Figments, Vol. 2

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Release Date: 8th Nov 2019
Catalogue No: NV6259
Label: Navona Records
Length: 54 minutes

Yuan-Chen Li: Tell

Work length8:39

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Jessica Maxfield

Dayton: Mar de Lurín (After Paintings by Fernando de Szyszlo)

Work length5:20

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Jennifer Slowik (oboe), David William Ross (guitar)

Bakker: Tiento I

Work length6:23

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Ruud Harte (guitar)

Bakker: Tiento II

Work length3:28

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Tatakh Huismans (guitar)

Navid Bargrizan: 10 Aphorisms

Work length6:08

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Laurent Estoppey (soprano saxophone), Steve Stusek (baritone saxophone)

Navid Bargrizan: Se-Chahar-Gah

Work length6:52

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Tolgahan Çoğulu

Corey: Syzygy

Work length17:56

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Jae Cosmos Lee (violin), Rohan Gregory (violin), Peter Sulski (viola), Jacques Lee Wood (cello)

I. Canon / Cannon

Track length5:37

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II. Pour / Pore

Track length1:41

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III. Descent / Dissent

Track length3:50

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IV. Rays / Raze / Raise

Track length6:48

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FIGMENTS 2, which follows the success of 2016’s FIGMENTS, is a compendium of chamber music that sparks the imagination. The album features the works of Yuan-Chen Li, Peter Dayton, Hans Bakker, Navid Bargrizan, and Charles Corey—innovative composers whose works draw inspiration from the world around them, be it the tribal dances of indigenous peoples, art history, 16th-century keyboard music, the science of acoustics, or the idiosyncrasies of language. The album opens with Tell by Yuan-Chen Li, a work commissioned and performed by saxophonist Jessica Maxfield, that joins the woodwind instrument in a holy dance with the leaping yips, gasps, and cries of the human voice. This is followed by Mar de Lurin, after paintings by Fernando de Szyszlo, in which composer Peter Dayton harnesses the creamy resonance of nylon guitar strings to paint vibrant studies in light and shadow. Hans Bakker’s Tiento I for guitar solo and Tiento II for guitar solo are contemporary imaginings of a 16th-century Spanish form that are all at once aggressive, romantic and, at times, contrapuntal. Next comes Navid Bargrizan’s 10 Aphorisms, a series of concise musical statements colored by contrasting timbres and scales that push the boundaries of music theory into the realm of psychoacoustics. A second piece by Bargrizan, Se-Chahar-Gah, is inspired by Persian classical music and performed on a custom-built microtonal guitar. The album concludes with Charles Corey’s Syzygy, a four-movement work for string quartet, each one exploring relationships between tonality and dissonance; the last movement dramatically ends the album by slowly gliding to the extreme registers of the ensemble. FIGMENTS 2 invites listeners on a journey that is sure to both delight their minds and challenge their assumptions. The sundry pieces, each infused with the unique voice of their composer, come together to form a distinctive and cohesive album. FIGMENTS 2 offers listeners a brief taste of the breadth of sounds that Navona Records has to offer and is sure to leave them hungry for more.

Figments, Vol. 2

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