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Louis Karchin: Matrix

Lucy Shelton (soprano), Stephen Gosling (piano), Patricia Spencer (flute), Marilyn Nonken (piano), Taimur Sullivan (alto saxophone), Tom Kolor (percussion), Matt Ward (percussion), Matthew Gold (percussion), Eduardo Leandro (percussion), James Shelton (soprano), Matthew Ward (percussion)

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Louis Karchin and the listener are blessed with precise, vibrant performances by fully committed, excellent players dedicated to new music — American Record Guide

Release Date: 1st Jan 2000
Catalogue No: TROY895
Label: Albany
Length: 69 minutes

Karchin: Roethke Songs

Work length6:09

$3.00

$4.20

Lucy Shelton (soloist), Stephen Gosling
Paul Hostetter

Renewal

Track length1:58

$1.00

$1.40

A Light Breather

Track length1:31

$1.00

$1.40

Her Time

Track length2:40

$1.00

$1.40

Karchin: Fanfare / Pavanne for Solo Flute

Work length6:01

$2.00

$2.80

Lucy Shelton, Patricia Spencer (soloist)
Paul Hostetter

Fanfare

Track length2:40

$1.00

$1.40

Pavanne

Track length3:21

$1.00

$1.40

Karchin: Fanfare for Marty

Work length1:46

$1.00

$1.40

Lucy Shelton, Marilyn Nonken (soloist)
Paul Hostetter

Karchin: Voyages

Work length17:53

Album only

Lucy Shelton, Tamur Sullivan (soloist)
Paul Hostetter

Karchin: Quartet for Percussion

Work length29:07

Album only

Lucy Shelton (soloist), Eduardo Leandro, Tom Kolor, Matthew Ward, Patricia Spencer (soloist)
Paul Hostetter

Karchin: Plaint

Work length3:18

$1.00

$1.40

Lucy Shelton (soloist), Stephen Gosling
Paul Hostetter

Karchin: Matrix and Dream

Work length5:07

$1.00

$1.40

Lucy Shelton (soloist), Stephen Gosling
Paul Hostetter

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Described by the New Yorker's Andrew Porter as a composer of "fearless eloquence," Louis Karchin has received performances of his music worldwide, by groups ranging from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Louisville Orchestra, to South Korea's Veritas Musicae and the Delta Ensemble of Amsterdam, Holland. Born in Philadelphia, he went on to advanced studies at the Eastman School and Harvard University, where his teachers included Samuel Adler, Joseph Schwantner, Earl Kim, Fred Lerdahl and Leon Kirchner. As Hayes Biggs writes in his notes to this CD, "Although this disc takes its name from its final selection, Matrix and Dream, the title Matrix is apropos in more than one sense. One of the word's definitions is that of a medium or situation out of which some other entity originates, or in which such an entity is embedded. Louis Karchin's highly personal, supple and elegant musical language, evolved over the course of a distinguished career as composer and performer, is by that definition the matrix within which this music is able to take form, substance and nourishment, and consequently to take flight...many of Karchin's compositional preoccupations, with regard to both genre and gesture, are represented on this recording...all of the new worlds that you can discover on this disc - from the smallest to the largest - emanate from and are contained within Louis Karchin's matrix; they will amply repay return voyages."

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Paul Hostetter

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Louis Karchin and the listener are blessed with precise, vibrant performances by fully committed, excellent players dedicated to new music

Louis Karchin: Matrix

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