Hersch: Images From a Closed Ward

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Label
Innova Recordings
Release Date
February 25, 2014
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      HERSCH, MICHAEL
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Blair String Quartet
    • PERFORMER
      BLAIR STRING QUARTET
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 25, 2014
    • UPC
      726708688424
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      INN884
    • LABEL
      Innova Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. I. —

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Ensemble: Blair String Quartet

    2. II. —

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Ensemble: Blair String Quartet

    3. III. —

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Ensemble: Blair String Quartet

    4. IV. —

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Ensemble: Blair String Quartet

    5. V. —

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Ensemble: Blair String Quartet

    6. VI. —

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Ensemble: Blair String Quartet

    7. VII. —

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Ensemble: Blair String Quartet

    8. VIII. —

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Ensemble: Blair String Quartet

    9. IX. —

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Ensemble: Blair String Quartet

    10. X. —

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Ensemble: Blair String Quartet

    11. XI. —

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Ensemble: Blair String Quartet

    12. XII. —

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Ensemble: Blair String Quartet

    13. XIII. —

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Ensemble: Blair String Quartet


Inspiration for Michael Hersch's tone poem came by way of Michael Mazur's haunting 1960's images of inmates from a Rhode Island psychiatric hospital. The work finds a genuine grain of human experience in a dark, difficult place. The highly regarded Blair String Quartet, who gave the work's premiere and for whom it was written, deliver a definitive account. 'It is the sound of a string quartet playing with rage and inconsolable sadness.'