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Gandolfi - The Garden of Cosmic Speculation

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Label: Telarc

Cat No: CD80696

Barcode: 0089408069628

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 28th April 2008

Works

Gandolfi, Michael

The Garden of Cosmic Speculation

Artists

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Robert Spano

Works

Gandolfi, Michael

The Garden of Cosmic Speculation

Artists

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Robert Spano

About

World premiere recording of Michael Gandolfi’s expanded version of The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, an hour-long work inspired by architect Charles Jencks’ mystical garden in Scotland and Jencks’ book of the same name.

Musical America’s 2008 Conductor of the Year, Robert Spano has long been at the forefront of championing new music in the States and in 2004 he conducted the premiere of Michael Gandolfi’s four-movement orchestral suite entitled Impressions from The Garden of Cosmic Speculation at the Tanglewood Music Festival. The suite was so successful at its Atlanta Symphony performances that the orchestra commissioned Gandolfi to expand it into a longer work: seven more movements were added in 2006-2007 and the piece was renamed The Garden of Cosmic Speculation.

The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is an actual 30 acre garden located in the Borders area of Scotland. The creation of architect and critic Charles Jencks and his late wife, Maggie Keswick, the garden was a 15-year project which was inspired by fractals, genetics, chaos theory, waves and solitons. Jenck’s garden and resulting book captured the imagination of Michael Gandolfi, an American composer whose earliest musical experiences were in rock and jazz improvisation, which he explored as a self-taught guitarist.

Later he became interested in music composition and pursued formal studies and is now faculty member of the New England Conservatory and the Tanglewood Music Centre. “I have long been interested in modern physics,” Gandolfi commented “and it seemed proper for music to participate in this magnificent joining of physics and architecture. I discovered The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, and after a month or so of sketching musical ideas, I decided to focus on several aspects of the garden to which I had the strongest musical response."

Track Listing:
Part 1
1. The Zeroroom
2. Soliton Waves
3. The Snail and the Poetics of Going Slow
4. Symmetry Break Terrace / Black Hole Terrace
5. The Willowtwist

Part 2
6. The Universe Cascade
The Garden of the Senses Suite:
7. Allemande (audition)
8. Courante (olfaction)
9. Sarabande (gustation)
10. Passepied (palpation)
11. Gigue (vision)
12. Chorale (the sixth sense: intuition)

Part 3
13. Fractal Terrace
14. The Jumping Bridge
15. The Quark Walk
16. The Nonsense