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Dark Matters - Carillon Music of Stephen Rush / Tiffany Ng
Innova Recordings

Dark Matters - Carillon Music of Stephen Rush / Tiffany Ng

$16.99

Details

Composer
RUSH, STEPHEN
Artist
Tiffany Ng
Format
CD
Label
Innova Recordings
Released
Mar 26, 2021
Catalog #
INN050
UPC
726708605025

About

Trailblazing a path for the carillon in the 21st Century, Tiffany Ng commands towers of bells that ring across great distances. On Dark Matters, Ng masterfully helms the carillon works of composer Stephen Rush. These works and Ng’s playing possess a kind of magical cacophony that is in equal parts powerful, intimate, and entrancing. Since Stephen Rush’s debut carillon work Three Etudes reshaped the soundscape of carillon composition in 1987, he has steadily fashioned new campanological sounds in partnership with trailblazing carillonists like Margo Halsted and Neil Thornock. When Halsted premiered Six Treatments for Carillon in 2002, they launched a tradition of carillon with live electronics at the University of Michigan that flourishes to this day. In 2013, Dark Matters invited Rush to attend to time, space, and chance on a vast scale. Through the visceral experience of music, movement, and space, this piece leads into the unknown, questioning the origin of life, coincidence and inevitability, macro and micro, the stars and the elements, the instant and the eternal. As an oeuvre, Rush’s carillon music is singular in style, compelling in its driving rhythmic effects, and pushes the technical boundaries of the instrument while remaining idiomatically true to it. Ng recorded this album in collaboration with Rush, Jason Corey, Roger Arnett, Jessica Glynn, and Matias Vilaplana. A “virtuoso” (HKSNA) in command of a range of expression from “eerie sonance” (Diapason) to “jumpy athleticism” (Chicago Classical Review), Tiffany K. Ng, Ph.D., is assistant professor of music and university carillonist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Paced, almost hurried 02:20
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Paced, almost hurried
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    Stephen Rush
    Performer
    Tiffany Ng
  2. 2 No. 2. Slowly, almost lost 02:41
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Slowly, almost lost
    Duration
    02:41
    Composer
    Stephen Rush
    Performer
    Tiffany Ng
  3. 3 No. 3. With drive 05:07
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. With drive
    Duration
    05:07
    Composer
    Stephen Rush
    Performer
    Tiffany Ng
  4. 4 Dark Matters 04:49
    Track
    4
    Title
    Dark Matters
    Duration
    04:49
    Composer
    Stephen Rush
    Performer
    Tiffany Ng
  5. 5 No. 1. First Treatment 03:52
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 1. First Treatment
    Duration
    03:52
    Composer
    Stephen Rush
    Performer
    Tiffany Ng
  6. 6 No. 2. Tilted Waltz 02:40
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 2. Tilted Waltz
    Duration
    02:40
    Composer
    Stephen Rush
    Performer
    Tiffany Ng
  7. 7 No. 3. Cloud Bowls 04:27
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 3. Cloud Bowls
    Duration
    04:27
    Composer
    Stephen Rush
    Performer
    Tiffany Ng
  8. 8 No. 4. River Teeth 03:05
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 4. River Teeth
    Duration
    03:05
    Composer
    Stephen Rush
    Performer
    Tiffany Ng
  9. 9 No. 5. Homage to Ives 04:30
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 5. Homage to Ives
    Duration
    04:30
    Composer
    Stephen Rush
    Performer
    Tiffany Ng
  10. 10 No. 6. Bolts 03:33
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 6. Bolts
    Duration
    03:33
    Composer
    Stephen Rush
    Performer
    Tiffany Ng
  11. 11 I. Momentum 05:00
    Track
    11
    Title
    I. Momentum
    Duration
    05:00
    Composer
    Stephen Rush
    Performer
    Tiffany Ng
  12. 12 II. Flux 04:05
    Track
    12
    Title
    II. Flux
    Duration
    04:05
    Composer
    Stephen Rush
    Performer
    Tiffany Ng
  13. 13 III. Variations on "Holy Manna" 03:51
    Track
    13
    Title
    III. Variations on "Holy Manna"
    Duration
    03:51
    Composer
    Stephen Rush
    Performer
    Tiffany Ng
  14. 14 September Fanfares 06:22
    Track
    14
    Title
    September Fanfares
    Duration
    06:22
    Composer
    Stephen Rush
    Performer
    Tiffany Ng
    Ensemble
    September Fanfares Ensemble
    Conductor
    Stephen Rush