Martin ARNOLD
“The Spit Veleta”
14,00€
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The second CD in the Canadian Composers Series contains three recent works by the Toronto-based composer Martin Arnold, played by Mira Benjamin (violin) and Philip Thomas (piano). Three linked pieces by the maverick Toronto-based composer who says that his music aspires to sound like “slow-motion dance music recorded underwater in a methadone clinic”. Solos for piano and violin, plus a duo for both instruments, played by Mira Benjamin and Philip Thomas. In his introductory essay to the booklet accompanying the Canadian Composers CDs, Nick Storring quotes a comment that Arnold made about one of his earlier works, highlighting a quality which Storring feels applies to a large part of Arnold’s compositional output: “The piece is not intended to be demonstrative but rather placidly elusive; it is not meant to sound recognizably innovative but rather disorientingly (but quietly and good-naturedly) perverse.”
“Points & Walzes” (2012) performed by Philip Thomas, piano. “Slip Minuet” (2014) performed by Mira Benjamin, violin. “The Spit Veleta” (2015) performed by Mira Benjamin, violin and Philip Thomas, piano.
Deuxième CD de cette série consacrée à des compositeurs canadiens.
“Points & Walzes” (2012) interprété par Philip Thomas, piano.
“Slip Minuet” (2014) interprété par Mira Benjamin, violon.
“The Spit Veleta” (2015) interprété par Mira Benjamin, violon et Philip Thomas, piano. Trois pièces qui se répondent avec l’idée sous-jacente de créer “une musique de danse au ralenti enregistrée sous l’eau dans une clinique de méthadone”.
Mélodique, lent et insaisissable !
