Michael Hersch - Images From a Closed Ward (2014)
Michael Hersch - Images From a Closed Ward (2014)
Contemporary Classical | Innova 884 | 2014 | 61:46 | EAC (FLAC, cue, log) | Full Scans | Various File Hosts | 176 MB
Blair String Quartet
Contemporary Classical | Innova 884 | 2014 | 61:46 | EAC (FLAC, cue, log) | Full Scans | Various File Hosts | 176 MB
Blair String Quartet
In Images from a Closed Ward, composer Michael Hersch (b. 1971) has crafted a tone poem for string quartet inspired by the haunting images of Michael Mazur (1935–2009). By turns harrowing and uneasy, the work gives instrumental voice to something voiceless, finding a genuine grain of human experience in a dark, difficult place. Art critic John Canaday, writing on Mazur’s etchings and lithographs of inmates from a Rhode Island psychiatric hospital in the early 1960s, said the subjects “have the terrible anonymity of individuals who cannot be reached, whose ugly physical presence is the only symptom of a tragic spiritual isolation.” It was these images that resonated with Hersch, leading him to compose his first string quartet in almost twenty years.
This is extraordinarily expressive High Modern music, perhaps something like Morton Feldman on an overdose of Belladonna. … It is masterful music and the Blair Quartet tackle the extremes of expression with excellent artistry. Surely this is some of the darkest string quartet music to be found. Nevertheless the kind of transcendence that well-composed music contains makes it not just bearable, but rather extraordinary, a music filled with humane compassion as well as despair. … Michael Hersch is a phenomena.
Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review
Track List:
01. I [0:03:40.70]
02. Ii [0:01:12.38]
03. Iii [0:03:29.57]
04. Iv [0:01:46.14]
05. V [0:02:40.46]
06. Vi [0:01:02.58]
07. Vii [0:02:54.41]
08. Viii [0:01:16.16]
09. Ix [0:04:00.60]
10. X [0:02:01.23]
11. Xi [0:09:35.67]
12. Xii [0:04:44.48]
13. Xiii [0:03:45.10]
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Blair String Quartet / Images From a Closed Ward
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