Andrew Lawrence-King - Carolan's Harp - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This presents Andrew Lawrence King, leader of the Harp Consort, on his first solo recording featuring pieces that were originally written for harpsichord, guitar, and theorbo.

Icarus Quartet's debut album, BIG THINGS, is comprised of three substantial works by composers Michael Laurello, Brad Lubman, and Paul Lansky that have helped catalyze the unmistakable aesthetic of this half piano/half percussion group. The album opens with Michael Laurello's rhythmically driving InchBig Things,Inch an arrangement dedicated to icarus Quartet. Brad Lubman's InchTangentsInch eschews any given or predictable narrative in favor of a nonsensical dreamworld that also inspired the pancake-themed album art. Paul Lansky's eight-movement work InchTexturesInch celebrates the multifarious sonic potential of percussion and piano together. Laurello, Lubman, and Lansky have each been elemental to the existence of the ensemble and it is with great pleasure that icarus Quartet shares their music on this energetic 60-minute tour de force.

For Nikolaus Brass, the Inchconcrete confrontation with the existential fragility of human existence, with new beginnings and happiness, but also pain, infirmity and deathInch acted Inchlike a compass in the search for expression.Inch He refers to his music as characterised by Inchflowing time processes, questions of order and disturbance, the scanning of the acoustic outer surface for what it harbours as an echo, as well as aspects of human existence, Inch within a Inchpermanent circle of losing and finding again.Inch This musica viva CD features three of his compositions, created between 2012 and 2023.Nikolaus Brass studied medicine and composition in Munich and Berlin, and with Helmut Lachenmann in Hanover. He took part in the Darmstadt Summer Course from 1980 to 1986. His works have been regularly performed at festivals since 1981. In addition to his profession as a medical doctor, which he practised for many years, he has composed numerous works, including several commissioned by the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (as part of the musica viva series), the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Donaueschingen Music Days and the Wittener Tage fur neue Kammermusik. In 2009, Brass was awarded the Music Prize of the City of Munich. He has been a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts since 2014.Brass' composition InchIn der Farbe von ErdeInch (InchIn the colour of earthInch) - music for viola, 44 strings and two percussionistsInch was first performed on February 17, 2023, with Tabea Zimmermann and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni. The work was commissioned by musica viva of Bayerischer Rundfunk. The title of the composition refers to a short text by the French-speaking Swiss poet Philippe Jaccottet (1925-2021).InchDer goldene SteigInch (InchThe Golden PathInch