great recording
This is a wonderful recording -- the "prepared" piano (basically a piano with screws and stuff inserted) sounds exactly like it was intended to -- Cage invented it as a kind of instant gamelan to use at dance recitals. Some of the sounds as captured here are wonderfully mysterious and beautiful, and Hinterhauser has a good rhythmic sensibility. This is, of course, a composition from the beginning of Cage's career, before he got into all of the randomness and conceptual stuff. It's a plausible extension of Stravinsky's more severe language (in the Rite of Spring or Les Noces). My fave classical DL from Emusic.
