A valuable addition to the growing John Cage discography on Brilliant Classics: the music for piano and percussion.

John Cage, one of the icons of 20th century music, frequently experimented with the performing mode of his music, and in several pieces he left the execution and the order of performance to the decision of the players themselves, or to mere chance. Thus the score is not a blueprint of a fixed composition but more the starting point of a fascinating journey, each performance taking its own unique course.

Italian pianist Giancarlo Simonacci is one of the champions of Cage’s music. In these performances he collaborates with the Italian group Ars Ludi, an excellent body of percussionists.