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Cage - Chess Pieces, Four Dances; Tom Johnson - Rational Melodies | Wergo WER73702

Cage - Chess Pieces, Four Dances; Tom Johnson - Rational Melodies

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Label: Wergo

Cat No: WER73702

Barcode: 4010228737028

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 29th September 2017

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About

Trio Omphalos has been performing original and exciting programmes with new music since it was founded in 2006 – in the rare lineup of clarinet, drums and piano.

The trio discovered John Cage’s Chess Pieces in 2012, a graphic image composition by Cage that the pianist Margret Lang Tan translated into a piano version. Trio Omphalos has created an expressive and colourful trio version out of this.

Tom Johnson’s graceful and wonderful Rational Melodies build the bridge between compositions of John Cage.

The lucid, joyous questioning of music is at the core of Tom Johnson’s own composition as well. As with Rational Melodies, Chess Pieces lends itself to being divided among different instruments, and one can hear in both recordings how creative Trio Omphalos has been in their arrangements.

In each ‘rational melody’ Johnson applies a single process to a simple, formal musical idea - adding notes, subtracting notes, counting notes, expanding phrases, contracting phrases, adding rhythmic complexity – and then stands back from the process, as it fills out the melody over time.

Trio Omphalos:
- Stefan Hülsermann (clarinet)
- Olaf Pyras (percussion)
- Ji-Youn Song (piano)

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