Eclipse: Chamber Music by Mischa Zupko
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Label: Cedille Records
Cat No: CDR90000168
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 11th November 2016
Contents
Artists
Sang Mee Lee (violin)Wendy Warner (cello)
Mischa Zupko (piano)
Works
EclipseFallen
From Twilight
Love Obsession
Nebula
Rising
Shades of Grey
Artists
Sang Mee Lee (violin)Wendy Warner (cello)
Mischa Zupko (piano)
About
Imbued with Zupko’s heartfelt humanism, Eclipse explores themes of separation, contrast, and convergence on cosmic as well as intimate levels. In the album’s centerpiece and title track, Eclipse, violin and cello approach like two celestial bodies, their distinct musical lines merging and becoming one strangely luminous entity before continuing on their trajectories across the cosmos. From Twilight and Nebula also reflect on mysteries of the distant universe. The ecstatic Rising depicts Jesus’s ascension to heaven as recounted in the Gospel of Luke. The violin creates an aural illusion of a spiraling ascent while the piano’s reverie evokes the earthbound faithful waiting for his return. The contrasting Fallen is a study in spiritual despair, based on a García Lorca poem. Shades of Grey for violin and piano (no relation to the similarly titled erotic romance novel) is an “inventive and intricate exploration” of the dynamics of personal relationships (Chicago Reader). Love Obsession for cello, piano, and six pre-recorded electronic cello tracks exudes a more visceral, single-minded passion.
Composer-in-residence at the Music Institute of Chicago, Zupko has received plaudits from The New York Times and Los Angeles Times. He’s been featured in the Chicago Reader and New Music USA’s New Music Box, which called him “a humble, energetic, and constantly searching artist.” Chicago’s New City hails him as a composer “with something to say, and the adventurous listener will be rewarded.”
His music has been championed by the Minnesota Orchestra, Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Fulcrum Point New Music Project, American Modern Ensemble, Eighth Blackbird, Corigliano Quartet, Lincoln Trio, and members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as well as members of the Kronos, Vermeer, and Pacifica Quartets. Camerata Chicago performed Zupko’s Chamber Symphony: Pilatus on its 2013 tour to the Czech Republic, France, and Italy.
In addition to Cedille Records’ Eclipse, the first recording devoted solely to Zupko’s music, his work can be heard on the Innova, Crystal, and American Modern Recordings labels.
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