Name: Kevin Kay- Coalescing [Liam Battle, cello] by Liam Battle
Duration: 9 min 34 s
Description: Live recording of Kevin Kay’s Coalescing for Solo Cello

Written for Ensemble Dal Niente. For Bb Clarinet, French Horn, Harp, and Viola.

Conductor - Michael Lewanski
Clarinet - Katie Schoepflin
Horn - Matthew Oliphant
Harp - Ben Melsky
Viola - Ammie Brod

Written for Summer Residency for New Music at Depaul University with Ensemble Dal Niente.

our systems were built to fail - Ensemble Dal Niente

Terry Jennings – Piece for Cello and Saxophone (SLT-007)

Saltern’s latest offering marks the first-ever release of “lost minimalist” Terry Jennings’ visionary 1960 composition, Piece for Cello and Saxophone, as arranged in just intonation by legendary composer La Monte Young for renowned cellist Charles Curtis. Born in Los Angeles in 1940, Jennings was a close associate of Young, Terry Riley, and Dennis Johnson, and an early adopter of minimalist tendencies, creating slow, sustained music, influenced by jazz, modalism, and late romantic classical music. Jennings died tragically in his early forties, most of his work lost to a chaotic life; however, his forward-looking music quietly exerted a lasting influence on composers including Young and Harold Budd. Composed over sixty years ago, Piece for Cello and Saxophone, foreshadows a number of movements in postwar avant-garde music.

Despite the title, there is no saxophone on this album. At over eighty minutes, La Monte Young’s justly tuned realization of Piece for Cello and Saxophone for cello alone unifies and extrapolates Terry Jennings’ dense harmonies, creating an extended field of complex sonorities in motion, all brought to life by the immaculate playing of Charles Curtis. The recording captures Curtis in a performance from 2016 reflecting more than twenty-five years of dedication to the piece. Piece for Cello and Saxophone is released physically on double LP and digitally with kind permission from MELA Foundation. Mixed by Anthony Burr, mastered by Stephan Mathieu, and cut to vinyl via direct metal mastering by Hans Jörg Maucksch at Pauler Acoustics. Pressed at RTI and printed at Stoughton. Includes a four-page insert with liner notes by Young, Curtis, Burr, and Tashi Wada, and a download of the full recording.

Piece for Cello and Saxophone

Terry Jennings – Piece for Cello and Saxophone (excerpt)

Program Note: 
Three Places for string quartet is made up of three sonic portraits of special places that I frequented over the course of the last two pandemic years. Each of these locations has provided me some sort of refuge and fresh air, helping me navigate this challenging solitary and sedentary time. In each movement, I focus on capturing different aspects of an environment, from distinct sonic markers like the doppler effect of a train horn around a campsite, to more abstract character driven evocations of a visual like that of wine grapes strung between trees in a vineyard field, to more musical depictions of vivid imagery like that of the fluctuating surface of Lake Michigan. 

This piece is dedicated to Quatuor Diotima with admiration and gratitude.

Movements:
I: The Indiana Dunes (0'00 - 5'35)
II: The North Fork (5'40 - 7'50)
III: The Lakeshore (8'00 - 13'00)

Three Places For String Quartet - Live Premier by Quatuor Diotima

Recorded by Nathan Meltzer, violin, Emily Mantone, cello, and Umi Garrett, piano.

Ammonite

Live recording of Kevin Kay’s Coalescing for Solo Cello

Kevin Kay- Coalescing [Liam Battle, cello]

medium. at CuteLab 11/8 

3 excerpts from our 30min set <3

medium. 11/8 Excerpts

ARP2500 - Dec. 18, 2024 - New Haven, CT

Fish and Balloons (2024) - Duo XAMP

Santa BUŠS
'Im Gewitter der Rosen...' for cello (2019 / 2025) 

Guna Šnē, cello 
(live recording : 31.01.2025. - JVLMA, Latvia)

The starting point for the piece “Im Gewitter der Rosen...”  is a poem of the same title by Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann,  along with it's numerous translations and different perspectives that these interpretations create. 



Wohin wir uns wenden im Gewitter der Rosen,
ist die Nacht von Dornen erhellt, und der Donner
des Laubs, das so leise war in den Büschen,
folgt uns jetzt auf dem Fuß.

Ingeborg Bachmann   


Wherever we turn in the storm of roses,
the night is lit up by thorns, and the thunder
of leaves, once so quiet within the bushes,
rumbling at our heels.

Translated by Peter Filkins   


Où que nous allions sous l’orage de roses
la nuit est éclairée d’épines, et le tonnerre
du feuillage, naguère si faible dans les buissons,
est maintenant sur nos talons.

Traduit de l’allemand par Francoise Retif   



Santa BUŠS 'Im Gewitter der Rosen...'

The complexes of ice locked in orbit about Saturn circumscribe the planet both forward and back relative to the direction of planet’s rotation. The aftereffects of the planet’s formation and the dynamics of its still-uncounted moons combine to determine the vagaries of the paths followed by the millions of particles comprising the planet’s rings. What silvery halo must illuminate the passing of even the smallest of these pieces of frozen sky? What sky- bound brilliance must be locked into the equatorial plane of the planet cutting through the otherwise space-dark expanse of its nights?

The performance here is by the incredible French cellist Séverine Ballon, for whom the work was written, on 4 October 2013 at the Conservatoire nationale supérieur in Lyon, France.

Traiettorie inargentate (2013) for cello

Ensamble Dúo Reflexión K: Beatrix Wagner (flauta) Gerald Eckert (cello).

Producción de Audio: Claudius Carstens
Plattenmonster Schallwaren
Grabado en Festung Friedrichsort | Kiel | Alemania

Kevin Kay- Coalescing [Liam Battle, cello]

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