (1) Edition La Sirene Musicale, Copyright © 1973 by Editions Max Eschig, Paris (Notentext der 1. Ausgabe, Paris: Éditions de La Sirène, 1919). - (2) Édition revue et corrigé: Copyright © 1920 by Éditions de La Sirène, Paris.

Cheap Imitation, for piano solo (1969)
Notenausgabe: Copyright © 1970 by Henmar Press Inc., New York (Edition Peters P6805)

John Cage's Cheap Imitation was the result of a special occasion in December 1969: A project of the choreographer and dancer, Merce Cunningham, wanting to include Satie's Socrate in the version for small orchestra and voice, was threatened from taking place due to the high fees for the material; simultaneously the French publisher refused Cage permission to arrange the work for two pianos. Cage found a way out with the Cheap Imitation, in which he subjected the entire score of Socrate to a type of metamorphosis. With the aid of a chance process developed from the Taosit oracle I Ching he transformed Satie's score into a new composition, in which however the contours of the original work were still clearly recognizable (bar division, rhythm, agogic), but especially the pitches and their octave registers were changed. [...]

Aufnahme: November 1989, Radio Bremen
Cover: Guitarre et Verre / Nature morte à la partition de Satie (Socrate), 1921, Öl auf Leinwand, 43 x 73 cm, auf der Rückseite signiert, Paris, Centre National d'Art de Culture Georges Pompidou, © 1991 VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
℗ 1991 WERGO Schallplatten GmbH, Mainz, Germany
© 1991 WERGO Schallplatten GmbH, Mainz, Germany
Manufactured in Germany. Printed in Germany.

Packaging: standard jewel case with 36 page booklet
Barcode: 4010228618624
Rights Society: GEMA
Label Code: LC 0846
SPARS Code: DDD
Matrix / Runout: WER 6186-2 50172 504 01 +



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