[silence] THREE

[Glenn Freeman]

This is fantastic news! FYI, a 2nd recorded version of THREE is to be  
released in a few months on OgreOgress, with Susanna Borsch on  
recorders.

http://www.susannaborsch.com
http://www.sequenza21.com/index.php/452

Also on this release will be Cage's Twenty-Eight, a major work for  
wind ensemble. Both works were recorded in Prague this past May/June  
of 2007. The recording will include brief liner notes by Rob Haskins.

When was the Trio Dolce recording made?

Brian Brandt wrote:

> 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.

Glenn Freeman
OgreOgress productions
http://cdbaby.com/group/ogreogress