Floodplain [sound recording].
Material type: MusicPublisher number: 518349-2 | NonesuchPublication details: New York, NY : Nonesuch, p2009.Description: 1 sound disc (79 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s):Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult CD | Main Library | CD | CLASSICAL Kronos Quartet | Available | 33111005768466 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Although the Kronos Quartet first made its name performing challenging new music by 20th-century composers (as well as the occasional Jimi Hendrix cover), the group has slowly moved away from its modern purist roots into a more wide-ranging repertory. FLOODPLAIN abandons the Western classical tradition entirely in favor of a set of 12 short pieces especially commissioned for this recording. Composers and musical traditions from eastern Europe, South Asia, the Middle East and Africa are represented; the internal throughline holding the album together is that the pieces all hail from countries undergoing wars, internal political conflicts, or both. Containing both new settings of centuries-old folk songs native to these regions and brand new works by modern composers from the lands under discussion, ranging from Serbian composer Aleksandra Vrebalov to the Palestinian hip-hop group Ramallah Underground, FLOODPLAIN is a thought-provoking, entertaining album that places musical pursuits above social and political arguments.
Compact disc.
Program notes in English in container.
Ya habibi ta'ala = My love, come quickly / Midhat Assem ; arr. Osvaldo Golijov & Kronos -- Tashweesh = Interference / Ramallah Underground ; arr. Kronos & Jacob Garchik -- Wa habibi = Beloved / trad., arr. Stephen Prutsman -- Getme, getme = Don't leave, don't leave / Said Rustamov ; arr. Alim Qasimov, string arr. Jacob Garchik (featuring Alim & Fargane Qasimov) -- Raga mishra bhairavi: Alap / Ram Narayan ; arr. Kronos Quartet, transcribed by Ljova -- Oh mother, the handsome man tortures me / unknown ; arr. Ljova & Kronos Quartet -- Mugam beyati shiraz / Rahman Asadollahi ; arr. Kronos Quartet, transcribed by Ljova -- Lullaby / trad., arr. Jacob Garchik -- Nihavent sirto / Tanburi Cemil Bey ; arr. Stephen Prutsman -- Kara kemir / Kuat Shildebaev ; arr. Kronos -- Tew semagn hagere = Listen to me, my fellow countrymen / Alemu Aga ; arr. Jacob Garchik -- --Hold me, neighbor, in this storm-- / Aleksandra Vrebalov.
Kronos Quartet (David Harrington, violin; John Sherba, violin; Hank Dutt, viola; Jeffrey Zeigler, cello).
Recorded primarily Aug. 2007-Oct. 2008, Architecture, Los Angeles, CA.