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The sound of an image: recent chamber music by New York City-based, Puerto Rican-born composer Gabriel Vicéns
[…] for clarinet, violin, and piano, performed by clarinettist Raissa Fahlman, violinist Joenne Dumitrascu, and pianist Corinne Penner. Vicéns constructs the piece out of motifs and fragments, rhythmic motifs on piano under pinning everything. Rhythm approaches the jazzy, but the work is more about individual points of instrumental colour. Perhaps there is something quasi-Webern about the compression of Vicéns' imagination, and the work unfolds with something of a coolness.Sueños Ligados [Linked Dreams] (2020) for piano trio, features violinist Adrianne Munden-Dixon, cellist Rocío Díaz de Cossío, and pianist Mayumi Tsuchida. Again, it uses a pointillist, fragmented approach with flurries of notes that never seem to quite coalesce, the texture taking on a nervy uncertain quality. When the instruments do come together, the two string instruments play motifs over a circling piano accompaniment that has a modernist ground-bass feel to it.The third piece, El Matorral [The Bush] (2022) for is Pierrot ensemble, Roberta Michel, flute, Raissa Fahlman, […]
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