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Title: Sculthorpe: The Complete String Quartets With Didjeridu
Condition: New
Format: CD
Genre: Classical
No Of Discs: 2
Record Label: Sono Luminus
Artist: Peter Sculthorpe
Edition: Album with Blu-ray Audio
MPN: DSL92181
Release Date: 02/02/2015
Composer: Peter Sculthorpe
Style: Chamber
Description: EDITORIAL REVIEWS
The Del Sol String Quartet team up with didjeridu virtuoso Stephen Kent to bring to life the Complete Sting Quartets with Didjeridu by Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe. The result is a unique and exciting aural experience, filled with rich organic sonic colors brought to life through the use of the traditional quartet and the indigenous sounds of the didjeridu. Amongst the amazing artistic collaborations that Del Sol has had in our 22-years of music making, playing Peter Sculthorpe's pieces with Stephen Kent (didjeridu) is both one of the most unusual and fulfilling. The breathtaking power and beauty of Peter's music is enhanced by the juxtaposition of these contrasting wooden instruments and traditions - the ones delicately carved by master craftsmen in Europe and the other naturally hollowed out by termites in Australia. Stephen's artistry envelops us in sonorities that border between the earth and the divine. These sonic waves lift the entire quartet, even changing the role of the cello from harmonic ground to the floor of an airship. We take flight together. - Charlton Lee, Violist This is the first complete set of these works and they were recorded at the Sono Luminus Studios in 24bit 192kHz 7.1 surround sound and are delivered to the listener in this package on Pure Audio Blu-RAY in 5.1, 7.1, and high-resolution stereo, and 2 standard resolution CDs. The Blu-ray also includes digital copies via mShuttle.

REVIEW
"The San Francisco-based Del Sol String Quartet got its start at the Banff Centre in 1992, but if the convincing performances recorded here are any indication, they seem to feel quite at home in the desolate (musical) landscapes of Australia. British-born Steven Kent trained as a French horn player but while working in Australia as music director of Circus Oz he developed a profound interest in Aboriginal culture and immersed himself in the didjeridu. He states, 'The didjeridu is played with the greatest respect for the Aboriginal Peoples of Australia and the struggle for rights in their homeland.'

At the time of recording Peter Sculthorpe was still alive. I can't help but feel that this posthumous release is an appropriate monument to a man who let his art speak for his conscience, with no compromise to either. An important example to us all." --David Olds, Wholenote, Novemeber

The wistful and elegiac music sometimes skirts the border of sentimentality, but the tonal beauty of the four string instruments, anchored by the otherworldly burr of the didgeridoo, create a hypnotic sound world well worth exploring. --Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times

"The strange, otherworldly sounds, either in dialogue and or blended with the strings, haunt Sculthorpe's sad and soulful paeans and odes." --Laurence Vittes, AllThingsStrings.com
EAN: 0053479218124
Release Year: 2015
Tracks:

Disc 1
1: String Quartet No. 12, 'From Ubirr'
2: Prelude
3: In the Valley
4: On High Hills
5: At Quamby Bluff

Disc 2
1: Loneliness
2: Anger
3: Yearning
4: Trauma
5: Freedom
6: Prelude
7: A Land Singing
8: A Dying Land
9: A Lost Land
10: Postlude

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