Marianne Pousseur, Alexei Lubimov
Four Walls was created in 1942 as a collaboration between John Cage and Merce Cunningham, and 50 years later, Alexei Lubimov was to play it and learn to love it for the first time. in 2012, the outstanding dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who knew Lubimov's admiration for Cage and his numerous concerts with his music, proposed to play Four Walls on the stage of his Baryshnikov Arts Center (New York) with dancers. For Lubimov, however, it is also music independent of the stage, anticipating the style of Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt and, in general, the whole movement of minimalism.
Between the poles, Alexei Lubimov finds an introspection and immediacy that makes the scattered lengthy silences as disruptive as the sounds they appear to contradict, leaving the listener as it were alone with the dancers’ shuffling and breathing. It’s a suitably unsettling experience, heightened by the brief, yearning contribution of solo soprano Marianne Pousseur.
thanks to the persuasive skills of the pianist Alexei Lubimov (last in the headlines in April when police terminated a concert in Moscow that featured music by the Ukrainian Valentin Silvestrov), Cage’s neglected creation is still able to cast a cool and cockeyed spell.
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