I have few regrets, but as I continue my journey into Cage's works I am beginning to regret that I was not old enough to be at Black Mountain when he was there..or that I didn't have the opportunity to know him as Margaret Leng Tan did years later. Now I am tempted to add to my very small list of regrets that I have not seen Margaret Leng Tan play Cage..that I don't know her. This is a lovingly, joyously compiled, beautifully interpreted selection of the many ways in which John Cage explored the possibilities of piano during a specific early time in his career ( 1940-1953). It includes the original work for prepared piano, Bacchanale, a suite for toy piano, the hauntingly beautiful "In a Landscape" and a piece, "Music For Piano #2", in which Ms. Tan, with Cage's enthusiastic endorsement, bowed certain sections with fishing line. They discussed this piece the day before he died in 1992. It is a great privilege, through this album, to eaves drop on a luminous affair of heart and mind between Tan and Cage.