Stephen Montague: Southern Lament (2005)
Philip Mead (piano); with Nancy Ruffer (flute, piccolo), Monica Acosta (voice),
Elysian Quartet, London Sousa Band/Stephen Montague (piano, electronics)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 211 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 182 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: NMC | # D118 | Time: 01:19:08
Philip Mead (piano); with Nancy Ruffer (flute, piccolo), Monica Acosta (voice),
Elysian Quartet, London Sousa Band/Stephen Montague (piano, electronics)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 211 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 182 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: NMC | # D118 | Time: 01:19:08
This collection of Stephen Montague's music for piano explores his roots in the Southern USA - including spirituals such as Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen - and the legacy of American experimental composers such as Charles Ives and John Cage with wit and energy. Pianist Philip Mead (also heard on Lucifer) is joined by singer Monica Acosta, flautist Nancy Ruffer, the Elysian Quartet, the London Sousa Band, and the composer himself on electronics and piano.
A composer who sets off four different recordings of Maurice Ravel’s Boléro in a hallowed Abbey – before inviting the audience to release balloons into the fan vaulting – might not seem like a man with ‘reverence’ at the top of his agenda. Yet what hits you time and again in this disc is Stephen Montague’s reverence for sound (in a Cageian sense), and his reverence for a truthfulness that treads an adroitly-negotiated path between visceral immediacy and intellectual ingenuity. He’s an omnivorous sampler of anything that might be bent to his own purposes – and when he dallies with cliché, there’s usually a transcending sting in the tail. The disc’s title, Southern Lament, flags up the 1997 soundscape charting the American Deep South as distilled in its ballads and Spirituals. A deconstruction as gritty as coarse sandpaper, as tender as a powerfully imagined lament. The other big work is After Ives… (four of the six movements are recorded here), a salute from one maverick to another that contrives a hoe-down for the end of time amid a deal of gleeful ambiguity. But the occasional pieces tell their own story too – from the gothic romp of Headless Horseman to the sonorously tremulous swellings of Thanksgiving Hymn. Philip Mead, a longtime collaborator with Montague, sweeps all before him. Formidable pianism, ear-stretching music.Review by Paul Riley, BBC Music Magazine
Stephen Montague is an American composer-performer who has lived in the UK for more than 30 years, during which time he has developed an enterprising international career. This is now the only all-Montague release since the loss of an earlier one on Continuum (4/95). It is more varied than the previous one and some of it celebrates Montague’s American roots. He honestly admits his sources in Ives, Cowell, Cage and minimalism, and the CD ends with four of his Studies after Ives. That wonderful hymn tune ‘What a friend we have in Jesus’ (compare Montague’s treatment with the third movement of Ives’s Piano Sonata No 1) shows the unabated power of diatonic harmony, although there are surprises, and ‘Forever JPS’ is a spectacular which brings in the voice of Sousa himself as well as the London Sousa Band in Stars and Stripes.
Montague points out that when he borrows melodies, unlike Ives he usually quotes them complete. There’s plenty of that with the varied settings of the tunes in Southern Lament. Then there are several short occasional pieces showing variety and ingenuity, but Haiku with live electronics and computer tape is more substantial. This is a subtle, oriental-influenced piece with the live piano gracefully repetitive and the electronics sustaining this mood. When Montague uses electronics the sound is always beguiling; if he’s minimalist he gets somewhere rather than being stuck in a groove; and he even manages to use tone-clusters with a light touch.
This is a consistently enjoyable portrait of a composer who knows how to focus his appeal. Terrific performances from Philip Mead, all well recorded.Review by Peter Dickinson, Gramophone
Philip Mead, piano
Monica Acosta, voice
Elysian Quartet
Nancy Ruffer, flute/piccolo
London Sousa Band
Stephen Montague, conductor
piano, prepared piano, electronics
Recording date: 25 May and 19 December 2003; 30 August and 16 October 2005
Recording venue: Vestry Hall, London College of Music and Media
Tracklist:
Stephen Montague (b. 1943)
01. Southern Lament - John Henry (9:48)
02. Southern Lament - Nobody Knows the Troubles I've Seen (7:38)
03. Midnight Sun (2:45)
04. Chorale for a Millenium Sunset (1:45)
05. Headless Horseman (1:58)
06. Thanksgiving Hymn (6:02)
07. A Crippled Ghost at Halloween (4:03)
08. Beyond the Milky Way (1:07)
09. Dagger Dance (1:06)
10. Paramell Va (7:48)
11. Haiku (13:28)
12. Night Frost Settles on a Pumpkin (2:00)
13. Something's in Grandma's Attic (2:00)
14. For Merce C. at the Barbican (3:08)
After Ives… Four Studies:
15. I. What a Friend We Have in Jesus (4:36)
16. II. Songs of Childhood (2:50)
17. III. Wayfaring Stranger (3:20)
18. IV. Forever J. P. S. (3:43)
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