Cage: Cello Works/Lecture on Nothing

Cage: Cello Works/Lecture on Nothing

On this CD:

1. Etudes Boreales I-IV, for piano
Composed by John Cage
Performed by Frances-Marie Uitti

2. 26'1.1499", for a string player
Composed by John Cage
Performed by Frances-Marie Uitti, Frances-Marie Uitti

3. Concert for piano & orchestra, for Piano & 13 other instruments in any combination) Solo for Cello
Composed by John Cage
Performed by Frances-Marie Uitti

4. Variations I, for any number of players & any sound producing means
Composed by John Cage
Performed by Frances-Marie Uitti

5. Variations II, for any number of players & any sound producing means
Composed by John Cage
Performed by Frances-Marie Uitti

6. Variations III, for any number of people performing any actions
Composed by John Cage
Performed by Frances-Marie Uitti

7. A Dip in the Lake: 10 Quicksteps, 61 Waltzes, and 56 Marches for Chicago and Vicinity, for indeterminate forces
Composed by John Cage
Performed by Frances-Marie Uitti, Frances-Marie Uitti

8. Lecture on Nothing, for speaker
Composed by John Cage
Performed by Frances-Marie Uitti

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com essential recording
Solo-instrument works by John Cage can be tricky. His scripted indeterminacy (with customarily Cagean instructions such as "any number of players and any means") can mean any number of things, including an invitation to unbridled virtuosity. And while Frances-Marie Uitti is certainly virtuosic--witness her brilliant Giacinto Scelsi: Music for Cello--she smartly takes another tack here. Her renditions of Cage's cello pieces, from the earliest (c. 1950s) 26' 1.1499" for a String Player and Solo for Cello (drawn from the Concert for Piano and Orchestra) to Études Boréales (1978) is stunning in its measuredness. Uitti gets inside the cello, extracting whistly overtones and pileup undertones, collating distant lines into a fabric that embraces interruptions, nonlinearity, and jumping octaves. Rounding out this Cage collection is Uitti's own rendition of the Lecture on Nothing, which occupies 41 minutes of the second CD. It's a great modernist-to-postmodernist look at the construction of a lecture, the stringing of language into something self-consciously coherent. It's one of Cage's best voice pieces, and Uitti does a fine job with it. --Andrew Bartlett

Cage: Cello Works/Lecture on Nothing, Music, Frances-Marie Uitti, John Cage, Chamber, Chamber Music & Recitals, Character/Single-Movement/Miscellaneous Work for Keyboard, Classical, Classical Composers, Concerto, Keyboard, Miscellaneous, Multimedia Works, Music For Solo Strings Without Keyboard, Music with Spoken Words, Piano Concerto, Unknown Genre/Unspecified Instrumentation

Cage: Cello Works/Lecture on Nothing

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