a r t i s t : Martin Bresnick
t i t l e : The Essential Martin Bresnick
d a t e : 2006
l a b e l : cantaloupe
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : Nov/2007
t r a c k s : 11
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 71,1 MB
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Cantaloupe Music celebrates the 60th birthday of one of
America's leading composers and educators with this definitive
set of recordings featuring his music.
Martin Bresnick has been a leading figure in the education of
an entire generation of American musicians, having served as
spiritual advisor to many of our most innovative and active
composers, including Michael Torke and Evan Ziporyn as well as
Bang on a Can's own Artistic Directors Michael Gordon, David
Lang, and Julia Wolfe . As a composer's composer, his music -
subtle and intelligent, thoughtful and meticulously crafted -
has been heard around the world, and with a flurry of activity
in 2006 (including this major CD/DVD release, his 60th
Birthday Celebration, and his Carnegie Hall concerts on
December 5 with the Bang on a Can All-Stars and his own on
December 9), The Essential Martin Bresnick aims to spread his
name to a new and larger listening public.
The Essential Martin Bresnick contains performances of his
greatest works by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Flux Quartet,
and Jupiter Trio. The DVD contains a new work, "For the Sexes:
The Gates of Paradise," performed by Bang on a Can All-Star
pianist Lisa Moore and featuring animated images from
Puppetsweat Theater. This remarkable video project, for piano
with projections of deeply affecting and intensely bright
drawings by the English poet William Blake, includes a video
essay on the work by legendary Yale professor and best-selling
author Harold Bloom, who calls Moore's performance "inspired,
precise, subtly modulated and eloquent."
performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars
Total 54:03
DVD
For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise
Performed by Lisa Moore, piano and voice
Original Computer Animation by Puppetsweat Theater - Leslie
Weinberg, Robert Bresnick
Text and original images William Blake
DVD Direction Robert Bresnick
All music by Martin Bresnick (published Carl Fischer, LLC
(ASCAP))
FOR MORE ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU HEAR, ARTIST BIOS, AND LINKS, GO
TO WWW.CANTALOUPEMUSIC.COM
P & C 2006 Cantaloupe Music, LLC
The Flux String Quartet is:
Tom Chiu, violin
Conrad Harris, violin
Max Mandel, viola
Dave Eggar, cello
The Jupiter Trio is:
Robert Waters, violin
Julian Hersh, cello
Aglika Angelova, piano
The Bang on a Can All-Stars are:
Robert Black, bass
David Cossin, percussion
Lisa Moore, piano
Mark Stewart, electric guitar
Wendy Sutter, cello
Evan Ziporyn, clarinet and bass clarinet
Produced by Martin Bresnick
Tracks 1-5 recorded by Eugene Kimball at Sprague Hall, Yale
University, New Haven, CT, 2005; mixed by Eugene Kimball, New
Haven, CT, 2006.
Tracks 6-9 recorded by Eugene Kimball at Sprague Hall, Yale
University, New Haven, CT, 2005; mixed by Eugene Kimball, New
Haven, CT, 2006.
Tracks 10-11 recorded by Tom Lazarus at Systems Two, Brooklyn,
NY on November 8, 2005; mixed by Tom Lazarus at Classicsound
Studios, NYC, February-March 2006.
Audio mastered by Tony Gillis at Classicsound Studios, NYC,
June 2006
DVD
DVD Programming: Rusty Dyer
Editing: Robert Bresnick
Lighting: Rusty Dyer
Camera: Dan Hofmann and Jude Breidenback
Audio recorded by Eugene Kimball at Sprague Hall, Yale
University, Xxxx X, 200X.
Piano Tuner: William Harold
Filmed at the Educational Center for the Arts, New Haven
Special thanks to Harold Bloom
Thanks also to Phil Kearney at Yale Media and Cantaloupe
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Partial funding for the DVD has been provided by the Mary
Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Alice M.Ditson Fund, Aaron
Copland Fund for Music Recording.
Art Direction and design: Greenberg Kingsley/NYC
(http://www.cantaloupemusic.com)
*** the DVD-part is not included with this release
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1-5. String Quartet #2 "Bucephalus"
performed by the Flux Quartet
01-Bucephalus [01:54]
02-Around To The Sun [03:38]
03-Alexandrine [05:07]
04-At Jhelum [03:51]
05-The New Advocate [03:30]
6-9. Trio for piano, violin, and violoncello
performed by the Jupiter Trio
06-Semplice, Inesorabile [07:04]
07-Leggiermente, con accenti diversi (Cat's Cradle) [04:23]
08-Parlando, Affetuoso [05:55]
09-Ardente, Sperduto [03:35]
performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars
10-The Bucket Rider [10:40]
11-BE JUST! [04:24]
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