[silence] Mode Bulletin 11.07.1

[Brian Brandt]

Welcome to Mode's Twelfth Bulletin of 2007. In this Bulletin:

. TWO NEW RELEASES FOR OCTOBER: A major first recording of John Cage and 
music of Maria de Alvear
. Mode wins a prestigious award for its set of Luciano Berio's 
"Sequenzas" with a SPECIAL SALE
. Recent Mode releases of Gavin Bryars and Maria de Alvear to be 
performed live in New York City
Read on below...

Mode's set of BERIO'S "SEQUENZAS" AWARDED THE 2007 DEUTSCHEN 
SCHALLPLATTENKRITIK PRIZE : sale priced at $40 (for the 4-CD set)
Sale prices now through 31 October only
Mode's all-star set of Berio's SEQUENZAS has been awarded the 
prestigious "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik 2007" for "New 
Music Record of the Year", announced on 15 October. It will be 
officially awarded in Berlin on 17 November. We now have this award to 
add to The New York Times' pick as one of the "10 Best Recordings of 
2006" and the consistently excellent reviews. For more details:
http://moderecords.com/catalog/161_4berio.html
And, still on sale: 4-STAR REVIEW FOR SCELSI:  $12.99 per CD, $15.99 per DVD
Now through 31 October only
Mode's release of Giacinto Scelsi's Orchestral Works 2 (Quattro Pezzi 
(su una nota sola), Uaxuctum, and the first recording of the cantata La 
nascita del Verbo) received a 4-star review in the prestigious French 
publication, Le Monde de la Musique. To celebrate this, we have put it 
on sale for the month. Enjoy this superb recording on CD or go for it in 
surround sound on 24-bit DVD. It is a sonic and musical experience.
For more details, please see
http://www.moderecords.com/catalog/176scelsi.html


NEW FOR OCTOBER: both releases on sale for $13.99
Now through 31 October only

John CAGE  (1912-92)
The Number Pieces 4 (Complete John Cage Edition, Volume 38)
Trio Dolce, various recorders
mode 186

Three  (1989)
for three players having a variety of recorders
written for Trio Dolce
FIRST RECORDING

Solo with Obbligato Accompaniment of Two Voices in Canon, and Six Short 
Inventions on the Subject of the Solo (1933)
arranged for three alto recorders


The first recording of Cage's large scale composition for 3 recorder 
players.

. The Trio Dolce wrote Cage for permission to perform Solo with 
Obbligato Accompaniment on three alto recorders, one octave higher than 
the prescribed range. In a letter from March 1987 Cage replied: "Of 
course you may use the 3 alto recorders. I am glad that you are playing 
that piece." They performed it on July 1988 with Cage in attendance.

. Cage's enthusiastic reaction to this performance encouraged Trio Dolce 
to ask Cage if he would consider writing a work for them which "could 
take into account the ranges of the recorders" the Trio then owned. Upon 
meeting the members of the Trio during his residency at the Royal 
Conservatory in The Hague in November 1988, Cage agreed to write a work 
for the Trio.

. Three was completed in July 1989 and dedicated to Trio Dolce, who 
premiered it in July 1990 in the presence of the composer during a 
concert at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music.

. The performance instructions state that the indication "as legato as 
possible". It requires great virtuosity and breath control, while at the 
same time changing recorders and maintaining a continuous legato, 
resulting in a sometimes fragile balance between the durations and dynamics.

. Both outer movements of Three are interpolated by nine movements 
lettered A through I, one or any number of which may be played. The 
listener may choose which of the middle movements to listen to by 
programming the CD player.

. The Trio Dolce was founded in 1986 by Christine Brelowski, Geesche 
Geddert, and Dorothea Winter. Although the ensemble also performs French 
and Spanish Medieval music, Italian and English Renaissance music and 
Baroque trios, it has specialized in contemporary recorder music. In 
addition to Cage, several other composers have written works for the 
trio, among them Lothar Lämmer, Ivo van Emmerik, Ron Ford, Floris van 
Manen, and Walter Zimmermann. The trio's contemporary repertoire also 
includes works by L. Andriessen, Berio, Hindemith, Maderna, Serocki, 
Shinohara, Stiebler, Stockhausen, Stravinsky, and Wolff.

. Liner notes by Paul van Emmerick.



Maria DE ALVEAR  (b.1960)
Asking  (2001)
FIRST RECORDING
Eve Egoyan, piano
mode 187

. Asking is a large-scale work for piano solo that is a meditation and 
reflection on all of  the meanings of the word "Asking".

. Asking was specially composed for Eve Egoyan.  

. As with many of de Alvear's pieces for piano, it is based on a open 
structure that requires the pianist to make many little and big 
decisions while playing, so the work itself is asking questions of the 
pianist.

. De Alvear says: "The dialogue between the interpreter and the music is 
one of the main concerns in my music. It is very important for a work to 
focus, like a mantra does, the thinking energy of the pianist 
interpreting the score, so that there is enough space for the inner 
being of the interpreter to open up and blossom."

. Maria de Alvear was born in 1960 in Madrid, Spain, and completed her 
studies at the Köln Musikhochschule with Mauricio Kagel. She has made 
musico-ethnological research in America, Scandinavia, Russia (Siberia) 
and North Africa, and was a pupil of Tsolagiu M.A. RuizRazo (Cherokee 
Nation) and Rahkweeskeh  (Tuscarora Nation) in the USA. She works in 
interdisciplinary and multimedia contexts as well as in the field of 
visual arts. She received the Bernd Alois Zimmermann award in 1992.
.
. Eve Egoyan is a Toronto based pianist who specializes in the 
performance of new works. Eve has performed many world and North 
American premières, and has appeared as a solo recitalist in Canada, 
Europe, Japan, and the United States. Her creative partnership with 
Maria de Alvear began in 1996.

. Liner notes by Maria de Alvear.

. Critics had this to say of Eve Egoyan:
"Egoyan's remarkable playing balanced that delicacy with intense 
focus...the spaces in between the notes were still charged with 
presence..." -- Globe and Mail, 2007
"Eve Egoyan's pianism has strengths in abundance, fully justifying 
Michael Finnissy's testimony that 'she illuminates the music
she plays; an alchemy, authenticity and fearlessness'." -- International 
Piano Magazine, 2006


Mode Live in NYC: Gavin Bryars and Maria de Alvear
8 November at 8pm
Roulette, 20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand Streets)
Reservations/Tickets: 212.219.8242
http://www.roulette.org/events/2007_11.html

Eve Egoyan, Piano
Seth Josel - Electric Guitar, Toys, Misc. Devices
Ulrich Krieger - Saxophones, Toys, Misc. Devices
Eli Friedmann - Electric Guitar
Yayoi Ikawa - Piano
Robert Poss - Electric Bass
Kenny Growhowski- Drums

This evening marks the release of two new recordings on the Mode Records 
label, Asking for piano solo by Maria de Alvear and The Marvelous 
Aphorisms of Gavin Bryars: The Early Years 
(http://moderecords.com/catalog/177bryars.html), a collection of early 
experimental works by Gavin Bryars. The acclaimed Toronto-based pianist 
Eve Egoyan, for whom Asking was written, will perform the work in its 
entirety, and an ensemble led by the Berlin-based duo of Seth Josel 
(electric guitar) and Ulrich Krieger (saxophones) will perform 
selections from the Bryars CD.

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