Stanley Grill, the composer, believes that music must convey emotional content, using rhythm, dynamics, harmony, melody, tonality, and structure as building blocks.
Compositional Technique
Stanley Grill, the composer, uses techniques like overlapping phrases, varied rhythmic divisions, and elision to create a sense of endless flow and movement, similar to Renaissance vocal music.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Composer Stanley Grill's music is most influenced by Renaissance-era music, leading him to sometimes believe he was born 500 years too late.
Composer Biography
Stanley Grill, the American composer on this album, began his musical life at age six after his mother took him to New York City's Carnegie Hall.
Instruments
Elżbieta Sajka-Bachler plays a viola d'amore named 'Pandolfina', made in 2021 by Vratislav Santini, which is tuned to A = 415 Hz.
Performer Biography
Elżbieta Sajka-Bachler, the baroque viola player, is the founder and director of the Pandolfis Consort and also directs the International Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber Festival in Vienna.
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