Alexander Goehr - Since Brass, nor Stone
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Label: NMC Recordings
Cat No: NMCD187
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 9th September 2013
Contents
Works
Around Stravinsky, op.72Clarinet Quintet, op.79
Largo Siciliano, op.91
Manere, op.81
Since Brass, nor Stone, op.80
Artists
Colin Currie (percussion)Pavel Haas Quartet
Nash Ensemble
Works
Around Stravinsky, op.72Clarinet Quintet, op.79
Largo Siciliano, op.91
Manere, op.81
Since Brass, nor Stone, op.80
Artists
Colin Currie (percussion)Pavel Haas Quartet
Nash Ensemble
About
This new recording of Goehr's chamber music, written between the years of 2002-2012 and featuring artists critically hailed as 'chamber music royalty' (The Nash Ensemble - Sunday Times), 'one of the most polished and musically exciting young string quartets in the world today' (Pavel Haas Quartet - Washington Post) and 'a miracle of cool-headed brilliance' (Colin Currie - Daily Telegraph) cannot fail to delight.
The title work, Since Brass nor Stone, is inspired by Shakespeare's 65th Sonnet – a poem concerned with the ravaging effects of time on the physical world – and begins rather comically with a literal play of the opening line 'Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea', with Chinese gong and bell tree, followed by stone drum, and log drum to lion's roar and rainstick, all in the space of the opening four bars. The combination of percussion with string quartet is an unusual one but Goehr successfully balance the timbres with some remarkably striking and technically difficult writing for both.
... around Stravinsky is inspired by Stravinsky's Pastorale with Goehr's Prelude and Rondo written to be performed either side of it. The motet-like structure of the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings is influenced by a Josquin des Prez mass, and themes from it can be heard throughout the work.
The duo for clarinet and violin, Manere, is based on a medieval plainchant, built into a series of rhapsodic and free-flowing variations, and the most recent piece on this recording – Largo Siciliano, for horn, violin and piano - uses the dotted rhythm of the Baroque dance, taken through a series of transformations which explore the timbres of the three instruments before returning to the original stately Siciliano.
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