Coconino...A Shattered Landscape

Roger Reynolds (Artist), Arditti String Quartet (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 12, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Disques Montaigne
• ASIN: B00004Y9WB
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #764,494 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Coconino...A Shattered Landscape: With Abandon

2. Coconino...A Shattered Landscape: Fierce/Placid

3. Coconino...A Shattered Landscape: Dolce

4. Coconino...A Shattered Landscape: Relentless

5. Coconino...A Shattered Landscape: Drunken

6. Coconino...A Shattered Landscape: Vivid, Eccentric, Brittle

7. Coconino...A Shattered Landscape: Montage I

8. Coconino...A Shattered Landscape: Ardently To Plaintively

9. Coconino...A Shattered Landscape: Montage II

10. Coconino...A Shattered Landscape: Ardently/Plaintively

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Disc: 2

1. Kokoro: Staged Convergence

2. Kokoro: Unearthly

3. Kokoro: Intricate Alternation

4. Kokoro: Excitation, Recovery, Focus

5. Kokoro: Tenuous, Trembling

6. Kokoro: With Radiant Continuity

7. Kokoro: A Traversal Of Sighs

8. Kokoro: Ghostly, Evanescent, Elastic

9. Kokoro: Luminous Murmurs

10. Kokoro: Alternative Paths

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Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars stunning cutting-edge works!, August 26, 2001

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This review is from: Coconino...A Shattered Landscape (Audio CD)

Roger Reynolds has composed one of the most innovative and compelling cycle of string quartets since Elliott Carter. It is simply criminal that Reynolds is not more widely known, but fortunately the Arditti Quartet is not in the dark, and delivers stunning performances! The first disc contains "Coconino" and "Visions." "Coconino" is fiendishly complex, structured with the use of algorithms, an approach best known from its use by Xenakis.

The highlight, though, is "Ariadne's Thread," on the second disc, which adds a computer synthesizer to the quartet for one of the most compelling electro-acoustic pieces I've heard. Reynolds uses his research at San Diego and at IRCAM in Paris to surpass Boulez, and at least equal the '80s works of Nono. This masterwork is preceded by "Kokoro" for solo violin, and followed by "Focus a Beam..." for solo cello.

Roger Reynolds is a contemporary master of music, and this collection of chamber music is one of his finest accomplishments.

When is Montaigne's series of Arditti Quartet recordings going to be reissued?