CHAMBER MUSIC
SERKIN / MARTIN / BRENTANO STRING QUARTET
Componist: Wuorinen
CD
1 disc(s)
Kamermuziek / Chamber Music
Verwachte levertijd (in NL): 1 - 3 werkdagen
| Staat: | Tweedehands (Als nieuw) |
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| Barcode: | 0636943969427 |
Curtis Macomber (violin), Jesse Mills (violin), Lois Martin (viola), Fred Sherry (cello), Lois Martin (viola), Peter Serkin (piano) & Brentano String Quartet
Charles Wuorinen’s staggeringly prolific output has been remarkably consistent yet tremendously varied. This disc presents the first commercial recordings of three recent pieces, together with the First String Quartet, a watershed work in the composer’s career. Wuorinen’s personal musical language is unabashedly modernist yet imbued with a love of early polyphony, and makes virtuosic demands on the performers. This spritely, sometimes elusive, often ‘maximalist’ music invites multiple interpretations and hearings to reveal the riches deep beneath its sparkling, ever-shifting surface.
Wuorinen:
Scherzo (World Première Recording)
First String Quartet
Curtis Macomber (violin), Jesse Mills (violin), Lois Martin (viola) & Fred Sherry (cello)
Viola Variations (World Première Recording)
Lois Martin (viola)
Second Piano Quintet (World Première Recording)
Peter Serkin (piano) & Brentano String Quartet
"It's his chamber music...that shows his dense, busy language at its most powerful, and the two works here...show its expressive range and the formal ingenuity with which Wuorinen deploys it...The ensemble pieces are paired with substantial solo works – the Scherzo for piano, dashingly well played by Peter Serklin, and the impressive Viola Variations, which Lois Martin turns into a tour de force."
The Guardian - 31st March 2011 *****
