Gaudete Brass - Chicago Moves (2012)
Gaudete Brass - Chicago Moves (2012)
Contemporary Classical | Cedille Records CDR 90000 136 | 2012 | 63:00 | EAC (FLAC, cue, log) | Full Scans | Various File Hosts | 213 MB
Gaudete Brass Quintet
Contemporary Classical | Cedille Records CDR 90000 136 | 2012 | 63:00 | EAC (FLAC, cue, log) | Full Scans | Various File Hosts | 213 MB
Gaudete Brass Quintet
Gaudete Brass gives here an exceptionally clean performance of wildly difficult and stylistically different musical compositions, and it’s hard to stress enough just how important that is for new commissions. Much can be made of the musical content within these new pieces of music specifically because of the strength of this ensemble’s performances. Between sections of deeply emotive, soloistic playing, we are also treated to completely off the cuff technical wonders in virtuoso ensemble playing. The American brass tradition is thriving in this recording on all fronts, and that fact in itself is truly worth celebrating.
...Delving into the more technically difficult and abstract side of American music for brass are three tremendously welcome pieces of more “serious” concert music, and it is here that we can hear the players really flex their muscles. Stacy Garrop’s piece Helios is an extremely powerful piece in its beginning, with torrent rhythms and violent harmonies giving way to expressive, contemplative lines to its end. Within Brass, a simply titled, 3-movement composition by Rob Deemer, we are introduced to the more extended sonic possibilities of a brass quintet with the addition of mutes and modern techniques. In fact, the entire piece is a celebration of this, as the three movement are titled “Bell,” “Mute,” and “Slide,” with each section capturing these familiar brass characteristics in its own movement. Despite the simple titles, the music within these movements is extremely complex and occasionally loose, showing a great understanding of how to utilize such a small ensemble, and allowing the ensemble to show off both its technical and soloistic prowesses. The album’s finale, Copperwave, was originally written by Joan Tower in a very similar yet slightly different instrumentation. It is premiered here as a traditional brass quintet, though was originally written with a bass trombone. Within this piece we’re pulled through a variety of different stylistic attributes that have popped up in Deemer’s piece with extended techniques: long, brash solo lines; tense, prickly harmonic movement; and the rhythmic ebbs and flows only possible with a small chamber group. Tower’s piece makes great use of the power of the ensemble as well as the individual, and melds them with jarring effect. Far and away the premier “serious” piece on this album (partially aided by the near celebrity status of the composer within American Music circles), its placement at the end of the album seems to highlight the desire by the ensemble to show the evolution all of the compositional techniques preceding it and to showcase a wider survey of the American style.
Don't be put off by the somewhat traditional brass quintet sound of the first two peices, dig deeper and you will find much of the rest of the CD to be refreshingly contemporary with strong Jazz and Avant-garde influences.
Track List:
JAMES WOODWARD (b. 1978)
1 Gaudete (2007) (3:11)
JOHN CHEETHAM (b. 1939)
Sonata for Brass Quintet (2008) (12:03)
2 I. Moderato (3:45)
3 II. Andante (5:07)
4 III. Animato (3:05)
BRIAN BAXTER (b. 1985)
5 A Great Commercial City (2011) (6:01)
STACY GARROP (b. 1969)
6 Helios (2011) (4:27)
ROB DEEMER (b. 1970)
Brass (2011) (12:40)
7 I. Bell (3:24)
8 II. Mute (4:53)
9 III. Slide (4:16)
DAVID SAMPSON (b. 1951)
Chicago Moves (2011) (14:17)
10 I. Grant Park (3:24)
11 II. The Spaghetti Bowl (3:37)
12 III. Loop Lament (4:13)
13 IV. Lake Shore Drive (2:55)
JOAN TOWER (b. 1938)
14 Copperwave (2006) (9:47)
All are World Premiere Recordings except for Tower, which is a premiere in this instrumentation.
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