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Eden Lonsdale: Dawnings
by John Eyles
British/German composer Eden Lonsdale was born in 1996. When he was nine, he started making music with his cousin of the same age. When he was 12, he started enjoying playing the cello which he had been learning since he was 9. From then on, he spent weekends listening to Bach while following along with the score. Soon after that, he started composing a lot. It was not long until Lonsdale was studying composition at the Guildhall School of Music ...
Continue ReadingPaul Newland: Things That Happen Again
by John Eyles
Born in 1966, British composer and musician Paul Newland studied composition at the Royal Northern College of Music, at the Royal Academy of Music, in London, and at Royal Holloway, University of London, receiving his doctorate in 2006. He has taught composition at Guildhall School of Music since 2006 and is currently a Professor of Composition there and is also a Professor at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Greenwich. Despite such an illustrious academic career, Newland ...
Continue ReadingMarco Baldini: Maniera
by John Eyles
When Marco Baldini's first ever album, Vesperi (reviewed here), was released by Another Timbre in 2023, its arrival was not exactly awaited with bated breath. Born in 1986, near Florence, Italy, Baldini had no degree in music or composition and had not studied with an established composer. He had attended university, where he studied Roman archaeology, specialising in the iconography of early Christian sarcophagi. He worked as a public librarian in a village in the hills surrounding Florence. His only ...
Continue ReadingMarco Baldini: Maniera
by Marat Ingeldeev
It was February 2023 when the world got to know the Florence-based composer Marco Baldini a little better, thanks to Another Timbre and their first feature of Baldini's music, an inaugural album, Vesperi. His second offering, Maniera, captivatingly performed by Apartment House, comprises a collection of seven pieces for various combinations of string instruments. Interestingly, the name alludes to both Italian Mannerism of the 16th century--one of Baldini's favourite styles in fine arts, critiqued for its perceived lack of originality--and ...
Continue ReadingJürg Frey: String Trio
by John Eyles
2023 was always going to be a landmark year for the esteemed Swiss clarinetist and composer Jürg Frey. His 70th birthday was in May and, to celebrate it, the renowned Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival allocated three slots to Frey's music on the festival's second Saturday. In addition, String Trio became the third Frei album released in 2023, following in the footsteps of Continuité, fragilité, resonance (Elsewhere), recorded in August 2022 by a string quartet plus four saxophones, and Circular Music ...
Continue ReadingMorton Feldman: Violin and String Quartet
by John Eyles
With a running time of just over two hours, Morton Feldman's 1985 composition “Violin and String Quartet" is one of his longer ones, even though it falls far short of such pieces as 1984's “For Philip Guston" at four hours or 1983's “String Quartet (II)" at over six hours without a break. Their durations have made it difficult to neatly fit such compositions onto CDs; the Ives Ensemble's 4-CD recording of String Quartet (II) (hat[now] ART, 2003) bore the message, ...
Continue ReadingApartment House: Morton Feldman Violin and String Quartet
by Marat Ingeldeev
In the late 1970s, American composer Morton Feldman began writing exceptionally lengthy compositions. Not only did these works push the boundaries of traditional concert duration, but more importantly, they explored how the composer could tackle the subject of sheer scale itself. Speaking about this challenge, Feldman said: “Up to one hour you think about form, but after an hour and a half it's scale. Form is easy: just the division of things into parts. But scale is another matter." At ...
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