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Lark
Quartet: "Klap Ur Handz"
Maria Bachmann, Violin
Deborah Buck, Violin
Kathryn Lockwood, Viola
Astrid Schween, Cello
with special guest
Yousif Sheronick, Percussion |
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The Lark
Quartet, Maria Bachmann and Deborah Buck violins;
Kathryn Lockwood, viola and Astrid Schween, cello, are
featured on Klap Ur Handz, a new Endeavor Classics
recording. The CD of all American composers features world
premieres by Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) and Paul Moravec,
a quartet by Peter Schickele, as well as never before recorded
arrangements of five Gershwin songs.
This Klap Ur Handz recording
of an American musical landscape represents the Lark Quartet’s
long-time association with new music and adventuresome
programming. The recording includes traditional string
quartet performances and explores a fresh innovative style
with contemporary music including a remix of Daniel Bernard
Roumain’s (DBR) Quartet No. 5 with a hip-hop drum
track.
Performing with a unique blend of excitement,
individuality, technical brilliance and an unusually sonorous
quartet sound, the Lark Quartet is critically acclaimed for
a strong presence of each member of the quartet. These
performers have combined to form a “polished and warmly
communicative ensemble” that delivers “a performance
of grace, proportion, and burnished brilliance,” according
to Tim Page of the Washington Post. |
Program:
SCHICKELE:
Scherzo from Quartet No. 2 “In Memoriam”
MORAVEC:
Atmosfera a Villa Aurelia
Vince & Jan: 1945
GERSHWIN (arr. Silverman):
He Loves and She Loves
Fascinatin’ Rhythm
Do It Again
Clap Your Hands
Sweet & Low Down
ROUMAIN:
Quartet No. 5 “Rosa Parks”
Klap Ur Hands [Remix with Percussion] |
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"Like other chamber groups in the line descended from San Francisco's Kronos
Quartet, the women of the Lark Quartet set out to mix concert music with contemporary
vernacular materials, and the chief attraction of this album is that they choose
interesting examples of each and play them with accuracy and vigor. Their program
succeeds in being diverse, unexpected, and logical, all at the same time. The
presence of one of the "serious" works of P.D.Q. Bach creator Peter
Schickele is a surprise, yet the kinetic, Slavic scherzo of his tring Quartet
No. 2, "In Memoriam" is an ideal overture. The quartet gets the personal
lyricism of current critical favorite Paul Moravec just right. The arrangements
of Gershwin songs for quartet by Broadway composer Stanley Silverman stress Gershwin's
mastery of contrapuntal fundamentals, and the Lark players let the music speak
for itself rather than adding the mannerisms of musicals. It is the final work,
by the widely publicized young Haitian American composer Daniel Bernard Roumain,
that may attract the most attention to this disc. Roumain has attempted to incorporate
hip-hop influences into his music, and in the opening movement of his &Quartet
No. 5, "Rosa Parks"), bearing the "Klap Ur Handz" title,
he instructs the players to do just that in order to create a semblance of a
big hip-hop beat. But that is not the only weapon in Roumain's arsenal; his second
movement, "I made up my mind not to move,"
suggests Rosa Parks' act of defiance not with ponderous dignity
but with a sharp ostinato that suggests stubbornness and confrontation.
It is the final
"Isorhythmiclastionistc" movement that brings sustained
notes and a tragic mood. The Lark gives the work a straightforward
performance that one suspects the composer, who is pictured in
the cover art, must have liked a good deal. As for the general
listener, anyone interested in the broad chamber music trend toward
engagement with audiences will find much to enjoy in this well-executed
recording." -All Music Guide
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