A double CD presenting 4 pages from Antoine Beuger 2003 composition which ingeniously adapts the musical form of the round to Wandelweiser music in a beautiful recording in a church in Oxfordshire, UK from June 2012.
Label: Another Timbre Catalog ID: at62x2 Squidco Product Code: 17918
Format: 2 CDs Condition: New Released: 2013 Country: UK Packaging: 2 CDs in gatefold cardstock foldover Recorded by Simon Reynell at St. Laurence church, Combe, near Oxford on June 29th, 2012.
"Antoine Beuger composed his 'Cantor Quartets' in 2003. There are 15 pages in the score, four of which are presented on this double CD. Each page contains four lines with seven notes each, all of which should be played gently and for a long or very long duration. Instrumentation is unspecified, and the notes can be played in any octave.
Formally the piece is constructed a bit like a round such as 'Row, row, row your boat', in that Player A plays the first line as a solo, then when he/she moves on to the second line, Player B starts the first line. Player C starts when Player B begins the second line and Player A starts the third, and so on. The page finishes when Player A finishes the fourth line.
So each page slowly becomes denser as it progresses, starting as a solo, becoming a duet, then a trio, and ending as a quartet.
This realisation was performed in the church in the village of Combe near Oxford. Each of the four pages was played just once without rehearsal. Various aircraft passed overhead during the course of the afternoon, and these sounds became part of the music."-Another Timbre