Cantaloupe Music
Alarm Will Sound Presents Modernists
$18.99
Details
- Composer
- BEATLES WUORINEN RIHM THOMA
- Artist
- Alarm Will Sound, Pierson
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Cantaloupe Music
- Released
- Apr 29, 2016
- Catalog #
- CA21117
- UPC
- 713746311728
About
This release is Alarm Will Sound’s fifth full-length project with Cantaloupe Music, and precurses several performances throughout 2016. The six tracks on this album feature incidental variations on compositions by The Beatles, Charles Wuorinen, Edgard Varese, and more. Best described as postmodern classical music, this genre-bending ensemble doesn’t fail to entertain as they push the outer limits of the canon with this adventurous project. -----
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
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
Tracklist 6 tracks
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1 Revolution 9 (arr. M. Marks for chamber ensemble) 08:27
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Revolution 9 (arr. M. Marks for chamber ensemble)
- Duration
- 08:27
- Composer
- John Lennon, Paul McCartney
- Ensemble
- Alarm Will Sound
- Conductor
- Alan Pierson
-
2 Big Spinoff 06:25
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Big Spinoff
- Duration
- 06:25
- Composer
- Charles Wuorinen
- Ensemble
- Alarm Will Sound
- Conductor
- Alan Pierson
-
3 Will Sound 05:14
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Will Sound
- Duration
- 05:14
- Composer
- Wolfgang Rihm
- Ensemble
- Alarm Will Sound
- Conductor
- Alan Pierson
-
4 Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour 06:51
- Track
- 4
- Title
- Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour
- Duration
- 06:51
- Composer
- Augusta Read Thomas
- Ensemble
- Alarm Will Sound
- Conductor
- Alan Pierson
-
5 Journeyman 04:32
- Track
- 5
- Title
- Journeyman
- Duration
- 04:32
- Composer
- John Orfe
- Ensemble
- Alarm Will Sound
- Conductor
- Alan Pierson
-
6 Poème électronique (arr. E. Hause for chamber ensemble) 08:42
- Track
- 6
- Title
- Poème électronique (arr. E. Hause for chamber ensemble)
- Duration
- 08:42
- Composer
- Edgard Varèse
- Ensemble
- Alarm Will Sound
- Conductor
- Alan Pierson