Ingram Marshall: Kingdom Come (1997)

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Ingram Marshall (b.1942) is a composer who refuses to be categorised. He feels strongly that too many convenient ‘tags’ are placed upon artists simply to make discussions of art easier; he resists attempts to lump him together with minimalists (itself a term purloined from the visual arts), downtowners, New Romanticists or the "California School". In fact he is on record as saying, 'I hope my music is remembered for its personality rather than its style or historical position … I feel strongly now that music always points to something else, has other meanings, and in that sense I am an ‘ expressivist’' These comments are interesting in the light of the present disc, which probably represents the best of his current aesthetic. —Tony Haywood

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Featuring Kronos Quartet and The Theatre of Voices, this disc shows us Ingram Marshall at his eclectic best, and although his mode of expression has been fashionable in American contemporary music for some time, the pieces on this CD show us the most human and accessible face of this expression.

Tracklist


• Kingdom Come (1997)
  
  The American Composer’s Orchestra
  Robin Lustig Dunkel, conductor
  
  
• Hymnodic Delays (1997)
  
  The Theatre of Voices
  Paul Hillier, director
  
  
• Fog Tropes II (1993)
  for String Quartet and Tape
  
  Kronos Quartet:
  David Harrington (Violin)
  John Sherba (Violin)
  Hank Dutt (Viola)
  Joan Jeanrenaud (Cello)
  
  Total time: 47.09
  
  Nonesuch 7559-79613-2