Ned Rorem - Contrasts Quartet

Ned Rorem - Contrasts Quartet

PHCD163 (Phoenix USA, CD)

DDD
FIRST RELEASE
Tracks: 21
Booklet pages: 8
© 2005 Phoenix USA
Country of manufacture: United States of America
Sent to a reviewer on 21 October 2020


Listen: Ned Rorem: Closing Pages (Nine Episodes for Four Players) (track 9, 2:33-3:17)

Contrasts Quartet:
Ayako Oshima, clarinet
Monica Bauchwitz, violin
Ariane Lallemand, cello
Evelyne Luest, piano

Ned Rorem:

Nine Episodes for Four Players (first recording)
1 Hide and Seek
2 One Answer to Four Questions
3 1+1=3
4 99 Notes to the Millennium
5 Waiting to Get Well
6 A Quick Berceuse
7 Another Conversation
8 Waltz, Prayer, Crash
9 Closing Pages

Dances (1983) for cello and piano (first recording)
10 Prelude
11 Valse Rappelée
12 Adagio
13 Pas de Deux
14 The Mirror Toccata
15 Scherzo
16 The Return

Spring Music (1990) for violin, cello and piano
17 Aubade
18 Toccata
19 Fantasia
20 Bagatelle
21 Presto

Recorded in July 2004