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Carl, Robert
Music for Strings



Label: New World Records
Country: USA

"Robert Carl (b. 1954) possesses one of the widest and most varied expressive ranges of any composer of his generation. This isn't the disc to prove that, however. In the string music here we focus in on what I think of as the central core of Carl's aesthetic: the devoutly ruminative music with expression markings like "achingly" and "fragile." In his string music, Carl aligns himself with Beethoven and Ives as a composer who asks musical questions, who frankly frames his own spiritual journey in sounds with all its doubts, hungers, epiphanies, and acquiescences. At the end of Open (1998) or Carl's Second String Quartet (2000-01), we know the composer's response to the existential questions of life as definitively as we can know them at the end of Ives's Fourth Symphony, or Beethoven's Ninth. Carl can be playful, satirical, intellectual, or picturesque in his other works, but something about the soulful nature of strings makes him express his innermost yearnings through them. And these three works, written within a three-year period, are even more closely related than this implies. Their motivic material seems cut from the same cloth: the imperious dotted-rhythm motive at the beginning of Open, the thirds encircling each other in the "Angel-Skating" Sonata (Violin Sonata No. 2) (1999), the leaping lines at the beginning of the Second Quartet, are all based on pairs of interlocking intervals, whose contours Carl weaves into tapestries whose underlying unity is felt viscerally without being analytically contrived."-New World




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UPC: 093228064527

Label: New World Records
Catalog ID: 80645-2
Squidco Product Code: 6243

Format: CD
Condition: Closeout
Released: 2006
Country: USA
Packaging: Jewel Tray
Producer: Robert Carl Engineer: Justin Kurtz Digital mastering: Scott Metcalfe, Mind's Ear Studio Violin Sonata No. 2, "Angel-Skating" recorded October 11, 2002, Lincoln Theater, .Open and String Quartet No. 2, "Fear of Death/Love of Life" recorded in Millard Auditorium, The Hartt School, University of Hartford, January 11-12, 2003

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Adaskin String Trio: Emyln Ngai-violin

Steve larson-viola

Mark Fraser-cello (track 1)

Katie Lansdale-violin

John McDonaold-piano (tracks 2-4) Adaskin String Trio with Annie Trépanier-violin (tracks 5-7)

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Track Listing:

1. Open (1998) for string trio 16:57

Adaskin String Trio: Emlyn Ngai, violin; Steve Larson, viola; Mark Fraser, cello



Violin Sonata No. 2, "Angel-Skating" (1999) 27:14

2. I. Rondo: Intimations 6:25

3. II. Variations: Vision 12:36

4. III. Chaconne-Berceuse: State of Grace 8:13

Katie Lansdale, violin; John McDonald, piano



String Quartet No. 2, "Fear of Death/Love of Life" (2000-01) 22:55

5. I. Fear of Death 5:54

6. II. Hymn: In Growing Awareness of Beauty's Presence 10:22

7. III. Love of Life 6:39

Adaskin String Trio with Annie Trépanier, violin









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