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Occam's Razor (New Music with Guitar, Vol. 11)

Poul Ruders

Occam's Razor (New Music with Guitar, Vol. 11)

Format: CD
Label: Bridge
UPC: 0090404950025
Catnr: BRIDG 9500
Release date: 07 September 2018
1 CD
 
Label
Bridge
UPC
0090404950025
Catalogue number
BRIDG 9500
Release date
07 September 2018
Album
Artist(s)
Composer(s)
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About the album

POUL RUDERS: OCCAM’S RAZOR features music composed for American guitarist David Starobin by the Danish composer Poul Ruders. During the past 30 years Ruders has written steadily for Starobin, including solo music, chamber music and two guitar concertos. Joining Starobin are a stellar array of musicians including the New York Philharmonic’s principal oboist, Liang Wang, New York Philharmonic percussionist, Daniel Druckman, Armenian violinist Movses Pogossian, New Zealand violinist Amalia Hall, and Chinese guitarists Xiaobo Pu, YunXiang Fan and Hao Yang.
Kompositionen des dänischen Komponisten Poul Ruders für den amerikanischen Gitarristen David Starobin. In den letzten 30 Jahren hat Ruders kontinuierlich für Starobin geschrieben, darunter Solomusik, Kammermusik und zwei Gitarrenkonzerte.
Zu Starobin gehören unter anderem der Solo-Oboist des New York Philharmonic, Liang Wang, der Perkussionist des New York Philharmonic, Daniel Druckman, der armenische Geiger Movses Pogossian, die neuseeländische Geigerin Amalia Hall und die chinesischen Gitarristen Xiaobo Pu, YunXiang Fan und Hao Yang.

Artist(s)

David Starobin (guitar)

David Starobin is the dedicatee of more than 350 new works which he has performed throughout the world, collaborating with ensembles including the New York Philharmonic; the National, Houston, San Francisco, Saint Louis, and BBC symphony orchestras; the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; the Danish Radio Orchestra; the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; and the Emerson and Guarneri quartets. Mr. Starobin began his guitar studies at age seven with the guitarist Manuel Gayol, later graduating from the Peabody Conservatory, where he studied with Aaron Shearer. While a student at Peabody, Mr. Starobin worked closely with pianist Leon Fleisher and was a frequent participant in the Marlboro Music Festival. Among David Starobin’s honors are a Harvard University Fromm Grant for his commitment to the...
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David Starobin is the dedicatee of more than 350 new works which he has performed throughout the world, collaborating with ensembles including the New York Philharmonic; the National, Houston, San Francisco, Saint Louis, and BBC symphony orchestras; the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; the Danish Radio Orchestra; the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; and the Emerson and Guarneri quartets.

Mr. Starobin began his guitar studies at age seven with the guitarist Manuel Gayol, later graduating from the Peabody Conservatory, where he studied with Aaron Shearer. While a student at Peabody, Mr. Starobin worked closely with pianist Leon Fleisher and was a frequent participant in the Marlboro Music Festival.

Among David Starobin’s honors are a Harvard University Fromm Grant for his commitment to the music of our time; Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Career Grant; ASCAP’s Deems Taylor Award, and Peabody Conservatory’s Distinguished Alumni Award. In 2011 Starobin became the youngest guitarist to be inducted into the Guitar Foundation of America’s Hall of Fame. In 1981 David Starobin founded Bridge Records, Inc. His work for Bridge as performer, producer, and executive producer has earned three Grammy awards and thirty-six Grammy nominations, including “Classical Producer of the Year” (2015).

Between 1993 and 2004, David Starobin was the chairman of the guitar department at the Manhattan School of Music. In addition to teaching at MSM, Mr. Starobin holds the “Fondation Charidu Chair in Guitar Studies” at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he co-founded Curtis’s guitar program in 2011.


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Daniel Druckman (percussion)

Amalia Hall (violin)

Movses Pogossian (violin)

Armenian-born violinist Movses Pogossian made his American debut performing the Tchaikovsky Concerto with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall in 1990, about which Richard Dyer of the Boston Globe wrote: “There is freedom in his playing, but also taste and discipline. It was a fiery, centered, and highly musical performance...” Movses Pogossian has since performed with orchestras such as the Brandenburger Symphoniker and the Halle Philharmonic in Germany, the Sudety Philharmonic in Poland, the Tuscon Symphony, the El Paso Symphony, the Scandinavian Chamber Orchestra of New York, and the Toronto Sinfonia. His recent and upcoming performances include recitals in New York, Boston, Ann Arbor, and concerts in Korea, Japan, Germany, Armenia, and Cyprus. He is a Prizewinner of the 1986...
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Armenian-born violinist Movses Pogossian made his American debut performing the Tchaikovsky Concerto with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall in 1990, about which Richard Dyer of the Boston Globe wrote: “There is freedom in his playing, but also taste and discipline. It was a fiery, centered, and highly musical performance...” Movses Pogossian has since performed with orchestras such as the Brandenburger Symphoniker and the Halle Philharmonic in Germany, the Sudety Philharmonic in Poland, the Tuscon Symphony, the El Paso Symphony, the Scandinavian Chamber Orchestra of New York, and the Toronto Sinfonia. His recent and upcoming performances include recitals in New York, Boston, Ann Arbor, and concerts in Korea, Japan, Germany, Armenia, and Cyprus. He is a Prizewinner of the 1986 Tchaikovsky International Competition, and the youngest-ever First Prize winner of the 1985 USSR National Violin Competition, previous winners of which included David Oistrakh and Gidon Kremer. An active chamber musician, Mr. Pogossian has performed with members of the Tokyo, Kronos, and Brentano string quartets, and with such artists as Kim Kashkashian, Jeremy Denk, Lynn Harrell, Ani and Ida Kavafian, and Rohan de Saram. He frequently collaborates with the Apple Hill Chamber Players, teaching annually at their summer music festival in New Hampshire. Movses Pogossian is the Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed Dilijan Chamber Music Series, which performs at Zipper Hall in downtown Los Angeles, and is currently in its ninth season (http://dilijan. larkmusicalsociety.com). Since earning his advanced degrees from the Komitas Conservatory in Armenia and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music in Moscow, Mr. Pogossian has held teaching positions at Duquesne, Bowling Green, Wayne State, and SUNY Buffalo Universities. His principal teachers were L. Zorian, V. Mokatsian, V. Klimov, and legendary Louis Krasner. Movses Pogossian is currently Professor of Violin at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. He resides in Glendale, California with his wife, Los Angeles Philharmonic violinist Varty Manouelian, and their three children.

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Liang Wang (oboe)

Xiaobo Pu (guitar)

YunXiang Fan (guitar)

Hao Yang (guitar)

Composer(s)

Poul Ruders

Poul Ruders (b. 1949) is one of the era’s most highly regarded composers for both the opera stage and the symphonic concert hall. His operas have been staged in Copenhagen, New York City, London, Toronto and Munich, and his orchestral music commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Ruders lives a spartan life in the countryside of Denmark. The isolation has afforded him the opportunity to produce a deep and highly varied catalog which includes five operas, 45 symphonic works and concertos, and dozens of chamber and solo pieces. The music of Poul Ruders has been well-documented by the record labels DaCapo (Denmark) and Bridge (USA), and is published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen. In 2019, Poul...
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Poul Ruders (b. 1949) is one of the era’s most highly regarded composers for both the opera stage and the symphonic concert hall. His operas have been staged in Copenhagen, New York City, London, Toronto and Munich, and his orchestral music commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Ruders lives a spartan life in the countryside of Denmark. The isolation has afforded him the opportunity to produce a deep and highly varied catalog which includes five operas, 45 symphonic works and concertos, and dozens of chamber and solo pieces. The music of Poul Ruders has been well-documented by the record labels DaCapo (Denmark) and Bridge (USA), and is published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen.

In 2019, Poul Ruders will celebrate his 70th birthday with the world premiere of his newest opera, The Thirteenth Child, staged by the Santa Fe Opera. Prior to the premiere, Bridge Records will release a studio recording of the two act ‘fairytale’ opera. Also on tap in 2018/2019 are new productions in the USA and Europe of Ruders’s best known opera, The Handmaid’s Tale after the dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood.


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01.
Simple
02:03
David Starobin
02.
Stealthy
00:40
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin
03.
Cantus Firmus 3
02:19
(Poul Ruders) Movses Pogossian, David Starobin
04.
Occam's Razor: I. Fanfarish
01:25
(Poul Ruders) Liang Wang, David Starobin
05.
Occam's Razor: II. Melancholic
01:55
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Liang Wang
06.
Occam's Razor: III. Bright
01:24
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Liang Wang
07.
Occam's Razor: IV. Hesitant
01:34
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Liang Wang
08.
Occam's Razor: V. Lonesome
02:16
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Liang Wang
09.
Occam's Razor: VI. Ostinato
01:39
(Poul Ruders) Liang Wang, David Starobin
10.
Occam's Razor: VII. Ragged
02:35
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Liang Wang
11.
Occam's Razor: VIII. Occam's Razor
01:04
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Liang Wang
12.
Romantic
01:59
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin
13.
Cantus Firmus 2
01:25
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Movses Pogossian
14.
Air with Changes
05:22
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Xiaobo Pu, YunXiang Fan, Hao Yang
15.
Rocking
00:41
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin
16.
Gentle
00:42
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin
17.
Nimble
01:04
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin
18.
New Rochelle Suite: I. Grand Opening
01:00
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Daniel Druckman
19.
New Rochelle Suite: II. Kafka
01:34
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Daniel Druckman
20.
New Rochelle Suite: III. Thanksgiving
01:15
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Daniel Druckman
21.
New Rochelle Suite: IV. Night Tango
02:26
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Daniel Druckman
22.
New Rochelle Suite: V. Stampede
00:45
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Daniel Druckman
23.
Schrödinger's Cat: I. Canon I (Fast)
00:55
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Amalia Hall
24.
Schrödinger's Cat: II. Canon II (Fast)
00:38
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Amalia Hall
25.
Schrödinger's Cat: III. Canon III (Moderate)
01:04
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Amalia Hall
26.
Schrödinger's Cat: IV. Canon IV (Fast)
01:05
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Amalia Hall
27.
Schrödinger's Cat: V. Canon V (Moderate)
00:57
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Amalia Hall
28.
Schrödinger's Cat: VI. Canon VI (Fast)
01:11
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Amalia Hall
29.
Schrödinger's Cat: VII. Canon VII (Moderate)
01:12
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Amalia Hall
30.
Schrödinger's Cat: VIII. Canon VIII (Fast)
00:31
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Amalia Hall
31.
Schrödinger's Cat: IX. Canon IX (Fast)
02:20
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Amalia Hall
32.
Schrödinger's Cat: X. Canon X (Slow)
01:29
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Amalia Hall
33.
Schrödinger's Cat: XI. Canon XI (Fast)
02:22
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Amalia Hall
34.
Schrödinger's Cat: XII. Canon XII (Slow)
01:17
(Poul Ruders) David Starobin, Amalia Hall
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