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John King: Free Palestine

The Secret Quartet, John King

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Format: CD

Cat No: NW80786

Release Date:  02 June 2017

Label:  New World

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  093228078623

Genres:  Classical  

  • Description

    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

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Free Palestine: I. Sultani Yakah - Ijlil Al-Qibliyya
      • 2. Free Palestine: II. Bayati Shuri - Al-Sarafand
      • 3. Free Palestine: III. Nahawand Murassah - Sabbarin
      • 4. Free Palestine: IV. Humayun - Nuris
      • 5. Free Palestine: V. Hijaz Kar Kurd Nahawand - Gaza
      • 6. Free Palestine: VI. Athar Kurd - Deir Yassin
      • 7. Free Palestine: VII. Hijaz Kar Kurd - Tulkarm
      • 8. Free Palestine: VIII. Nawa Athar Nahawand - Al-Quds
      • 9. Free Palestine: IX. Ushaq Masri - Umm Khalid
      • 10. Free Palestine: X. Nikriz - Qamun
      • 11. Free Palestine: XI. Athar Kurd Hijaz - Rafah
      • 12. Free Palestine: XII. Rast - Ma'alul
      • 13. Free Palestine: XIII. Kurd Nahawand - Qalunya
      • 14. Free Palestine: XIV. Huzam - Khan Yunis*
      • 15. Free Palestine: XV. Hisar Nahawand - Saffuriya