A Noise So Loud (2017)
Details
Description: Chamber ensemble
Duration: 16'
Movements: I (6'30", excerptible) – II (5'30") – III (3'30")
Instrumentation: pno – vln.vla.vc
Commission: N/A
First performance: 11 April 2018, by Ensemble Liminar as part of MATA Festival 2018.
Score link
Recording: Recording from premiere
Reviews:
George Grella, New York Classical Review. "While the notes were avant-garde in the contemporary context, the music was presented, deliberately, as familiar tonal chamber music. The result was utterly uncanny—the ear can adapt quickly to different tunings, but not with this piece. The weird sound and neo-romantic style made it sound like a great score to a film noir."
Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh, I Care If You Listen. "The traditional structure and novel tuning formed a world that seemed familiar yet was ultimately quite foreign. Heavy vibrato and repeated rocking rhythms gave it a Romantic feel, but the manipulation of pitch remained unsettling."
Programme Note
A piano quartet that gets happier as it goes along.
Description: Chamber ensemble
Duration: 16'
Movements: I (6'30", excerptible) – II (5'30") – III (3'30")
Instrumentation: pno – vln.vla.vc
Commission: N/A
First performance: 11 April 2018, by Ensemble Liminar as part of MATA Festival 2018.
Score link
Recording: Recording from premiere
Reviews:
George Grella, New York Classical Review. "While the notes were avant-garde in the contemporary context, the music was presented, deliberately, as familiar tonal chamber music. The result was utterly uncanny—the ear can adapt quickly to different tunings, but not with this piece. The weird sound and neo-romantic style made it sound like a great score to a film noir."
Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh, I Care If You Listen. "The traditional structure and novel tuning formed a world that seemed familiar yet was ultimately quite foreign. Heavy vibrato and repeated rocking rhythms gave it a Romantic feel, but the manipulation of pitch remained unsettling."
Programme Note
A piano quartet that gets happier as it goes along.
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