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The Essential Martin Bresnick

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Label: Cantaloupe

Cat No: CA21041

Barcode: 0713746304126

Format: CD + DVD

Number of Discs: 2

Release Date: 8th August 2007

Works

Bresnick, Martin

For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise
String Quartet no.2 'Bucephalus'
The Bucket Rider, Be Just
Trio for Piano, Violin, and Violoncello

Artists

Flux String Quartet
Jupiter Trio
Bang on a Can
Lisa Moore (piano)
Puppetsweat Theater

Works

Bresnick, Martin

For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise
String Quartet no.2 'Bucephalus'
The Bucket Rider, Be Just
Trio for Piano, Violin, and Violoncello

Artists

Flux String Quartet
Jupiter Trio
Bang on a Can
Lisa Moore (piano)
Puppetsweat Theater

About

Martin Bresnick, professor of composition at the Yale School of Music, is well known as one of the major teachers of composition in the United States, but his music, which is concentrated, elegant, rigorous and quietly apollonian, is not as widely known as it should be.

Martin Bresnick has been a leading figure in the education of an entire generation of American musicians, having served as spiritual advisor to many innovative and active composers, including Michael Torke, Evan Ziporyn and Bang on a Can's Artistic Directors Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe.

- String Quartet #2 'Bucephalus': Flux String Quartet
- Trio for Piano, Violin, and Violoncello: Jupiter Trio
- The Bucket Rider, Be Just: Bang on a Can

DVD: For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise

Performed by Bresnick’s wife, All-Star pianist Lisa Moore, who is accompanied by animation by Puppetsweat Theater. This remarkable video project, for pianist with projections of intensely bright and deeply affecting drawings by the English poet William Blake, includes a video essay on the work with the legendary Yale professor and best-selling author Harold Bloom, who calls Moore's performance "inspired, precise, subtly modulated and eloquent."

“For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise was a tour de force for Ms. Moore, the pianist for whom it was written. As she played music of unnervingly repetitive chords, staggered rhythms and delicate filigrees, Ms. Moore also spoke and sometimes sang lines from the poet William Blake about a man’s progress through life. The music precisely accompanied powerfully simple computer animations of Blake’s drawings prepared by Puppetsweat Theater” New York Times

“Though he was a student of Ligeti and teacher to a whole roster of compelling musical minds, Bresnick’s own work has flown largely under the radar. This release provides a neat catch-up package, dangled on the hook of the composer’s 60th birthday. In a raw, tearing performance by the Flux String Quartet, Bresnick’s String Quartet No. 2,
“Bucephalus,” exemplifies the power formal craftsmanship can have to ensnare the ear and make a visceral emotional connection. That impression is echoed, if more abstractly, in the Jupiter Trio’s reading of his Trio for piano, violin and cello, particularly in the relentless chords of the final movement. Taken together, these provide a satisfying if exhausting listening experience, one that raises the question of why Bresnick has not garnered greater attention.” Time Out New York