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Cantaloupe Music

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Details

Composer
Ken Thomson, Anna Webber
Artist
Anzu Quartet
Format
CD
Label
Cantaloupe Music
Released
Jun 20, 2025
Catalog #
CA21212
UPC
713746321222

About

Formed in 2020 and comprised of veterans of New York City's vital contemporary music community, the Anzu Quartet - Olivia de Prato, Ashley Bathgate, Ken Thomson and Karl Larson - is an ensemble dedicated to the music of our time and the recent canon. The quartet's first full-length studio release of premiere recordings features new works by Thomson (?) and fellow composer Anna Webber (?, which lends the album it's title). Relentless, kinetic and emotive, Thomson's ? reflects the pace and anxieties of modern life, while Webber's ? explores the liminal space between classical contemporary music and experimental jazz. Both works, composed between 2019 and 2022, highlight the quartet's prowess as interpreters and performers of demanding, modern repertoire, and fulfill Anzu's mission of commissioning and promoting new repertoire for the instrumentation of Messiaen's elemental "Quartet for the End of Time," a new recording of which the group will release later in 2025.

Tracklist 8 tracks

  1. 1 I. — 05:58
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. —
    Duration
    05:58
    Composer
    Ken Thomson
    Ensemble
    Anzû Quartet
  2. 2 II. — 06:29
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. —
    Duration
    06:29
    Composer
    Ken Thomson
    Ensemble
    Anzû Quartet
  3. 3 III. — 06:19
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. —
    Duration
    06:19
    Composer
    Ken Thomson
    Ensemble
    Anzû Quartet
  4. 4 I. — 02:52
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. —
    Duration
    02:52
    Composer
    Anna Webber
    Ensemble
    Anzû Quartet
  5. 5 II. — 03:58
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. —
    Duration
    03:58
    Composer
    Anna Webber
    Ensemble
    Anzû Quartet
  6. 6 III. — 05:35
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. —
    Duration
    05:35
    Composer
    Anna Webber
    Ensemble
    Anzû Quartet
  7. 7 IV. — 07:03
    Track
    7
    Title
    IV. —
    Duration
    07:03
    Composer
    Anna Webber
    Ensemble
    Anzû Quartet
  8. 8 V. — 02:39
    Track
    8
    Title
    V. —
    Duration
    02:39
    Composer
    Anna Webber
    Ensemble
    Anzû Quartet