5/15/2006
Currier & Riley
Quartetset; Quiet Time
Sebastian Currier
Cassatt Quartet
New World Records
New World Records is on a chamber music hot streak. First, Ben Johnston's brilliant String Quartets 2, 3, 4 and 9 in January; this gem from Sebastian Currier in February, some revelatory music for strings by Robert Carl in March. Currier's 1995 Quartetset, written for the Cassett Quartet, is a long (45 minute) seven movement piece that pits tonality versus atonality, dissonance versus consonance, with results that are not only wildy imaginative but surprising listenable. The composer describes it as "a post-modern interpretation of the string quartet." The same might be said of Quiet Time, another seven movement suite, in which the dialectic is natural versus artifical sound.
Cadenza on the Night Plain
Terry Riley
Kronos Quartet
Hannibal
Terry Riley as the modern Dvorak. Who knew? Pure joy from start to finish.
Quartetset; Quiet Time Sebastian Currier
Cassatt Quartet
New World Records
New World Records is on a chamber music hot streak. First, Ben Johnston's brilliant String Quartets 2, 3, 4 and 9 in January; this gem from Sebastian Currier in February, some revelatory music for strings by Robert Carl in March. Currier's 1995 Quartetset, written for the Cassett Quartet, is a long (45 minute) seven movement piece that pits tonality versus atonality, dissonance versus consonance, with results that are not only wildy imaginative but surprising listenable. The composer describes it as "a post-modern interpretation of the string quartet." The same might be said of Quiet Time, another seven movement suite, in which the dialectic is natural versus artifical sound.
Cadenza on the Night Plain Terry Riley
Kronos Quartet
Hannibal
Terry Riley as the modern Dvorak. Who knew? Pure joy from start to finish.
Jerry Bowles is founder and editor of Sequenza 21, the contemporary classical
music web portal which won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Internet Award in 2005.
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