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Paul Lansky, who teaches composition at Princeton, has been a pioneer in computer music and electronic music, but late in his career he has turned his attention more and more to writing for acoustic instruments, particularly chamber ensembles. Especially in a piece like Threads, it's easy to hear the sensibility of someone who has spent a lifetime working in electronic sounds in the mysterious and sometimes hard-to-identify sonorities of a percussion ensemble. It's a strongly rhythmic piece with most of its ten movements driven by a steady, throbbing pulse. Lansky uses a broad range of percussive sounds, including metals, wood, and membranophones, and found instruments so it's a colorful, variegated score. Threads is structured like a Baroque cantata, opening with a prelude, and closing with a chorale prelude, with recitatives, choruses, and arias in between. Different instrumental groups predominate in different types of movements; sparkling melodic metals are at the fore in the prelude, postlude, and arias, for instance, and the membranophones have a more featured role in the choruses. It's a lovely, quietly appealing piece, the confident and poised work of a composer who's a master of his craft. So Percussion Ensemble plays with great delicacy and nuance. The sound of the Cantaloupe CD is immaculate and wonderfully present.
© TiVo
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So Percussion, Ensemble
So Percussion, Ensemble
So Percussion, Ensemble
So Percussion, Ensemble
So Percussion, Ensemble
So Percussion, Ensemble
So Percussion, Ensemble
So Percussion, Ensemble
So Percussion, Ensemble
So Percussion, Ensemble
Album review
Paul Lansky, who teaches composition at Princeton, has been a pioneer in computer music and electronic music, but late in his career he has turned his attention more and more to writing for acoustic instruments, particularly chamber ensembles. Especially in a piece like Threads, it's easy to hear the sensibility of someone who has spent a lifetime working in electronic sounds in the mysterious and sometimes hard-to-identify sonorities of a percussion ensemble. It's a strongly rhythmic piece with most of its ten movements driven by a steady, throbbing pulse. Lansky uses a broad range of percussive sounds, including metals, wood, and membranophones, and found instruments so it's a colorful, variegated score. Threads is structured like a Baroque cantata, opening with a prelude, and closing with a chorale prelude, with recitatives, choruses, and arias in between. Different instrumental groups predominate in different types of movements; sparkling melodic metals are at the fore in the prelude, postlude, and arias, for instance, and the membranophones have a more featured role in the choruses. It's a lovely, quietly appealing piece, the confident and poised work of a composer who's a master of his craft. So Percussion Ensemble plays with great delicacy and nuance. The sound of the Cantaloupe CD is immaculate and wonderfully present.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:28:06
- Main artist: So Percussion
- Composer: Paul Lansky
- Label: Cantaloupe Music
- Genre: Classical
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