Quiet Stone: Music of Laurie Altman
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Label: Neos Music
Cat No: NEOS11907
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 26th April 2019
Contents
Works
50 MMEyes Light
J's Way
Japanese Suite
La Musique des Troubadours
Miniatures (3) for solo piano
Persona
Prelude no.17
Standard Twists
Winter's Passage
Artists
Laurie Altman (piano)Andreas Kuhnrich (cello)
Anders Miolin (13-string guitar)
Matthias Mueller (clarinet)
Nedyalko Petkov (clarinet)
Isabel Pfefferkorn (mezzo-soprano)
Works
50 MMEyes Light
J's Way
Japanese Suite
La Musique des Troubadours
Miniatures (3) for solo piano
Persona
Prelude no.17
Standard Twists
Winter's Passage
Artists
Laurie Altman (piano)Andreas Kuhnrich (cello)
Anders Miolin (13-string guitar)
Matthias Mueller (clarinet)
Nedyalko Petkov (clarinet)
Isabel Pfefferkorn (mezzo-soprano)
About
The recordings are strongly characterized by the presence of a 13-string guitar belonging to Laurie Altman’s stage partner of many years, Anders Miolin.
“The first piece, Winter’s Passage, is a pictorial representation of a day, winter, that despite its cold wind, touched me with a kind of warmth and wonder. It features Andreas Kuhnrich’s haunting cello; a wind-swept voice telling its own story. La Musique des Troubadours aligns a past with a present, a 12th-century poem of Guiraut Riquier, its sentiments (powerful in scope), and a form of expression exploiting sparse, thin textural support to Isabel Pfefferkorn’s ancient inspired vocals.
“Standard Twists takes a somewhat unorthodox approach to three American standards by applying a totally different melodic contour and shape to these lovely lyrics. I discovered that providing different melodic choices only served to heighten the lyrics’ intensity and specificity because they were no longer attached to the tunes, so many of us had become accustomed to listening too. Anders Miolin’s 13-string guitar lends its unique tonal character and sonic poignancy to Eyes Light. Originally a piano work, Anders has re-imagined it for his instrument with a delicate and wistful effect. The Japanese Suite finds its inspiration from a trip to Japan three years ago that my wife, Jeannine and I took. I sought here a range of colours in these four works from the delicate to the frenetic; from the spatial to the complex; with improvisations as integral structural component.
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