Cheung: All Roads / Vonsattel, Cuckson, Swierczek, Greenberg, Escher Quartet

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Label
New Focus Recordings
Release Date
August 12, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Anthony Cheung
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Escher Quartet
    • PERFORMER
      Gilles Vonsattel, Adam Barnett-Hart, Danbi Um, Pierre Lapointe, Brook Speltz, Mirand
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 12, 2022
    • UPC
      655646189741
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      FCR263
    • LABEL
      New Focus Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Introduction: First Detour

      Composer: Anthony Cheung

      Ensemble: Escher String Quartet

      Performer: Gilles Vonsattel

    2. I. Forking Paths

      Composer: Anthony Cheung

      Ensemble: Escher String Quartet

      Performer: Gilles Vonsattel

    3. Interlude: Second Detour

      Composer: Anthony Cheung

      Ensemble: Escher String Quartet

      Performer: Gilles Vonsattel

    4. II. Circuitous Routes (Winding Passacaglias)

      Composer: Anthony Cheung

      Ensemble: Escher String Quartet

      Performer: Gilles Vonsattel

    5. Interlude: Third Detour

      Composer: Anthony Cheung

      Ensemble: Escher String Quartet

      Performer: Gilles Vonsattel

    6. III. Estuary

      Composer: Anthony Cheung

      Ensemble: Escher String Quartet

      Performer: Gilles Vonsattel

    7. Interlude: Fourth Detour

      Composer: Anthony Cheung

      Ensemble: Escher String Quartet

      Performer: Gilles Vonsattel

    8. IV. Convergence

      Composer: Anthony Cheung

      Ensemble: Escher String Quartet

      Performer: Gilles Vonsattel

    9. I. Aubade, "For a Golden Age"

      Composer: Anthony Cheung

      Performer: Miranda Cuckson, Anthony Cheung

    10. II. Broken Scherzo: Tripping Up, Falling Down

      Composer: Anthony Cheung

      Performer: Miranda Cuckson, Anthony Cheung

    11. III. Nocturne, "Half-remembered"

      Composer: Anthony Cheung

      Performer: Miranda Cuckson, Anthony Cheung

    12. I. Dramatis Personae

      Composer: Anthony Cheung

      Performer: Miranda Cuckson

    13. II. —

      Composer: Anthony Cheung

      Performer: Miranda Cuckson

    14. No. 1. Three grades of evil …

      Composer: Anthony Cheung

      Performer: Paulina Swierczek, Jacob Greenberg

    15. No. 2. Hear the sledges with the bells …

      Composer: Anthony Cheung

      Performer: Paulina Swierczek, Jacob Greenberg

    16. No. 3. What is translation?

      Composer: Anthony Cheung

      Performer: Paulina Swierczek, Jacob Greenberg

    17. No. 4. How sad your apparition is to me …

      Composer: Anthony Cheung

      Performer: Paulina Swierczek, Jacob Greenberg


Composer and pianist Anthony Cheung writes music that explores the senses, a wide palette of instrumental play and affect, improvisational traditions, reimagined musical artifacts, and multiple layers of textual meaning. Described as “gritty, inventive and wonderfully assured” (San Francisco Chronicle) and praised for its “instrumental sensuality” (Chicago Tribune), his music reveals an interest in the ambiguity of sound sources and constantly shifting transformations of tuning and timbre. Anthony Cheung has been commissioned by Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Cleveland Orchestra (as the Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellow), New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Scharoun Ensemble Berlin, AMOC, and the International Con-temporary Ensemble, with additional performances by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Chicago Symphony Orchestra MusicNOW ensemble, Minnesota Orchestra, Linea, wild Up, and Dal Niente.