| Sign up for our Email Newsletter & Subscriber Only Specials
|

|
|
Transatlantic Swing
|
|
|
|
|
| Listen |
Audio Sample 1 |
Audio Sample 2 |
 |
| Transatlantic Swing is a CD of music rich in elusive connections. Some of the music is ‘transatlantic’ because it’s music by Europeans influenced by the Americas, some because it’s music by an American played by a European. In some way all the music ‘swings’, but no two pieces swing in the same way.There’s also a network of friendships between the composers represented here, although together they don’t represent any one tendency in contemporary musical aesthetics. And there’s a network of shared preoccupations in the music here – the balance between process and fantasy in musical form, the dynamics of sound and silence, the reconfiguration of popular music – but not all these preoccupations occur in every piece. — Christopher Fox |
ARTISTS Christopher Fox, Ivo van Emmerik, Richard Rijnvos, James Rolfe, Luca Francesconi (composers); John Snijders (piano) |
TRACKS
-
Christopher Fox (GB) - IIiK (1991)
-
Christopher Fox (GB) - relliK (1993)
-
Ivo van Emmerik (NL) - Polyphon gefasstes Weiss (1989)
-
Richard Rijnvos (NL) - Study in five parts for piano (1986/87)
-
James Rolfe (CAN) - Idiot Sorrow (1990)
-
Luca Francesconi (I) - Mambo (1987) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|