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About Ingram Marshall: September Canons
Product Description The pieces on this compact disc span almost three decades and represent the principal threads that have run through Ingram Marshall's work: his remarkable skill in using electronics to create expressive and voluptuously beautiful pieces; the influence of Indonesian music, particularly in the slowed-down sense of time and melodic repetition; a thorough knowledge of some of the most stirring and poignant compositions of the Western tradition, especially Sibelius and Bach; and the hovering presence of Charles Ives, particularly his use of quotation and juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated elements. The works on this CD can be thought of as an archeological dig, flowing in reverse chronological order from a recent work to one of the composer's earliest. They range from the dramatic and gripping 2002 work relating to a horrible event in New York City to a timeless ethereal 1976 piece relating to an idyllic period in Indonesia. Along with these dynamic contrasts, there's surprising consistency: Marshall's lifelong efforts to combine electronics with instruments and to render them with warmth and expressivity; but moreover, his extraordinary ability to capture profound human feeling and create works of poignancy and depth. Review "I frankly love all this music.... Performances are consistently on the mark. This is maybe the best single introduction to Marshall's work in his current discography." --Fanfare Magazine "If Congreve was right about music and charms and savage breasts, then the works of Ingram Marshall pass the test on many levels. Mixing live performers with electronic music, the American composer has a knack for discovering natural points of sonic interaction. He writes music of radiant and often hypnotic persuasion, paced almost as if in a reverie, though abounding in dark shadows." --Gramophone "While American composer Ingram Marshall has been called many things--West Coast Minimalist, New Romantic, Postmodernist--his music resists pigeonholing, and the only label Marshall himself endorses is "Expressivist." The four compositions here, written between 1976 and 2002m nonetheless share preoccupations with certain dichotomies: war versus peace, acoustic versus electronic, West versus East." --Signal to Noise
