Brian Current: Faster Still

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Release Date: 16th Jun 2017
Catalogue No: CMCCD24217
Label: Centrediscs
Length: 68 minutes

Current: Inventory

Work length9:33

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$2.60

Patricia O'Callaghan
Soundstreams
Brian Current

Current: Faster Still

Work length17:04

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Duo Concertante, Blue Engine String Quartet
Brian Current

Current: Strata

Work length14:49

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$3.85

Continuum Contemporary Music
Brian Current

Current: Duet for Cellos

Work length4:17

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Current: Shout, Sisyphus, Flock

Work length12:09

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$3.90

New Music Concerts
Brian Current

I. Shout

Track length4:06

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$1.30

II. Sisyphus

Track length2:59

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III. Flock

Track length5:04

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$1.30

Current: Quintet, Op. 5 "Circus Songs"

Work length10:14

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$3.85

Continuum Contemporary Music
Rosemary Thomson

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Faster Still takes its name from the album’s second piece, in which the tempo accelerates and slows nearly constantly, turning time into a pliable plaything. Composer Brian Current finds, curiously, that the more continuous the acceleration, the calmer things become – fast and still, once opposites, can exist simultaneously. In Current’s first album of chamber works, time and texture are explored and transformed in ensembles ranging from two cellos (duet for cellos) to a small chamber orchestra with singer (Inventory). Featuring soloists Patricia O’Callaghan, Duo Concertante, the Blue Engine String Quartet, and the VC2 cello duo, Faster Still displays the breadth and depth of Brian Current’s dynamic writing for small ensembles. Brian Current is the recipient of numerous awards, among them a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Barlow Prize for Orchestra Music, the Italian Premio Fedora for his chamber opera Airline Icarus, and the Azrieli Commissioning Prize. His works have been programmed by all major symphony orchestras in Canada and by dozens of professional orchestras, ensembles, and opera companies world-wide. Brian Current is active as a conductor, leading the Toronto-based Continuum ensemble, and regularly conducts programs of contemporary music as performed by top professional ensembles. He is on the faculty of The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory where he conducts the graduate-level Contemporary Music Ensemble and teaches contemporary music performance.

Brian Current: Faster Still

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