Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: HCR29CD
- Format: CD
- UPC: 5060217670279
- Street Date: 06/09/23
- PreBook Date: 05/05/23
- Label: HUDDERSFIELD CONTEMPORARY RECORDS »
- Genre: Classical
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 2023
- Box Lot: 25
- Territory: US,CA
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Explore Ensemble - Perfect Offering
New Release of Classical Music on Huddersfield Contemporary Records.
- List Price: $15.99
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- In Stock: 16
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Perfect Offering invites the listener to journey with the ensemble, inhabiting and exploring four vibrant, imaginary landscapes. Each is underlined by themes of place and space, ecstasy and tranquillity, lightness and darkness, as well as ambience, transience, refraction, and silence. There is a diverse interest in harmony evident in the music collected here - each composer exhibits a distinctive idiolect, ranging from Cassandra Miller's entirely white note radiance to Rebecca Saunders's haunting atonal timbralism, Lisa Illean's spectrally-tinged, weathered sounds, and Lawrence Dunn's wonky and surrealist tonalities.
This album bears the fruit of an awakening. Explore Ensemble's pent-up energies - confined and distracted during the pandemic - were at last released over the course of 2022, with a return to concerts and recordings. That busy year was filled with reconnection and growth. This album presents Explore Ensemble's resulting perspective on chamber music repertoire. It is music that, by invoking either actual or imagined spaces, goes beyond the "chamber" and the genre's historical allegiance to the slippery notion of musical autonomy.