Grossman Ensemble, Tim Weiss – Augusta Read Thomas: Terpsichore’s Box of Dreams (2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Grossman Ensemble, Tim Weiss – Augusta Read Thomas: Terpsichore’s Box of Dreams (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:15 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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Previous instalments in this long-running survey of Augusta Read Thomas’s oeuvre have ranged far and wide within a catalogue that spans some 30 years to date. In contrast, we here explore a variety of works of more immediately recent vintage (the earliest work here dates from 2018), and between them fill out a vividly coloured snapshot of Thomas’ irrepressible compositional persona as it stands at present. Many of her long-standing preoccupations are to be found in this collection: the love of dance which propels the music into a tirelessly evolving voyage in both rhythmic and narrative terms, the iridescent, bell-saturated sonic environment that fills her musical landscapes with light and clarity, the sense of jazz auras acting as guiding spirits propelling the music on its course with its restless, hocketing rhythms and penetrating harmonic flavours, a celebration and understanding of instrumental virtuosity, the overall sense of her music engaged in a deep-seated interaction between the present and the past.

Tracklist:

1-01. Grossman Ensemble – Terpsichore’s Box Of Dreams: I. Terpsichore Enters (01:14)
1-02. Grossman Ensemble – Terpsichore’s Box Of Dreams: II. Dance No. 1 Scatter (02:01)
1-03. Grossman Ensemble – Terpsichore’s Box Of Dreams: III. Dance No. 2 Tiptoe Caper (01:11)
1-04. Grossman Ensemble – Terpsichore’s Box Of Dreams: IV. Dance No. 3 Pointillistic Groove Flutter Pirouettes (01:46)
1-05. Grossman Ensemble – Terpsichore’s Box Of Dreams: V. Dance No. 4 Slalom (01:25)
1-06. Grossman Ensemble – Terpsichore’s Box Of Dreams: VI. Dance No. 5 Dream (05:09)
1-07. Grossman Ensemble – Terpsichore’s Box Of Dreams: VII. Dance No. 6 Gambol (02:37)
1-08. Grossman Ensemble – Terpsichore’s Box Of Dreams: VIII. Dance No. 7 Romp (01:59)
1-09. Grossman Ensemble – Terpsichore’s Box Of Dreams: IX. Terpsichore Departs (00:45)
1-10. John Corkill – Star Box for pecussion quartet (06:30)
1-11. Grossman Ensemble – Dance Mobile (14:39)
1-12. Phil Pierick – Laetitia’s Caprice for solo soprano saxophone (03:15)
1-13. Nadina Mackie Jackson – Carnival for bassoon and wind ensemble (12:48)
1-14. Alexander Hersh – Bebop Riddle II for cello and piano (07:23)
1-15. John Corkill – Con Moto for percussion quartet (07:27)

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