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Contemporary Voices / Pacifica Quartet
Cedille

Contemporary Voices / Pacifica Quartet

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Details

Composer
HIGDON RAN ZWILICH
Artist
Murphy
Format
CD
Label
Cedille
Released
Jul 10, 2020
Catalog #
CDR 196
UPC
735131919623

About

Winner of the 2020 GRAMMY Award for Best Small Ensemble/Chamber Music Performance!

The Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet performs works by three Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary composers: Shulamit Ran, Jennifer Higdon, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. Written for the Pacifica and receiving its world-premiere recording, Ran’s Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory — String Quartet No. 3 is a moving tribute to painter Felix Nussbaum, who perished in Auschwitz in 1944. Higdon’s Voices, dedicated to the Pacifica, evokes explosive energy, otherworldly calm, and spiritual serenity. In Zwilich’s Quintet for Alto Saxophone and String Quartet, a lusciously singing saxophone shares the spotlight with virtuosic string playing. The Pacifica, quartet in-residence at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, partner with their IU colleague, renowned classical saxophonist Otis Murphy.

REVIEW:

This disc exemplifies many aspects of how contemporary music should be presented so it can shine: superb recording standards, expert annotation, and performances of a standard up there with the likes of the Arditti Quartet. This showcase of three Pulitzer-winning composers is utterly remarkable.

– Fanfare

Tracklist 10 tracks

  1. 1 I. That which happened 06:56
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. That which happened
    Duration
    06:56
    Composer
    Shulamit Ran
    Ensemble
    Pacifica Quartet
  2. 2 II. Menace 03:08
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Menace
    Duration
    03:08
    Composer
    Shulamit Ran
    Ensemble
    Pacifica Quartet
  3. 3 III. If I perish - do not let my paintings die 06:37
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. If I perish - do not let my paintings die
    Duration
    06:37
    Composer
    Shulamit Ran
    Ensemble
    Pacifica Quartet
  4. 4 IV. Shards, Memory 05:52
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Shards, Memory
    Duration
    05:52
    Composer
    Shulamit Ran
    Ensemble
    Pacifica Quartet
  5. 5 I. Blitz - 06:13
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Blitz -
    Duration
    06:13
    Composer
    Jennifer Higdon
    Ensemble
    Pacifica Quartet
  6. 6 II. Soft Enlacing - 06:21
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Soft Enlacing -
    Duration
    06:21
    Composer
    Jennifer Higdon
    Ensemble
    Pacifica Quartet
  7. 7 III. Grace 05:27
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Grace
    Duration
    05:27
    Composer
    Jennifer Higdon
    Ensemble
    Pacifica Quartet
  8. 8 I. quarter note = 66 05:41
    Track
    8
    Title
    I. quarter note = 66
    Duration
    05:41
    Composer
    Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
    Performer
    Otis Murphy
    Ensemble
    Pacifica Quartet
  9. 9 II. quarter note = 132 04:05
    Track
    9
    Title
    II. quarter note = 132
    Duration
    04:05
    Composer
    Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
    Performer
    Otis Murphy
    Ensemble
    Pacifica Quartet
  10. 10 III. quarter note = 60; 126; 120 07:00
    Track
    10
    Title
    III. quarter note = 60; 126; 120
    Duration
    07:00
    Composer
    Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
    Performer
    Otis Murphy
    Ensemble
    Pacifica Quartet