Caroline Shaw: Orange Attacca Quartet

• Caroline Shaw (b. 1982):
• 1 Entr'acte 11:00
• 2 Valencia 05:49
• Plan & Elevation:
• 3 Plan & Elevation: I. The Ellipse 03:58
• 4 Plan & Elevation: II. The Cutting Garden 02:56
• 5 Plan & Elevation: III. The Herbaceous Border 03:31
• 6 Plan & Elevation: IV. The Orangery 01:57
• 7 Plan & Elevation: V. The Beech Tree 02:36
• Caroline Shaw:
• 8 Punctum 09:32
• 9 Ritornello 2.sq.2.j.a 16:36
• 10 Limestone & Felt 05:42
• Total Runtime 01:03:37

Info for Caroline Shaw: Orange

Ein Fest der ungeschminkten Quartett-Schönheiten: Orange von Caroline Shaw mit dem Attacca Quartet. Ein prächtiger Garten – und darin ein Streichquartett, indessen Klängen sich die Rhythmen des Windes in den Blättern, das Vibrieren des Lichtes und der feinenSchatten zu spiegeln scheinen. Das ist die Szenerie, die Orange heraufbeschwört – das erste Album, das sich ganz und gar der Musik der preisgekrönten amerikanischen Komponistin Caroline Shaw widmet. Indem Projekt mit dem renommierten Attacca Quartet klingen romantische Traditionen an, aber auch die feinen mathematischen wie inspirierenden Bezüge zwischenArchitektur und Klang, zwischen Maß und Form. „DasAlbum“, so die Komponistin, „soll ein Fest der einfachen, unmittelbaren und ungeschminkten Schönheit sein.“Carolin Shaw ist eine der herausragendstenVertreterinnen der neuen Komponistengeneration, die sich kreativ zwischen den Stilen und Gattungen bewegen –und hat in dem ebenfalls stilistisch sehr weit gefächerten Attacca Quartet einen kongenialen Partner gefunden. Das Album Orangeist auch in anderer Hinsicht eine Premiere: Es ist die erste Zusammenarbeit der Labels NewAmsterdam und Nonesuch.

Amy Schroeder, Violine
Keiko Tokunaga, Violine
Nathan Schram, Viola
Andrew Yee, Cello

Recorded, mixed, engineered, and mastered by Antonio Oliart at WGBH Studios
Produced by Antonio Oliart, Caroline Shaw and Attacca Quartet

Attacca Quartet
First prize winners in the 7th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in 2011, top prize winners and Listeners’ Choice award recipients in the 2011 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and winners of the Alice Coleman Grand Prize in the 60th annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in 2006, the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet has become one of America’s premier young performing ensembles. Praised by The Strad for possessing “maturity beyond its members’ years,” they were formed at the Juilliard School in 2003 and made their professional debut in 2007 as part of the Artists International Winners Series in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. From 2011-2013 they served as the Juilliard Graduate Resident String Quartet, and for the 2014-2015 season they were selected as the Quartet in Residence by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The Attacca Quartet recently completed a recording project of Haydn’s masterwork “The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross,” arranged by Andrew Yee and the Attacca Quartet. In his review for Gramophone, Donald Rosenberg wrote, “The Attacca Quartet explore the work’s range of expressive moods with utmost sensitivity to nuance and interplay .... They triumph in every respect, and are captured in such vivid sound that no telling Haydn detail is allowed to go unheard.” Thewholenote.com wrote, “It’s easily the most satisfying string version of the work that I’ve heard.”

In 2013, the quartet released the complete works for string quartet by John Adams on Azica Records. It was praised by Steve Smith of The New York Times as a “vivacious, compelling set,” describing the Attacca Quartet’s playing as “exuberant, funky, and … exactingly nuanced.” The Boston Globe also praised the release, stating, “Few [recent recordings] are as consequential as ‘Fellow Traveler,’ … superb performances.” The album was the recipient of the 2013 National Federation of Music Clubs Centennial Chamber Music Award. The quartet has been honored with both the Arthur Foote Award from the Harvard Musical Association and the Lotos Prize in the Arts from the Stecher and Horowitz Foundation.

The 2016-2017 season began with a bang as the Attacca Quartet opened for rock superstar Jeff Lynne’s ELO in two sold-out Radio City Music Hall performances. In addition, the quartet will be launching their new “Recently Added” series (first announced in a New York Times feature about the completion of their six-year traversal of all of Haydn’s 68 string quartets). The new project is dedicated to living composers who they feel have added significantly to the string quartet canon. The first season is taking place at Brooklyn's National Sawdust and features the music of Caroline Shaw, Michael Ippolito and John Adams. At the same time, the Attacca will present an ongoing series at Trinity Lutheran Church in Manhattan entitled “Based on Beethoven,” featuring performances of the complete Beethoven string quartets, paired with works inspired by Beethoven from the “Recently Added” series. The group will serve as the inaugural Ensemble-in-Residence at the School of Music at Texas State University during the 2016-2017 season and will appear in concerts and master classes throughout the United States and South America.

The Attacca Quartet has engaged in extensive educational and community outreach projects, serving as guest artists and teaching fellows at the Lincoln Center Institute, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Vivace String Camp in New York, the Woodlands ChamberFest in Texas, Virginia Arts Festival, Bravo! Vail Valley and Animato Summer Music Camp at Florida International University in Miami. Since 2006, they have performed in yearly benefit concerts supporting the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation’s efforts. The members of the Attacca Quartet currently reside in New York City. They are represented by Baker Artists, LLC.

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