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Garrop: In Eleanor's Words...in Stacy's Notes
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Garrop: In Eleanor's Words...in Stacy's Notes

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Composer
GARROP, STACY
Artist
Baggott, Huang
Format
CD
Label
Cedille
Released
Feb 22, 2011
Catalog #
CDR 122
UPC
735131912228

About

REVIEW:

There’s a very serious talent at work in this music by Stacy Garrop. Silver Dagger is a folk-song setting for piano trio, along similar lines to Vaughan Williams’ Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus, and it’s extremely beautiful and quite fetchingly composed for the three instruments. In Eleanor’s Words is a cycle of six songs drawn from the newspaper columns of Eleanor Roosevelt. The concept is a good one: Roosevelt’s prose often approaches poetry, and her unfailing intelligence makes for texts that are worth reading on their own, and for which Garrop has found a similarly conversational musical style that fits them perfectly. The music is attractive and approachable, but not facile. There’s a version for chamber orchestra that I would dearly love to hear, but it would be difficult to imagine a more affectingly sung performance than that by mezzo Buffy Baggott—and Kuang-Hao Huang accompanies beautifully.

Gaia is an ambitious string quartet in five movements lasting about 34 minutes...I loathed Garrop’s Second Quartet “Demons and Angels”, and this one strikes me as far more appealing and successful. The sonics are just great...this disc makes an excellent case for exploring more of Garrop’s music.

-- ClassicsToday (David Hurwitz)

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. 1 Silver Dagger 05:28
    Track
    1
    Title
    Silver Dagger
    Duration
    05:28
    Composer
    Stacy Garrop
    Ensemble
    Lincoln Trio
  2. 2 No. 1. The Newspaper Column 03:38
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 1. The Newspaper Column
    Duration
    03:38
    Composer
    Stacy Garrop
    Performer
    Buffy Baggott, Kuang-Hao Huang
  3. 3 No. 2. Are You Free 07:22
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 2. Are You Free
    Duration
    07:22
    Composer
    Stacy Garrop
    Performer
    Buffy Baggott, Kuang-Hao Huang
  4. 4 No. 3. An Anonymous Letter 02:33
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 3. An Anonymous Letter
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    Stacy Garrop
    Performer
    Buffy Baggott, Kuang-Hao Huang
  5. 5 No. 4. The Supreme Power 01:42
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 4. The Supreme Power
    Duration
    01:42
    Composer
    Stacy Garrop
    Performer
    Buffy Baggott, Kuang-Hao Huang
  6. 6 No. 6. The Dove of Peace 04:39
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. The Dove of Peace
    Duration
    04:39
    Composer
    Stacy Garrop
    Performer
    Buffy Baggott, Kuang-Hao Huang
  7. 7 No. 7. What Can One Woman Do? 07:50
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 7. What Can One Woman Do?
    Duration
    07:50
    Composer
    Stacy Garrop
    Performer
    Buffy Baggott, Kuang-Hao Huang
  8. 8 I. Gaia 02:15
    Track
    8
    Title
    I. Gaia
    Duration
    02:15
    Composer
    Stacy Garrop
    Ensemble
    Biava Quartet
  9. 9 II. Creation of Mother Earth 05:14
    Track
    9
    Title
    II. Creation of Mother Earth
    Duration
    05:14
    Composer
    Stacy Garrop
    Ensemble
    Biava Quartet
  10. 10 III. Dance of the Earth 07:38
    Track
    10
    Title
    III. Dance of the Earth
    Duration
    07:38
    Composer
    Stacy Garrop
    Ensemble
    Biava Quartet
  11. 11 IV. Lamentation 06:58
    Track
    11
    Title
    IV. Lamentation
    Duration
    06:58
    Composer
    Stacy Garrop
    Ensemble
    Biava Quartet
  12. 12 V. … et in terra pax 11:30
    Track
    12
    Title
    V. … et in terra pax
    Duration
    11:30
    Composer
    Stacy Garrop
    Ensemble
    Biava Quartet