John King: Free Palestine
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Even before you've heard a single note of Free Palestine by the composer and instrumentalist John King (b. 1953), the work may well have made an impact for its title alone: a seeming reference to one of the more daunting, divisive sociopolitical conditions in modern global history.
For King - who became politically active during his late teenage years in Minneapolis during the Vietnam War era, participating in labor actions and protests, and later wrote music inspired by the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa - the question of Palestine has been an issue of particular interest. It follows, then, that Free Palestine, a unified sequence of relatively brief string quartet pieces composed from May 2013 to August 2014, is to some extent politically motivated.
The Secret Quartet: Cornelius Dufallo, Jennifer Choi, violins;
Ljova Zhurbin, viola; Yves Dharamraj, cello with John King, oud*
Tracklisting
Sarah Hennies
Ostrava New Orchestra, Owen Underhill, Ostravska Banda, Petr Kotik, Elision Ensemble, Arditti Quartet, Switch~ Ensemble, Jason Thorpe Buchanan
James Martin, Lynn Raley
Peter Gena
New World
New World
Mivos Quartet
Twilight String Orchestra; Fahad Siadat
Arianna Art Ensemble
Camerata Ufa Orchestra; Vladislav Samoylov; Carlo Levi Minzi
Shunske Sato & Shuann Chai
Irvine Arditti, Gianluca Pirisi, Roberta Pandolfi
Bruce Wolosoff
Charles Owen
Andre Previn/arturo Bendetti Michelangeli
ELISION Ensemble