Stark / Momenta Quartet / Calyx Piano Trio- Seasonal Music
Seasonal Music is the first album of compositions by the remarkable thirty-nine year old American composer, Christopher Stark. Annotator Sean Shepherd writes of the "tremendous spaciousness, and a melancholy resonating throughout" the three recent works that make up this program. Speaking of the largest of these pieces, the virtuosic string quartet "Seasonal Music", Shepherd calls it "at times pictorial and descriptive- alternatively a vast exploration in sound and the possibilities of the quartet for it's own sake. "Stark is served brilliantly on this recording by three leading ensembles-the Momenta Quartet, the Los Angeles Piano Quartet and the Calyx Piano Trio with Scott Andrews, clarinet.
Tracklist:
- Seasonal Music for string quartet~I. Spring Music
- Seasonal Music for string quartet~II. Summer into Fall
- Seasonal Music for string quartet~III. Winter Music
- Piano Quartet for violin, viola, cello, and piano~I. Assisi - in memoriam Jonathan Harvey
- Piano Quartet for violin, viola, cello, and piano~II. Meccanico - to Sean Shepherd (; Jake)
- Piano Quartet for violin, viola, cello, and piano~III. Precisamente - to Roberto Sierra
- This is Not a Story for clarinet, violin, cello, piano and electronics~I. Inner Dialogue with Bells
- This is Not a Story for clarinet, violin, cello, piano and electronics~II. Sorting Out Beethoven
- This is Not a Story for clarinet, violin, cello, piano and electronics~III. Cecilia Sing the Music in Her Heart; Captain Leighto
Seasonal Music is the first album of compositions by the remarkable thirty-nine year old American composer, Christopher Stark. Annotator Sean Shepherd writes of the "tremendous spaciousness, and a melancholy resonating throughout" the three recent works that make up this program. Speaking of the largest of these pieces, the virtuosic string quartet "Seasonal Music", Shepherd calls it "at times pictorial and descriptive- alternatively a vast exploration in sound and the possibilities of the quartet for it's own sake. "Stark is served brilliantly on this recording by three leading ensembles-the Momenta Quartet, the Los Angeles Piano Quartet and the Calyx Piano Trio with Scott Andrews, clarinet.
Tracklist:
- Seasonal Music for string quartet~I. Spring Music
- Seasonal Music for string quartet~II. Summer into Fall
- Seasonal Music for string quartet~III. Winter Music
- Piano Quartet for violin, viola, cello, and piano~I. Assisi - in memoriam Jonathan Harvey
- Piano Quartet for violin, viola, cello, and piano~II. Meccanico - to Sean Shepherd (; Jake)
- Piano Quartet for violin, viola, cello, and piano~III. Precisamente - to Roberto Sierra
- This is Not a Story for clarinet, violin, cello, piano and electronics~I. Inner Dialogue with Bells
- This is Not a Story for clarinet, violin, cello, piano and electronics~II. Sorting Out Beethoven
- This is Not a Story for clarinet, violin, cello, piano and electronics~III. Cecilia Sing the Music in Her Heart; Captain Leighto