Ritual Incantations

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Label
Nimbus
Release Date
November 3, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      THOMAS, AUGUSTA READ
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Spektral Quartet
    • PERFORMER
      Finckel, Chiu-Sen Chen, Third Coast Percussion, Harring
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 03, 2017
    • UPC
      710357635526
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      NI6355
    • LABEL
      Nimbus
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Majestic: driving and persistent; cantabile

      Composer: Augusta Read Thomas

      Ensemble: Taipei Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: David Finckel

      Conductor: Felix Chiu-Sen Chen

    2. II. Mysterious and expansive: longing; yearning

      Composer: Augusta Read Thomas

      Ensemble: Taipei Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: David Finckel

      Conductor: Felix Chiu-Sen Chen

    3. III. Spirited: passionate, bold and lyrical

      Composer: Augusta Read Thomas

      Ensemble: Taipei Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: David Finckel

      Conductor: Felix Chiu-Sen Chen

    4. I. CHI - vital life force

      Composer: Augusta Read Thomas

      Ensemble: Spektral Quartet

    5. II. AURA - atmospheres, colors, vibrations

      Composer: Augusta Read Thomas

      Ensemble: Spektral Quartet

    6. III. MERIDIANS - zeniths

      Composer: Augusta Read Thomas

      Ensemble: Spektral Quartet

    7. IV. CHAKRAS - center of spiritual power in the body

      Composer: Augusta Read Thomas

      Ensemble: Spektral Quartet

    8. qì

      Composer: Augusta Read Thomas

      Ensemble: The Coast Percussion

    9. I. Angel Tears

      Composer: Augusta Read Thomas

      Performer: Allen Harrington, Lottie Enns-Braun

    10. II. Earth Prayers

      Composer: Augusta Read Thomas

      Performer: Allen Harrington, Lottie Enns-Braun

    11. I. Triple Marionette

      Composer: Augusta Read Thomas

      Ensemble: Civitas Ensemble

    12. II. Cathedrals (prayer for peace)

      Composer: Augusta Read Thomas

      Ensemble: Civitas Ensemble

    13. III. Highways and Byways

      Composer: Augusta Read Thomas

      Ensemble: Civitas Ensemble

    14. Rhea Enchanted (version for cello)

      Composer: Augusta Read Thomas

      Performer: Scott Kluksdahl

    15. Venus Enchanted (version for cello)

      Composer: Augusta Read Thomas

      Performer: Scott Kluksdahl

    16. Dappled Things (version for male chorus)

      Composer: Augusta Read Thomas

      Ensemble: The Notre Dame Glee Club

      Conductor: Daniel Stowe

    17. I. Motion Detector

      Composer: Augusta Read Thomas

      Performer: Lynn Raley

    18. II. Still Life

      Composer: Augusta Read Thomas

      Performer: Lynn Raley


The present collection of Augusta Read Thomas's works spans 18 years, from 1999 to 2017. It juxtaposes the two sides of Thomas that we've already encountered in previous volumes, the large-scale thinker in the cello concerto Ritual Incantations, the piano trio Klee Musings and the recent string quartet Chi, and the miniaturist in the six other works which on this disc act as satellites to the above-mentioned three larger works. Two sides that, paradoxically, seem to share more similarities than differences. Common to all the works collected here are the sunny, free-wheeling lyricism, luminosity, sense of colour, spontaneity, caprice, playfulness and spirituality which have long been ineradicable characteristics of her nuanced music, all tied up with an irrepressible energy and a sense of irreducible concision no matter how expansive the time frame, of taking all the time in the world to say everything that needs to be said in any given piece, but not a second more than that!