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限定100部の自主制作盤!!ジャズピアニストによる傑作リアライズ第三弾!!クラシック・コンポジション及びジャズ/即興のバックグラウンドを持つニューヨークの作曲家兼ピアニストJohn Bickerton。2025年1月よりジョン・ケージとアール・ブラウン作品の実演にて始まったプライベート・レーベル第三弾音源が登場。今回は1953年から1969年に掛けて作曲された、ジョン・ケージの[Winter Music]、アール・ブラウンの[Twenty-F​​ive Pages]および[Corroboree]、クリスチャン・ウォルフの[Tilbury 1]、モートン・フェルドマンの[Two Pieces for Three Pianos]、4人の作曲家による作品を収録。毎度の如く裏切らない説明不要の超高内容。









Three pianos. Independent paths. Changing constellations of sound.

Atmospheres — The New York School for Three Pianos brings together music by John Cage, Earle Brown, Morton Feldman, and Christian Wolff, four composers whose work in the 1950s radically reconsidered the relationships between composer, score, performer, sound, and time.

Composed between 1953 and 1969, the five works on this recording—Cage’s Winter Music, Brown’s Twenty-Five Pages and Corroboree, Wolff’s Tilbury 1, and Feldman’s Two Pieces for Three Pianos—present strikingly different approaches to openness, indeterminacy, and performer choice.

Realized here for three pianos, the music unfolds through independent paths, changing relationships, and contrasting approaches to musical time. Pages may be reordered or inverted, events may proceed without synchronization, and performers may determine aspects of pitch, timing, register, and instrumental color. Yet this is not music without structure: each composer establishes a distinct framework within which a performance can take shape. Atmospheres explores the space between composition and realization, where sound, silence, resonance, and the performer's decisions become part of the form itself.