{"id":1085,"date":"2019-09-04T15:25:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T19:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2019-09-04T15:25:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T19:25:22","slug":"arg-john-cage-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/arg-john-cage-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"American Record Guide: REVIEW John. Cage. Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>C<\/strong><strong>AGE: <\/strong>A Room; 3 Easy Pieces; Dream; 6 Melodies; In a Landscape+<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Larget-Caplan, Adam Levin, g; Sharan Leventhal, v<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stonerecords.co.uk\/album\/john-cage-guitar\/\">Stone 8083<\/a>\u201454 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Larget-Caplin and Sharan Leventhal both live in my neck of the woods, the north- east\u2014possibly Mr Levin too. Noting that Cage never wrote for the guitar, Larget-Caplin has resolved to make some suitable arrangements of his piano music, which have been issued by Cage\u2019s publisher, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edition-peters.com\/keyword\/john%20cage%20guitar\">CF Peters<\/a>. They are very effective, though from time to time I miss the resonance of the piano. The best performances are of the 6 Melodies; Larget-Caplan and Leventhal seem to bring a degree of expression and nuance to the music missing in the earlier solo pieces here. But in the <strong>marvelous arrangement of Bacchanale, for two prepared guitars, the raucous sounds of the instruments work very well for this exuberant work<\/strong>. The recording sounds a little harsh to me\u2014as if the microphones are too close to the instruments\u2014but that might appeal to listeners who like their CDs to have a little crossover appeal.<\/p>\n<p>HASKINS<br \/>\np. 83, April 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAGE: A Room; 3 Easy Pieces; Dream; 6 Melodies; In a Landscape+ Aaron Larget-Caplan, Adam Levin, g; Sharan Leventhal, v Stone 8083\u201454 minutes Aaron Larget-Caplin and Sharan Leventhal both live in my neck of the woods, the north- east\u2014possibly Mr Levin too. Noting that Cage never wrote for the guitar, Larget-Caplin has resolved to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,169,6,53],"tags":[176,270,170,230,144,157],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press","category-publishing","category-recordings","category-reviews-2","tag-adam-levin","tag-cf-peters","tag-edition-peters","tag-john-cage-guitar","tag-sharan-leventhal","tag-stone-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}