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Background: Joan Tower's bold and energetic music, with its striking imagery and novel structural forms, has won her large, enthusiastic audiences. She is a performing musician and writes for other instrumentalists with great sensitivity and understanding, as demonstrated by the works on this disc.

The string quartet In Memory is a piece about death and grief, inspired by the loss of a close friend, and the victims of the 11th September terrorist attacks. Big Sky is a rapt and intimate portrait of an American landscape, while Wild Purple is a virtuosic piece for viola that highlights the often neglected “wild side” of the instrument. The four piano pieces, each with a title taken from John Ashbery's poem No Longer Very Clear, are variously calm and hugely kinetic, but always surprising. The disc ends with Island Prelude, a sensuous piece with a tropical island setting.

CATALOGUE NR: 8559215
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 4.88 including VAT, or £ 4.15 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 01-Aug-2005

COMPOSER: Joan Tower
TITLE: Instrumental Music
TRACKS: In Memory for String Quartet. Big Sky for Violin Cello and Piano. Wild Purple for Solo Viola. Holding a Daisy for Solo Piano. Or like a … an engine - for solo piano. Antique Cubes for Solo Piano. Throbbing Still for Solo Piano. Island Prelude for Oboe and String Quartet.
ARTISTS: Tokyo String Qt   Andre Emelianoff   Joan Tower   Ursula Oppens

- Nov-2005 5 star BBC Music Mag.

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