Composer: Valerie Coleman, Richard Danielpour, James Lee III, Benjamin J. Shirley
Performer: Anthony McGill, Pacifica Quartet
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Cedille
Catalogue: CDR90000216
Release: 2023
Size: 1.21 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Danielpour: Four Angels
Lee III: Quintet for Clarinet & String Quartet
02. I. Forgotten Emblems
03. II. Awashoha
04. III. Alas, My Identity…
05. IV. Celebrated Emblems
Shirley: High Sierra Sonata
06. I. Buttermilk Morning
07. II. Angry Secrets
08. III. Reflections on a Day
Coleman: Shotgun Houses
09. I. Shotgun Houses
10. II. Grand Ave.
11. III. Rome 1960
Anthony McGill, New York Philharmonic principal clarinet and 2020 Avery Fisher Prize winner, and the multiple Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet join forces on an album illuminating the diversity of the American experience through works by Richard Danielpour, James Lee III, Ben Shirley (all three world-premiere recordings), and Valerie Coleman. McGill describes it as a project driven by the desire to ‘expand the capacity for art and music to change the world.’ Clarinetist McGill and the Pacific Quartet’s previous collaboration on Cedille Records, Mozart & Brahms Clarinet Quintets, garnered widespread critical acclaim and continues to be a staple of classical radio programming. ‘The pure, gorgeous tone and expressive musicianship of the clarinetist Anthony McGill meshes with the talents of the excellent Pacifica Quartet for thoroughly enjoyable readings’.