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Daniel Lippel: Adjacence - new chamber works for guitar
fcr423 (New Focus Recordings, CD, 2 discs)
FIRST RELEASE (15 November 2024)
Playing time: 128'28"
Tracks: 13 + 11
℗ 2024 New Focus Recordings
© 2024 New Focus Recordings
Main country of recording: United States of America
Reviewer: John Dante Prevedini
Review of Daniel Lippel: Adjacence - new chamber works for guitar published on 22 January 2025
Daniel Lippel, guitar, electric guitar, microtonal classical guitar, electric bass
Ryan Streber, electronics (CD1 track 1)
Nina Berman, soprano (CD1 track 2)
Roberta Michel, flute, piccolo, alto flute (CD1 tracks 2 and 6-10)
Amy Advocat, clarinet, bass clarinet (CD1 track 2)
Randall Zigler, bass (CD1 track 2)
nternational Contemporary Ensemble (CD1 track 3 and CD2 track 1)
Wendy Richman, viola (CD1 track 3)
Nathan Davis, dulcimer (CD1 track 3)
Elizabeth Weigle, soprano (CD1 track 4)
Jeffrey Irving, percussion (CD1 track 5 and CD2 track 9)
Rebekah Heller, bassoon (CD2 track 1)
Clara Warnaar, percussion (CD2 track 1)
Cory Smythe, piano (CD2 tracks 1 and 8)
Flexible Music (CD2 track 2)
Timothy Ruedeman, tenor saxophone (CD2 track 2)
Eric Huebner, piano (CD2 track 2)
Haruka Fujii, percussion (CD2 track 2)
counter)induction (CD2 tracks 3-7)
Nurit Pacht, violin (CD2 tracks 3-7)
Jessica Meyer, viola (CD2 tracks 3-7)
Karl Larson, piano (CD2 tracks 3-7)
Renate Rohlfing, piano (CD2 track 9)
Bodies Electric (CD2 track 10)
Oren Fader, electric guitar (CD2 track 10)
John Chang, electric guitar (CD2 track 10)
William Anderson, electric guitar (CD2 track 10)
CD1
Daniel Lippel (born 1976):
1 Utopian Prelude
Mario Davidovsky (1934-2019):
2 Cantione Sine Textu
Ken Ueno:
3 Ghost Flowers
Peter Gilbert (born 1975):
4 Neñia (Canción Fúnebre)
Nico Muhly (born 1981):
5 Wedge
Tonia Ko:
Moments
6 Momentum
7 Légèreté (on two cadences by Couperin)
8 Interlude
9 Crossing Paths
10 Memento
Peter Adriaansz:
Serenades II to IV (No 23)
11 Serenade II
12 Serenade III
13 Serenade IV
CD2
Tyshawn Sorey (born 1980):
1 Ode to Gust Burns
Carl Schimmel:
2 The Alphabet Turn’d Posture Master, or The Comical Hotch Potch
Sidney Marquez Boquiren:
Five Prayers of Hope
3 Beacon
4 Bridges
5 Silence Breakers
6 Sanctuary
7 Home
Tania León:
8 Ajiaco
Bernadette Speach:
9 Échange
Charles Wuorinen:
10 Electric Quartet
Peter Adriaansz/Daniel Lippel:
11 Dystopian Reprise
Guitarist Daniel Lippel’s newest release, Adjacence, is a compilation of several chamber works recorded with various ensembles and collaborators (International Contemporary Ensemble, counter)induction, Flexible Music, Bodies Electric, and various freelance colleagues) that integrate varied aesthetics into one programmatic arc. The program highlights music across the stylistic spectrum, incorporating microtonality, improvisation, timbral experimentation, and carefully managed ensemble textures to create a broad snapshot of chamber repertoire with guitar by many of the community’s prominent composers. All but two of the works (Davidovsky and León) are heard in their premiere recordings and all but two others (Speach and Ko) were written for the ensembles heard on this recording.