Richard Reed Parry: Music for Heart and Breath

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Richard Reed Parry: Music for Heart and Breath

Nico Muhly, Nadia Sirota, Caroline Shaw, Hideaki Aomori, Caleb Burhans, Shawn Conley, Amelia Lukas, Clarice Jensen, Yuki Numata, Courtney Orlando, Annaliesa Place, Arthur Sato, Brian Snow, Richard Reed Parry, Bryce Dessner, Aaron Dessner

Ymusic, Kronos Quartet

Parry's Minimalist-influenced chamber music is 'conducted' by the performers' heart-beats and respiratory rhythms. Simple yet fascinating pieces for duet to 14-piece ensemble. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 9th Jun 2014
Catalogue No: 4793061
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 65 minutes

Parry, R: Quartet For Heart And Breath

Work length6:45

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YMusic
Recorded: 2012-11
Recording Venue: Dreamland, Woodstock

Parry, R: Heart And Breath Sextet

Work length15:00

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Nico Muhly (piano)
YMusic
Recorded: 2012-11
Recording Venue: Dreamland, Woodstock

Parry, R: For heart, breath and orchestra

Work length12:22

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Nico Muhly (piano), Yuki Numata (violin), Richard Reed Parry (double bass), Brian Snow (cello), Nadia Sirota (viola), Annaliesa Place (violin), Courtney Orlando (violin), Arthur Sato (oboe), Clarice Jensen (cello), Amelia Lukas (flute), Shawn Conley (double bass), Caleb Burhans (viola), Hideaki Aomori (clarinet), Caroline Shaw (violin)
Recorded: 2012-11
Recording Venue: Dreamland, Woodstock

Parry, R: Interruptions (Heart And Breath Nonet)

Work length20:08

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Bryce Dessner (guitar), Aaron Dessner (guitar), Richard Reed Parry (double bass)
YMusic
Recorded: 2012-11
Recording Venue: Dreamland, Woodstock

I Miniature 1

Track length1:23

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II String Peaks

Track length2:13

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III Wind's Idea

Track length3:30

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IV Miniature 2

Track length1:39

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V Sticks / Tension

Track length4:16

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VI French Guitars

Track length3:24

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VII Freeform Winds / String Drones

Track length3:43

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Parry, R: Duet For Heart And Breath

Work length4:28

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Nadia Sirota (viola), Richard Reed Parry (piano)
Recorded: 2012-11
Recording Venue: Dreamland, Woodstock

Parry, R: Quartet For Heart And Breath

Work length6:48

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Kronos Quartet (string quartet)
Recorded: 2012-08

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Music for Heart and Breath is Richard Reed Parry´s debut as classical composer who is mostly known from the Grammy Nominated Uber Indie Rock Band Arcade Fire.

Richard is a multi-instrumentalist and composer, drawing his influences from classical music, folk and electronica. This is his first core classical release that will find his home at Deutsche Grammophon!

The album features various compositions for Heart and Breath for various ensembles, as well as small interludes (Interruptions).

The concept behind Heart and Breath is that every musician involved in the piece generates his own tempo by listening to his/her pulse during the performance. Fragile and intimate, these stunningly created performance effects are the basis for this conceptual compositional approach

Richard explains:

“Music for Heart and Breath is a series of compositions that use involuntarily moving organs of the human body (specifically the lungs and the heart) as performance parameters. There are no time signatures: the tempos and rhythms are always governed by either the heart rates or the breathing rates of the individual players. In the case of the latter, the performers are instructed to play directly in sync with their own or another player’s individual breathing (playing at the speed of their inhalations, their exhalations or both). To enable the players to hear and play in sync with their own heartbeats, they wear stethoscopes and, naturally, generally play quietly.”

The music is performed by an exciting line-up of musicians, produced by Bryce Dessner Nico Muhly (Conductor, celeste/piano), Bryce & Aaron Dessner (guitar) from The National, Kronos Quartet, the ensemble Ymusic

Reviews

August 2014

Parry's Minimalist-influenced chamber music is 'conducted' by the performers' heart-beats and respiratory rhythms. Simple yet fascinating pieces for duet to 14-piece ensemble.

August 2014

These performances...are formidably attuned to Parry's requirements...Clearly and spaciously recorded, it offers a listening experience that is riveting or dismaying but assuredly never dull.

Richard Reed Parry: Music for Heart and Breath

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