Composer: Michael Gordon
Performer: Alarm Will Sound
Conductor: Alan Pierson
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Cantaloupe
Catalogue: CA21044
Release: 2008
Size: 269 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. London
02. Borinage
The Hague
03. Pt. I
04. Pt. II
05. Arles
06. St. Remy
Michael Gordon’s new album based on letters between Vincent Van Gogh and his brother Theo, doubles as Alarm Will Sound’s follow-up to their album Acoustica: Music of Aphex Twin (CA21028) which was placed in the top 25 of Billboard’s classical-crossover chart. Gordon has written numerous well-known orchestral works, including Decasia (CA21008), a multimedia orchestral work with film by Bill Morrison.
Alan Pierson of the unique 20-member band,Alarm Will Sound, says about Van Gogh: “I wasn’t much of a Vincent Van Gogh fan when I first heard the piece, but I was very moved by the story that Michael Gordon tells of the artist’s life-his adolescent anxieties, professional challenges, and a kind of transcendence that comes with his eventual institutionalization.There’s a directness and intimacy that Michael brings to VanGogh’s story by sharing it entirely through Van Gogh’s private letters.And the immediacy of those words intensifies Van Gogh’s already staggering story.”