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Ralph Shapey - Radical Traditionalism                   | New World Records 806812

Ralph Shapey - Radical Traditionalism

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Label: New World Records

Cat No: 806812

Barcode: 0093228068129

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Release Date: 19th November 2007

Contents

Works

Shapey
21 Variations for Piano

Shapey
String Quartet No. 6

Shapey
String Quartet No. 7

Shapey
Fromm Variations (31 Variations for Piano)

Shapey
Three for Six

Artists

Wanda Maximilien (piano)
The Lexicon Quartet
Quartet of Contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago
Robert Black (piano)
New York New Music Ensemble

Works

Shapey
21 Variations for Piano

Shapey
String Quartet No. 6

Shapey
String Quartet No. 7

Shapey
Fromm Variations (31 Variations for Piano)

Shapey
Three for Six

Artists

Wanda Maximilien (piano)
The Lexicon Quartet
Quartet of Contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago
Robert Black (piano)
New York New Music Ensemble

About

“Radical traditionalist” is what I’ve been called. My music combines two fundamentally contradictory impulses—radical language and romantic sensibility. The melodies are disjunct and dissonant; they contain atonal harmonies and extremes in register, dynamics and textural contrast. Yet the musical structures are grandly formed and run the gamut of dramatic gestures. Like the Romantics, I conceive of art in a deeply spiritual way. A great work of art transcends the immediate moment into a world of infinity. - Ralph Shapey (1921–2002)

This collection - drawn from the original CRI LPs
- provides a glimpse into a critical point in Ralph Shapey’s artistic development and comprises several of his most important compositions. It covers a period from 1963 to 1979, when he moved from an astringent, visionary modernism, to a version of the same that was tempered by a more “classical” character.

This is a major restoration to the discography of contemporary American music of the work of one of its most uncompromising and largely misunderstood figures.

Artists:
21 Variations for Piano - Wanda Maximilien
String Quartet No. 6 - The Lexicon Quartet
String Quartet No. 7 - Quartet of Contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago
Fromm Variations (31 Variations for Piano) - Robert Black
Three for Six - New York New Music Ensemble

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