Brett Dean - Shadow Music
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BIS2194
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 29th July 2016
Contents
Works
String Quartet no.7 in F major, op.59 no.1 'Razumovsky'Shadow Music
Short Stories: 5 interludes for string orchestra
Testament (for orch.)
Artists
Swedish Chamber OrchestraConductor
Brett DeanWorks
String Quartet no.7 in F major, op.59 no.1 'Razumovsky'Shadow Music
Short Stories: 5 interludes for string orchestra
Testament (for orch.)
Artists
Swedish Chamber OrchestraConductor
Brett DeanAbout
On the present release, Shadow Music is, according to the composer himself, ‘in no way consciously descriptive’, but in its three movements can be heard realizations in sound of various concepts and definitions of the word shadow, such as ‘dark shape or partial darkness’, ‘the shadow of his former self’ and ‘indistinct, suspect’. The work Short Stories is inspired not by specific texts, but by the literary genre which in a highly condensed form depicts the variety of life. The five brief pieces – the fourth and longest, Komarov’s last words, has a duration of little over three minutes – carry titles which allow the listener to give his own imagination free rein.
Testament has a more specific inspiration – Beethoven’s famous ‘Heiligenstadt Testament’ in which the composer bemoans his encroaching deafness. Through an imaginative use of the orchestra, including unorthodox playing techniques, Dean simulates the sound of Beethoven’s quill moving over the paper, but lets us also experience his aural hallucinations. The work is here preceded by Dean’s arrangement of the Adagio from Beethoven’s first ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet, composed some four years after the Heiligenstadt crisis. But the disc opens with Etüdenfest, a virtuosic, ironical play with mismatched snippets from standard string methods by such figures as Ševčík and Schradieck. In the work, Dean turns the monotonous and lonely grind of a practising musician into a vibrant shared experience.
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