Caroline Shaw: The Wheel

Cellist Pauline Buet and viola player Léa Hennino find beauty in the collision between hard and soft articulation... I Giardini revels in the abrasive melodies, which bear the hallmarks of Shaw’s... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Dec 2022
Catalogue No: ALPHA881
Label: Alpha
Length: 55 minutes

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For the American composer Caroline Shaw, writing music is like ‘cooking someone you love a meal’, she told BBC Music Magazine. The youngest-ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, Shaw has premiered works at Carnegie Hall and the BBC Proms. She has even toured the US with Kanye West and appeared in the hit HBO series Mozart in the Jungle . . . Good food and music ‘should be nourishing and complex; they should be something that you can taste easily in the beginning before you find there’s much more underneath’. As the journalist Kate Wakeling points out: ‘This sounds much like Shaw’s own music. Her work combines immediate, sensuous appeal with taut structural rigour.’ This album is the outcome of a meeting between the composer and David Violi, Pauline Buet and their partners from I Giardini. It presents a monograph of chamber music, including a world premiere recording, The Wheel, a dialogue between the voice of the cello and the piano.

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Christmas Issue 2022

Cellist Pauline Buet and viola player Léa Hennino find beauty in the collision between hard and soft articulation... I Giardini revels in the abrasive melodies, which bear the hallmarks of Shaw’s writing for strings (as heard on Attacca Quartet’s albums) and include lots of crunchy harmonies.

February 2023

As with many Shaw compositions, the musical result can be disconcerting and at the same time strangely alluring.

21st January 2023

Shaw (b.1982) has a gift for sensuous, delicate music in which a sturdy sense of form, often based on nature or architecture, is ever evident. She blends rough with smooth in a manner that manages to be challenging but enticing...The title work, The Wheel, for piano and cello, was commissioned by I Giardini. Guided by musical contours of the baroque, it turns beguilingly towards contemplation and demands attentive listening.

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