Micheal Zev Gordan - On Memory           | NMC Recordings NMCD144

Micheal Zev Gordan - On Memory

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Label: NMC Recordings

Cat No: NMCD144

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 12th October 2009

Contents

Works

Gordon
On Memory

Gordon
Far Away

Gordon
High Ground

Gordon
Crystal Clear

Gordon
Laid Bare

Gordon
Touch

Artists

Andrew Zolinsky (piano)

Works

Gordon
On Memory

Gordon
Far Away

Gordon
High Ground

Gordon
Crystal Clear

Gordon
Laid Bare

Gordon
Touch

Artists

Andrew Zolinsky (piano)

About

The works on this disc span nearly twenty years of Michael Zev Gordon’s output and demonstrate the development and change in his style from the atonal soundworld of Touch to the more recent harmonic, lyrical qualities of On Memory, a series of miniatures inspired by the way our brain conjures up hazy memories. Gordon uses a Couperin keyboard piece, a Bach Sarabande and a fragment from a Klezmer dance as starting points, which provide a brief moment of recognition before tailing off into blurry soundworlds.

Michael Zev Gordon is Senior Lecturer in Composition at the University of Southampton and Professor of Composition at the Royal College of Music. Gordon studied composition in the UK with Robin Holloway, Oliver Knussen and John Woolrich, in Italy with Franco Donatoni and in the Netherlands with Louis Andriessen. Awards include a 2004 Prix Italia  and winner of the choral category of the 2008 British Composer Awards.

Andrew Zolinsky won the San Francisco International Piano Concerto Competition in 1998.

"A wonderful snapshot of music being written in Britain now. Better still, these pieces have been written for us all to play." - The Observer

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