Pacifica Quartet with Otis Murphy - Contemporary Voices (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

The Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet performs works by three Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary composers: Shulamit Ran, Jennifer Higdon, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.Written for the Pacifica and receiving its world-premiere recording, Ran’s Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory — String Quartet No. 3 is a moving tribute to painter Felix Nussbaum, who perished in Auschwitz in 1944. Higdon’s Voices, dedicated to the Pacifica, evokes explosive energy, otherworldly calm, and spiritual serenity. In Zwilich’s Quintet for Alto Saxophone and String Quartet, a lusciously singing saxophone shares the spotlight with virtuosic string playing. The Pacifica, quartet in-residence at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, partner with their IU colleague, renowned classical saxophonist Otis Murphy.

TRACKLIST

1. Pacifica Quartet with Otis Murphy - String Quartet No. 3 "Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory": I. That Which Happened
2. Pacifica Quartet with Otis Murphy - String Quartet No. 3 "Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory": II. Menace
3. Pacifica Quartet with Otis Murphy - String Quartet No. 3 "Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory": III. If I Perish, Do Not Let My Paintings Die
4. Pacifica Quartet with Otis Murphy - String Quartet No. 3 "Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory": IV. Shards, Memory
5. Pacifica Quartet with Otis Murphy - Voices: I. Blitz
6. Pacifica Quartet with Otis Murphy - Voices: II. Soft Enlacing
7. Pacifica Quartet with Otis Murphy - Voices: III. Grace
8. Pacifica Quartet with Otis Murphy - Quintet for Alto Saxophone & String Quartet in A Minor: I. Quarter Note Equals 66
9. Pacifica Quartet with Otis Murphy - Quintet for Alto Saxophone & String Quartet in A Minor: II. Quarter Note Equals 132
10. Pacifica Quartet with Otis Murphy - Quintet for Alto Saxophone & String Quartet in A Minor: III. Quarter Note Equals 60



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