Lei Liang - Brush-Stroke
Classical/Contemporary/21st Century | FLAC lossless | cuesheets+log | covers+booklet | 66m42s | 236mb
Label: Mode | cat. no. 210
Lei Liang (b.1972) began his musical studies in China, completing them in the USA. His music aims at a deeper philosophical engagement with musical sound as a tool for reflection and contemplation, while resisting exoticized and formulaic treatment of Asian musical elements. Liang's music is deeply philosophical, yet sensual, evocative, yet abstract, and disciplined, yet spontaneous.
He studied composition with Harrison Birtwistle, Chaya Czernowin, Joshua Fineberg, and Mario Davidovsky, and received degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music and Harvard University. He now teaches at UCSD (San Diego).
Written for the Arditti String Quartet, Serashi Fragments is a tribute to the Mongolian chaoer (fiddler) Serashi (1887-1968). In this highly virtuosic piece, Liang deploys a wide range of articulation for strings: pizzicato sul pont, stacatissimo, Bartók pizzicato, glissando, harmonics, and glissando harmonics.
In Some Empty Thoughts of a Person from Edo, Liang expands the timbral possibilities of the harpsichord through introducing "lute stops," clusters formed by the palm and fingers of each hand, along with other extended devices. A plucked passage with arpeggiated chords is reminiscent of the Japanese koto.
Memories of Xiaoxiang for saxophone and tape presents a personal commentary on Liang's cultural past, including field recordings in the tape part.
In Praise of Shadows for solo flute is a piece that invites philosophical contemplation on the duality of light and shadow, embodied by the barely audible partials in the multiphonics, whistling tones, or the downward portamento Liang often uses to end a phrase.
Brush-Stroke allows the listener to be immersed in the transience of each sound as it comes into being and passes away. It is reminiscent of Japanese gagaku and Korean Aak court music.
Tracks:
01. Serashi Fragments_ Qt_ 2005 [0:07:05.14]
02. Some Empty Thoughts of a Person from Edo_ Hps_ 2001 [0:09:48.70]
03. Memories of Xiaoxiang_ Sax and Tpe_ 2003 [0:08:04.61]
04. Trio_ Clo, Pno and Prc_ 2002 [0:08:49.60]
05. In Praise of Shadows_ Flt_ 2005 [0:10:20.12]
06. My Windows for Pno (2007) / 001 Tian_ Heaven [0:02:32.56]
07. My Windows for Pno (2007) / 002 Seven Rays of the Sun [0:04:18.72]
08. My Windows for Pno (2007) / 003 Magma [0:02:08.93]
09. My Windows for Pno (2007) / 004 Pausing, Awaiting the Wind to Rise [0:02:57.21]
10. Brush-Stroke_ 2004 [0:10:41.28]
Performers:
The Arditti Quartet:
Irvine Arditti, Ashot Sarkissjan – violins
Ralf Ehlers – viola
Lucas Fels – cello
The Callithumpian Consort:
Stephen Drury - conductor
Benjamin Smolen - flute
Benjamin Fox - oboe
Benjamin Seltzer - clarinet
Jennifer Reid - bassoon
Elizabeth Lowell - French horn
John Russell - trumpet
Ken Moses - trombone
Aziz Barnard Luce, Jeffrey Means - percussion
Yukiko Takagi - piano
Ethan Wood, Maximillian Haft - violins
Karina Fox - viola
Benjamin Schwartz - cello
David Goodchild – bass
Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011
EAC extraction logfile from 4. March 2016, 18:53
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