Lou Harrison: Chamber and Gamelan Works
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Composer: Lou HarrisonOrchestra: Kronos Quartet, The Manhattan Percussion Ensemble Gamelan Sekar Kembar
Performer: violin "Daniel Kobialka
Performer: tack piano I "Machiko Kobialka
Performer: tack piano II "James Barbagallo
Performer: celesta "Patricia Jennerjohn
Performer: percussion "Don Marconi
Performer: percussion "Jerome Neff
Performer: conductor "Robert Hughes
Performer: French horn "Scott L. Hartman
Performer: violin "Susan Bates"
Performer: suling player "Lou Harrison
Performer: conductor "Paul Price
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2006-05-01
Music Label: New World Records
Soundtracks:
- Concerto in Slendro, for violin, celesta, 2 tack pianos & 2 percussionists: 1. Allegro
- Concerto in Slendro, for violin, celesta, 2 tack pianos & 2 percussionists: 2. Molto adagio
- Concerto in Slendro, for violin, celesta, 2 tack pianos & 2 percussionists: 3. Allegro; Molto vigoroso
- Main Bersama Sama, for Sudanese Gamelan
- Threnody for Carlos Chavez, for viola & Sudanese gamelan
- Serenade for Betty Freeman and Franco Assetto, for suling & Sudanese Gamelan
- String Quartet Set: 1. Variations
- String Quartet Set: 2. Plaint
- String Quartet Set: 3. Estampie
- String Quartet Set: 4. Rondeaux
- String Quartet Set: 5. Usul
- Suite for Percussion, for 5 percussionists: 1. Moderato
- Suite for Percussion, for 5 percussionists: 2. Slow
- Suite for Percussion, for 5 percussionists: 3. Recitativo; Moderato allegro
Music reviews of Lou Harrison: Chamber and Gamelan Works
Music Review: Chamber and Gamelan works
Rating: 5 Stars
The harrison works on this disc are absoultely fabulous. Particularly haunting was a 'concerto' for horn and gamelan ensemble. Couldn't get the tune out of my head!
Description of Lou Harrison: Chamber and Gamelan Works
Lou Harrison (1917?2003) believed fervently in music?s power to create cultural bridges. To this end he applied his prodigious skills and creative energies to creating syncretic works that link diverse musical languages. Faulted at times for his eclecticism, Harrison responded with a vibrant defense of hybridity, cultivating a musical multiculturalism long before that term?or even the concept?held the currency it now enjoys. Harrison?s major contributions to twentieth-century American music lie in three main areas: (1) the development of the percussion ensemble as a viable performance medium; (2) the linkage of Asian and Western musical styles; and (3) the exploration of just intonation tuning systems. All three are represented in the works on this disc. The influences manifest in the works on this disc remained with Harrison for the rest of his career. He ultimately composed over three dozen gamelan pieces and the estampie became one of his favorite forms (he used it in a dozen works, ranging from solo keyboard to full orchestra). Nor did his advocacy of just intonation systems diminish: he called for pure intervals in works in all genres. But the most distinctive characteristic of Harrison?s music lies in its inherent plurality. He was drawn to community, both in performance groups such as the gamelan and the percussion ensemble, and in the compositions themselves, which unite elements from various times and places. Harrison?s originality lay in the way he creatively combined these elements to produce novel syntheses. His fervent advocacy of hybridity led to a type of transethnic music that truly foreshadowed the post-modern celebration of diversity. The reissue of this seminal release from the CRI catalog features extensive new liner notes by Harrison biographer Leta Miller.Classical CDs
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