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Composers in the Loft

lincoln trio, biava quartet, david ying, elinor freer, john bruce yeh, maia quartet

Chicago’s acclaimed Music in the Loft series showcases chamber music’s stars of tomorrow. Composers in the Loft presents five diverse works – four in world premiere recordings – by the series’ former composers-in-residence: Ricardo Lorenz’s Afro-Cuban flavored Bachangó for solo piano; Carter Pann’s eclectic Differences for cello and piano; Pierre Jalbert’s in turns rhythmically driven and mysterious Trio for violin, cello, and piano; Stacy Garrop’s String Quartet No. 2: Demons and Angels, tracing a true-life descent into madness and murder; and Vivian Fung’s Miniatures for clarinet and string quartet, inspired by the music of China’s Uighur people.

Among the performers are the Naumburg Award winning Biava Quartet, cellist David Ying of the Ying Quartet, and clarinetist John Bruce Yeh of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

 

Album works

Bachango, Ricardo Lorenz (Marta Aznavoorian)
Differences for cello and piano, Carter Pann (David Ying, Elinor Freer)
I. Strand
II. Air
III. Country Dance
IV. Blues
V. Song
Trio for violin, cello, and piano, Pierre Jalbert (Lincoln Trio)
I. Life Cycle
II. Agnus Dei
String Quartet No. 2: Demons and Angels, Stacy Garrop (Biava Quartet)
I. Demonic Spirits
II. Song of the Angels
III. Inner Demons
IV. Broken Spirit
Miniatures for Clarinet and String Quartet, Vivian Fung (John Bruce Yeh, Maia Quartet)
I. Floating
II. Light and Playful
III. Improvisation-like
IV. A Piacere

Label: Cedille Records
Release date: 2007

 

Album Reviews

“The program of this fine sampler transcends New York’s entrenched uptown/downtown split and its other cliques. All the music here might be described as accessible to a youthful audience, but none is minimalist, none is particularly neo-Romantic, and the one work that uses pop influences does so in quite a subtle way…. A superior sampler from Cedille.”

James manheim, allmusic guide

 

“The performances are all first-rate, and feature a number of Chicago-associated musicians and ensembles. . . . The recordings are very good making this another excellent example of the imaginatively programmed releases we’ve come to expect from Cedille Records producer James Ginsburg and his talented associates.”

bob mcquiston, classical lost and found