Tracklist:

01. Quintet :L'homme armé: (Live)
02. A Book of Etudes, Quire 4: No. 1, Stretto perpetuo
03. Piano Quartet No. 2
04. Sails Knife-Bright in a Seasonal Wind
05. A Book of Etudes, Quire 9: No. 3, The Hunt by Night

Composer Douglas Boyce releases his second recording of chamber music that draws inspiration from many sources - early music forms and techniques modernized for the present, dynamic chamber music interaction, and rich interpretations of poetry, painting, and philosophy. Boyce uses all these to create a multilayered tapestry of sound and ideas. This collection includes performances by counter)induction (the ensemble he co-founded), as well as Trio Cavatina, Beth Guterman Chu, Ieva Jokubaviciute and Schuyler Slack.

Douglas Boyce's Quintet l'homme armé is created from a 15th c. melody of the same name. The piece is roughly in 2 halves. The first opens full of a bright edginess, streaming freely from a manic clarinet, all shrieks and flourishes. The second explores a quieter side of the instruments - introspective, transparent. The clarinet's shrieks turn to moans. It is not that the intensity has bled out, it is still palpable. We now hear only its trace, a shimmering filament held taut.

Stretto Perpetuo is part of Boyce's large scale Book of Etudes project. Boyce works closely in collaboration with eeer Ryan Streber, and it shows. The precision and clarity of the recording spotlights the full timbral mastery of cellist Schuyler Slack: a heavy bow that is caustic, almost severe; a throaty and muscular pizzicato, a wonderfully bitey articulation that sounds like a bad scraped knee feels. Boyce balances the sharp edges with starry, gentle chord sequences for the piano. Pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute's wide panorama of tone - pastel, rounded tones for the highly-voiced chords, and steely hardness for the midrange punches - enlarges the piece such that it sounds like more than a duo. But the insistent ostinato returns, with its sleight-of-hand syncopations. Even a gossamer coda is infiltrated by that ostinato, segly trying to start something, only to spirit off into the distance.
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VA - The Hunt by Night: Chamber Works by Douglas Boyce (2021) FLAC - 252.4 MB



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