A Singleton - Four String Quartets
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Label: New World Records
Cat No: NW80832
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 8th July 2022
Contents
About
Contrasts both big and small, long and short, vigorous and subdued, loud and quiet, are important to his music. Maybe a passage is presented that happens loudly over and over again followed by sudden silence. Suddenly the listener notices how loud that silence seems. In a way, it is the relationship with the listener that he regards as making serious music a serious matter.
Singleton’s string quartets span the arc of his career – the first (untitled) written in 1967, the fourth in 2019 – and trace his stylistic evolution as a composer. Suggestively and somewhat enigmatically titled – no.2 (1988) is Secret Desire to Be Black; no.3 (1994) is Somehow We Can; no.4 is Hallelujah Anyhow – they serve as an excellent introduction to his work and constitute a substantial contribution to the string quartet repertoire by one of this country’s most distinguished African-American composers.
Three of the four quartets are world-premiere recordings.
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