Lou Harrison - For Strings
Avant-Garde | EAC (FLAC+CUE+LOG) | 327 MB (WinRAR - 3% Rec.) | 2004 | Cover
The New Professionals Orchestra • Wu Man, pipa
| “ | As the three pieces on this CD show, Harrison ranged far and wide. There are re-creations of medieval dances, strenuous fugues, slow movements with that wide-open prairie feel of Aaron Copland, and a sinuous, plaintive melodicism born out of Harrison's long study of Asian music. In the two Suites written in 1948 and 1960 there are moments of dark complication, but in later years he achieved a marvellous serenity, exemplified here by the Concerto for Pipa (a kind of Chinese mandolin). In this piece you find evocations of the Russian balalaika, Neapolitan folk-song and even a medieval dance. It sounds like the worst kind of cross-cultural mélange, but it's done with such simplicity that, miraculously, it comes off. The soloist is Wu Man, who is to the pipa what Ravi Shankar was to the sitar, and her performance has a winning delicacy and tact. And the strings of the New Professionals live up to their name, playing with scrupulous precision in the slow movements and incisive energy in the fast ones.
- Ivan Hewitt, The Times (London) | ” |
Tracklist
1-3) Suite No.2 for Strings (1948) 11:11- Adagio, molto cantabile
- Allegro moderato
- Allegro moderato, tranquillo
4-12) Suite for Symphonic Strings (1960) 37:29- Estampie
- Chorale
- Double Fugue
- Ductia
- Lament
- Canonic Variations
- Little Fugue
- Round in Honor of Hermes
- Nocture
13-19) Concerto for Pipa with String Orchestra (1997) 24:46- Allegro
- Bits and Pieces. Troika
- Bits and Pieces. Three Sharing
- Bits and Pieces. Wind and Plumb
- Bits and Pieces. Neapolitan
- Threnody for Richard Locke
- Estampie
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harrison, lou / for strings
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If you'll notice in the log file, it says a track extraction was skipped. No worries: that track was then ripped via Burst Mode, so it's here in complete form.
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grazie Cio!!!Cio!!!
[Excellent Harrison album, btw.]
Alecuri - I have a bunch of Harrison's CDs - A Portrait (Argo) and several others with orchestral music, in addition the the ones I shared earlier.
The curious thing about this (splendid) recording is that the Suite for Symphonic Strings has two movements (Double Fugue & Canonic Variations) that are not included on the Dennis Russell Davies/American Composers Orchestra recording.
Here's hoping someone will up some of the symphonies, especially the 3rd.
by the way,
Your EAC Log / couple settings in EAC are incorrect ... - You have those two like this:
Defeat audio cache : No
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But it should be: (as far as those two are concerned)
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
I no longer use C2 pointers in my rips.