Here, the harpsichord plays rambling, circular figures, busy music that basically goes nowhere. Weinberg continues to play with this phone-ringing motif on and off throughout the movement. Projecting deep feeling into the sounds you discover will bring them to life. By playing and practicing inside the Matrices and Cosmograms a musician will develop dexterity on any instrument in ways that are different from practicing scales and arpeggios.
- The cello plays undulating, ambient figures to suggest a whale, then high held notes on the edge of its strings.
- Scabeni’s ‘Swank and Hatter’ seduces the listener with the metallic textures present throughout the piece.
- Five athletic musicians perform with 145 mobile invented instruments — all hand-made by group leader and composer, Gregory Kozak.
- Gražinytė-Tyla’s performance, along with flautist Marie-Christine Zupancic, is appropriately upbeat.
His assignment of particular qualities to a given mode is reminiscent of Plato and Confucius. In every historical period …