[silence] Cage's THREE released on Mode Records

[Brian Brandt]

Dear Silencers
Thought you may be interested in the latest release in Mode's Cage Edition.
Regards
Brian Brandt


    NEW FOR OCTOBER: on sale for $13.99

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John CAGE  (1912-92)
The Number Pieces 4 (Complete John Cage Edition, Volume 38)
Trio Dolce, various recorders
mode 186

Three  (1989)
for three players having a variety of recorders
written for Trio Dolce
FIRST RECORDING

Solo with Obbligato Accompaniment of Two Voices in Canon, and Six Short 
Inventions on the Subject of the Solo (1933)
arranged for three alto recorders


The first recording of Cage's large scale composition for 3 recorder 
players.

. The Trio Dolce wrote Cage for permission to perform Solo with 
Obbligato Accompaniment on three alto recorders, one octave higher than 
the prescribed range. In a letter from March 1987 Cage replied: "Of 
course you may use the 3 alto recorders. I am glad that you are playing 
that piece." They performed it on July 1988 with Cage in attendance.

. Cage's enthusiastic reaction to this performance encouraged Trio Dolce 
to ask Cage if he would consider writing a work for them which "could 
take into account the ranges of the recorders" the Trio then owned. Upon 
meeting the members of the Trio during his residency at the Royal 
Conservatory in The Hague in November 1988, Cage agreed to write a work 
for the Trio.

. Three was completed in July 1989 and dedicated to Trio Dolce, who 
premiered it in July 1990 in the presence of the composer during a 
concert at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music.

. The performance instructions state that the indication "as legato as 
possible". It requires great virtuosity and breath control, while at the 
same time changing recorders and maintaining a continuous legato, 
resulting in a sometimes fragile balance between the durations and dynamics.

. Both outer movements of Three are interpolated by nine movements 
lettered A through I, one or any number of which may be played. The 
listener may choose which of the middle movements to listen to by 
programming the CD player.

. The Trio Dolce was founded in 1986 by Christine Brelowski, Geesche 
Geddert, and Dorothea Winter. Although the ensemble also performs French 
and Spanish Medieval music, Italian and English Renaissance music and 
Baroque trios, it has specialized in contemporary recorder music. In 
addition to Cage, several other composers have written works for the 
trio, among them Lothar Lämmer, Ivo van Emmerik, Ron Ford, Floris van 
Manen, and Walter Zimmermann. The trio's contemporary repertoire also 
includes works by L. Andriessen, Berio, Hindemith, Maderna, Serocki, 
Shinohara, Stiebler, Stockhausen, Stravinsky, and Wolff.

. Liner notes by Paul van Emmerik.


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