Release Date: 30 January 2011
Label: Cedille Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 735131912228
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Garrop
Description
In Eleanor's Words: Music of Stacy Garrop offers world-premiere recordings of three works bya rising composer who . . . excites the enthusiasm of performers and audiences alike" (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review). A Chicago-based composer with a blossoming career, Garrop (b. 1969) has"a sharp ear for instrumental color and narrative form: She can tell a story" (Detroit Free Press). Writings by the revered American stateswoman and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt are the inspiration for Garrop's In Eleanor's Words (2006). Scored for mezzo-soprano and piano, the piece illuminates excerpts from six of the former first lady's syndicated newspaper columns addressing world peace, human rights, and personal experiences. Artists are mezzo-soprano Buffy Baggott and pianist Kuang-Hao Huang. Silver Dagger (2009) for violin, cello, and piano springs from an Appalachian folk song about star-crossed lovers. Garrop skillfully incorporates melodies from three traditional versions of the song in this new work, performed by the Lincoln Trio. Garrop's much-anticipated String Quartet No. 3,"Gaia" (2008), named for the Greek goddess of the Earth and performed by the Biava Quartet, takes listeners on an engrossing journey from chaos, creation, and abundance to cataclysm and renewal. Garrop's String Quartet No. 2,"Demons and Angels," drew praise from, among others, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:"Few composers . . . can develop musical ideas as convincingly as Garrop does here.""
Tracklisting
VELASCO/CHOI
THIRD COAST PERCUSSION
MCGILL/PACIFICA QUARTET
MCGILL/CHIEN
LINCOLN TRIO
KOH/CHANG
KLEIN/BUSH
DOVER QUARTET
Ambur Braid; John Osborn; Gerard Schneider; Monika Buczkowska; Simon Lim; Sebastian Geyer; Danylo M
Mariangela Sicilia; Francesco Demuro; Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice; Fondazione Nazionale d
Klaus Florian Vogt; Camilla Nylund; Georg Zeppenfeld; Martin Gantner; Tanja Ariane Baumgartner; Sac
Antonio Vivaldi
WindSync
Vox ad hoc, Tobias Frank
Voces Suaves; Michele Vannelli
Veronique Gens; Ensemble Les Surprises; Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas
