Browse by Artist: WOLFE, JULIA

Artist:	WOLFE, JULIA
Title:	The String Quartets
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21011CD

"Bang on a Can co-founder Julia Wolfe has turned the string quartet world upside down with these hip and innovative works. Ferocious and fresh, Wolfe's quartets, played here in blistering performances by the Lark Quartet, Cassatt Quartet and featuring one of the most-talked-about new NYC quartets, Ethel, have been exciting audiences, quartets and critics for the last ten years. Defying classification, Wolfe's music conveys intensity and intimacy, a virtuosity and joy of sound that turns the string quartet into a relentless high voltage vehicle of expression."

Artist:	WOLFE, JULIA
Title:	Dark Full Ride
Label:	CANTALOUPE
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	CA 21058CD

"Julia Wolfe's Dark Full Ride consists of four new compositions, each written for multiples of individual instruments -- nine bagpipes, four drum sets, six pianos and eight double basses. Wolfe says, 'Like staring for a long time at a Rothko painting, I imagined each of these pieces as an exploration of one color. But in truth an instrument isn't really a single timbre. There are a myriad of worlds within each sound.' Working closely with the performers during the composing process, Wolfe uncovers a never-before-heard music. For example, while writing LAD, she uses the initial drone produced while filling the bagpipe with air as the piece's introduction. Says Wolfe, 'With each piece I tried to dive into a psychedelic landscape, at once multilayered, fractured, ecstatic, silent, driving, cacophonous and direct.'"

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