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Cold Blue Music

Garland: String Quartets

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Details

Composer
GARLAND, PETER
Artist
Apartment House, Kukoszevieze
Format
CD
Label
Cold Blue Music
Released
May 01, 2009
Catalog #
CB0031
UPC
800413003120

About

For thirty years, composer Peter Garland’s music has been marked by a radical consonance and a simplification of formal structure. These two spirited and enticing quartets, entitled In Praise of Poor Scholars and Crazy Cloud, draw on his well-traveled ear and great sense of personal vision. Both works move with a unique sense of grace and a sincerity of expression that is purely Garlandesque and receive sensitive performances by the celebrated British ensemble Apartment House, led by new-music cellist Anton Lukoszevieze. “[Garland] is an avatar of an experimental American tradition...a composer of mesmerizing music; and in many ways, the musical conscience of my generation…. Garland’s work always brings increasing cognitive involvement; it is much more intricate than it sounds at first.” [Kyle Gann, Chamber Music magazine] “Elegantly balancing sensuous melodicism and spacious austerity of form, Peter Garland’s string quartets are alluring and inviting, their carefully-wrought complexity often hidden within a luminous transparency.” [Dusted magazine] “While it is not stark or simplistic, the music has been pared down to only the most efficient gestures, and Garland’s affinity for Harrison and John Cage is at least as prominent in these two quartets as his work with Budd and Tenney. Garland’s music has also been described as “post-minimalist” because it shares several characteristics with minimalism, but not minimalism’s usual forms or processes…. Apartment House…I can’t imagine any group presenting this repertoire more sympathetically or with greater technical prowess. There’s not a lot of vibrato here. I don’t know if that is by Garland’s request or by the musicians’ choice, but I don’t miss it. It complements the music’s central paradox: how can the ordinary sound so strange? The up-close engineering lends every stroke of the bow both character and color.” [International Record Review] “There is much to admire in these remarkable works.” [American Record Guide]

Tracklist 11 tracks

  1. 1 I. Rondeau nouveau 04:12
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Rondeau nouveau
    Duration
    04:12
    Composer
    Peter Garland
    Ensemble
    Apartment House
  2. 2 II. Like an elegant slow dance … 03:41
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Like an elegant slow dance …
    Duration
    03:41
    Composer
    Peter Garland
    Ensemble
    Apartment House
  3. 3 III. Back to the 14th century … 04:40
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Back to the 14th century …
    Duration
    04:40
    Composer
    Peter Garland
    Ensemble
    Apartment House
  4. 4 IV. To the Memory of Dane Rudhyar 02:33
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. To the Memory of Dane Rudhyar
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    Peter Garland
    Ensemble
    Apartment House
  5. 5 V. Son Huasteco (for Jim Tenney) - A Walk in the White Place (for Ann Holloway) 03:55
    Track
    5
    Title
    V. Son Huasteco (for Jim Tenney) - A Walk in the White Place (for Ann Holloway)
    Duration
    03:55
    Composer
    Peter Garland
    Ensemble
    Apartment House
  6. 6 VI. Like a simple Indian dance-elegant and eloquent 02:29
    Track
    6
    Title
    VI. Like a simple Indian dance-elegant and eloquent
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Peter Garland
    Ensemble
    Apartment House
  7. 7 I. Sado 07:45
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Sado
    Duration
    07:45
    Composer
    Peter Garland
    Ensemble
    Apartment House
  8. 8 II. Mori 09:51
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Mori
    Duration
    09:51
    Composer
    Peter Garland
    Ensemble
    Apartment House
  9. 9 III. Sueño en Rio Grande 03:20
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Sueño en Rio Grande
    Duration
    03:20
    Composer
    Peter Garland
    Ensemble
    Apartment House
  10. 10 IV. Blues for Helena 05:44
    Track
    10
    Title
    IV. Blues for Helena
    Duration
    05:44
    Composer
    Peter Garland
    Ensemble
    Apartment House
  11. 11 V. From the Mountains, Returning to the City 03:19
    Track
    11
    Title
    V. From the Mountains, Returning to the City
    Duration
    03:19
    Composer
    Peter Garland
    Ensemble
    Apartment House