Peter Garland - Waves Breaking on Rocks, Roque Dalton Songs
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Label: New World Records
Cat No: NW80716
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 16th January 2012
Contents
Artists
Aki Takahashi (piano)Ari Streisfeld (violin)
John Duykers (tenor)
Santa Fe New Music
Conductor
John KennedyWorks
The Roque Dalton SongsWaves Breaking on Rocks
Artists
Aki Takahashi (piano)Ari Streisfeld (violin)
John Duykers (tenor)
Santa Fe New Music
Conductor
John KennedyAbout
Waves Breaking on Rocks (Elegy for All of Us) (2003) is a suite of elegies that was composed for and commissioned by Aki Takahashi, Garland’s long-time friend and collaborator. The work’s six movements are composed for lost friends or are personal responses to the cycles of life and the recurrence of the seasons. Together, they form a structure for the whole that elegizes both our togetherness and our impermanence. Garland’s musical approach to the piano emphasizes resonance, space, and color. The piano is a sculptural whole in this music, in which phrases, melodies, and songs seem to be carved from the keyboard rather than imprinted from without.
Roque Dalton (1935–75) was a Salvadoran poet, activist and guerrilla, who was executed in El Salvador’s civil war after numerous close calls throughout his short life. Garland captures the political, historical, and romantic aspects of Dalton in his choice of five of Dalton’s poems to comprise the The Roque Dalton Songs (1988). Garland uses an unusual but remarkably effective orchestration in these settings for tenor, building the ensemble from the “bottom up” with four percussionists, emphasizing dance-like rhythms throughout which inform the basis of melody. Piano and harp next anchor the ensemble in often translating the rhythms into repeated melodic patterns and ostinati, while bass clarinet, trumpet, and two violins round out the colour of a sound that is not classical, but exemplifies Garland’s pan-cultural “new indigenous music.”
In both of the works on this recording, Peter Garland has paid loving homage to the dedication and creative vision of others, lending faith where futility lurks. His music parts away the noise of the world to speak of commitment, humanity and love.
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