Release Date: 22 January 2016
Label: New World Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 093228076926
Genres: Classical Contemporary Classical
Composer/Series: Nauert
Description
Paul Nauert's (b. 1966) compositions, mainly for solo and small-ensemble forces, reflect an ongoing interest in intimate/private discourse as a model for musical rhetoric, the coloristic use of harmony, and an engagement with different qualities of pulsation and its absence. Most of the music on this CD - composed after his ALS diagnosis, with the exception of three pieces from the late 1990s - represents a freer and more intuitive way of composing, with less reliance on computational tools, than Nauert's earlier work. He calls Episodes and Elegies and A Distant Music, the larger pieces on this disc, "post-algorithmic composition." He writes: "My music changed in response to the disease. I explored new ideas, new techniques, and points of contact with other music I love (Mel Powell, Harrison Birtwistle - J.S. Bach, in far more abstract terms) out of a sense that these things couldn't be postponed until later. My customary algorithmic techniques gave way to more intuitive processes, and elaborate compositional designs were replaced by patterns I could retain fully in my memory, as the physical act of composition grew slower, and as my external workspace became limited to my view of the computer screen positioned in front of my eyes by an assistant."
Tracklisting
Jack Quartet; New Thread Quartet & Elliott Sharp
Julius Hemphill & Others
Kate Soper; The Wet Ink Ensemble
Aki Takahashi
Wuorinen: Chamber Works
Works By William Grant Still
Pow Wow Songs - Music of the Plains Indians
Ornstein: Complete Works for Cello and Piano
Duncan Honeybourne
Klangforum Wien, Schallfeld Ensemble, Arditti Quartet
Klangforum Wien
Perle: Piano Works
Decibel
Xenia Pestova-Bennett, Stephen Richardson, Claire Booth, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Sian
Zoe Martlew, Ben Goldscheider, Lucy Schaufer, Huw Watkins, Mark Simpson, Alessandro Fisher, Lana Bo
Matthew Schellhorn
