Tapestry: Chamber Music by Elliott Schwartz

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Release Date: 8th Apr 2013
Catalogue No: MSV28537
Label: Metier
Length: 71 minutes

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Schwartz, Elliott: String Quartet No. 2 - For Louise and Aaron

Work length21:02

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Kreutzer Quartet

Schwartz, Elliott: Memorial in 2 Parts

Work length18:36

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Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin), Aaron Shorr (piano)

Track length8:38

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II.

Track length9:58

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Schwartz, Elliott: Tapestry

Work length13:47

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Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin), Nicole Johnson (cello), Aaron Shorr (piano)

Schwartz, Elliott: Water Music

Work length18:21

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Longbow

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Elliott Schwartz (born 1936, New York City) studied composition Columbia University. He is co-editor of the anthology Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music, co-author of Music Since 1945, and the author of Electronic Music: A Listener's Guide; The Symphonies of Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Music: Ways of Listening. He has also written essays and reviews for Perspectives of New Music, The Musical Quarterly, Musical America, Music and Musicians (England), Nordic Sounds (Denmark) and other publications. An archival collection of his papers, sketches and other materials was created at the Library of Congress in 2006.

Schwartz’s style is marked by a fondness for unsynchronized layers of activity (the musical equivalent of double exposure), highly dramatic – even theatrical – gestures, and brilliant instrumental colours. His juxtaposition of tonal passages and angular, modernist ones may create a sense of time warp, compounded by his penchant for quoting fragments of preexisting music. Many of his pieces are conceived as personal responses – to visual art, to preexisting works of music, to personal and historical events. The relatively abstract manipulation and presentation of materials may belie this connection to autobiographical “reality,” but it is present nonetheless.

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