John Cage - Number Pieces review | Andrew Clements's classical album of the week

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Apartment House
(Another Timbre, four CDs)
Clearly a labour of love for Apartment House, who play every note of these late works by Cage with wonderful commitment

Between 1987 and 1992, the final years of his life, John Cage composed some 40 works that he designated only by numbers, indicating the number of performers needed to realise them. They range from solos to orchestral works involving up to 108 players; when there is more than one score for the same number of instrumentalists – there are six, for instance, for two players – then superscripts are used to distinguish them.