John Zorn: Cat O'Nine Tails, The Dead Man, Memento Mori & Kol Nidre
2/1/2019, 16 Tracks, 1:00:13
Featuring
Olga Ranzenhofer
Antoine Bareil
Frédéric Lambert
Pierre-Alain Bouvrette
Quatuor Molinari
John Zorn
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Composition History
Kol Nidre, a string quartet by John Zorn, was written in a single 30-minute burst of inspiration, revealing a world of inner peace in contrast to his earlier quartets.
Compositional Technique
In The Dead Man, John Zorn uses practice mutes in every other movement, which dampens harmonics even more than regular mutes, to create a weak but tense sonority.
Composer's Artistic Vision
John Zorn suggests considering the 13 movements of The Dead Man as the soundtrack for a sordid and sadomasochistic film set in a gloomy New York or Tokyo basement.
Compositional Technique
John Zorn's Memento Mori uses silences that last as long as eight seconds to create moments of meditative repose or extraordinary tension, suggesting an elastic flow of time.
Performer Biography
The Molinari Quartet, founded in 1997, is internationally acclaimed and dedicated to performing 20th and 21st-century string quartet repertoire, commissioning new works, and initiating discussions between artists and the public.
Composer Biography
John Zorn, born in 1953, is an American composer whose classical music is introduced by his whimsical work, Cat O'Nine Tails.
Compositional Technique
John Zorn's Cat O'Nine Tails is a collage of over 60 short, contrasting, and unrelated segments, which he compares to a comic book with vivid panels.
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