Brooklyn Rider - Dominant Curve (2010)

Posted By : Piterets | Date : 16 Oct 2011 08:50:52 | Comments : 5 |

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Brooklyn Rider have built a programme around Debussy's iconic String Quartet, embedded rather than leading off, that is both self-referential and rich with history. The result is chamber music simultaneously on a very large scale and an alien sub-atomic landscape, which explores texture and space with scientific determination and a steady artistic temperament.

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Gramophone, October 2010 [Laurence Vittes]

This CD uses Claude Debussy as a jumping-off point to many interesting places. His string quartet resides at the center of the recording, and around it circles music by Brooklyn Rider violinist Colin Jacobsen, a piece for Japanese flute, another by an Uzbek composer and this marvelous arrangement of John Cage's "In a Landscape." It expands on the original, with layers of electronics and strings that evoke the Chinese sheng (mouth organ) and a hint of glass harmonica. Spacious, rocking and calming.”

NPR, June 2010 [Tom Huizenga]

Tracklist:

1-4. Colin Jacobsen Achille's Heel, for string quartet 14:03
5. Kojiro Umezaki (Cycles) what falls must rise, for string quartet, shakuhachi & electronics 13:24
6-9. Claude Debussy String Quartet, L. 85 (Op. 10) 23:24
10. Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky ...al niente, for string quartet 11:10
11. John Cage (arr. Justin Messina) In a Landscape, for piano or harp 9:56