Special offer. Joe Cutler - Bartlebooth
Robin Michael (cello), Sarah Leonard (soprano), Andrew Sparling (clarinet) & Stephen Gutman (piano)
Fidelio Trio, Ensemble de Ereprijs & BBC Concert Orchestra, Charles Hazlewood
This is an essential purchase: Cutler may not make contemporary music loveable again, but he does make it unignorable and that is what really matters.
Special offer. Joe Cutler - Bartlebooth
Robin Michael (cello), Sarah Leonard (soprano), Andrew Sparling (clarinet) & Stephen Gutman (piano)
Fidelio Trio, Ensemble de Ereprijs & BBC Concert Orchestra, Charles Hazlewood
Purchase product
This is an essential purchase: Cutler may not make contemporary music loveable again, but he does make it unignorable and that is what really matters.
About
Joe Cutler’s demonstrates his multi-faceted style of composition in this first collection of his works on NMC.
His music is influenced by the minimalist music of Louis Andriessen, the driving energy of Igor Stravinsky and his love for complex rhythms and jazz.
Joe uses unconventional direction in his score to conjure up the mood he want for his composition. The laid-back melismatic solos in Archie are directed to be played 'grundgily' [sic] and for Sal’s Sax the wild, rhythmic passages are marked as “really pumping” along with a carefully chosen Jack Kerouac quote: 'I like my whiskey wild, I like Saturday night in the sack to be crazy … I like to be gassed by a back alley music’.
Contents and tracklist
- Andrew Sparling, Robin Michael, Mary Dullea
- Orkest de Ereprijs
- Sarah Leonard, Stephen Gutman
- Robin Michael
- BBC Concert Orchestra
- Charles Hazlewood
Awards and reviews
September 2008
This is an essential purchase: Cutler may not make contemporary music loveable again, but he does make it unignorable and that is what really matters.
20th June 2008
The solo piano piece Buckley's Hot Licks begins with keyboard pyrotechnics, veers into melodrama in its central section with the pianist as reciter, before ending with a homage to Art Tatum-style stride piano, while Sal's Sax is a hard-edged essay in Dutch minimalism driven along on a tide of brass and explosive keyboard and percussion chords. The beautiful Music for Cello and Strings from 2005 seems to me the most impressive work here, referencing a range of 20th-century models, from Schoenberg to Takemitsu, yet remaining confidently itself.
