Cat No:
NW80831
Release Date: 09 July 2021
Label: New World
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 093228083122
Genres: Classical Contemporary Classical
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Description
Tom Johnson (b. 1939) is a key figure in the contemporary music scene whose voice as a composer is instantly recognizable. A major champion of minimalism in the 1970s as a writer, he remains one of its most important adherents as a composer, although the word 'minimalist' does not cover everything that his music does.Johnson is as radical as Eliane Radigue or Phill Niblock, but he is also interested in sounds that can be enjoyed in the moment, and in this sense, he is a true heir of Feldman, who was one of his teachers.
Counting to Seven (2014) is a set of short pieces lasting about 80 minutes, of which eighteen pieces are presented here. Although obviously vocal because they are text-based, some of the pieces include percussion. They can be performed by almost any group of at least seven people and are not written for trained singers or actors.
Originally the works on this disc were known as Counting Duets, but some years later, after a performance by Vincent Bouchot from the ensemble Dedalus, Johnson "reworked everything for seven voices. I changed the title to Counting to Seven, added about 30 languages, well-known, little known, living and dead, and put together an 80-minute version, which we began performing in 2014."
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Tracklisting
- 1. French
- 2. Maninke (or Malinke)
- 3. Okinawan
- 4. Irish Gaelic
- 5. Tajik (or Tadjik)
- 6. Amerindian
- 7. Muruwari
- 8. German & Turkish
- 9. Indonesian
- 10. Russian
- 11. Mandarin
- 12. Swahili
- 13. Japanese
- 14. Georgian
- 15. South Pacific
- 16. Hungarian
- 17. Crobo (or Krobo)
- 18. Hebrew
Disc 1
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J.P.A. Falzone: A Curving Abacus
Ostrava New Orchestra, Owen Underhill, Ostravska Banda, Petr Kotik, Elision Ensemble, Arditti Quartet, Switch~ Ensemble, Jason Thorpe Buchanan
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Wide as Heaven: A Century of Song by Black American ...
James Martin, Lynn Raley
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Beethoven in Soho and Other Works
Peter Gena
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Albums, The 3CD Digipak Set
New World
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We're Gonna Make It
New World
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Lei Liang: Six Seasons
Mivos Quartet
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Daniel Lentz: Ending(s)
Twilight String Orchestra; Fahad Siadat
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Lejaren Hiller: Sonatas (for Violin & Piano)
Conrad Harris; Joseph Kubera
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Materiale Per Tre Esecutori E Nastro Magnetico
Dedalus
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