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TOWER: Chamber and Solo Music - Tokyo Quartet, Chee-Yun; Chen, Melvin; Emelianoff, André; Neubauer, Paul; Oppens, Ursula; Tower, Joan; Woodhams, Richard

TOWER: Chamber and Solo Music - Tokyo Quartet, Chee-Yun; Chen, Melvin; Emelianoff, André; Neubauer, Paul; Oppens, Ursula; Tower, Joan; Woodhams, Richard

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Joan Tower’s bold and energetic music, with its striking imagery and novel structural forms, has won her large, enthusiastic audiences. She is a performing musician and writes for other instrumentalists with great sensitivity and understanding, as demonstrated by the works on this disc. The string quartet In Memory is a piece about death and grief, inspired by the loss of a close friend, and the victims of the 11th September terrorist attacks. Big Sky is a rapt and intimate portrait of an American landscape, while Wild Purple is a virtuosic piece for viola that highlights the often neglected “wild side” of the instrument. The four piano pieces, each with a title taken from John Ashbery’s poem No Longer Very Clear, are variously calm and hugely kinetic, but always surprising. The disc ends with Island Prelude, a sensuous piece with a tropical island setting.

Tower, Joan
 In Memory
1 In Memory 14:56
 Big Sky
2 Big Sky 07:11
 Wild Purple
3 Wild Purple 07:18
 No Longer Very Clear
4 I. Holding A Daisy 03:43
5 II. Or Like a...an Engine 03:13
6 III. Vast Antique Cubes 02:58
7 IV. Throbbing Still 07:38
 Island Prelude
8 Island Prelude 11:17
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