Release Date: 02 June 2017
Label: New World Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 093228078623
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: John King
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
Julius Hemphill; Baikida Carroll; Abdul Wadud; Phillip Wilson; Hamiet Bluiett
Jack Quartet; New Thread Quartet & Elliott Sharp
Julius Hemphill & Others
Present Music, Ariadne Greif, David Bloom
Aki Takahashi
Works By William Grant Still
Pow Wow Songs - Music of the Plains Indians
Marina Minkin & Mark Kroll
Rolf Gupta & Oslo filharmonien
Ketil Bjornstad & Sandra Lied Haga
Vox Urbane
Sophie Dervaux, La Folia Barockorchester
Sergio Vartolo
Robert Plane (clarinet); Elias String Quaret, Gould Piano Trio; James Gilchrist (tenor); Tim Horton
Nordic Affect/Marco Casonato/Massimo Marchese/La Spagna baroque orchestra/Alejandro Marias
Michael Foyle, Iain Burnside
