The Munich-based American composer Gloria Coates is best known as a symphonist, though she has also composed nine string quartets as well as vocal and chamber music. Her String Quartet No. 9 opens with unworldly sonorities, glissandos, micro-tonalities and other unusual colours which develop by means of a mirror canon. In contrast, the Sonata for Violin Solo sets immense technical demands, particularly in its use of multiple stops beneath the lyrical fragments. Taking its subtitles from phrases within Emily Dickinson poems, her Lyric Suite for Piano Trio is a captivating mix of melodic gestures and spectral harmonies.
Coates, Gloria
 String Quartet No. 9
1 I. Fluendo espressivo 16:32
2 II. Moderato 09:13
 Violin Solo Sonata
3 I. Prelude 02:16
4 II. Fantasia 03:58
5 III. Berceuse 02:20
6 IV. Hornpipe 04:34
 Lyric Suite, "Split the Lark - and you'll find the Music"
7 I. Bells in Steeples 02:07
8 II. An Amethyst Remembrance 02:50
9 III. Split the Lark - and you'll find the Music 03:46
