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1: Drifting Music (6:17)
2: Music of Every Night (9:18)
3: Music of Steady Light: I (11:51)
4: Music of Steady Light: II (9:01)
5: Music of Steady Light: III (12:39)
6: Starfields (7:58)
7: Tender, Infinitely Tender (11:00) |
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| | Description: | Byron: Halcyon Days is an album by William Winant, released in 2023. The album is a classical CD. - W/PERCUSSION GROUPMichael Byron's "Halcyon Days" is music for marimbas, xylophones, vibraphones, glockenspiels, tubular bells, maracas, and piano. Except for the final piece (from 2016), these pieces are from a previously under-documented period of Byron's work-the mid-seventies, when he composed unique, remarkable minimalist-styled works. This album treats us to clangorous clouds of polyrhythms and simple, direct, quiet works, both of which explore rich harmonies and bespeak a sense transcendent motionlessness. Composer Michael Byron's music tends to be harmonically rich, rhythmically detailed, and virtuosic. It's often praised for it's ability to create dense constructions out of relatively limited means: His works have been performed and recorded by such notable new-music champions as Sarah Cahill, Joseph Kubera, William Winant, FLUX Quartet, Kathleen Supové, and Thomas Buckner. Cold Blue Music has released five of his previous albums, including "Bridges of Pearl and Dust." William Winant is an extremely active percussionist who SPIN magazine called "the avant-elite's go-to percussionist for more than 35 years... " Lisa Moore is one of NYC's top new-music pianists whose work the New York Times praised as "brilliant and searching... beautiful and impassioned... lustrous." Vicki Ray, whose playing has been described as "phenomenal and fearless," is Los Angeles's leading new-music pianist. Aron Kallay is one of L.A.'s top new-music pianists whose playing the Los Angeles Times has described as "exquisite... alive, worthy of our wonder." The William Winant Percussion Group is an ensemble made up of some of California's best young percussionists."Halcyon Days" is a collection of Byron?s vibrant music for mallet percussion ensembles (marimbas, vibraphones, glockenspiels, and chimes) and music for solo and four-hand piano.
Michael Byron writes: ?Poet Anne Tardos wrote that ?Time doesn?t pass. We pass.? Most of the pieces on this CD were composed in the 1970s. It seemed like everything was beginning then. Lifelong friends were made, and improbable ideas were shared; composing neither began nor ended. This CD features virtuoso percussionist, and my oldest friend, Bill Winant. Over the last 50 years he has performed and premiered every percussion piece that i?ve ever composed. These pieces, and this CD, are dedicated to him.?
Julian Cowley wrote in "The Wire" magazine: ?Percussionist William Winant is one of those vital instrumentalists whose technical knowhow and accumulated insight actively encourage composers to venture beyond the securities of convention and compromise. New York based composer Michael Byron dedicates Halcyon Days to Winant, his oldest friend, in acknowledgement of his enabling availability and enduring brilliance as a musical interpreter. Winant reciprocates by breathing fresh air into two adventurous pieces from the early 1970s, one scored for tubular bells, the other for maracas and marimbas. He then leads a tuned percussion quartet in a radiant performance of Byron?s aptly named Music of Steady Light (1978). Two sharply contrasting piano works complete the programme: Starfields (1974), a breathlessly percussive keyboard fusillade, scored for four hands, and Tender, Infinitely Tender (2016), nurtured gently into being through the hands of Lisa Moore.?
The members of the William Winant Percussion Group on this recording are William Winant, Tony Gennaro, Michael Jones, and Scott Silar. | | | Manufacturer No.: |
800413006527 |
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