• John. Cage. Guitar. - Autographed CD

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  “Larget-Caplan gave honor to the music, blending the guitar as though this was the intention of Cage himself.” – Boston Musical Intelligencer
  
  A Room
  Three Easy Pieces
  i Round
  ii Duo
  iii Infinite Canon
  Chess Pieces
  Dream 7’06
  Six Melodies*
  In a Landscape
  Bacchanale +
  
  AARON LARGET-CAPLAN guitar, prepared guitar +
  SHARAN LEVENTHAL violin *
  ADAM LEVIN prepared guitar +
  
  All guitar arrangements by Aaron Larget-Caplan
  
  "Anyone expecting the enfant terrible of modernism or the aesthetic provocateur of 4’33” will be surprised by the program on Aaron Larget-Caplan’s John Cage disc. For one thing, these are fairly early works, the most recent coming from 1948, when Cage would have been about 36 years old. After the proto-minimalist A Room, which leads the recital, there are the Three Easy Pieces, which are simply pretty pieces. Chess Pieces has a fascinating backstory. It was hidden, essentially, in plain sight in a painting by Cage, done as part of a tribute to Marcel Duchamp. (This is something of an oversimplification; Google can find you the whole story.) A bit more astringent than the easy pieces, it is still perfectly accessible … My favorite track on the disc is Dream, which is remarkably lovely and beautifully realized in the artist’s transcription … In a Landscape, like Dreams, is very beautiful. The famous Cage of the prepared piano arrives in Bacchanale for two “prepared” guitars in which Larget-Caplan is joined by Adam Levin. It is a marvelous racket! The artist, who did all of the arrangements, is greatly to be commended for this project, for which he also provided the fascinating liner notes." – Soundboard
  
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