This recording was made possible with support from the MIT SHASS Research Fund.
Performer Biography
Jon Manasse, the clarinetist on this album, formerly served as principal clarinetist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
Performer Biography
The Arneis Quartet is playfully named after the Arneis grape, a varietal that is difficult to grow but yields an exquisite white wine.
Composer Biography
Elena Ruehr, the composer, is a faculty member at MIT and has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute.
Performer Biography
Donald Berman, the pianist, has been on the frontlines of new music performance, scholarship, and recording for over 30 years and is President of the Charles Ives Society.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Composer Elena Ruehr describes her music with the idea that "the surface be simple, the structure complex."
Performer Biography
The Borromeo String Quartet (BSQ) has been ensemble-in-residence at the New England Conservatory, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and Taos School of Music for over 25 years.
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Foote: Piano Quintet Op. 38 / String Quartets Opp. 32 and 70
Foote: Piano Quintet Op. 38 / String Quartets Opp. 32 and 70
Foote: Piano Quintet Op. 38 / String Quartets Opp. 32 and 70
