Malcolm Goldstein; Nicolas Caloia; Emilie Girard-Charest
Release Date: 22 April 2022
Label: New World
Packaging Type: Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 093228083528
Genres: Classical Contemporary Classical
Description
Music for bowed string instruments consists mostly of music composed by Malcolm Goldstein (b 1936) between 2018 and 2019 while living in Montreal, Québec.
The impulse to compose this series came from Goldsteinâs experience as a teacher and performer of Bela Bartokâs 44 Duos for Two Violins (1931).
Whereas Bartokâs series features a clear progression to the pieces, gradually increasing in technical and musical complexity from beginning to end, music for bowed string instruments has no such sequence.
The compositions do not build toward a particular way of playing or specific kind of technical virtuosity. Even so, Goldstein envisions these pieces to be used as both teaching material for improvisation as well as concert pieces.
Each of the eleven pieces defines a narrow set of parameters - Goldstein uses the term 'structured improvisation composition' to describe this kind of piece.
He explains that concept as âimprovisation as a process of discovery enacted within the structures of the particular performance activities specified for each piece.â?
In other words, the musicians are not free to play anything at all, but they are free to explore everything within the constraints laid out in the score.
Tracklisting
Ostrava New Orchestra, Owen Underhill, Ostravska Banda, Petr Kotik, Elision Ensemble, Arditti Quartet, Switch~ Ensemble, Jason Thorpe Buchanan
James Martin, Lynn Raley
Peter Gena
New World
New World
Mivos Quartet
Twilight String Orchestra; Fahad Siadat
Conrad Harris; Joseph Kubera
Ostrava New Orchestra, Owen Underhill, Ostravska Banda, Petr Kotik, Elision Ensemble, Arditti Quartet, Switch~ Ensemble, Jason Thorpe Buchanan
Gavin Bryars
Ilse Eerens, Tomoko Kasai, Mayumi Miyata, Masanori Oishi, Saori Oya, Naoko Yoshino
L'Itineraire, Leo Margue
Hashtag Ensemble
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, Andrew Davis
Joel-Francois Durand
Elisabeth Harnik
