℗ 2013 Naxos
| Released | October 1, 2013 |
| Duration | 54m 20s |
| Record Label | Naxos |
| Catalogue No. | 8.559726 |
| Genre | Classical (Chamber Music) |
John Cage: Works for Two Keyboards, Vol. 1: A Book of Music - Music for Amplified Toy Pianos - Suite for Toy Piano
Xenia Pestova, Pascal Meyer
Available in 88.2 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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A Book of Music for two Prepared Pianos
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1.1
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Part One
John Cage; Xenia Pestova; Pascal Meyer |
13:04 | |||
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1.2
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Part Two
John Cage; Xenia Pestova; Pascal Meyer |
21:21 | |||
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Suite for Toy Piano
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1.3
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I. —
John Cage; Xenia Pestova |
1:35 | |||
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1.4
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II. —
John Cage; Xenia Pestova |
1:31 | |||
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1.5
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III. —
John Cage; Xenia Pestova |
1:24 | |||
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1.6
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IV. —
John Cage; Xenia Pestova |
1:45 | |||
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1.7
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V. —
John Cage; Xenia Pestova |
0:58 | |||
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1.8
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Music for Amplified Toy Pianos
John Cage; Xenia Pestova; Pascal Meyer |
12:42 | |||
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Digital Booklet
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"The Pestova-Meyer Piano Duo are two young virtuosos fully committed to contemporary music. I’m impressed ..."
- American Record Guide
"... very desirable ... Xenia Pestova and Pascal Meyer do a bang-up job, with playing whose rhythmic acuity is very exciting … lively, alert and even virtuosic readings have much to recommend them, so if you’re curious, don’t hold back ..."
- Fanfare
The Pestova-Meyer Piano Duo presents John Cage’s remarkable magnum opus A Book of Music for two prepared pianos on this eclectic programme, together with Cage's complete works for toy piano. Intricately structured according to Cage’s ideas about Mozart, A Book of Music is an eloquent and virtuoso mosaic of driving and sometimes frenetic rhythms, the exotic sounds of the prepared piano strings transporting the listener into worlds of the strangest imagining. The Suite for Toy Piano is a modest miracle of precise expression and the first ever serious concert music written for this instrument, while Music for Amplified Toy Pianos is composed using chance elements, generating a spacious field of sound filled with surprise.
88.2 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Naxos Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -5.36 -11.24 to -0.01 | -34.05 -39.51 to -21.59 | -28.36 -34.50 to -18.60 | 21 16 to 24 | |
| 1 | Part One | -0.10 | -24.06 | -21.3 | 16 |
| 2 | Part Two | -0.01 | -21.59 | -18.6 | 16 |
| 3 | I. — | -6.36 | -37.49 | -30.7 | 24 |
| 4 | II. — | -11.10 | -38.17 | -33.0 | 20 |
| 5 | III. — | -9.53 | -39.51 | -33.3 | 23 |
| 6 | IV. — | -11.24 | -39.31 | -34.5 | 20 |
| 7 | V. — | -1.86 | -33.71 | -27.5 | 24 |
| 8 | Music for Amplified Toy Pianos | -2.71 | -38.59 | -28.0 | 24 |