Higdon / Pacifica Quartet / Murphy- Contemporary Voices (CD)
The Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet performs works by three Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary composers: Shulamit Ran, Jennifer Higdon, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. Written for the Pacifica and receiving it's world-premiere recording, Ran's Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory - String Quartet No. 3 is a moving tribute to painter Felix Nussbaum, who perished in Auschwitz in 1944. Higdon's Voices, dedicated to the Pacifica, evokes explosive energy, otherworldly calm, and spiritual serenity. In Zwilich's Quintet for Alto Saxophone and String Quartet, a lusciously singing saxophone shares the spotlight with virtuosic string playing. The Pacifica, quartet in-residence at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, partner with their IU colleague, renowned classical saxophonist Otis Murphy.
Tracklist:
- String Quartet No. 3 "Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory": I. That Which Happened
- String Quartet No. 3 "Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory": II. Menace
- String Quartet No. 3 "Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory": III. If I Perish, Do Not Let My Paintings Die
- String Quartet No. 3 "Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory": IV. Shards, Memory
- Voices: I. Blitz
- Voices: II. Soft Enlacing
- Voices: III. Grace
- Quintet For Alto Saxophone & String Quartet In A Minor: I. Quarter Note Equals 66
- Quintet For Alto Saxophone & String Quartet In A Minor: II. Quarter Note Equals 132
- Quintet For Alto Saxophone & String Quartet In A Minor: III. Quarter Note Equals 60
UPC > 735131919623
Format > New CD
Label > Cedille
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The Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet performs works by three Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary composers: Shulamit Ran, Jennifer Higdon, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. Written for the Pacifica and receiving it's world-premiere recording, Ran's Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory - String Quartet No. 3 is a moving tribute to painter Felix Nussbaum, who perished in Auschwitz in 1944. Higdon's Voices, dedicated to the Pacifica, evokes explosive energy, otherworldly calm, and spiritual serenity. In Zwilich's Quintet for Alto Saxophone and String Quartet, a lusciously singing saxophone shares the spotlight with virtuosic string playing. The Pacifica, quartet in-residence at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, partner with their IU colleague, renowned classical saxophonist Otis Murphy.
Tracklist:
- String Quartet No. 3 "Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory": I. That Which Happened
- String Quartet No. 3 "Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory": II. Menace
- String Quartet No. 3 "Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory": III. If I Perish, Do Not Let My Paintings Die
- String Quartet No. 3 "Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory": IV. Shards, Memory
- Voices: I. Blitz
- Voices: II. Soft Enlacing
- Voices: III. Grace
- Quintet For Alto Saxophone & String Quartet In A Minor: I. Quarter Note Equals 66
- Quintet For Alto Saxophone & String Quartet In A Minor: II. Quarter Note Equals 132
- Quintet For Alto Saxophone & String Quartet In A Minor: III. Quarter Note Equals 60
UPC > 735131919623
Format > New CD
Label > Cedille
Shop online at Darkside Records.
Follow us on Instagram.