Gloria Coates - String Quartets Nos. 1-8 / 2 CD (2002, 2003)
Gloria Coates - String Quartets Nos. 1-8 / 2 CD (2002, 2003)
Contemporary Classical | NAXOS | 2002, 2003 | 59.02, 64:37 | EAC (FLAC, cue, log) | Booklets | RS | 238 + 306 MB
Kreutzer Quartet • Michael Finnissy, conductor • Philip Adams, organ
Contemporary Classical | NAXOS | 2002, 2003 | 59.02, 64:37 | EAC (FLAC, cue, log) | Booklets | RS | 238 + 306 MB
Kreutzer Quartet • Michael Finnissy, conductor • Philip Adams, organ
Gloria Coates (b. 1938) writes gloriously expressive music that's also sometimes disorienting. That's meant as a compliment. She has fashioned a mesmerizing and unique language from hovering harmonic clouds and her signature gesture -- the glissando (sliding pitches). And in a work like the String Quartet No. 7 for strings and organ, the long downward glides mix with brazen and spooky organ chords and Charles Ives-like hymn quotes to create an alluring aural vertigo.
Mark Stryker, Detroit Free Press, February 2004
At long last, the aural equivalent to Salvador Dali's melted watches! Gloria Coates (b. 1938) has created a string quartet language out of glissandos: long, short, abrupt, gradual, creaky, rounded, often dissonant, sometimes consonant. The music conjures up vivid aural images. The Fifth Quartet, for instance, begins with delicate high-register, insect-like squeals. These assiduously descend into detuned, slow moving canons that resemble a chorus of drunken cartoon cats and coyotes intoning half-remembered hymns and barroom ballads. Its second movement is built from glissandos that ascend and descend in super-slow motion. By contrast, the third movement nearly recaps the second at a hundred times the speed, the double stops suggesting a veritable orchestra of quartets whizzing before you in a race against time. The brief First Quartet dates from the composer's late 20s and reveals that the basic elements of her present style already were in place, if not so extreme in their deployment. I especially like the Sixth Quartet's concluding "Evanescence" movement, where palpable melodic shapes emerge from intertwining long, sustained, slowly modulated glissandos, demarcated by occasional gentle pizzicato dabs. If Coates is the painter, the Kreutzer Quartet is the widely varied palette of colors and the big, austere canvas. The sheer variety of nuance and timbre the players bring to these scores will be hard to equal, let alone surpass. Kyle Gann's exemplary notes are analytical without being academic.
Jed Distler
Third installment in my end of the year music sharing. String quartets by Coates may be an acquired taste for some, but after several listenings I really liked them. If you are not sure where to start, try String Quartet No. 7 'Angels' first which feature an unusual combination of organ and string quartet. Happy New Year to all avaxians!
Contents:
CD 1:
String Quartet 5 (1988)
String Quartet 1 (1966)
String Quartet 6 (1999)
CD 2:
String Quartet No. 7 Angels (2000)
String Quartet No. 2 (1972)
String Quartet No. 8 (2001-2002)
String Quartet No. 4 (1976)
String Quartet No. 3 (1975)
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