Caroline Shaw is always worth listening to. Evergreen was released at the end of last year, and it has this piece, along with "Blueprinting" and the title piece, all of which are really good.
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Loading... There's so much good stuff on this album. If you like new classical, or americana, or any kind of string music, this is a good one to listen to.
PUBLIQuartet - What is American
(5 votes, average: 8.60 out of 10)Loading... Welcome to Pepper week!
DG played something else by this quartet last year, which let me to this wonderful piece composed by Gabriella Smith.
And if you're curious (as I was), according to their website, "the Aizuri Quartet draws its name from 'aizuri-e,' a style of predominantly blue Japanese woodblock printing that is noted for its vibrancy and incredible detail."
Book pairing: Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds, illustrated by Peter Brown.
(4 votes, average: 8.75 out of 10)Loading... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twX3dU5iaqw
I'm still spending a lot of time listening to this album.
This piece is from an opera by Lembit Beecher, "Sophia's Forest", and this two part suite is the inner world of the narrator, an immigrant child fleeing a civil war. There are nine "sound sculptures" that are electronically manipulated in addition to the four string players.
I like this (and most everything else on the album) because it is certainly modern and not just straightforward string quartet music, but there is a lyricism and a theme that comes through without difficulty.
Plus, I figured just playing The Beths would be too easy.
(5 votes, average: 8.80 out of 10)Loading... Performed by Saul Williams and Mivos Quartet.
Jace Clayton did an album where he applied his electronic manipulations to music by Julius Eastman - The Julius Eastman Memory Depot. I couldn't find any live performances from that album, but if you read this, you should give that album a listen. Every time I do, I realize again how much I like it.
Eastman was a queer black radical in NYC in the '70's, so his piece titles tend to be provocative. Fair warning.
(3 votes, average: 6.67 out of 10)Loading... Samesies.
26 Apr 2017
(1 votes, average: 9.00 out of 10)Loading... Arpège Duo is George Durham on cello and Kihwa Lee on harp.
Wonderful piece played beautifully and shot with style.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAwtpy_qBFQ
I've been listening to a lot more classical music of late. Continue reading Arvo Pärt – Fratres for Cello and Harp
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