Alarm Will Sound Presents Modernists
REVIEWS:
The 23 members of Alarm Will Sound perform the provocative pieces playfully, inviting all sides of the modernism debate to lighten up and listen. Each work composed for the ensemble is easily digestible, running under seven minutes. Wolfgang Rihm’s Will Sound delivers in trickily spaced bursts, mostly centered around a sinewy saxophone line. The ensemble’s percussionists are in particularly fine form, rattling and skipping through unintuitive and complex rhythms.
– NPR
The comic portrait of screaming human faces on the album's cover poses a rhetorical question: Do we honestly still need to act scared by this modernist stuff? Over the course of their set, the Alarm Will Sound players and conductor Alan Pierson respond to this prompt by delivering pure modern-classical fun. The six pieces they’ve chosen speak different structural languages, though each one shares a desire to bring across a sense of wildness that is exuberant at heart.
– Pitchfork
Product Description:
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Release Date: April 29, 2016
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UPC: 713746311728
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Catalog Number: CA21117
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Label: Cantaloupe Music
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Number of Discs: 1
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Composer: Augusta Read Thomas, Charles Wuorinen, Edgard Varèse, John Lennon, John Orfe, Wolfgang Rihm
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Orchestra/Ensemble: Alarm Will Sound
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Performer: Alarm Will Sound, Pierson
Works:
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Revolution 9
Composer: John Lennon
Ensemble: Alarm Will Sound
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Big Spinoff
Composer: Charles Wuorinen
Ensemble: Alarm Will Sound
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Will Sound
Composer: Wolfgang Rihm
Ensemble: Alarm Will Sound
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Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour
Composer: Augusta Read Thomas
Ensemble: Alarm Will Sound
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Journeyman
Composer: John Orfe
Ensemble: Alarm Will Sound
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Poème électronique
Composer: Edgard Varèse
Ensemble: Alarm Will Sound