Here San Francisco's Del Sol Quartet (a curious name for an ensemble from that fog-bound city) sets itself an ambitious goal: the definition of musical commonalities in contemporary works from around the Pacific "Ring of Fire," the seismically active countries of the Pacific Rim. The program that results holds lessons for other chamber groups, and the performances are all accurate and sympathetic, even in the notoriously difficult Epicycle of New Zealand composer Jack Body. The group's biggest step is to go beyond the usual ...
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Here San Francisco's Del Sol Quartet (a curious name for an ensemble from that fog-bound city) sets itself an ambitious goal: the definition of musical commonalities in contemporary works from around the Pacific "Ring of Fire," the seismically active countries of the Pacific Rim. The program that results holds lessons for other chamber groups, and the performances are all accurate and sympathetic, even in the notoriously difficult Epicycle of New Zealand composer Jack Body. The group's biggest step is to go beyond the usual influences from Indonesian and Chinese sources to suggest a wider set of parameters. These include not only cyclical structures, evident in broadly minimalist works from both sides of the Pacific (and John Adams, despite his New England roots, has certainly engaged himself enough with Pacific themes to qualify), but also folk song roots, evident not only in several Asian works but in Gabriela Lena Frank's Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout, presented, as are several other works here, in...
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Chinary Ung; Del Sol String Quartet; Gabriela Lena Frank; Hyo-Shin Na; Jack Body; John Adams; Kui Dong; Peter Sculthorpe;... Very Good. Used-Very Good Condition. Case and disc(s) is in great condition with no significant scratches or marks. Includes original artwork and liner notes when applicable.
