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 World To Come - Maya Beiser
Description: Genre: World Music - Cuban & Latin / Artist: Maya Beiser / Import / Audio CD released 2003-10-21 at Koch International ... more  World To Come - Maya Beiser ... / Disc #1 Tracklisting1 Mariel 2 World to Come 3 World to Come (Continued) 4 World to Come (Continued) 5 World to Come (Continued) 6 Fratres (For 4 Cellos) 7 Lament to Phaedra Newest Review: ... consider two of the pieces are composed by Arvo Part and John Taverner (considered part of the spiritual minimalist school), ... more ... the music on World to Come often has a very spiritual feel. This is expressed in Mariel. Running but seven and a half minutes it is perhaps the perfect length. Beiser keeps us enthralled and wanting more but never drags the performance out beyond the bounds of listenability. A gentle middle-eastern stridency underplays the performance. The multitracking is quite simple, for the most part it seems Beiser performs twice: below, long, delicate bowing across the cello; above, the more strident, trembling haunting stridency...more |
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World To Come - Maya Beiser: Delight in the World to Come (1660 words)
by no_name - written on 16.03.07 (Very useful, 74 readings)
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I stumbled across Maya Beiser quite my accident. A day out at the Barbican to enjoy music free and ticketed in honour of composer Steve Reich's seventieth birthday. As we entered the building, good and early, a rather attractive woman with a cello and detachable sleeves was soundchecking and I think recording parts for her later multitracked performance in the foyer. Just those twenty minutes as she prepared were magnificent… normally I'm not one for solo cello - at least, it wouldn't really occur to me to listen. The day began with Balinese Gamelan; a group loose attached to the London Symphony Orchestra entertained greatly, all the more so for Gamelan being an unknown ...
