The cover painting for this album, titled 'Rainbow Folding in Foliage' (1991), was created by the composer Gloria Coates herself.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Gloria Coates's music often features a 'homespun tune' or chorale emerging from an indistinct texture, or a broad sonority slowly going out of or coming into tune.
Composer Biography
Gloria Coates has lived as an expatriate in Germany since 1969, where she is seen as an 'archetypal outsider' due to the lack of encouragement for composing women.
Recording & Production
Symphony No. 14 on this album is a world première recording, commissioned by the Munich Chamber Orchestra.
Compositional Technique
A lifelong preoccupation for Gloria Coates is the glissando, which she has used in thousands of variations, from slow and long to fast and sweeping.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Despite her innovative sound-world, Gloria Coates is considered a classicist among modern composers due to her love for symmetry, palindromes, mirrors, and canons.
Composer Biography
Gloria Coates, the composer, has written fourteen symphonies, making her the most prolific woman symphonist in history.
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