Release Date: 02 January 2012
Label: Bridge Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 3
Barcode: 090404934926
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Partch
Description
This long-lost journal of Harry Partch's wanderings during the Great Depression (from cleaning sewers to having tea with Irish poet W. B. Yeats) is an extraordinary musical portrait of an American pioneer, chronicling his occasionally hilarious and often heartbreaking struggles to forge a new music system outside the classical tradition. This premiere recording of Bitter Music takes the form of readings and collected musical fragments- an aural diary of what was going through Partch's mind and ear during a critical period in his artistic development.
Tracklisting
Danish National Symphony Orchestra; Odense Symphony Orchestra; Flemming Dreisig; Leif Segerstam; Mi
Partch Ensemble
Gilbert Kalish; Timothy Eddy; Marcantonio Barone; Curtis Institute of Music Ensemble 20/21
The Orchestra Now
Robert Black; Scott Woolweaver; John McDonald
Justin Benavidez; Deloise Lima; Florida State University Wind Ensemble; Florda State University Win
Stuyvesant String Quartet
Romie de Guise-Langlois; Lark Quartet; James Austin Smith; Daedalus Quartet; Tony Arnold; Cygnus En
Paul Griffiths; Jack Quartet
Late Aster
Andras Schiff
Geneva Lewis; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Gemma New
Mari Eriksmoen; Anna Lucia Richter; Zurcher Sing-Akademie; Florian Helgath; Tonhalle-Orchester Zuri
Nicolas Worms
Zachary Hatcher
Wroclaw Baroque Ensemble; Giovanni Antonini; Sheng-Fang Chiu; Andrzej Kosendiak; NFM Boys' Choir; M
