[silence] Cage conducts Cage on Mode Records

[Brian Brandt]

Dear Silencers
You may be interested to know that Mode has finally reissued its second 
release on CD. For more information, please see below.
Regards
Brian Brandt


Cage conducts Cage:

Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music
mode 3/6 (3-CDs)  $44.97
 http://www.moderecords.com/catalog/0036cage.html
 
 CD 1 & 2
JOHN CAGE CONDUCTS JOHN CAGE:
Atlas Eclipticalis  (1961) for chamber ensemble
with Winter Music  (1957) for 3 pianos
Live performances, 11 December 1983
 Cornish Theater at the Cornish Institute, Seattle, Washington
 CD 1:  Performance I, 6:30 pm  (80:00)
 CD 2:  Performance II, 8:30 pm  (79:59)
 The New Performance Group
 John Cage, conductor

 FIRST TIME ON CD
 Note: tape hiss and some distortion are present due to the limitations 
of the analogue source material

 CD 3
COMPOSER SUPERVISED PERFORMANCES RELEASED FOR THE FIRST TIME:
Atlas Eclipticalis  (1961)  for orchestra
Live performance, 26 February 1988
 Crowell Hall at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
 The Wesleyan Symphony Orchestra with The Hartt Contemporary Players and 
The Arditti Quartet
 Melvin Strauss, conductor

 Winter Music  (1957)  for 20 pianos
The Callithumpian Consort: Alanna Battat, Johanna Kovitz, Guy 
Livingston, Mina Yang, pianos
Stephen Drury, director

 The long awaited reissue of Mode's second LP set, remastered with bonus 
tracks.
Cage's relationship with the Cornish Institute in Seattle dates back to 
the 1930s, when he taught there and performed as accompanist for many 
dance pieces. Cornish was also the scene of several of his musical 
discoveries and innovations. 

    * Cage's celebrated return to the Cornish Institute in 1983 led to
      these recordings of his conducting Atlas Eclipticalis performed
      simultaneously with Winter Music - a rare opportunity to hear Cage
      perform his own works
    * Two complete 80-minute long performances are presented here,
      captured live in concert.
    * New 96khz/24-bit mastering made from the original analog tapes.
    * The original liner notes by John Cage and the New Performance
      Group's Matthew Kocmieroski are supplemented with new essays on
      Atlas Eclipticalis by Cage's long-time colleague and publisher Don
      Gillespie, and on Winter Music by Stephen Drury.
    * Originally released as a 4-LP set on Mode in 1986, reissued on CD
      for the first time.


 BONUS TRACKS: FIRST RELEASE

    * The first recording of all 86 instrumental parts of Atlas
      Eclipticalis, recorded under Cage's supervision at the "John Cage
      at Wesleyan Festival" in 1988 with all-star players including the
      Arditti Quartet, Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, Neely Bruce and
      others.

    * Winter Music, overdubbed by four pianists to perform the parts for
      20 pianos, directed by acclaimed Cage interpreter Stephen Drury.


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