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2024-04-16 06:36:00
The sound of an image: recent chamber music by New York City-based, Puerto Rican-born composer Gabriel Vicéns
[…] 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, clarinet, Joenne Dumitrascu, violin, Wick Simmons, cello, Corinne Penner, piano, and John Ling vibraphone, conducted by David Bloom. We return to the ground-bass idea here, as the work begins with a sort of classic walking bass on the piano over which vibraphone and then other events occur. Then rather then accumulating, Vicéns subtracts, he removes the piano and leaves instrumental motifs floating in air, so that the space around them becomes as important as the notes themselves. The use of colour here is striking, and this is one […]
2024-04-15 14:32:21
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2023-11-02 03:30:00
Recent Releases No. 64 (CD Reviews)
by Karl Nehring Divergent Paths. Ravel: String Quartet in F Major; Schoenberg: String Quartet in d minor, Op. 7. Telegraph Quartet (Eric Chin, violin; Joseph Maile, violin; Pei-Ling Lin, viola; Jeremiah Shaw, cello). Azica ACD-71360 The Telegraph Quartet, which hails from the San Francisco Bay area, has embarked upon a recording project that they are calLing 20th Century Vantage Points, the aim of which “is to display the works of composers with unique visions that also speak to the zeitgeist of their time.” Divergent Paths is the first release in this new series. Since its formation, the focus of the group has been primarily upon works from the 20th century, and here they present quartets from the early years of that century by two composers who were born only one year apart (Schoenberg in 1874, in Ravel in 1875). The Telegraph Quartet found these two works by Ravel and Schoenberg, despite their contrasting qualities, make an appeaLing and intriguing pair. […]
2022-12-05 13:56:39
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