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Robert Carl: The Geography of Loss

Christopher Ladd, Pauline Kim, Catie Longhi, Leigh Stuart, Brian Coughlin, Ian Rosenbaum, Benjamin Fingland, Terry Keevil, Caroline Sonett, Vince B. Vincent, Jolle Greenleaf

KHORIKOS, Hartt Symphony Orchestra, Jesse Mark Peckham, Matthew Aubin, Christopher Zimmerman

Release Date: 30th Sep 2016
Catalogue No: NW80780
Label: New World
Length: 73 minutes

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Carl: Symphony No. 4 'The Ladder'

Work length21:37

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KHORIKOS, Hartt Symphony Orchestra
Christopher Zimmerman

Carl: Chamber Concerto for Guitar and 10 Instruments - 'The Calm Bee in the Busy Hive'

Work length16:13

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Christopher Ladd
KHORIKOS, Hartt Symphony Orchestra
Matthew Aubin

I. Building the Hive

Track length7:59

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II. Songs, Dances, and Laments of the Hive

Track length8:14

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Carl: The World Turned Upside Down

Work length9:42

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KHORIKOS, Hartt Symphony Orchestra
Christopher Zimmerman

Carl: The Geography of Loss

Work length25:48

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Pauline Kim, Catie Longhi, Leigh Stuart, Ian Rosenbaum, Benjamin Fingland, Terry Keevil, Caroline Sonett, Vince B. Vincent, Jolle Greenleaf
KHORIKOS, Hartt Symphony Orchestra
Jesse Mark Peckham

Anxiety Overture

Track length1:48

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Chorale 1

Track length1:32

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Portrait 1 - Chorale 2a - Portrait 2 - Chorale 2b

Track length3:53

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Fear No

Track length5:27

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Last Words

Track length3:51

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Chorale 3

Track length1:35

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Double Portrait

Track length1:40

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Going Solo

Track length6:02

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There is a still centre in his music, even at its modernist rowdiest. In his music dissonance and rhythmic complexity do not connote anxiety, fear, violence, but rather the overflow of the exuberant noise that springs up from the ground of life. His music embraces extremes of simplicity and complexity, which in his vision interpenetrate each other.

Symphony No. 4 (2008), one of his best and most ambitious works, is a score often dense with polyrhythms and dissonant counterpoint. Its subtitle is "The Ladder,"and the ladder in this case is the harmonic series, the series of overtones that arises naturally as you move your finger along a piano or guitar string while playing it.

Two pieces on this disc were born from the sense of loss following the deaths of both of Carl's parents, in quick succession. The less obvious one is the Chamber Concerto for Guitar, subtitled "The Calm Bee in the Busy Hive" (2009-10). The other is The Geography of Loss (2010), whose form is an alternation of choral and instrumental movements with the chorus and instruments together in two movements and a baritone solo and soprano solo, respectively, in each of those movements.

Written considerably earlier than the other works on this disc, The World Turned Upside Down (2000) is somewhat in a different idiom, but Carl considers it a turning point in his output, and its coda the initiation of the harmonic-series practice.

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