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Nauert: A Distant Music

Paul Nauert

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Format: CD

Cat No: NW80769

Release Date:  22 January 2016

Label:  New World

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  093228076926

Genres:  Classical  Contemporary Classical  

  • 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

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Episodes & Elegies: Prologue
      • 2. Episodes & Elegies: Episode I
      • 3. Episodes & Elegies: Episode II
      • 4. Episodes & Elegies: Elegy I
      • 5. Episodes & Elegies: Episode III
      • 6. Episodes & Elegies: Episode IV
      • 7. Episodes & Elegies: Elegy II
      • 8. Episodes & Elegies: Epilogue
      • 9. Darwin Street
      • 10. Pathfinding
      • 11. A Distant Music: Quartet I
      • 12. A Distant Music: Quartet II
      • 13. A Distant Music: Quartet III
      • 14. A Distant Music: Quartet IV
      • 15. A Distant Music: Quartet V
      • 16. A Distant Music: Quartet VI
      • 17. A Distant Music: Quartet VII
      • 18. A Distant Music: Quartet VIII
      • 19. A Distant Music: Quartet IX
      • 20. Subtext
      • 21. Two Miniatures: I
      • 22. Two Miniatures: II
      • 23. Flight Path
      • 24. Soaring

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